PMS 2.0 1470 - NFL Week 15 Preview/Picks, TNF Recap, John Cena LIVE in the ThunderDome, Texas A&M Head Coach Mike Elko, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.9 • 18.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 171 minutes

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Summary

On today's show, Pat, AJ Hawk and the boys recap last night's upset by the Atlanta Falcons over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and cover all the NFL news heading into Week 15. In the first hour, we are joined by 17x World Champion, The GOAT, WWE Superstar John Cena ahead of Saturday Night's Main Event & his farewell match against Gunther. In the second hour, we are joined by Texas A&M Head Coach Mike Elko to preview his match up with Miami at Kyle Field, hear his thoughts about the current state of the College Football calendar, and more. We wrap up the last hour by making all of our picks for the Week 15 slate. Make sure to subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow or watch on ESPN (12-2 EDT), ESPN's YouTube 12-3pm EDT, or ESPN+. We appreciate the hell out of all of you. Have an incredible weekend. 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.
0:05.7	On this magical Feel Good Friday, December 12th, 2025, this program begins now.
0:13.4	Football!
0:14.5	It is insane, and week 15 kicked off in a spectacular fashion with a massive fourth quarter comeback for the Atlanta Falcons to get a huge win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Buccaneers are looking in the mirrors this morning saying, what the hell happened to us? We were supposed to go to the playoffs. We're supposed to win the NFC South. Now they're on a little bit of a slide. And for the Atlanta Falcons and Kirk Cousins, when they're playing the Buccaneers, boy, do they ball out?
0:38.3	Kyle Pitts want crazy.
0:39.8	Kirk Cousins gets a dub.
0:41.2	Rahim Morris is yelling at the camera afterwards.
0:43.8	And everybody from Tampa is thinking to themselves, we suck.
0:47.4	We are ass.
0:48.6	We need to maybe start this entire thing over.
0:50.9	Week 15 kicks off in a spectacular fashion.
0:53.4	The Sunday slate is going to be
0:54.9	absolutely majestic Army versus Navy, obviously a special day for our entire country. And then
1:00.9	tomorrow night, Saturday night's main event on NBC, John Sina will have his final match as a
1:09.6	WWE superstar. He will be joining us in about 10 to 15 minutes live in studio. And I want to let you know, those jorts have been walking around this facility for the last 20, 30 minutes. And he is a special individual with a special aura. And every single time you talk to him, you want to tell him like, hey, you're John Sina.
1:28.6	Let's never ever forget that.
1:30.9	And all John Sina says, well, I'm just lucky to be here.
1:42.6	I'm just lucky to be here. So for our conversation with him, it's going to be a lot of us letting him know who the hell he is and him responding to us on who we should maybe strive to be a little bit more like him. He's got a tough one in Gunther tomorrow night. As all eyes are in Washington, D.C. to watch the never seen 17-time champion wrap up his illustrious, greatest of all-time career with the WWE.
1:53.1	So, special Friday here in the Thunderdome.
1:55.3	The talks at tables here at Boston Corner at Ty Schmidt.
1:57.9	Big one this weekend for the Patriots Condon.
1:59.8	Huge.
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