PMS 2.0 1542 - Big Sports Wednesday with Ian Rapoport, Shams Charania, Mike Tannenbaum, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Sports, Football

4.9 • 19.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 144 minutes

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On today’s show, Pat, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk and the boys recap last night’s excellent NHL Playoff action as all these best of 7’s have really started to heat up, as well as everything happening in the NBA, a check in on MLB, and all the other things happening in the sports world. Joining the progrum fresh off signing a new deal with ESPN is now ESPN Junior(?) NFL Insider, Ian Rapoport to discuss all the news happening around the NFL. Next, ESPN Senior NBA Insider, Shams Charania joins the progrum for a Quick 5 to chat about the NBA’s response to tanking, as well as some injury updates for tonight’s playoff games. Lastly, former GM of the New York Jets, and a litany of other positions in the NFL, and current ESPN NFL analyst Mike Tannenbaum, to chat about his reactions to the NFL Draft, how hard it is to build a winning culture in Miami, what he thinks will happen with George Pickens, and how teams will respond to the Brendan Sorsby news. 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 Bo, the Thunderdome, on this big sports Wednesday, April 29, 2026.
0:10.4	This program begins now.
0:13.5	Sports are the absolute greatest, and today we're covering all of them.
0:17.0	We have a special guest joining us, a man who was once very familiar with this program
0:21.8	has now inked a deal to come back into the world in which we live. Ian Rappaport will be
0:28.0	joining us in about 20 minutes or so. We're happy for Rapsheet. Rapsheet allegedly inked a new
0:33.8	multi-year deal with ESPN. We shall see if he can confirm that or deny that.
0:38.4	Obviously, whenever NFL network comes into the ESPN world, there's a lot of confusion.
0:43.3	Everybody doesn't know what the future looks like. Well, we know Rapsheet here is now officially a part of the ESPN umbrella as an NFL insider.
0:50.6	We believe he'll be probably junior NFL insider.
0:52.7	I assume.
0:53.3	Senior NFL insider is Adam Schaefter. So, Jr. here, we'll be probably junior NFL inside. I assume. Yeah. Senior NFL insider is Adam Schifter. So, Jr. We'll be back. We don't know. Congrats, juniors. Hey, thank you. Junior. Way to go, junior. Oh, my God. We don't want to do. We just thought of this junior title six, four minutes ago. Okay, as we were standing up here, we're like, so excited.
1:11.0	Rapp's coming back.
1:11.8	He's in the thing.
1:12.7	And then we're like, oh, how should I introduce him?
1:14.1	Because he used to be senior NFL insider and NFL network, you know, and there's an entire team. That's like a rank and file type situation in the insider world. But we know senior NFL insider DSPN is one man. Yeah, right. and that's a Michigan man, Adam Schaefter.
1:25.6	So now that rap sheet has come into the fold, he understands that.
1:28.1	He has told us that both privately and publicly, like, hey Adam Schaefter. So now that Rapsheet has come into the fold, he understands that.
1:28.0	He has told us that both privately and publicly, like, hey, Schaefter is currently the guy. And then they write an article that's like successor, though, to Schaefter. And then Schaefter goes, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm still running five miles a day. Easily. I mean, I'm in the middle of my prime right now. Raption, I think, understands it.
1:43.0	I think their relationship is going to go very well,
1:44.6	I think it's going to be good for the league.
1:47.0	But Junior NFL Insiders, I mean, I'm in the middle of my prime right now. RAPSheet, I think, understands that. I think their relationship is going to go very well.
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