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The Pat McAfee Show

PMS 2.0 1430 - Watt Wednesday, In the Trenches with AQ Shipley, Everything DB with Darius Butler, Stanford Steve, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.918.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 188 minutes

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Summary

On today's show, Pat, AQ Shipley, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk, and the boys wrap up week 6 of the NFL season as AQ gives his five best offensive lines of the week and biggest takeaway’s, and Darius Butler highlights the best DB play of the week, and Tone gives his midseason college football playoff graphic, they recap last night's NLCS game that saw the Dodgers take a commanding 2-0 lead over the Brewers. Joining the progrum to chat about about his thoughts of a great weekend of football, PFF player grades, and previews some of next weeks games. Later, ESPN legend, College GameDay stalwart, co-host of SVPod, Stanford Steve joins the show to preview this weekend's massive college football slate. 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 Humberlobo, the Thunderdown.

0:05.0

On this watch Wednesday, October 15th, 2020.

0:09.0

This program begins now.

0:12.0

Football!

0:14.0

It's magical and we're obviously going to get a chance to chat about it today for the next few hours

0:18.0

and we can't thank you enough for allowing us to do that for a living.

0:20.0

You're the greatest people on earth. We can't thank you enough. And hopefully today we give you at least a reason to say I spend some time with the boys over there in the Thunderdome. We got some great SEGs today. Oh yeah. A lot of good SEGs today. Okay, we got, you know, that SEG that really makes you feel tough and gritty.

0:37.7

We're going into trenches with 12-year NFL vet, Super Bowl champion player coach for the Tampa Buccaneers. Akew Shepley. Hey, Q. Hey, let's go into trenches, AQ. Who are the top five performing offensive lines coming out of week six? Who are the teams that have the big guys that are moving at a good pace? Who are the big guys that could maybe lead their team to another Super Bowl, just like the offensive line of the Philadelphia Eagles did last year? Who has the best offensive line in the league? Are they the best team in the league? Because that's what, you know, we've learned from last year's study is if you have the best offensive line in the league, you win the Super Bowl. That's modern football you You know, it used to be a punchman to mock round and pound rugby style football. We grew up on, I'm 38 years old, especially in the city of Pittsburgh. We all are a ground and pound back. And, you know, steel curtain comes around. You think about that old school day. Then there was an innovation in offensive football where somebody was like, holy shit, I believe his name was Howe Mummy actually.

1:28.0

He said, we got everybody in here running faces into each other.

1:31.2

We need to separate everybody and make them smaller and just make everybody fast.

1:34.3

Then it started kind of spreading everything out.

1:36.5

Football started becoming a fast man sport.

1:38.9

Football started becoming less 250, 245 pound linebacker, more 225, 215 pound linebacker, because they've got to go

1:46.2

sideline to sideline.

1:47.4

You see, and that captivated football, that captivated fantasy football, that changed rules

1:51.5

of games, you start seeing tight ends become more and more dominant because the bodies were

1:55.3

getting smaller in the middle of the field.

1:56.6

Wow, they were changing rules so that there'd be more offensive explosion because we want

2:00.8

to see points.

2:01.6

But now it feels like with all the small bodies on the defense, some offensive geniuses around the league,

2:06.6

you say, it's time to punch these little dudes in the mouth.

2:09.6

Hell yeah.

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