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The Pat McAfee Show

PMS 2.0 987 - Trenches Wednesday With The General Bob Carpenter's Top 5, JJ Watt, Harrison Smith, Scott Hanson, AQ Shipley and Darius Butler LIVE In The ThunderDome, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Sports, Football

4.919.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 185 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, Pat, AQ Shipley, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk, and the boys chat about everything happening around the NFL including JC Jackson being traded to the Patriots from the Chargers for 6th and 7th round pick swaps, the NFL’s new gambling policy, and much more as we get ready for week 5 to begin. Joining the progrum to give his weekly top 5 in College Football is the 18th pick of the 2006 NFL Draft, Ohio State legend, the man who saved college football, The General, Bob Carpenter (34:38-56:07). Next, future Hall of Fame, 3x DPOY, Walter Payton Man of the Year, 7x All-Pro, 5x Pro Bowler, and now Houston Texans Ring of Honor Member, JJ Watt joins the show to chat about his weekend getting inducted, and who he thought performed the best on the defensive line in week 4 (1:03:24-1:41:59). Later, 6x Pro Bowler, 2x All-Pro, Safety for the Minnesota Vikings, Harrison Smith joins the progrum to chat about his massive performance in Carolina, the Vikings season thus far, and much more (1:53:13-2:14:45). Later, the host of NFL RedZone, Scott Hanson joins the show to chat about not going to the bathroom for 7 hours on Sunday's, if he'll ever work another job again, if he's ever gotten into hot water for anything he's said, showing punts on RedZone, his favorite splits, and more (2:16:22-2:37:02). 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+. 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 Thunderdown on this trenches Wednesday, October 4th, 2023. This program starts right now!

0:11.2

Football is happening tomorrow, but today the conversation is going to be glorious. We are packed to the gills with guests.

0:19.1

We have General Bob Carpenter joining us in about 29 minutes to give us this updated top five in college football.

0:25.1

Can't wait to hear his little gimmicks that he's going to bust down. We got JJ.

0:29.0

What the newest member of the Houston Texans ring of honor. We'll be joining us about his thoughts.

0:35.2

Not only on his celebration down to Houston this past weekend as they beat the dog shit out of the Pittsburgh Steelers,

0:40.4

but also his thoughts about the NFL as a whole. This has been a conversation I've been looking forward to every single week.

0:45.4

Seems like he does his due diligence. He knows what he's talking about and he's JJ.

0:50.4

What? Then we'll have Harrison Smith coming off a historic day for the Minnesota Vikings.

0:55.8

Where he had, listen this, 14 tackles, three sacks, two tackles for loss and a game winning four-spumble

1:01.6

for the Minnesota Vikings. A man has been an all pro 12-year NFL vet out of Notre Dame.

1:06.6

Nobody ever talks about him as a great. He is. Can't wait to chat with him.

1:09.7

I believe his nickname is the hitman. Not Brett.

1:13.6

No, no, no. Okay. That's the best there is. What?

1:16.4

Best there was. And the best there ever will be.

1:19.6

Brett Hart, not really my guy. I was more of a Shawn Michaels guy growing up,

1:22.4

but did have respect for what Brett Hart did in his entire thing.

1:25.4

This is the hitman, Harrison Smith, who's a dog for the Minnesota Vikings at safety.

1:29.6

One of the greatest disguisers, allegedly, in the history of the NFL, which is why he's been so damn good.

1:34.9

And then Scott Hanson, seven hours of commercial free football host on Red Zone every single Sunday.

1:40.5

Well, John is at 230. I got questions about his bladder.

1:43.2

I also got questions about the narratives that he builds throughout the Sunday.

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