PMS 2.0 1283 - UNC Football GM Michael Lombardi, Shams Charania, Daniel Jeremiah, Coach Chuck Pagano, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.9 • 18.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 171 minutes

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On today’s show, Pat, Coach Chuck Pagano, AJ Hawk, and the boys chat more about Ben Johnson’s introductory press conference, the other openings around the league and who may be linked to them, his thoughts on the Divisional Round, and Chuck makes his picks against the spread for Championship weekend. Joining the progrum to chat more about the Championship Round of the playoffs, what this current stage of building the UNC football team is like, who they’re competing against recruiting wise, and much more is 3x Super Bowl Champion, NY Times best-selling author, and current GM of UNC Football, Michael Lombardi. Next, ESPN Senior NBA Insider, Shams Charania joins the show to give all the latest updates on the Jimmy Butler situation, Zion’s return from injury, if the Lakers are going to make a play at the trade deadline, and the latest entrant into the NBA Dunk Contest. Lastly, former NFL scout, LA Chargers color analyst, and NFL Network analyst/Draft guru, Daniel Jeremiah joins the show to chat about the upcoming NFL Draft, where he has all the QB’s ranked, who he thinks the best player in the draft class is, and which positions are the deepest. 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 humble abode, the Thunderdow.
0:05.7	On this Sports Thursday, January 23rd, 2025, this program starts now.
0:13.4	Football!
0:14.2	It's wonderful, and obviously we got championship weekend and championship Sunday ahead in the NFL,
0:19.6	and there's so much to talk about happening around the NFL.
0:23.6	College ball. We got signings. We got coaches. We got general managers. We got rumors. We got this. We got that.
0:29.4	We have a fantastic show today. Michael Lombardi will be joining us in about 20 minutes. He's currently
0:34.7	the general manager for the University of North Carolina Tar Heel football team. How's life in college? Eyes on. But also, he is a guy that's pretty
0:43.0	plugged in basically everywhere around the NFL. What's he hearing? Especially about that Raiders job.
0:47.9	You know, Michael Lombardi speaks about the Raiders a lot because that's where he got to start.
0:52.4	And I think he has so much respect and appreciation for the Davis family and everything that Al did for him and the Raiders
0:57.8	as a whole and what he's been seeing out of the last couple years he says this is crap
1:01.8	is that he says that Raiders fans get mad at him I think they hate him but now his guy
1:07.1	Tom Brady is one of the owners and running everything. So it's like, I feel like Lombardi's going to be pretty dowed in on what's
1:12.6	going on there. How about all the other coaching hires?
1:14.6	What about all the other general manager hires that need to take
1:16.6	place? What does Pizan say about any of it?
1:18.7	We will talk to him in about 19 minutes.
1:20.7	I cannot wait to hear from him. Last week
1:22.7	his hair a little disheveled. He did. Oh, yeah. Look like he was in the middle of it a little bit. FaceTime with him this morning feels like he's okay.
1:28.7	It feels like he's found.
1:30.1	Back in it.
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