PMS 2.0 1462 - BA Day with Bruce Arians, MNF Recap, Peter Schrager, Texas Tech Head Coach Joey McGuire, & Darius Butler

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.9 • 18.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 162 minutes

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On today's show, Pat, Darius Butler, and the boys are joined by 3x Super Bowl Champion, and former Head Coach of the Arizona Cardinals and Tampa Bay Bucs, Bruce Arians to recap last night’s Monday Night Football game that saw the Patriots be the first team in the NFL to reach 11 wins in dominating fashion against the Giants. Joining the progrum to chat about his biggest takeaway’s from not only Thanksgiving, but the weekend as a whole and the Monday Night game is ESPN NFL Insider/analyst and host of the Schrager Hour, Peter Schrager. Next, Texas Tech Head Coach Joey McGuire joins the progrum to chat about Texas Tech’s culture, how closely he’ll pay attention to tonight’s College Football Rankings, and how he would change the college football calendar for the betterment of college football. 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	Beautiful people and welcome to our humble boat, the Thunderdome.
0:04.6	On this BA day, December 2nd, 2025, this program begins right now.
0:12.7	Football!
0:14.4	It is the greatest and we're so incredibly lucky that we get a chance to chat about it every single day.
0:19.8	We can't thank you enough for allowing us to do this for a living. And today, we have to talk about a big bad wolf being all the
0:26.5	way back. And we have to talk about a dynasty, an empire that was hated by the world, but obviously
0:31.7	respected by all in professional sports. This New England Patriots team is such a fascinating story because obviously
0:39.0	once they were in the dumps and then they hired a man named Bill Belichick and then he turned
0:43.4	that place into an absolute powerhouse, the greatest dynasty in the history of professional sports
0:48.0	over a 20-year span in a league that promotes parody who who are dominating everybody.
0:57.7	Obviously, whenever you do that, you're going to have a lot of other fan bases hate you.
1:00.8	Those are at the top of the mountain are obviously going to be judged.
1:03.5	And people always throw rocks at things that shine.
1:07.5	And boy, a lot of cities that are football cities, that are shit-talking cities, that are passionate cities that will certainly hate you cities hated the new
1:11.5	England Patriots so whenever they had their downfall and an ugliness and the breakup and the split
1:17.0	between Tom Brady and Bill Belichick and then they want down into the dumps of being an ass
1:22.1	program everybody who was excited to watch the masts holes kind of deal with not being able to be
1:27.3	braggadocious about their football team almost guaranteeing a parade every other year for 20
1:32.6	years then they hire a coach former player did not go well at all we're laughing in their face
1:40.1	you guys had a good time there for a while. Now you guys are ass, ass, ass.
1:44.9	And then somehow a guy is on the free agency block as a coach who was able to win and get coach of the year places.
1:53.5	And he's just hanging in Cleveland not getting paid anything in a closet basic office in the back corner.
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