PMS 2.0 1410 - Watt Wednesday, In The Trenches with AQ Shipley, Everything DB with Darius Butler, Dan Orlovsky, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.9 • 18.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 187 minutes

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On today's show, Pat, AQ Shipley Darius Butler, AJ Hawk, and the boys wrap of week 2 of the NFL season as they go In the Trenches with AQ Shipley and look at the best defensive back play with Everything DB. Joining the show to chat about his biggest QB takeaway’s from the first two weeks of the season is 12 year NFL veteran, ESPN NFL analyst/QB guru, Dan Orlovsky. Later, 3x DPOY, 7x All-Pro, 5x Pro Bowler, future Hall of Famer, Houston Texans Ring of Honor member, and color commentator for the NFL on CBS, JJ Watt joins the show to chat about the Steelers run defense, what trends he’s noticing around the league right now, and much 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 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 abode, the Thunderdome, on this white Wednesday, September 17, 2025.
0:09.0	This program begins right now.
0:13.0	Football!
0:14.0	It is magical and we're so incredibly lucky that we get a chance to chat about it every single day.
0:19.0	Today is going to be a special one because not only we're going to look back on the weekend
0:21.6	that was in ball, but also the weekend that is right around a corner. Got a lot of big storylines developing. We've got a lot of big conversations today. Dan Rolovsky will join us in about 20 minutes or so. I called him this morning. He was doing a bodyweight workout and then he had kettlebells. he was doing
0:35.3	pain clean
0:36.4	work and he dropped
0:37.3	down to
0:37.7	a couple of
0:38.1	burpees
0:38.5	and had wildly
0:39.9	short shorts
0:40.7	on had my out and then he had kettlebells he was doing paint clean's work and he dropped down to a couple burpees and
0:38.9	had wildly short shorts on had my FaceTime phone on the ground oh bad grandpa thought i was gonna see
0:45.7	dan o's dan oh and it was kind of distracted sure but i didn't just so we all understand uh he's his
0:54.0	quatt the bones attached to his hips. Yep. Okay, he's got these tiny little legs. They were kind of blocking the entire, but he was doing, he was getting half. We're talking hoodie up, full sweat. The burpees were very intense. I mean, he was hitting the ground. Okay.
1:11.3	Hitting the ground going up.
1:12.0	And then he grabbed his kettle belt, did a clean.
1:14.1	And I was like, what is this every day? You know, and then yes, and I'm obviously interrupting. He's breathing. And I'm like, 12, 20. And he has, can't even say it. And I'm like, I just hang up. I'm like, what song was playing there?
1:25.5	You think that I interrupted?
1:27.2	Was that a song?
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