PMS 2.0 1340 - Overreaction Monday, WWE Backlash Recap, Shams Charania, Steve Levy, Ian Rapoport, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.9 • 18.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 185 minutes

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On today's show, Pat, AJ Hawk, and the boys recap WWE Backlash, & the NBA & NHL playoff action from this weekend including the Pacers blowing out the Cavaliers in Game 4, the Dallas Stars taking the lead over the Winnipeg Jets, and of course the fall out from Pat's match against Gunther. In the first hour, we are joined by ESPN's Senior NBA Insider Shams Charania for an update on Giannis Antetokounmpo's openness to finding a new home in the league, Cavs' Guard Donovan Mitchell's MRI on his re-aggravated ankle injury, what to look for in the NBA Draft Lottery tonight, and more. Also in the first hour, ESPN's NHL play-by-play announcer Steve Levy stops by to chat about the main storylines from the Stanley Cup playoffs thus far, including Mikko Rantanen's outrageous production, what the Maple Leafs need to do against the Florida Panthers, and more. In the second hour, NFL Network's Senior Insider & friend of the progrum Ian Rapoport stops by to talk about the announcement of opening night between the Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagles & the Dallas Cowboys, what to expect from schedule releases this week, an update on the Trey Hendrickson, Cincinnati Bengals contract stalemate, Derek Carr's retirement, the attention around Cleveland Browns' OTAs, and more. To wrap things up, we debuted a new iteration of Things That Are Happening In the Sports World. 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. 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 Humble the Bow, the Thunderdome.
0:06.8	On this overreaction Monday, May 12, 2025. This program starts now.
0:13.7	Sports are happening all around us and we're incredibly lucky that we get a chance to chit-chat about all of them.
0:18.7	The NHL is obviously in a great place with their playoffs.
0:21.2	The NBA is spectacular.
0:23.1	How about football?
0:24.2	Always having drama.
0:25.3	And actually, some rookie OTAs happen, and we got some things to say about the OTA.
0:32.4	Hey!
0:34.3	What's going on?
0:35.3	We'll take a little trip around the NFL to update everybody. Obviously, I had a match this past weekend in beautiful St. Louis, Missouri at WrestleMania Backlash v. Gunther, for the good of Michael Cole, for the good of society. And I'll tell you what, I got into a fight with an Austrian man who's 6 foot 4, 250 pounds. The body is a little battered and bruised.
0:55.8	I believe, you know, me and Gunther had a moment in time there where I think I showcased to him something that maybe he showed a little bit of respect.
1:04.2	This was a big moment here, you know, taking a shirt off because everybody in wrestling understands that what Gunther has is a powerful one of those right to the chest
1:15.1	and I just want to let him know that I'm not scared to eat one of those if need be you know we can
1:20.4	certainly get into a fist fight shout to Owen Hart there a little bit of a reversal early letting
1:24.2	Gunther know I am also a see I saw that oh yeah Oh yeah that's from the film study
1:29.0	Soon I saw this one I saw what was coming
1:30.7	I wasn't able to uh yeah I think he was a little bit
1:33.6	Superbo
1:35.6	Body boom
1:37.0	Yeah I've been watching that a look bang
1:40.4	I thought I gave a couple as well
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