PMS 2.0 1486 - Dan Orlovsky, USMNT Player of the Year Chris Richards, JJ Watt, AQ Shipley, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Sports, Football

4.9 • 18.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2026

⏱️ 207 minutes

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On today's show, Pat, AQ Shipley, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk and the boys discuss Steve Bisciotti’s press conference and how we need to hear more from him, plus AQ and D But break down the best o-line play In the Trenches and DB play in Everything DB of Wildcard weekend. Joining the show to chat about all the different coaching vacancies, which are the best, and where he thinks certain coaches might go is 12 year NFL veteran at QB, ESPN NFL analyst/QB guru, Dan Orlovsky. Next, Crystal Palace fixture and key cog for the US Men’s National Team, Chris Richards as he is announced as the USMNT Player of the Year. Later, 3x DPOY, future Hall of Famer, Houston Texans Ring of Honor member, and color commentator for the NFL on CBS, JJ Watt to an extended version of Watt Wednesday. 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 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 Humbley Bo, the Thundernoon.
0:05.6	On this watt Wednesday, January 14th, 2026, this sports program begins now.
0:13.5	Football!
0:14.5	It's the greatest. We're so incredibly lucky that we get a chance to chat about it every single day, and obviously we're in a special time.
0:19.9	The college football playoff national championship is coming up on Monday.
0:24.1	The divisional round is happening this weekend and football is obviously going to carry the water of topic of conversation around the world.
0:32.2	Not only because of these games but because of the drama that's happening around it.
0:36.4	Yesterday, huge news came as Mike Tomlin
0:38.7	walked into the team meeting room that he had been the head coach up for 19 seasons and told the
0:43.0	boys, hey, I'm stepping down as the head coach. What ensued was standing ovation, people thanking
0:48.0	them throughout the entire building. I assume it wasn't just the players. It was probably the
0:51.6	equipment staff, the trainers, the food folks,
0:54.5	you name it, every, the business sense. Everybody in that building is going to show love to coach
0:59.0	Mike Tomlin for 19 years of successful football. Obviously brought a trophy into that building
1:04.0	of Lombardi, obviously represented the Steelers in a way throughout the city in a beautiful way.
1:08.3	And now the Pittsburgh Steelers and Rooney, who started a press conference about, I don't
1:14.2	know if it started yet, but it's supposed to start around now.
1:16.5	We were told distinctly, don't you even think about streaming this press conference.
1:20.8	Nope.
1:22.1	If they want to watch press conference, they've got to come to Steelers.com.
1:24.9	Okay.
1:26.7	Okay.
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