PMS 2.0 1564 - Stanley Cup Finals Preview, Dan Orlovsky, Jackie Redmond, Jeff Passan, Chris Paul, Erik Johnson, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Sports, Football

4.9 • 19.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 159 minutes

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On today's show, Pat, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk, and the boys preview tonight's Stanley Cup Finals Game 1 between the Las Vegas Golden Knights and Carolina Hurricanes, talk more about the fallout from both of the massive trades in the NFL yesterday involving Myles Garrett and Jared Verse, and AJ Brown, the electricity of the WCWS, and everything else happening in the sports world. They are also joined by several incredible guests including 12 year NFL veteran and ESPN NFL analyst Dan Orlovsky; WWE Superstar/NHL reporter Jackie Redmond; ESPN Senior MLB Insider Jeff Passan; 21 year NBA veteran and future Hall of Famer, Chris Paul; and 19 year NHL veteran, former #1 overall pick, and ESPN NHL analyst, Erik Johnson. 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!
0:05.0	The Draft King's Thunderdome on this Stanley Cup Final Tuesday, June 2nd, 2046.
0:10.0	This sports program begins now.
0:13.0	Sports!
0:14.0	Are happening all around us. Obviously, the NFL had a massive day of massive names, making massive moves to new places. And we will certainly
0:22.9	break that down from all different angles. As Dan Orlovsky will join us here in a matter
0:27.3	of moments, he sent a text message to myself, Evan Fox and Tone Diggs. That was a three-scroller
0:33.5	about things he would like to get off of his chest. Cannot wait to hear him.
0:36.9	My quarterback. Unload everything about yesterday's monumental day around the NFL.
0:42.5	And it would be hard to go any further into this show without saying that WVU baseball is stealing the show.
0:49.1	College baseball, obviously electrifying and women's college softball right now. Outrageous. Texas Tech, Texas.
0:57.4	National championship for the Women's College World Series. This comes just days after Cody Campbell
1:03.4	of Texas Tech responds after Coach McGuire had to respond to Coach Sarkesian, seemingly alluding
1:09.8	to Texas Tech having to play against
1:12.2	far inferior opponents throughout their season and being able to have his twos or threes
1:18.2	basically win in that particular league. Texas Tech takes offense to that. Coach McGuire says,
1:24.4	hey, you know what, we'll cancel a couple games on our schedule to actually book you this year, pal, if that's what you want, kind of run your mouth.
1:30.3	Then Cody Campbell, who's a part of trying to put some guardrails on college sports, which I believe is happening tomorrow.
1:37.2	There's a vote in a Senate Commerce Committee taking place for the Protect College Sports Act that they're trying to push through.
1:43.0	Cody Campbell is one of the people on it.
1:44.8	Both parties, part of this, two Democrats, two Republicans,
1:48.2	as they're trying to like figure out college sports.
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