PMS 2.0 1421 - TNF Preview, Kirk Herbstreit, Mike McCarthy, Cody Rhodes, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.9 • 18.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 170 minutes

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Summary

On today's show, Pat, AJ Hawk, and the boys chat about last night’s playoff baseball games and look ahead to tonight’s three elimination games, before previewing tonight’s Thursday Night Football game between the 49ers and Rams, and wrap up the rest of the stories around the league as we look ahead to week 5 of the season. Joining the show to preview both tonight’s Thursday Night Football matchup and look ahead to this weekend’s college football slate is color commentator for the NFL on Prime, and the voice of college football, Kirk Herbstreit. Next, Super Bowl Champion and former Head Coach of the Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys, Mike McCarthy joins the show to give his biggest takeaway’s from week 4 of the NFL season, and preview tonight’s Thursday Night Football game. Lastly, Undisputed WWE Champion, Cody Rhodes joins the show LIVE from the ThunderDome to chat about his upcoming schedule including a tag team match with Randy Orton, the PLE in Perth, Australia, his acting career, amateur wrestling background, and his beloved Georgia Bulldogs. 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 Humbley Bo, the Thunderdow.
0:05.7	On this NFL week five kickoffs Thursday, October 2nd, 2025, this program begins now.
0:13.4	Football!
0:14.2	It's magical in week five of the NFL season is kicking off tonight, which might be the best game of the weekend.
0:19.5	But there are a lot of injuries
0:21.9	as we head to the NFC West in Los Angeles. It's 05 field. Whose house? Ram's House. Matthew
0:29.2	Stafford, Pook, and Akua on record pace to do something that only Matthew Stafford has done
0:34.8	with two other wide receivers before whenever you talk about receiving.
0:38.3	And what Puka's year has looked like has been immaculate.
0:41.3	And it's obviously a big part of the conversation about Devante Adams joining the Los Angeles Rams and now having multiple weapons.
0:48.3	And then you look at the young buck on the defensive side.
0:50.3	Jared Verson, the boys of Fisk, everybody up front have transitioned so nicely into this generation, this era of the Rams defense, post the Aaron Donald era, and this Rams team is the real deal.
1:00.9	They started out as favorites of three on October 28th or September.
1:06.0	September 28th.
1:08.7	It's all coming together here.
1:10.4	It's just start of the month. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ravid. September 20th. It's all coming together here. It's just start of the month.
1:12.8	September 20th.
1:14.7	It happened to September.
1:16.6	Yeah, it's carrying on here to October.
1:19.3	On September 28, the Rams were favored by three.
1:22.3	Now it's eight and a half.
1:23.3	And obviously that's because of a lot of injuries to the San Francisco 49ers.
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