PMS 2.0 1436 - TNF Preview, Shams Charania, In the Trenches with AQ Shipley, Everything DB with Darius Butler, Kirk Herbstreit, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.9 • 18.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 137 minutes

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On today’s show, Pat is away on special assignment, as AJ Hawk and the boys are back in the ThunderDome as they cover the breaking news and scandal rocking the NBA that involves Trail Blazers Head Coach Chauncey Billups, former NBA player Damon Jones, the mafia, fixed poker games, and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and prop bet manipulation, before previewing tonight’s Thursday Night Football game between the Vikings and Chargers.. Joining the progrum to break all of that down and shed more light on the situation and what comes next is ESPN Senior NBA Insider, Shams Charania. Next, we wrap up week 7 of the NFL season as AQ Shipley gives his top five performing offensive lines of the week as we go In the Trenches, and Darius Butler breaks down the best and worst defensive back play of the week in Everything DB: Good D, Bad D. Later, the voice of college football, and color commentator for the NFL on Prime, Kirk Herbstreit joins the show to preview tonight’s Thursday Night Football game between the Vikings and Chargers, chat about his college football rankings going into week 9, and 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	Welcome to the Pat McAfee Show. I'm AJ Hawks sitting in for Pat. He's on special assignment today, fellas. Toxic tables here. Tone Diggs is here. Everybody's here. Everybody but Pat is here. I'm A.J. Hawkson in for Pat. Obviously, we have a huge football game tonight Vikings taking on the chargers we know
0:22.1	that's going to be a big one Kirk Herb Street will be out there on the call with Al Michaels we'll
0:25.5	talk to Kirk later in the second hour but I think everybody knows there's been up some breaking
0:30.5	news in the NBA all kinds of stuff floating around the internet we don't know exactly what's
0:34.9	happening let's take it to Cash Patel he has a quick minute minute and 40 press conference, I think, where he kind of describes exactly
0:40.9	what might be going on. To announce a historic arrest across a wide-sweeping criminal enterprise
0:46.9	that envelops both the NBA and La Casinosra. The men and women up here standing with me
0:52.9	represent a small portion of the leadership team
0:55.5	that brought profound justice in an era that needed it more than any.
1:00.6	I'll just highlight some of the details in the case and the FBI work and then you'll hear from
1:05.3	the others.
1:06.7	But as you now know, individuals such as Chauncey Billups, Damon Jones, and Terry Rozier were taken into custody today, former current NBA players and coaches.
1:16.6	What you don't know is that this is an illegal gambling operation and sports rigging operation that span the course of years.
1:24.6	The FBI led a coordinated tak takedown across 11 states to arrest
1:29.4	over 30 individuals today responsible for this case, which is very much ongoing. Not only did we crack
1:36.5	into the fraud that these perpetrators committed on the grand stage of the NBA, but we also entered and executed a system of justice
1:48.6	against La Casano, to include the Bonanno, Gambino, Genovesi, and Lucchese crime families.
1:55.1	And you'll hear more about those details today.
1:57.8	The charges and the arrest that were taken down across this country range from wire fraud,
2:02.1	money laundering, extortion, robbery, illegal gambling. This FBI will leave no room for any perpetrator
2:09.6	of crime across this country. You hear a lot about our work of defending the homeland and crushing
2:14.3	violent crime. Well, this work is also representative of a colossal portion
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