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The Pat McAfee Show

PMS 2.0 1526 - Cooper Flagg, Chase Daniel, WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert, Dan Orlovsky, & Darius Butler

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Sports, Football

4.919.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 172 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, Pat, Darius Butler, and the boys recap everything that happened at the League Meetings in Arizona, everything that’s happening in MLB, the NBA, and the NHL, as well as looking ahead to the Final Four this weekend in Indianapolis. Joining the progrum to chat about his rookie year, welcome to the NBA moment, his ties with his Duke teammates, and how this season has been a transition period for him is 2025 #1 overall pick, National Player of the Year at Duke, Dallas Mavericks Superstar, Cooper Flagg. Next, 14 year NFL veteran at Quarterback, Super Bowl Champion, and ESPN NFL analyst, Chase Daniel joins the show to chat about the news surrounding Jalen Hurts and a lot rumors suggesting that he’s the problem with the offense in Philadelphia. Next, the Commissioner of the WNBA, Cathy Engelbert joins the show to outline the new WNBA CBA, and how they got the deal done, what it means for the future, the league’s expectations, and much more. Lastly, 12 year NFL veteran at QB, ESPN NFL analyst/QB Guru, Dan Orlovsky joins the show to chat about Fernando Mendoza’s Pro Day in real time. 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.

0:05.0

The Thunderdome on this April Fool's Wednesday.

0:09.0

March? No, April 1st.

0:11.0

It's just a now.

0:13.0

Sports!

0:14.0

Listen, April Fool is obviously something that some people fall for.

0:17.0

Let's not be rude out there.

0:18.0

I saw a couple guys announce their return to some professional leagues. Good luck to them, if that's case, it's April fools. I don't like that you put me in a position to be happy for you. And then now I got to rescind that and actually be mad of you because you tricked me. Now on that note, hope you're all having a fantastic Wednesday. We're back here at the Thunderdome after two days in Phoenix, Arizona, where there was a lot of NFL chatter in conversation.

0:39.3

A lot of NFL people all kind of in one place. A lot of people shaking hands, kissing babies, telling secrets, and then all of a sudden reports coming out.

0:47.3

Jailen hurts the problem.

0:48.3

Whoa.

0:49.3

What?

0:50.3

That's Mr. Fowler, Jeremy Fowler at ESPN, reported basically is our latest at ESPN,

0:55.4

as he describes his entire article alongside Tim McManus. Jalen Hertz stands at a crossroads.

1:00.9

Despite his immense success, sources say he is a hand in the Eagles offense becoming calcified

1:06.5

and frustrations have grown.

1:09.6

Uh-oh. Pull up the definition of calcified, please,

1:12.8

just so we can do that.

1:13.5

Hardened by deposition of ore conversion

1:16.0

into calcium carbonate or another insoluble calcium compound.

1:20.7

I go to the toxic table at Boston Connor,

1:23.0

more specifically at Ty Schmidt,

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