PMS 2.0 1530 - Michigan Wins the National Championship, Yaxel Lendeborg, Peter Schrager, Adam Schefter, Mark Schlabach on The Masters, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Sports, Football

4.9 • 19.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 157 minutes

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On today’s show, Pat, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk and the boys recap last night’s National Championship game as the Michigan Wolverines are National Champions for the first time since 1989, as well as all the NFL news floating around the sports world as we are getting closer to the NFL Draft, and an update yesterday’s baseball slate, as well as a preview of today. Joining the progrum is National Champion, future 1st round pick in the NBA Draft, Michigan star Forward, Yaxel Lendeborg to chat about being a champion, the camaraderie of this Michigan team, his relationship with Dusty May, being battle tested in the Big Ten, and more. Next, ESPN NFL analyst/host, Peter Schrager joins the show to chat about his first mock draft and some other pertinent NFL news. Next, ESPN Senior NFL Insider, Adam Schefter joins the show to chat about Dexter Lawrence requesting a trade from the Giants, when Aaron Rodgers is going to make a decision, and everything else floating around the NFL. Lastly, ESPN Golf columnist/journalist Mark Schlabach joins the show to preview The Masters. 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 Thunderdome, on this new national champion.
0:08.8	Sports Tuesday, April 7th, 2026, this program begins on.
0:13.3	Sports!
0:14.0	Are the greatest thing of all time, and last night we had the incredible opportunity to be in the building, in the loudod House. That became the big house for the national championship for this March Madness's completion.
0:26.0	For the one shining moment, headed Dusty May and the boys from Ann Arbor.
0:30.3	Now, Dussie's in his second year as head coach for Michigan.
0:33.9	Last year, they win the Big Ten title, regular season, I believe, or something along those lines.
0:38.6	And then they end up losing an attorney. This year, they are now 37 and 3 is how their record
0:44.0	will stand against the test of time on who's the best team of all time in college hoop. Certainly
0:49.6	in Michigan's history is this squad, which they even self-describe themselves as hearing the chatters about them being mercenaries.
0:57.1	All five of them brought in for Dusty May.
0:59.5	All five of them are now national champs alongside the rest of the program.
1:04.0	Congrats to them representing the Big Ten, who now has national championships in everything.
1:10.8	Uh-oh. Is the North taking over the city? now has national championships in everything.
1:11.9	Uh-oh.
1:16.2	Is the North taking over the South in athletics?
1:22.4	Because the transfer portal in the NIL have now allowed the alumni from these northern universities that most of them come from business schools and have some sort of job where
1:26.8	they're able to go ahead and give a hundred thousand bucks a year. Instead of going to somewhere else, maybe, I would like to see where charities are doing. I'd like to see how charities are actually doing in this particular time, but there's a lot of people, CEOs, CMO, CFOs, entrepreneurs, people that come from these business schools and these professional schools,
1:44.7	the law firms, everything that come out of these state schools and these Big Ten schools,
1:48.4	they all are being told by their universities, hey, we'll treat you like God's back here
1:52.9	at this school that you love so much. We just ask if you could potentially help our sports
1:57.6	teams. And these people are. And if they they win they're going to continue to do as such
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