PMS 2.0 1411 - TNF Preview, Adam Schefter, Nebraska Head Coach Matt Rhule, Mike McCarthy, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.9 • 18.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 135 minutes

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On today's show, Pat, AJ Hawk, and the boys preview tonight’s Thursday Night Football game between the Dolphins and the Bills, and how this might be a must win for the Dolphins with all the chatter surrounding them. Joining the progrum to go through some of the injury designations for the upcoming weekend and preview tonight’s game is ESPN Senior NFL Insider, Adam Schefter. Next, Nebraska Head Football Coach, Matt Rhule joins the show to chat about this weekend’s massive tilt for the Bussin’ Bowl as Michigan comes to town. Later, Super Bowl Champion, and former Head Coach of the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers, Mike McCarthy joins the progrum to preview tonight’s Thursday Night Football matchup, chat about preparing a back up QB, what he’s noticed around the league thus far, 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 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 Humbleylobo, the Thunderdow.
0:05.1	On this NFL week three kickoff Thursday, September 18, 2025, this program begins now.
0:13.3	Football!
0:14.3	It is the greatest sport of all time, and week three of the greatest league on Earth will kick off its wonderful weekend.
0:21.5	Tonight in the AFC East, as the Miami Dolphins will travel to take on the Buffalo Bills. The bill is 11.5
0:26.6	point favorites at ESPN. Bet you can find them as 12.5 point favorites at a couple of
0:31.6	the other books. The dolphins, a wounded, wounded, wounded. They're a mammal? Yeah.
0:37.2	Yeah. Wounded mammal. Big brain.
0:39.6	Big, huge brain. We appreciate dolphins, the mammals.
0:42.4	They do like to reproduce. And even if they don't have a chance of reproducing,
0:48.1	they will certainly hit that thing on your arm or your body if you're in there swimming with them.
0:51.9	But they got big brains, okay? I believe the Navy SEALs actually use them to circle our ships out there, and they protect us.
0:59.2	So we appreciate the dolphins, the mammal.
1:01.1	And I'm pumped that Ace Ventura was able to find that snowflake the dolphin who was able to kick field goals because that's a wonderful thing.
1:08.4	But whenever you think about this Dolphins team of now, you do kind of think about the ray finkel era of the miami dolphins you think about the
1:15.3	nineteen seventy two dolphins and how they were undefeated you think about dan merino in the
1:19.6	run that he had but he was never able to win a super bowl but at some point this miami
1:23.4	dolphins team is going to be legendary they reset the market for wide receivers when they brought tyree Kill in. Tula, Tongavaloa, is an absolute star. He's going to change it all. McDaniel, this big-brained offensive guru, wakes up at 3 a.m. That's right. This guy loves ball. Obviously, everywhere he's been. He's been successful and he's unique to himself. He's obviously one of one. of've never seen a head coach like him before the Miami Dolphins.
1:45.5	We're going to return to their glory days.
1:48.6	Post Brian Flores' head coaching run there, which has resurfaced into the new cycle here as of today.
1:56.9	But this was supposed to be a great run.
1:58.3	And now we sit here three years into the experiment.
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