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The Pat McAfee Show

PMS 2.0 955 - Hard Knocks Episode 2 Recap, Bengals Head Coach Zac Taylor, Falcons Head Coach Arthur Smith, Lucas Glover, Pacman Jones LIVE In The ThunderDome, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Sports, Football

4.919.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 161 minutes

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Summary

On today's show, Pat, Pacman Jones, AJ Hawk, and the boys chat about last night's second episode of Hard Knocks which included training camp fights, Robert Saleh addressing the offensive line in New York, and Aaron Rodgers taking center stage again. Joining the show is the Head Coach of the Cincinnati Bengals, Zac Taylor, to chat about his team going into this season, the expectations now compared to when he first took the job, how Joe Burrow is coming along, and much more (11:38-36:20). Next, Head Coach of the Atlanta Falcons, Arthur Smith joins the show to chat about his culture taking place in Atlanta, his new mustache, his thoughts on training camp fights, what he's looking for in the preseason, how Desmond Ridder is coming along, and more (1:09:34-1:33:57). Later, 2009 US Open Winner, and winner in back-to-back weeks on the PGA Tour and now #4 in the FedEx rankings, Lucas Glover joins the show to chat about getting over the yips, his roller coaster of a career, an update on his Ryder Cup status, how hot in was in Memphis, and more (1:54:08-2:07:53). Make sure you subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow to watch the show. We appreciate the hell out of all of you. See you tomorrow, cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello beautiful people. Welcome to our humble abode, the Thunderdough. On this Wednesday, August 16th, 2023, this sports program starts right now football.

0:14.0

He is happening, which is one day away from preseason week two for most teams kicking off, which means we are just 22 days away from NFL football actually happening in beautiful Kansas City as the Detroit Lions attempt to live up to the hype that everybody is giving them.

0:29.0

In their first attempt of a 2023 season on maybe making the playoffs for the first time in a long time as they take on Patrick Behomes in the Kansas City Chiefs, who will be hanging a banner celebrating another Super Bowl championship in a dynasty in the making.

0:45.0

We're just 20 some days away from that, but right now we got a lot to talk about. The toxic table is here at Boston Conor with his mallet looks good.

0:53.0

Thank you. Yeah, good name. We're in a, you know, hot streak here in, you know, back porch barber. He did his deed today as well. Yeah, JC, obviously the Thunderdough and barber comes in every single Wednesday, wakes up at like 3 a.m. the drive from where he lives out and bump fucking.

1:07.0

Yeah, drives his way up here, always has great attitude and his scissors are always hot. He's nipping. He's fantastic at what he does. We appreciate him and your mallet is doing great things. Good vibes coming off of that dome today.

1:20.0

Just next to Tashmit. Ty, I know hard knocks has got to be tough for you to watch because of how happy it seems that Aaron Rogers is to be a New York jet and how much say he seemingly has over there.

1:31.0

Everything he dreamt of as a Green Bay Packer and he even made reference to it. The Bryce Young like, you know, it's, it's weird being in a new place after you've been at one place for a long time.

1:40.0

And he said, I wish that for you. He wishes, you know, obviously wishes Bryce success. But I think he also said, I hope that you end up at the same place for a long time because there's something special about that.

1:50.0

I think Aaron truly felt that way, but things happen and obviously he moves on into his next chapter in the big city and hard knocks is captivating this year.

1:58.0

Hard knocks is good this year. Hard knocks last night was a great episode. We'll continue to dive into it here in a matter of moments as we introduce the rest of the incredible crew.

2:07.0

Is that a three quarter zip hoodie with the fucking cowboy hat on one half of the hammer down Cowboys. You're goddamn right. It is good eye out of you. Yeah. I mean, I was checking now. You know, you're a pretty good dresser. I think you appreciate that. I think you do. You think about what you're putting on your body.

2:21.0

You don't. It is obvious. I lay out my outfits tonight before. So I don't know what you don't. Yes, I do. You have two outfits. Asshole and bigger asshole. I lay him out every night. I'm not disagreeing with the asshole. You know, aspect of the outfit, but I still lay him out every night before.

2:36.0

You look good. I'll do. Thank you. You think you're saying Northern skies, the sweatpants guy. You're the. How did that get piece together as an outfit?

2:45.0

A lot of blues and blacks together. Yeah, and all colors. Those and blacks go together. Yeah, see, it's what blue. Yeah, that's. See, that's. You caught part of the message about blue and black. No, but you didn't catch all of the message about like an incredibly dark blue.

3:02.0

Not supposed to be paired with that, but we're not even fashion gods. Okay, I wear tank top every day. What I'm saying is you clearly don't care what you look like in public. We know that. We know that.

3:12.0

The tie is a comfort leisure swag tone cares about his outfits. This is a good one. I think you feel good about it. I really did. I want to put it on today. You know, I thought about what you said yesterday.

3:22.0

You know, when someone puts on a they think about it and they put it on they put on a jacket. They want it to be noticed. And I say, you know, today I want to be noticed. Okay. Yeah. And that's why I said, hey, nice three quarters. They're pretty nice view. Not only because I don't think I've ever seen something like that. No, in a long time. Doesn't have one of these or no.

3:38.0

Oh, you know, wow, it's got zippies on the side. Wow. That's the news. Yeah, I think it's the cargo shorts of buddies. Yeah. Damn good for you, bro.

3:52.0

Thank you. Shit. Another man that dressed better than all of us. He dressed. You need to stop.

4:00.0

Not that. Not even a question. Yeah, today looks awesome because he's rep in the team that obviously he played for the longest and the city that he currently resides. And the team that will have the head coach of joining us in about 10 minutes

4:14.0

of Cincinnati bangles, Pac-Man Jones. How you doing? Pac you doing good? Well, I'm doing good. What's wrong? What's wrong?

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