PMS 2.0 1400 - Miami Head Coach Mario Cristobal, Scott Hanson, JJ Watt, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.9 • 18.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 126 minutes

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On today's show, Pat, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk, and the boys look ahead to tomorrow’s NFL Kickoff between the Cowboys and Eagles, and all the pertinent NFL stories that need to be chatted about before the start of the season. Joining the progrum to chat about rebuilding the program, how recruiting has changed, their massive win against Notre Dame, and a look at the season ahead is Miami Head Football Coach, Mario Cristobal. Next, the host of NFL RedZone, Scott Hanson joins the show to give a look at what his Sunday’s look like in the RedZone studio, the change from “commercial free football” to “RedZone football,” and how long it took him to get settled in to the chaos of calling all the games at once. Later, 3x Defensive POY, Walter Payton Man of the Year, 7x All-Pro, 5x Pro Bowler, Texans Ring of Honor member, future Hall of Famer, and new color commentator for the NFL on CBS, JJ Watt joins the show to chat about Micah Parsons’ trade to the Packers, which games he’s most excited to call, and which teams he think will surprise people, how his soccer teams are doing, and much more. 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 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 Bo, the Thunderdome.
0:05.7	On this NFL Eve Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025, this program begins now.
0:13.5	Football!
0:14.3	It's magical.
0:15.2	Obviously, college football is already into its season, and there's already storylines developing
0:19.5	that we're going to have to talk about
0:20.8	and get to talk about for the next 20 weeks. On that note, Miami University, the U.
0:26.4	University of Miami. Miami. Miami is in Ohio. The University of Miami, Hurricanes, football
0:34.5	coach. Mario Cristobal will be joining us in about 15 minutes or so.
0:38.3	Obviously this Miami team, what they did last year was awesome to watch with Cam Ward.
0:42.0	It catapulted him into being the number one overall pick and a generational player
0:45.3	described by the Tennessee Titans general manager. His leadership was obviously phenomenal.
0:49.9	That team won on a run that we all got to experience in a glorious fashion.
0:54.0	Had Hurricanes fans believe in the U was all the way back.
0:57.5	Well, after a big win over Notre Dame to kick off their college football season with Carson Beck, a highly paid and highly touted quarterback leading the way they look like they're once again back in relevance and back in big conversations.
1:12.0	Carson Beck, obviously a veteran of college football, able to kind of maneuver in the pocket,
1:17.4	able to put him in bad plays or in good plays, able to get the ball to his wide receivers,
1:21.5	able to execute just college football at a very high level, and then all the weapons that they
1:26.5	have, all the athletes down in south
1:28.2	Florida and i guess the recruiting processes by coach christobal are relentless and never-ending is the
1:34.7	you all the way back we shall see i cannot wait to talk to coach in about 15 minutes or so college
1:41.0	ball already has magical storylines developing. Like is Alabama dead? There's
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