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The Pat McAfee Show

PMS 2.0 1481 - OVERREACTION MONDAY, Week 18 NFL Recap, Adam Schefter, Indiana QB Fernando Mendoza, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Sports, Football

4.918.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 227 minutes

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Summary

On today's show, Pat, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk, and the boys overreact to everything that happened in week 18 of the NFL season as the playoff fields and matchups are set, and we also have several Head Coach’s and GM’s getting fired. Joining the show to chat about all the different potential Head Coach and GM openings and who might still be getting let go is ESPN Senior NFL Insider, Adam Schefter. Later, Heisman Trophy winner, presumptive #1 pick of the NFL Draft, and QB of the Indiana Hoosiers, Fernando Mendoza joins the show to chat about IU’s massive win in the Rose Bowl, his style of play, if they can take anything from the previous Oregon game, what he does with the boys in his free time, and more. 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

Hello beautiful people and welcome to our humble abode the Thunderdome on this massive overreaction

0:07.7

Black Monday January 5th 2026 this program begins now

0:11.8

Football is magical and the NFL has wrapped up its regular season congratulations to the NFL

0:20.0

congratulations ratings were up into the right obviously football was magical wrapped up its regular season. Congratulations to the NFL.

0:21.6

Congratulations.

0:23.4

Ratings are up and to the right.

0:29.8

Obviously, football was magical this year, but today is a day that some guys and their families are going to be told you're getting the hell out of this town.

0:32.8

There's some, ladies and gentlemen, we have breaking news.

0:37.9

Jonathan Gannon has been fired as the Arizona Cardinals head coach.

0:42.9

Arizona closed this season with nine straight losses, ultimately costing Gannon his job.

0:47.2

Cardinals GM Monty also for it will spearhead the search for a new head coach.

0:51.0

Head coach fired GM stays.

0:53.5

What do they do with Kyler Murray going forward? Who knows? What do the Cardinals look like going forward? Who knows? But what we do know, Jonathan Gannon has been fired today. That means his entire coaching staff's been fired. All their families have been fired. They're going to have to pick up and find a new. That is the life of a coach. We'd like to say Jonathan Gannon. good luck wherever you go next. Good luck. Young lad, a lot of young lads on our coaching staff, obviously not able to get it figured out down there. Losing nine straight is certainly something that would chatter about a conversation about being fired, but there are some other teams who lose seven, eight straight, and that doesn't happen. Now, on that note, there's already been a few coaches fired today. There's already been a few coaches fired this season, and that takes it up to six, I do believe, in total. Because Dayball was fired during a regular season, as was Brian Callahan. Rahim Morris, it was announced last night was fired from the Atlanta Falcons. Kevin Stefanski this morning fired from the Cleveland Browns. I felt like everybody knew that was coming. Both Schaefter and Jay Glazer yesterday were like, Stafansky's, he'll be a hot name on the market. That's kind of how they were talking about him. And then Pete Carroll, one and done at Las Vegas. All his other assistants had been fired, and that team had been asked. So we assume there was a chance of one and done would be happening for Pete Carroll. It does.

2:18.1

What does Tom Brady and how Mark Davis do going forward? Hopefully they summon the power of Al Davis and get it going. And now Jonathan Gannon, and that's six head coaches who have been fired. That means a lot of building having a lot of turnover. General manager is also being talked about at this exact moment.

2:23.7

Oh, yeah, and wild car weekends coming up, which follows college football semifinal games.

2:25.5

Yeah.

2:26.3

Yeah.

2:26.9

Unreal.

2:27.5

Yeah.

2:29.4

Thursday, college football playoffs semifinal.

2:29.9

What?

2:32.1

Friday, college football playoffs semifinal.

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