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The Pat McAfee Show

PMS 2.0 1477 - Merry Christmas Eve, NFL Christmas Day/Week 17 Preview, Mike McCarthy, JJ Watt, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Sports, Football

4.918.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 166 minutes

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Summary

On today's show, Pat, AJ Hawk and the boys celebrate Christmas Eve and preview the NFL's Christmas weekend games. In the first hour, we are joined by Super Bowl Champion, former Head Coach of the Green Bay Packers & Dallas Cowboys, Mike McCarthy joins the progrum to chat about playing on holidays, the state of the Philadelphia Eagles, building a team through the trenches, what makes Aaron Rodgers' so great presnap, Mike Tomlin winning 200 games in the NFL, and more. In the second hour, we are joined by Texans Ring of Honor member, future Hall of Famer, 3x DPOY, and color commentator for NFL on CBS, JJ Watt stops by to talk about roughing the passer, Myles Garrett's chase of NFL sack history, the Cleveland Browns future, and more. We wrap the show with all of our picks. 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. Merry Christmas everybody. 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 Holly Jolly Humbley Boat on this magical Christmas Eve edition of a sports show that shouldn't be on television, and it starts now.

0:13.3

Football!

0:14.6

It is magical, and obviously it'll be alongside of our Christmases tomorrow, two on Netflix, one on Prime.

0:20.2

To be honest, the game certainly looked a lot better in the preseason whenever we are

0:24.0

forecasting what a great NFL season could look like.

0:27.5

Obviously, the Dallas Cowboys on Christmas, we're certainly going to make that happen.

0:31.4

And listen, we can sell the hope of what the future can be.

0:35.4

And maybe when I traded Macapos, Machopussons, they said that it was going to be a bad situation. But the Dallas Cowboys on Christmas, if you want this to have a success, this is what you do. They did. Have us play the commanders. Obviously, that'll be a good time. Jaden Daniels, he's coming into his own. Dan Quinn, Cliff Kingsbury is still there. They traded for Debo Samuel, the Washington

0:54.2

commanders on Christmas, on Netflix, a new partner that's spending billions.

0:59.4

Had billions of dollars on sports and live sports content and taking over Christmas

1:06.2

from the NBA. Let's go ahead and give them a big one to start today. Hey, you know, they're just

1:10.2

going to be coming fresh out of the unwrapping of the gifts from Santa Claus. You know, everybody's going to be kind of settling in. Boom! Let's go ahead and hit them with the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Commanders. And then right after that, guess who we got? What's more holly jelly than Motor City, Dan Campbell, and the Detroit Lions? A A rugged tough team. The Detroit Lions, we've seen them on another holiday Thanksgiving for a long time, just getting smacked in the mouth. Now they have a good team. Let's go ahead and give them Christmas as well. Let the world see this comeback tale for a city, for a team, for an organization in a beautiful way on a beautiful day in the middle of it.

1:44.8

While people are, you know, kind of settling in maybe for their dinner or maybe their

1:48.7

second bite or, you know, celebrating their new toys or fixing the batteries or fixing something

1:53.8

that potentially took place, let's give them the Detroit Lions in the Minnesota Vikings.

1:58.7

You know where it's going to be? It's's gonna be over there in beautiful Minneapolis, Minnesota,

2:03.6

and we're gonna see a lot of cool traditions.

2:06.6

Like, when things get going, we're gonna see their entire fan base go.

2:11.6

Skull.

2:12.6

Skull.

2:13.6

Skull.

2:14.6

Skull.

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