PMS 2.0 1538 - LIVE from the NFL Draft in Pittsburgh, Peter Schrager, Kendrick Perkins, Adam Schefter, Nick Saban

The Pat McAfee Show

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Sports, Football

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🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 116 minutes

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On today's show, Pat, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk, and the boys are LIVE from Pittsburgh for the NFL Draft covering all the biggest stories headed into this year's Draft. In the first hour, Pat and the boys recap their visit to Pittsburgh's greatest amusement park, Kennywood, and are joined by Senior NFL Analyst at ESPN, Peter Schrager to discuss his latest mock draft and everything he is hearing around the league, including that the Cardinals may be open to moving out of the 3rd pick, positional value throughout the draft, and prospects to keep an eye on moving up the board. Also in the first hour we are joined by NBA Champion & 15 year NBA veteran Kendrick Perkins to update us on the NBA first round, LeBron taking over at 41 years old, and more. In the second hour, we are joined by ESPN Senior Insider Adam Schefter who tells he sees a lot of trade action on the horizon, the NFL's perspective on Ohio State safety Caleb Downs, and more. To help wrap things up, the greatest College Football Coach of all time, 7-time National Champion, Nick Saban joins the progrum to tell us how he has prepared to cover this year's Draft, how he goes about evaluating players, how he sees Alabama QB Ty Simpson developping at the next level, how incredible Caleb Downs was a true freshman, and more. Make sure to subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow or watch on ESPN (12-2 EDT), ESPN’s Youtube (12-3 EDT), or ESPN+. Tune in tomorrow night at 7pm ET for the Internet debut of The Football Town, an NFL Films showcase of Pittsburgh's football history voiced by Pat, right before the 7th Annual Draft Spectacular. We appreciate the hell aht of all of yinz. Cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, beautiful people, and welcome to beautiful, I mean, absolutely glorious Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
0:07.6	The home of tomorrow night's draft, and our show is live right now.
0:13.5	Football!
0:14.8	It's magical. Football is celebrating its next generation of greatness tomorrow night in this beautiful city.
0:22.0	And I was very fortunate and lucky to grow up in these hills of Pittsburgh. And I'll tell you, the weather that has
0:27.1	been forecasted, not only since yesterday where we had a full Kenneywood day, we will certainly
0:31.3	talk about that in a matter of moments. Today, tomorrow, Friday, into the weekend is superb.
0:40.1	The vibes are immaculate. And what's about to happen tomorrow night is Roger Goodell is going to list off names that will potentially be launching
0:44.5	themselves into a Hall of Fame-like conversation or career. Obviously, NFL careers are very
0:50.8	difficult. There's going to be a lot of guys who are asked that are drafted tomorrow night in the NFL. Then there's going to be a couple guys that are going to surprise some people. And then there's going to be a story that's going to come from tomorrow night from this parking lot right here. The gold lot outside of Acresher Stadium. If you're a Ginzer, you understand that obviously this parking lot is home to a lot of festivities before Steelers games, before Pirates games, after
1:13.4	Pirates game. After Steelers game. I had a friend that was pronounced dead in his parking
1:19.4	lot after chugging a bottle of vodka. Then he was taken to a hospital promptly here in Pittsburgh
1:24.5	and was resuscitated. I watched a guy ask a lady, very intoxicated,
1:30.5	if she was pregnant when she was actually just a fat.
1:33.0	So right here in this parking lot right back here.
1:37.0	I've seen a guy with a fishing net, okay?
1:39.9	Okay.
1:40.3	That he was taking into PNC Park.
1:42.2	Okay.
1:42.8	Catch a natty light from 75 yards away.
1:46.0	Okay.
1:47.0	Nice.
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