PMS 2.0 1460 - Watt Wednesday, NFL Thanksgiving Day/Black Friday Preview, NFL Week 13 Picks/Preview, Nick Saban, AQ Shipley, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.9 • 18.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 141 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, Pat, AQ Shipley, AJ Hawk, and the boys preview tomorrow’s Thanksgiving NFL slate, as well as rivalry weekend in college football. Joining the progrum is future Hall of Famer. 3x DPOY, Walter Payton Man of the Year, and color commentator for the NFL on CBS, JJ Watt to preview the Thanksgiving slate and give his biggest takeaway’s from week 12 of the NFL season. Later, 7x National Champion, College GameDay panelist, the GOAT, Nick Saban joins the show to preview this weekend’s college football rivalry slate, discuss why he thinks Brian Daboll would be a good fit for the Penn State job, how Ole Miss doesn’t let the Lane Kiffin situation become a distraction before the Egg Bowl, chat about the Ohio State/Michigan game and why he thinks Ohio State fans should relax a little bit, and discuss some of his former players who will be playing on Thanksgiving Day. 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. Have the best Thanksgiving of all-time, and be safe. 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 humble abode, the Thunderdome, on this
0:06.5	Watt Wednesday, November 26, 2025.
0:10.0	This sports program begins now.
0:13.0	Football!
0:15.0	It is magical, and I'll tell you what, the next couple days might be the greatest we've had in some time.
0:19.0	Tomorrow, Thanksgiving. we hope you have a
0:21.6	great one with your family and your friends and we hope there's no disagreements no drama we hope
0:25.9	everybody kumbaya's around the fact that we're together in celebrating life and celebrating football
0:30.9	in a huge way one o'clock kickoff as opposed to a normal noon kickoff don't love that a lot of people
0:36.5	schedule their Thanksgiving to start around noon noon. This adds about another 45 minutes of time where there could potentially be something not about football that comes up. Don't love the NFL doing that, but what I do love is the slate they put together. Green Bay taking on Detroit. Half-time show? Jack White. Hey.
0:54.6	Bam bum-bom-bom-bom-bom-bomb-bomb-bomb-bomb-bomb-bomb-bomb-bomb-bong.
1:03.0	Could just do that.
1:04.4	Should just do that.
1:05.4	Whole place would go crazy.
1:06.6	He might actually shut us down just for doing that.
1:08.9	That song is very protected because of how much it is loved.
1:11.8	That particular lick right there makes everybody go crazy.
1:15.2	I was very fortunate and lucky enough to have that song for WrestleMania
1:18.6	whenever I was taking on Austin Theory and one of the most electrifying situation.
1:24.6	Where's he at?
1:25.8	Hopefully in a hole.
1:26.9	Probably looking at himself in the mirror. Look at my muscles. Oh, all right. at? Hopefully in a hole. Probably looking at himself in the mirror.
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