PMS 2.0 1414 - BA Day with Bruce Arians, MNF Recap, Vikings Head Coach Kevin O'Connell, Keenan Allen, Lavonte David, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.9 • 18.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 165 minutes

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On today's show, Pat, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk, and the boys are joined by 3x Super Bowl Champion, and former Head Coach of the Arizona Cardinals and Tampa Bay Bucs, Bruce Arians to recap last night’s Monday Night Football game between the Lions and Ravens as the Lions punched the Ravens in the mouth in Baltimore for a 38-30 victory. Joining the progrum to recap their absolute shellacking of the Bengals is the Head Coach of the Minnesota Vikings to chat about Carson Wentz stepping in for JJ McCarthy, his team as a whole this year, playing two games internationally these next weeks, and more. Next, 6x Pro Bowler, 2017 Comeback Player of the Year, in his 13th year in the NFL, WR for the Los Angeles Chargers, Keenan Allen joins the show to chat about Jim Harbaugh, being back in LA, his relationship with Justin Herbert, the Chargers potential this year, and much more. Later, Super Bowl Champion, 3x All-Pro, Pro Bowler, in his 14th season at LB with the Buccaneers, Lavonte David joins the show to chat about his career as a whole, starting 3-0, Baker Mayfield, his relationship with BA, 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 Huggle abode, the Thunderdome.
0:05.0	On this BA day, September 23rd, 2025, this program begins right now.
0:12.0	Football!
0:14.0	Hey!
0:15.0	Ladies and gentlemen, that's man who coach football for 47 years, Bruce Ariens is here.
0:19.0	College, BA, good to see you.
0:21.6	Can't wait for another edition of BS or no BS with BA
0:24.7	about the NFL's headlines.
0:26.1	Another headline was added last night as we saw a team be the
0:30.4	brand new version of itself yet again.
0:32.8	We thought this Lions team after losing Ben Johnson,
0:35.4	who was the bell of the ball, the super genius on the offense. And Aaron Glenn, the absolute dog that was running the Detroit Lions defense, as they had this resurgence back to irrelevancy and being a good football team for the first time, maybe in forever. They look like ass at the beginning of this entire thing. Jared golf looked like the guy at Rams or whenever he was getting bench, maybe even third stringer at the end of it, lost all his confidence. Is this guy going to suck again? And then what we've seen here, the last two games out of this Lions team is, oh, no, no, no. They are still the brand new Lions. Huge win last night. And in the biggest moments, they do what the brand new Lions do, which is go for it on fourth down. We're getting some stats about them going for it on a fourth down. 32% of the time they go for it. Okay, that's obviously the highest in the NFL. 91 conversions, that's the most in the NFL. The lions were three for three and scored 21 points last night after converting on fourth downs. Now those stats are from Hembo, but if you saw the game,
1:28.8	there was late in the game, there was a fourth down that they went for it that you think to yourself,
1:33.5	okay, now this is first quarter, fourth and three. You know, Monroe St. Brown does the,
1:37.9	how you're doing? Let me go ahead and check each quad dance. And he obviously understands you're going to
1:43.8	go for it then. I think MCDC was trying to set a point. And also there're going to go for it then i think mcdc was trying to set a
1:46.5	point and also there was going to be a high scoring game everybody thought we can go for it that's
1:50.2	normal less than two minutes left though okay whenever you 156 you're up one score at the 50 there
1:58.1	okay fourth and two, 156.
2:01.3	This is one of those ones that Dan Campbell calls that nobody else really does.
2:05.6	People that love going forward on fourth down, even in this situation, would be like, Lamar Jackson, 49 going in, we're up touchdown right now.
2:14.3	No thanks.
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