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The Pat McAfee Show

PMS 2.0 1494 - The Patriots and Seahawks are Going to the Super Bowl, Adam Schefter on the Coaching Carousel, Pete Thamel, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Sports, Football

4.9 • 19.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 153 minutes

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Summary

On today's show, Pat, AJ Hawk, and the boys recap the AFC and NFC Championship games that were two instant classics as the Super Bowl is finally set with the Patriots and Seahawks ready to do battle again, over a decade after they last met in the Super Bowl. They also chat about the crazy weather that has rolled through pretty much the entire country, and Alex Honnold free soloing Taipei 101 on Netflix on Saturday night. Joining the progrum to give the latest updates on all the different moves in the coaching carousel including Mike McCarthy being hired by the Steelers, Jonathan Gannon getting the DC job in Green Bay, and what the four remaining teams with vacancies are going to do is ESPN Senior NFL Insider, Adam Schefter. Next, the Authority on College Football, Pete Thamel joins the progrum to chat about the tampering case going on between Clemson and Ole Miss, what that means for college football as a whole, Arthur Smith becoming the OC at Ohio State, the current state of college basketball, and much 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 thunder down on this Super Bowl season

0:06.4

overreaction Monday January 26th, 2026 this sports program begins now.

0:13.2

Football is the greatest and we've certainly enjoyed the hell out of this football season

0:17.7

that has been up and to the right for the numbers of people that have been enjoying the greatest sport on earth, which is football.

0:23.8

And now we find out who the greatest team on earth is.

0:26.7

It is officially Super Bowl season as the New England Patriots are back in the Super Bowl

0:31.8

as underdogs to the Seattle Seahawks.

0:35.2

Congrats to both of these teams, franchises, cities, programs, humans, you name it. And it is now an exhilarating time of two weeks where most of the conversation will just be about how great these two teams are. Obviously, Seahawks fans, we hope you take it in. Obviously, there was not a lot of hope for your team to be the team that ends up representing the NFC in the Super Bowl.

0:54.4

A lot of people didn't even think you're going to make it out of your division. That division is incredibly difficult. What you proved week in, week out was that you were absolute doves. You go on a road, blow out the Pittsburgh Steelers early. That's how you got on our radar. Okay, we started talking about Seattle, Seahawks immediately after that particular game. We go, wait a minute now.

1:12.4

Hey, that's a long flight.

1:13.7

That's an early game.

1:26.5

That's a long flight, early game, tough place, tough state. Pounded. We're talking about absolute drumming, took the soul of the Pittsburgh Steelers and their fan base. maybe was a part of what led to the firing of Mike Tomlin actually,

1:29.4

whenever you think about the

1:27.8

entire reality of the situation that ended up being the Pittsburgh Steelers season.

1:31.7

Then you think about them being not only road warriors, but at home, and then the 12 showing

1:35.7

back up, and McDonald's culture being a stupendous one.

1:39.1

Him and Kurt Signetti have a lot in common whenever I hear them talk ball.

1:42.3

Obviously, Signetti, overseer of things,

2:01.6

McDonald, defensive coordinator, calling the plays, reading everything that's going on. Him and McVeigh and Kyle Shanahan and whoever the hell the Cardinals hire are going to be an awesome thing to watch for the next 15, 20 years over there in the NFC West. But they have proven multiple times just yesterday, yet again, that they're the best team in the NFC's best NFC west and now they're going to have to take on a team that's very comfortable with spotlight

2:06.5

team that very much understands the importance of the game is through the super bowl it's where

2:10.7

people around the world potentially lay their eyes on ball for the first time ever definitely

2:14.8

the first game of the season and who do do they see? The New England Patriots.

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