PMS 2.0 1351 - Feel Good Friday With Matthew Tkachuk, Peter Schrager, Ian Rapoport, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.9 • 18.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 150 minutes

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Summary

On today's show, Pat, AJ Hawk, and the boys discuss the Knicks forcing a game 6 against the Pacers in Indianapolis on Saturday, and Pat addresses the situation that arose with John Cougar Mellencamp, they also dive into the Oilers eliminating the Stars in 5 games and setting up a Stanley Cup Finals rematch with the Florida Panthers. Joining the show is Stanley Cup Champion, 4x All-Star, 2023 All-Star game MVP, Winger for the Florida Panthers, Matthew Tkachuk to chat about the Panthers makeup and why Brad Marchand has blended in so well, the challenges that the Oilers present and how much they’ll take from playing them last year, how exception Bob has been in goal, and much more. Next, Emmy Winner, former co-host of GMFB, and ESPN NFL Insider/Pundit Peter Schrager joins the show to chat about his Knicks forcing a game 6, and to chat more about all the different NFL news floating around. Later, NFL Network Senior Insider, Ian Rapoport joins the show to wrap up the week with all the pertinent news and information from the NFL this past week. 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 on Monday. 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 thunder down. On this
0:06.6	feel good Friday, May 30th, 2025, this program begins now. Sport! Are happening all around us and yes,
0:16.7	the Pacers lost to the New York Knicks last night in Madison Square Garden.
0:22.9	All New York Knicks fans that I know have sent me a text over the last 12 hours saying
0:26.8	Knicks in seven, Nixon seven, Nixon seven.
0:30.2	And it is wild in these seven games series, best of seven series that these sports have.
0:34.7	More specifically, the NBA.
0:36.6	All you got to do is win one game and all of a sudden you're back in this thing.
0:39.4	Wait a minute, did we find it?
0:41.0	Are we going to be the team that is going to make every shot?
0:43.2	And are the Pacers going to become a team that can't knock down a shot at all?
0:46.7	Are the Pacers going to become a team that doesn't try to run as fast as they try to wear on any games that they win are the Knicks going to be the ones that are going to control the tempo going forward. That's what their fans can literally say on this field Good Friday because of what happened last night in Madison Square Garden.
0:59.6	They were the one that dictated the entire game.
1:01.6	They were the ones that were dominant.
1:03.0	And we were the team that tapped out at the very end.
1:05.8	Oh, yeah.
1:06.1	Sub-Tirees out.
1:07.5	You know, some of the entire crew out. We just have the entire crew out. Rick Carlisle basically lets the New York Knicks faith.
1:11.6	Faithful have a final two to three minutes, up 16, just get a chance to take the victory
1:15.9	lap, take the tractor another round, and take a chance to maybe win this Eastern Conference
1:21.1	final.
1:22.1	Jaylen Brunson goes bananas yet again.
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