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The Pat McAfee Show

PMS 2.0 1381 - NFL Training Camps in Full Swing, Adam Schefter, Peter Schrager, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.918.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Summary

On today's show, Pat, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk, and the boys continue to check in on all the different training camps underway in the NFL, as well as some of the narratives beginning to form, and why “stats,” from training camp are an absolute joke. Joining the progrum to clear up the Christian Wilkins situation, some of the deals that have gotten done, Trey Hendrickson and Terry McLaurin’s contract situations, and much more is ESPN Senior NFL Insider, Adam Schefter. Later, former co-host of Good Morning Football, Emmy winner, and current ESPN NFL Insider/analyst, Peter Schrager joins the show to chat about what he’s been hearing from camps so far, who he’s been most impressed by, what he’s heard about Matthew Stafford’s health, his expectations for the Steelers this year, and his thoughts on Happy Gilmore 2. 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 humble the bow, the Thunderdome.

0:05.2

On this overreaction Monday, July 28th, 2025, this program begins now.

0:13.1

Football!

0:14.2

It's happening all around us.

0:16.5

If you're like us, obviously your timelines were filled with highlights and narratives and stories

0:20.9

and football from one side of this country to the other.

0:23.6

All 32 teams are making magic at their respective training camps and we'll talk about it all.

0:28.9

We'll have highlights our top five, top five, top five, top five from going camping and

0:32.9

also some narratives and storylines and some developing stories that are up in what's going on up of

0:38.7

Chicago well not good well I thought Ben Johnson's offense with Caleb Williams was going to be

0:48.5

an automatic kickstart the Caleb Williams perennial all-pro career the the perennial all-star, the perennial superstar,

0:57.0

the consummate megastar, Caleb Williams, with Ben Johnson at the help, was going to really

1:03.2

be ignited into who he could possibly become as a professional quarterback.

1:07.7

He sucks right now.

1:08.7

They're saying he sucks right now. Ben Johnson's come out and say say he's learning a brand new offense, his third offense in two years. Can we please relax for a couple of seconds and then let him develop and let him figure out what the structure is, where he needs to go, and then we'll get to the off-script place. Can we do that? And everybody's like, sure, but we're watching him. He sucks. And your social media teams put a bunch of bagging stuff up.

1:28.9

And his dad, we know, arm wrestler, but he's also a hilarious dog from the thing.

1:33.0

Tell your social team to stop burying Caleb because all we're seeing is to back up, get the offense.

1:37.8

And Caleb doesn't, Caleb's dead.

1:40.6

Then Johnson goes, for three days in training camp. Can we all relax? Well, I've seen the stats from the training camp, but it's saying, then JJ Watts coming out and going, hey, hey, people are starting to be a little bit too serious with this whole thing. We thought we were joking with the stats. What we're saying is everything that we're seeing on training camp right now, although it is either very spectacular on one side, an absolute ass on the other, or reverse those two things.

2:02.8

Everybody's trying to get better right now. Everybody's working on things. Everybody's learning

2:05.9

things. I don't think we need to press the panic button right now. But if you see something good

2:09.7

from your team, you should definitely think you're going to win the Super Bowl, because that is

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