PMS 2.0 1437 - NFL Week 8 Preview/Picks, TNF Recap, Professional Poker Player Matt Berkey, Mike McCarthy, Nick Saban, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.9 • 18.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 128 minutes

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On today's show, Pat is LIVE from Nashville, Tennessee for College GameDay ahead of tomorrow’s massive SEC showdown between Missouri and Vanderbilt, while AJ Hawk and the boys are back in the ThunderDome. They recap last night’s TNF game that saw the Chargers dominate the Vikings looking like serious contenders in the process, before previewing the college football slate, and making their picks for every week 8 NFL game. Joining the progrum to chat about all the chatter about these rigged poker games and what typically goes down in these situations is professional poker player with 8 WSOP final tables, host of the Only Friends Podcast, Matt Berkey. Next, Super Bowl Champion, former Head Coach of the Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys, Mike McCarthy joins the show to recap last night’s game and look ahead to this weekend’s games including the Packers and Steelers on Sunday Night Football. Later, 7x National Champion, College GameDay panelist, the GOAT, Nick Saban joins the progrum to preview this weekend’s games, and chat amore about the state of college football as a whole. 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 on Overreaction Monday. Cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Pat Maccabee Show. Feel Good Friday, October 24th. I'm A.J. Hawks sitting in for Pat at his desk. He'll be joining us from National, boys. Big game tomorrow. Football!
0:13.9	Is the name of the game. It's what we do around here. It's our number one thing. Last night we had a big, a game with vikings chargers boys chargers absolutely
0:23.1	dominate i feel like obviously uh early on the game justin herbert throws what we thought was a pick
0:27.7	six they review it it's not a pick six they go on what a 16 play drive i believe going on there and
0:32.5	they capitalize they score a touchdown go up seven nothing it looks like to me the chargers never
0:36.9	really looked back after that.
0:38.4	I felt like the Chargers D-Line was getting unbelievable pressure on Carson Wentz all night
0:42.8	long.
0:43.8	They ran for over 200 yards the Chargers did.
0:46.4	It was just, it was somewhat of a dominant performance, I feel like, from this Chargers
0:50.9	football team, just what they needed after losing three of their last four
0:54.6	games. Comman, what you see when you watched this game? Honestly, what stood out the most,
0:58.7	I guess, when you actually think about it? I mean, right there on that touchdown run by Vidal,
1:02.7	they're running left. Joe Alt being back was kind of the biggest thing it felt like,
1:06.6	and it kind of solidifies the importance of how important the left tackle is just to both the
1:12.7	quarterback and the running game.
1:15.0	And yeah, right there, they're four and no when Joe Alt starts.
1:18.5	And he's just one of those big sons of bitches that kind of sets the tone up from for those boys.
1:22.7	And, you know, they could do whatever they wanted because Herbert had time.
1:25.9	And it was just a fantastic performer and start to finish for the offense. Yeah, Carson Wentz, he was under pressure all night long. I know you guys watched it and you saw, but it seemed like Carson Wentz, one, two, three, he's hitting his third step and he's eluding pressure all over. We saw some Carson Wentz moments where this guy, you know, he's never going to let a play die.
1:44.6	That's why I love about Carson.
1:46.0	It's always all out in front of him.
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