PMS 2.0 1310 - The Madness Begins, LA Rams GM Les Snead, Seth Greenberg, Jeff Passan, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.9 • 18.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 195 minutes

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On today’s show, Pat, AJ Hawk, and the boys chat about March Madness beginning tonight and who they like as well as all the drama surrounding West Virginia Head Coach Darian DeVries and both Iowa and Indiana’s interest in him and how that may play out, as well as all the other stories happening around the NFL world, and MLB officially starting their season over in Tokyo with the Dodgers and Cubs. Joining the progrum is Super Bowl Champion, and current GM of the LA Rams, Les Snead to chat about constructing the team the way they have, how they got Matthew Stafford to stay in LA, his thoughts on this year’s NFL Draft, retooling the offensive line, his relationship with Sean McVay, and much more. Next, former Head Coach of the Virginia Tech Hokies and current ESPN college basketball analyst, Seth Greenberg joins the show to discuss the tournament, which teams he like, which teams he think got a terrible draw, some of the more intriguing first round matchups, some of the coaching openings, and the drama surrounding North Carolina getting into the tournament. Later, ESPN Senior MLB insider, Jeff “The Jett” Passan joins the show to chat about the importance of the MLB opening the season in Japan, the surge of Japanese players coming to play over here, Paul Skenes and how impressive of a person he is, and much more. 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. 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 Thunderdome. On this big time Tuesday, March 18th, 2025. This program starts now. Madness!
0:14.0	All is happening tonight to play in games to get into the dance. Obviously it's been a hot topic to discuss around the sports world on who made the tournament,
0:23.6	who didn't make the tournament. Well, we'll move past that tonight to see who earns their spot in the tournament.
0:29.6	Starting at 640 Eastern Time on True TV. Now this is the time of year where we're finding where the hell channels are.
0:36.6	Remember this is a big deal? We're scrolling, We're scrolling. We're scrolling. We're finding.
0:42.3	Oh, this used to be impractical jokers. I remember taking trips down here before. Okay, great to be back here.
0:47.7	Then you also obviously have TNT, TBS, and I think that is... CBS? Yeah. Oh, sorry, sorry.
0:54.8	And CBS in there.
0:56.0	But nonetheless, we're going to be doing a lot of true TV in over the next few days.
0:59.8	So tonight is a good time to find where the fuck that is.
1:03.3	That's right.
1:03.7	Okay, so let's get on board with that.
1:06.3	Let's get excited as St. Francis and Alabama State kicked everything off. Alabama State
1:11.7	favored by three and a half. They've got a good team. I've been watching film on this Alabama
1:15.0	State team. Oh yeah. I'll tell you what, the way they moved a ball. Yep. Oh yeah. And then they
1:18.6	they'll do one of these. Oh yeah. And then they even got a guy who coozy. No. Whoa,
1:23.1	whoa, well, easy. And then you'll see somebody tonight. You'll see somebody tonight do one of these.
1:27.7	Boom.
1:29.6	They got one of the best, one of these bombs. And all of college ball.
1:31.4	And then bang, pal.
1:32.7	And then that thing might rattle home.
1:34.6	For some reason, they can't find just the net.
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