PMS 2.0 1491 - JJ Watt, Indiana Linebacker Aiden Fisher, Indianapolis Meteorologist Adam Feick, In the Trenches with AQ Shipley, Everything DB with Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Sports, Football

4.9 • 19.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 197 minutes

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On today's show, Pat, AQ Shipley, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk, and the boys chat more about this weekend's Conference Championship games while AQ goes into the Trenches ranking the remaining teams' offensive lines, and D But breaks down some of the best plays from the defensive backfield from the Divisional Round. Joining the progrum to chat about Bills owner Terry Pegula and GM Brandon Beane's joint press conference today, the 18 game season, and looking ahead to the Conference Championships is future Hall of Famer, 3x DPOY, Houston Texans Ring of Honor member, and color commentator for the NFL on CBS, JJ Watt. Next, 2x 1st Team All Big Ten Linebacker, and now National Champion for the Indiana Hoosiers, Aiden Fisher joins the progrum to chat about winning the National Championship, his expectations when getting to Indiana, what Curt Cignetti is like on the day-to-day, his plans before the NFL Draft, and more. Later, Indianapolis meteorologist Adam Feick joins the show to chat about the massive cold front and winter storm hitting up to 30 states this weekend, and what impact that will have on the Conference Championship games. 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 Humbley Boat, the Thunderdow.
0:05.6	On this Watt Wednesday, January 21st, 2026.
0:09.2	This sports program begins right now.
0:14.0	Football!
0:15.0	It is the greatest.
0:15.9	It's always cooking, and obviously we got championship Sunday coming up where we will find out
0:20.3	who the kings of the AFC are and who the kings of the NFC are and who will be traveling out to
0:24.9	beautiful Santa Clara, California to see who will hoist the Lombardi this year. The Patriots and the
0:30.3	Broncos will do battle in the AFC championship at 3 p.m. And then we head out to the NFC West,
0:35.6	the NFC's best, the NFC championship between the Los Angeles Rams may be led by the MVP of this season, Matthew Stafford, and the Seattle Seahawks. The stingy defense that can certainly be a problem to anybody. Have they been to the Rams at times? Have the Rams been able to beat the Seahawks at times? Kind of a split. What's going on in the NFC West? They're all great, and they're going to decide who represents the NFC in the Super Bowl. Now, Championship Sunday is special strictly because we've got the four best teams in ball play. Hell yeah. We get a chance to see if Rable and Drake may take the field and see if this Patriot season that is improbable can continue. Can it go all the way to Santa Clara?
1:12.2	And then how about Sean Peyton and the Broncos? Well, Bo Nixon, his second year, is certainly taking massive steps. The offense has certainly got better. Now, throughout the season, they weren't blowing people out. But in the biggest games and the biggest moments, Bo would make a play, and the defense was absolutely swarming. I know Houston tries to claim that word,
1:27.5	but going into the season,
1:28.6	the Broncos defense was the one that we were talking about
1:30.5	potentially leading a team to the Super Bowl.
1:32.8	They might have to do that again because Jared Stidham,
1:35.0	a man who hasn't played football in forever
1:36.5	is going to be their starting quarterback
1:38.0	after Bo Nix broke his ankle on a play
1:40.2	that looked very routine towards the end of it.
1:42.6	Stood on the field, did interviews, didn't say a word, and then Sean Payton came back out after his press conference and said, Bo Next Day's surgery, he broke his ankle, he's out forever. And we go, whoa, a championship. What a terrible time for that to happen. Nonetheless, it is a game of attrition in Los Angeles Rams and the Seattle Seahawks, healthy, ready to do battle. And we find out who is going to field the biggest game of the mall.
2:07.8	Super Bowl and Santa Clara should be special.
2:09.6	We'll be out there Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from Radio Row.
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