PMS 2.0 1265 - TNF Preview, NFL Week 16 Preview/Picks, College Football Playoff Preview, Nick Saban, NCAA President Charlie Baker, Chuck Pagano, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.9 • 18.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 210 minutes

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On today’s show, Pat, Coach Chuck Pagano, AJ Hawk, and the boys preview tonight’s Thursday Night Football game between the Broncos and Chargers, preview the entire week 16 NFL slate, and also look ahead to this weekend’s College Football Playoff games, in what is arguably one of the best football watching weeks of the year. They also cover the dysfunction reportedly going on with the New York Jets and Woody Johnson and his family, as well as some of the other biggest sports stories happening this week. Joining the progrum is 7x National Champion, member of College GameDay, the GOAT, Nick Saban to preview this weekend’s college football playoff games, chat about his issues with the transfer portal and not developing players or having depth, and more. Later, the 6th President of the NCAA, Charlie Baker joins the show to chat all about the landscape of college athletics, NIL, the transfer portal, the college football yearly schedule and if changes are coming, and some of the other key issues facing college sports right now. Make sure to subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow or watch on ESPN (12-2 EDT), ESPN’s Youtube (12-3 EDT), or ESPN+. We appreciate the hell out of all of you. We’re off tomorrow. Tune in to ESPN2 on Saturday night at 8PM for the megacast of Tennessee/Ohio State as we’ll be LIVE on the field, and then we’ll be back for Overreaction Monday. Cheers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	people and welcome to our holly jolly humble the moon the thunderdown on this week 16 kickoff
0:07.5	Thursday December 19 24 this program starts now football it's wonderful and we're so incredibly
0:14.3	lucky that we get to talk about it every single day we appreciate you for allowing us to be a part
0:18.8	of your lives no matter where the hell you're watching from or listening.
0:21.8	You are the greatest people on earth and so are sports.
0:24.5	Today is a big one.
0:26.0	We got the greatest of all time when it comes to college coaching and Nick Sabin joining us in about 35 minutes.
0:31.4	Normally stops by on Friday.
0:32.5	We'll be off tomorrow because there's a bowl game kicking off at noon and then immediately following that noon kickoff on ESPN college game day rolling all the way into the iU notre dame kickoff to kick off
0:43.4	the 12 team playoff i believe it's the first time since like 1960 that notre dame's playing on ESPN
0:49.0	and on a friday night or whatever the case it should be electrifying as the who, who, who, who's
0:55.0	travel up to South Bend.
0:57.4	It's going to be a chilly evening, but both these teams are obviously built for that, and the
1:01.3	college football playoff is going to be electrifying.
1:03.7	I'm going to be honest.
1:05.0	I was going a certain way.
1:06.4	I was leaning a certain way because of our personal relationships and getting a chance to
1:09.9	watch and watching some film and being like, hey, what they got could be a good matchup.
1:15.2	Yeah.
1:15.3	It would be a good matchup.
1:16.5	And then I watched Highlight Reel this morning that was put out by Notre Dame's digital team.
1:21.1	They put Jeezy on the track.
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