The Pat McAfee Show

@thepatmcafeeshow · Podcast

Latest segments

• Dream force Game 7, 2026-10-30
  Goes around the room for Game 7 picks
  Goes around the room for Game 7 picks, with the Valkyries favored by 1.5 and the total at 142.5. Most of the segment is Halloween banter and a recap of Atlanta's Game 6 win; the picks are opinion, not new reporting.
• Ravens at Bills, Week 8, 2026-10-30
  Weighs rest against rust for Ravens-Bills
  Picks segment that opens with Ravens-Bills: the head coach said Lamar Jackson is back, and the panel takes Buffalo minus three at home, weighing rest against rust after the bye. The rest is a rapid tour of the Week 8 board.
• Davante Adams hamstring rupture, 2026-10-30
  Retells the Adams timeline and Brown's knee
  Brief injury roundup: retells the Adams hamstring tear and the six-to-ten-week timeline, leaning toward the short end, then turns to A.J. Brown's knee flare-up in New England. Stays inside what the show already had on Adams.
• Seahawks trade for Quenton Nelson, 2026-10-30
  Plays Nelson's account of the trade call
  Plays Nelson's first press conference as a Seahawk and gets his account of the trade: Ed Dodds told him the day before that Seattle was among the teams calling, and he says he was happy when the call came. The rest is Colts fallout - Richardson's and Downs's trade requests, Steichen's standing.
• Panthers-Packers Thursday night, 2026-10-30
  Recaps the Packers win and Love's MVP case
  Recaps the Packers' 27-19 win over Carolina: Watson's ambulance round trip, six sacks of Bryce Young, the Panthers firing Ejiro Evero, and Love's MVP case at 25-1. Stays inside the week's coverage, adding only Love's share of the offense.
• Hoover's Michigan test, 2026-10-30
  Retells the Ohio State loss and Michigan win
  Cignetti's sit-down covers the Ohio State loss and the bounce-back at Michigan, then turns to Minnesota, where Indiana is favored by 20.5. Mostly a retelling of the two results already on the record, plus Hoover's 16-touchdown, no-interception start.
• Panthers-Packers Thursday night, 2026-10-30
  Recaps the Thursday win with Halloween banter
  Halloween cold open that recaps the Packers' Thursday night win over Carolina, playing Watson's ambulance return for laughs and setting up the weekend. It stays inside what the postgame coverage already had.
• Panthers-Packers Thursday night, 2026-10-29
  Previews the DraftKings passing boost
  Pregame betting talk for Panthers-Packers: the DraftKings boost on Bryce Young and Jordan Love each throwing for 220 yards, built on their season passing averages and Carolina's run defense. Stays inside the pregame argument, with a responsible-gambling note.
• WNBA Finals Game 6, 2026-10-29
  Updates Atlanta's halftime blowout lead
  A brief in-show update on Game 6: Atlanta's lead has grown to 53-30 at halftime with 6:25 left in the third, extending the same blowout the show already logged at 44-19. The rest is a tease for Chuck Pagano's pick and passing mentions of Rodgers and Jerry Jones.
• Central Park carriage ban, 2026-10-29
  Jokes through the carriage ban and Plaza closure
  Takes up the end of Central Park's horse carriages and the Plaza Hotel's multi-year closure. The welfare argument gets a hearing, but most of the time goes to jokes about the horses and the drivers' next jobs.
• McDavid's 31-point start, 2026-10-29
  Debates McDavid's 200-point pace and a Cup
  Runs through the league's early-season drama - Hellebuyck, Larkin, Tkachuk - then spends its McDavid minutes on the 200-point pace and whether Edmonton can win a Cup. Reaction and prediction, no new figure beyond what the record already holds.
• WNBA Finals Game 6, 2026-10-29
  Checks the live Game 6 score at tipoff
  Checks in on Game 6 live during the episode: Atlanta leads 44-19 in the second quarter at the 12:30 p.m. Eastern tip, with Usher in the building. The hosts use the score to needle the lunchtime scheduling, then hand off to the Brewers interviews.
• Panthers-Packers Thursday night, 2026-10-29
  Breaks down Green Bay's run game matchup
  Previews the Thursday night game through the run game: whether Green Bay can feed Josh Jacobs against the league's worst rush defense and use play-action to open up Watson and Golden. Notes Carolina is without J.C. Horn on injured reserve.
• Brewers win the World Series, 2026-10-29
  Recaps the Brewers' title with Herbstreit
  Celebrates the Brewers' title with Kirk Herbstreit, who frames the win as old-school baseball beating the big-payroll Dodgers and Yankees. Recaps the two postseason losses and Pat Murphy's off-camera jab at the Yankees, then turns to the coming labor standoff.
• Panthers-Packers Thursday night, 2026-10-29
  Adds Love's hit count and Green Bay's run game
  Herbstreit, on the call from Lambeau, works the Thursday night game through Green Bay's dead-last run game and the hits on Jordan Love, then pivots to the Simmons trade as a Bears upgrade. The Simmons half is reaction; the game half adds figures not yet on the record.
• Bears trade for Jeffrey Simmons, 2026-10-29
  Retells the Simmons trade and Colts fire sale
  Rapoport walks through the Simmons trade and the Colts' fire sale around it: Chicago pivoted off Buckner once Buckner would only go to San Francisco, and the expiring contracts on Buckner and Nelson explain the smaller returns. Retells the day's reporting with the Bears' odds move as the one fresh figure.
• Panthers-Packers Thursday night, 2026-10-29
  Frames the matchup by eagerness to rebound
  Pregame talk for Panthers-Packers: Pagano frames it as which team is more eager to erase a bad loss, notes Carolina's 258 rushing yards allowed to Bucky Irving and Tampa Bay, and flags the 3-3 Panthers first in the NFC South against a 4-3 Packers team last in the NFC North. Stays inside the matchup and the trends already on the…
• Panthers-Packers Thursday night, 2026-10-29
  Previews the Lambeau kickoff and betting split
  Opens the show on the Thursday night kickoff, previewing Packers-Panthers at Lambeau with Green Bay favored by 3.5 and both teams coming off losses. Adds a betting split and a Carolina post-loss trend, but stays inside the pregame framing already on the record.
• Bengals-Ravens, Week 7, 2026-10-28
  Breaks down Burrow's four second-half touchdowns
  Film-room breakdown of Burrow's four second-half touchdowns: the scramble-drill throw to Higgins, the cover-two beater to Gesicki, the seven-man pressure Chase beat one-on-one, and the play-action touchdown to Drew Sample. Stays inside the Bengals-Ravens tape.
• Fleetwood Town stun Arsenal, 2026-10-28
  Converts the Fleetwood upset into American terms
  Takes the Fleetwood Town result and spends most of the segment converting it into American terms - Appalachian State-Michigan, a CFL team beating an NFL team, the Fishers Freight beating the Bears - plus a detour into celebrity and private-equity owners in the lower divisions.