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The Pat McAfee Show

PMS 2.0 1407 - NFL Week 2 Preview/Picks, TNF Recap, Marcus Spears, Nick Saban, Tennessee Head Coach Josh Heupel, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.918.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 171 minutes

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Summary

On today's show, Pat is live Knoxville, Tennessee from the site of College Gameday, as AJ Hawk and the boys are back in Indianapolis. They recap last night’s Thursday Night Football game as the Packers beat the Commanders 27-18, and has some people asking if the Packers are Super Bowl bound, before looking ahead to the rest of the weekend and making their picks against the spread. Joining the progrum is 9 year NFL veteran, 20th overall pick of the 2005 NFL Draft, and ESPN NFL analyst, Marcus Spears to chat about Micah Parsons and the Packers defense, and his thoughts about week 2 of the NFL season. Next, 7x National Champion, GOAT, and College GameDay panelist, Nick Sagan joins the show to chat about this weekend’s college football slate, coaching Derrick Henry, and more. Next, National Champion, Heisman Runner-Up, and current Tennessee Head Coach, Josh Heupel joins the progrum to chat about the game tomorrow against Georgia, his offense and new QB, the Nico situation, and if he shows his players film of him when he was at Oklahoma. 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 for Overreaction Monday. Cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Here we go, welcome to Pat McAfee Show. I'm AJ Hawks sitting in for Pat. He's in Knoxville, Tennessee,

0:06.5

for a huge matchup tomorrow because we know football is king. And last night we had a beautiful

0:15.7

one that the Green Bay Packers take on the Washington Commanders and the Green Bay Packers continue

0:20.6

to be the Green Bay Packers that we saw in week one. They looked amazing. Washington commanders, I felt like they were just up against a huge test last night. I don't think they even did anything wrong. I think there just wasn't a whole lot out there because the Packers had a swarming defense and a great offense by Jordan Love, led by Jordan Love, Josh Jacobs and the rest of the crew. Boys, let's see where Pat's at right now. I believe you're in Knoxville, Tennessee, Mr. Pat McAvue. Let's see where you're at, buddy. Beautiful setup. How's it going, man? Yeah, down here in beautiful Knoxville, Tennessee. Obviously, Georgia coming to town in a massive SEC matchup that should be spectacular. Cannot wait for tomorrow morning's game day cannot wait to see kickoff here in beautiful Tennessee.

0:58.7

This fan base obviously is awesome.

1:00.4

They got a quarterback story that is out of a movie, you know, starting at the City College of San Francisco,

1:06.9

then Diablo College, and then App State, and then now he's here because Nico I Amaleava goes to UCLA and they're saying he's perfect for this offense now he's taking on a Georgia team that still has a bunch of dogs you know and the Georgia team that is still coached by Kirby Smart it'll be a big test I'll be excited to see how this entire thing pans out and And I think game day tomorrow is going to be a great show.

1:28.4

With that being said, last night, AJ, holy hell.

1:31.7

Now I know the toxic table sitting over there at Boston Corner and at Ty Schmidt.

1:35.4

Ty, listen, congrats to you, buddy.

1:38.3

I think you were probably seeing the same thing that AJ saw that I heard there in the open.

1:43.3

AJ, by the way, great work on that. That was really good on that, AJ. But what I was seeing from that Green Bay Packers defense, is this a generational defense happening right now? Now, granted, it's week two. It was a short week, actually. It was a Thursday night game here in week two. Is this a generational type defense here that Green Bay is going to have?

2:03.1

We have no idea what the storyline is going to be at the end of the season.

2:06.3

We have no idea how people will remember this particular defense in the annals of NFL history,

2:11.9

whenever the story is said and done.

2:14.5

But boy, what they did to the Detroit Lions last week, maybe the Lions aren't asked. Now granted, they had a brand new coordinator and they had a lot of tough tasks ahead of them and transitioning out of the Ben Johnson-led offensive era for them. But the Washington commanders, week one, Jayden Danos was spinning it. Jane Danos was all over the place. That team looked like they were going to be good this year. Once again, the Washington commanders are back. The Washington commanders are a good team. They're not ass. And then you watched Jayton Daniels last night, his face, you know, and I know it's just, what, a season and two games in? That ain't the Jayden Danos I've ever seen. He looked like he was really confused. He looked like he didn't have it. It looked like the moxie, the juice, was potentially lost. And I think that's because Halfley's defense for the Green Bay Packers were everywhere. And I know Michael Parsons, I think he had eight hits on the quarterback, obviously his sack, and he affected everything. And at the end, he closed the game, even though that was obviously a much bigger spread than what ended

3:07.5

up thought we were going to backdoor cover that as commanders plus three and a half people I

3:10.6

thought we're going to back to recover that we make a couple kicks we make a couple kicks

3:14.7

maybe we cover that now obviously it's not easy to kick not easy kick and wait until you see what

3:20.1

I add to the kicking his easy contest tomorrow I got a little oh I got a little

3:23.9

Trigger what do you have like big tornado fan what I add to the kicking is easy contest tomorrow. I got a little trick up the street.

3:25.0

What do you have? Like a big tornado fan?

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