PMS 2.0 1278 - Michael Lombardi, Aaron Rodgers, Dan Orlovsky, Coach Chuck Pagano, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.9 • 18.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 212 minutes

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On today’s show, Pat, Chuck Pagano, AJ Hawk, and the boys chat about the National Championship between Ohio State and Notre Dame and wonder why no one is talking about Ohio State Quarterback Will Howard as an NFL prospect. Chuck also goes through the entire divisional round slate and makes his picks against the spread, several of which might surprise you. Joining the progrum to dispel some of the rumors floating around about the North Carolina football team, and chat about some of the coaching openings in the NFL is General Manager of the North Carolina Football team, Michael Lombardi. Next, 4x MVP, Super Bowl Champion/MVP, and Quarterback of the New York Jets, Aaron Rodgers joins the show to chat about the fires in California and how he’s been handling it, what his situation with the Jets is going into next year and if he’s heard anything from the exit meetings, or has any idea on who the new Head Coach/GM will be, and much more. Later, 12 year NFL veteran at QB, and ESPN NFL analyst and co-host of NFL Live, Dan Orlovsky joins the show to give an update on his potential coaching situation, and an update on how his son’s basketball team did last night. 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’ll see you tomorrow. Cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, beautiful people, and welcome to our Humbley Booth, the Thunderdown.
0:05.9	On this Aaron Rogers Thursday, January 60th, 2025, this program starts now.
0:13.2	Football!
0:14.0	It is wonderful.
0:15.0	We'll be talking to Aaron in the second hour.
0:16.5	We'll be talking to the general manager of the North Carolina Tar Heel football team,
0:20.1	Michael Lombardi, who's been a topic of conversation in football, obviously, because he's been refuting basically
0:25.9	every single narrative that Bill Belichick is trying to get back to the NFL, even though he's
0:30.4	currently the head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels, where Lombo is the general manager.
0:35.1	I think the reason why Lombo is so aggressively open against it is because
0:37.9	there's probably a lot of college teams that are utilizing Bill Belichick's going to the NFL,
0:42.2	Bill Belichick's going to the NFL as a recruiting advantage against North Carolina. So as they're
0:46.7	trying to build their team through the transfer portal and put everything together down there in
0:50.3	North Carolina, all anybody's seeing reports all over the place is that Bill Belichick's trying to get to the
0:54.8	NFL.
0:55.3	Bill Belichick's trying to get to the NFL.
0:57.0	That'll certainly be used against North Carolina whenever you're recruiting somebody.
1:01.0	And all you need is a good class.
1:02.6	You get a good class.
1:03.3	You can flip an entire program, which is exactly what Bill and Lomba are trying to do down there in North Carolina, I think it's logical for people to expect Bill Belichick to be like,
1:11.4	okay, I'm done with the college thing. I went to a couple high schools. I did some negotiating with
1:16.8	17-year-olds. I've been talking to 50 different agents and managers, and now the college world,
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