PMS 2.0 1397 - The Cowboys Trade Micah Parsons to the Packers, College Football Week 1 Preview, Matt Rhule, Will Howard, Ryan Day, Nick Saban, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Sports, Football

4.9 • 19.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 120 minutes

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On today's show, Pat and AJ Hawk are LIVE from the Horseshoe in Columbus, Ohio on the campus of Ohio State ahead of Saturday’s game between Texas and Ohio State, with the boys back in Indy as they discuss the massive trade yesterday right after the show as Micah Parsons was traded to the Packers for 2 1st round picks and Kenny Clark, what it means for the Packers, the Cowboys, Jerry Jones, and how this impacts everything in the NFC. They are also joined by four incredible guests including Head Coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers, Matt Rhule to chat about last night’s game and announce he’ll be coming on the show every week this football season, National Champion QB from Ohio State and current QB for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Will Howard joins the progrum to discuss last year’s team and being back at Ohio State, and what he expects this year to be like in Pittsburgh. Later, National Champion Head Coach of Ohio State, Ryan Day joins the show to preview this weekend’s matchup against Texas, and lastly 7x National Champion, the GOAT, and current analyst on College GameDay, Nick Saban joins the progrum to preview this weekend of college football and announce he will also be appearing every week during the football season. 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. Enjoy this weekend’s college football games. Cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, beautiful people, and welcome to Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio.
0:07.4	On this feel-good Friday, August 29, 2025, this program begins right now.
0:12.9	Football!
0:15.1	It is absolutely magical, and that game will be played on this field behind us as one takes on three to kick off this college football season that's going to be remembered forever as the greatest of all time time i'm obviously sitting next to standing next to a man who's going to be remembered as one of the greatest buckeyes of all, calls this city home still at this point, ran
0:38.2	around with that gigantic head in this horseshoe and tried to CTE everybody that he's seen
0:45.5	on the football field.
0:47.3	Hell ya.
0:48.3	College football national champion, Super Bowl champion, Roder Cup winner, proud Buckeye,
0:51.4	former president of Ohio, AJ Hawk, AJ Hawke.
0:53.9	Hey, Jay Good to be here. It was good to be home. They're clapping, they're clapping. Oh, good. proud Buckeye former president of Ohio AJ Hawk AJ good
0:55.0	good to be here always good to be here they're clapping
0:57.0	oh good thanks boys appreciate you boy
1:00.0	watch this I can do this and just make him incredibly uncouth camera
1:07.0	oh is this one shot this here went right down the barrel here we go
1:10.0	that's needed I'm sure we need that one. Now, back to me, please. Uh, ladies the gentleman. Okay, uh, whenever I say that today is a great day, I say that because we have actual football to react to. We had massive games last night. College football delivered exactly how we had hoped that it would deliver.
1:29.5	Now let's go back to the Thunderdome in Indianapolis, Indiana. The toxic tables there at Boston Connor and at Ty Schmitt.
1:35.4	Ty, crazy life for you right now. We'll get into that in a second. Then there's one half of the hammer.
1:42.1	Cowboys AP Tone. Tone, um, last night college football delivered in a massive way. What are some of the Hammer, Dodd Cowboys AP Tone. Tone, last night college football delivered in a massive way. What are some of the highlights, big takeaways that we need to know other than the fact, Taylor Swift? Oh. Football fan. Unreal. Not just NFL. She's all the way in on ball. Other than that, what should we be thinking about, Tone from last night?
2:01.3	It was an electric night.
2:02.5	17 total games, and the best way to go through that is to go to the highlights.
2:06.0	We start down in South Florida at Raymond James Stadium.
2:09.1	We have the number 25 Boise State Broncos taken on USF,
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