PMS 2.0 968 - NFL Kickoff Preview, First Day On ESPN, Aaron Rodgers, Peyton Manning, Adam Schefter, Stefon Diggs, Darius Butler LIVE In The ThunderDome, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Sports, Football

4.9 • 19.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 174 minutes

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On today's show, Pat, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk, and the boys preview tonight's NFL Kickoff game between the Detroit Lions and Kansas City Chiefs, chat about Travis Kelce's status, Chris Jones not playing but being there in a suite, Nick Bosa signing the richest contract for a defensive player in NFL history, and much more as we now officially have NFL football in our lives again. Joining the progrum to chat about how things are going in New York and make a special announcement is 4x MVP, Super Bowl Champion/MVP, 5x All-Pro, 10x Pro Bowler, and now Quarterback of the New York Jets, Aaron Rodgers (9:27-16:50). Next, 2x Super Bowl Champion, Super Bowl MVP, 5x NFL MVP, Hall of Famer, one of the greatest players in NFL history and owner of Omaha! Productions, Peyton Manning joins the show to preview tonight's game, chat about Russell Wilson and Sean Payton's relationship, and chat about Quarterback season 2 (19:54-28:35). Next, ESPN NFL Insider, Adam Schefter joins the progrum to discuss Travis Kelce's injury status, Cooper Kupp's ailing hamstring, Nick Bosa signing his massive new deal, updates to the Jonathan Taylor situation, and more injury updates (1:30:52-1:44:55). Later, 2x All-Pro, 3x Pro Bowler, WR for the Buffalo Bills, Stefon Diggs joins the show to chat about the Bills' offense and who he expects to breakout this year, how camp was, why the Bills are flying under the radar this year, his relationship with Ken Dorsey, and much more (2:24:31-2:44:07). Make sure you subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow to watch the show. Or watch on ESPN (12-2 EDT), ESPN’s Youtube (12-3 EDT), or ESPN+ (12-3 EDT). 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 about the Thunderdome on this magical NFL kickoff Thursday.
0:08.6	September 7, 2023, this sports program starts now football is full this evening.
0:15.9	And although the college football world has had a miraculous start with incredible upsets
0:21.4	in storylines already developing that'll carry us all the way through the national championship
0:26.9	months from now, tonight, the best players of the best sport with the best league kickoff
0:33.0	their 104th season on what is going to be a magical run all the way to Sin City in February.
0:40.6	Since February 12, 2023, we've been waiting for this day that we can say that tonight the NFL
0:48.7	starts in life is glorious, baby. The brand new Detroit Lions, a team that has some oxy,
0:58.7	some expectations, some talent, a quarterback reborn after going to have to baptize himself in the
1:08.1	Detroit waters after getting kicked out of Los Angeles. So not only are they not kneecaps with
1:12.9	they're the real deal and they'll travel to Kansas City to try to knock off a dynasty in the
1:18.8	making. Will they have a perfect season on their record or not? Could that happen this year?
1:24.1	And what is going on with Travis Kelsey? Tonight is a glorious night and today is a glorious day. We
1:29.5	can't thank you enough for joining us here on ESPN and on our YouTube where it'll be status
1:36.1	this day. But here on ESPN, we want you to know that we are a show that is very thankful and
1:40.7	lucky to be here. We're honored to be here. And what we're about to do for the next couple
1:45.0	hours is something that you might not have seen a lot in sports media world, especially on linear
1:50.2	television. We're about to have a great damn time. That's where you'll we got Aaron Rodgers joining
1:57.4	us in about eight minutes, obviously. He has a big announcement. Yeah, we have Pete Manning joining
2:02.8	us in about 17 minutes. He might have a big announcement. We got Adam Schefter in the second
2:07.7	hour. Then we got Stefan Diggs in the third hour of this program, which will be exclusively live
2:12.2	on YouTube and ESPN Plus. Allow me to introduce all the incredibly talented people that I am lucky
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