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The Pat McAfee Show

PMS 2.0 1519 - March Madness Rounds 1 and 2 Recap, Coach K, Adam Schefter, Seth Greenberg, Iowa Head Coach Ben McCollum, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Sports, Football

4.919.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2026

⏱️ 157 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, Pat is on the ESPN campus in Bristol attending a few meetings, while Darius Butler, AJ Hawk, and the boys are back in the ThunderDome, as they recap the round of 64 and the round of 32 of the NCAA Tournament, as the Sweet Sixteen is officially set. They also recap the Fanatics Flag Football Fest that saw Team USA absolutely destroy a group of stars from the NFL, chat about Jaxon Smith-Njigba signing the biggest WR contract in history, and everything else happening in the sports world. They are also joined by several incredible guests including 5x National Champion, the GOAT, Coach K to chat about the tournament so far, ESPN Senior NFL Insider Adam Schefter to give an update on Jaxon Smith-Njigba as well as anything we may have missed. Next, ESPN NCAA basketball analyst, and former Coach with 34 years experience, Seth Greenberg joins the show to give his biggest takeaway’s of the tournament and look ahead to the Sweet 16. Lastly, Iowa Head Basketball Coach Ben McCollum joins the show fresh off knocking off #1 seed and defending National Champion Florida to send Iowa to their first Sweet 16 since 1999. 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’re off the next two days for March Madness, we’ll see you on Monday. Cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Pat McAfee Show. I am not Pat McAvey. I'm AJ Hawks sitting in at Pat's desk today. He'll be joining us from some big-time meetings in Bristol, Connecticut, boys.

0:13.2

It's what we do. We have ball over, Pat. Obviously, your name is on the show. This is what you do. You're in Bristol. What's up, buddy? How are you doing?

0:54.2

AJ, thank you so much for traveling out to the Thunderdome. Obviously, then your name is on the show. This is what you do. You're in Bristol. What's up, buddy? How you doing? Hey, Jay, thank you so much for traveling out to the Thunderdome. Obviously, the boys love when your big-ass dome is into Thunderdome. The energy you bring is immaculate, especially on this overreaction Monday where there is so much to talk about. And this show is absolutely jam-packed. We got Coach K, 1215 Eastern. We got Adam Schaefter joining us. We got Seth Greenberg. He'll be here live with me. They got me in a bunker down here. Oh, nice. There's a bunch of studios here at ESPN. Got some super-duper meetings up here. Okay. Good luck. Yeah.

1:13.6

That was important. And to them. Yeah. And to them. Okay. Good luck to all parties here. Good luck to all parties here. But good luck to them. Come up here. It's a wonderful thing. And then who's around us, Seth Greenberg? He's been incredible for our show. Does he want to come on? would love to remember he called Texas was going to go on.

1:28.1

He called a couple other teams. We're going to go on, so we'll have magical conversation with him. We also caught up with Coach Ben McCollum earlier, head coach of Iowa. You saw him almost want to fight the national champion, Golden Head Coach, as he was talking to the boys. We certainly addressed that with him.

1:30.9

And then in the third hour, we'll be joined by Logan Paul. And when you think about Logan Paul, and why would he be coming on this show?

1:34.7

Well, he won the fanatic super duper flag football challenge where the NFL players got their asses

1:39.7

beat by actual flag football players.

1:42.5

Now, I would like to say a team that had Logan Paul, who's obviously W.W.E. Megastar.

1:48.7

And I believe a former amateur wrestler as well.

1:52.1

And deflected that pass and caused interception for Luke Kekly Hall of Fame.

1:55.9

Hall of Famer, who is retired, by the way, in the booth Hall of Famer.

1:59.0

A lot of retired guys.

2:00.1

Okay, we had I Show Speed out there.

2:02.0

Okay, he was doing his thing against Devonte Smith.

2:04.9

Obviously, Jalen Hertz drops it, and that's Logan Paul getting a sack, sorry.

2:09.5

Jalen Hurst, drop one on I Show Speed, okay?

2:13.0

Great coverage.

2:13.9

Just, you know, Jalen Hertz and Devonte Smith kind of doing their things.

2:27.1

So whenever you think about the fanatics flag football thing as a whole, my take, the boys were bamboozled.

2:29.9

I don't think the NFL guys retired or currently playing had any idea that these guys

2:36.7

got the whoop-ty-whoop-moos.

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