Behind the Game: Staff, Strategy, and Sports Culture

On today’s show, Pat, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk, and the boys recap last night’s dreadful Monday Night Football doubleheader that saw the Vikings dominate the Bears and the Falcons outlast the Raiders, before chatting about the college football playoff and some of the other appetizing events we have on the sporting calendar tonight. Joining the progrum to break down last night’s games, his thoughts on this class of rookie QB’s including Caleb Williams, what needs to happen in Atlanta with Kirk Cousins, the Eagles finding some footing with their passing game, and all the other QB play around the NFL is 12 year NFL veteran and ESPN QB guru, Dan Orlovsky. Next, ESPN NBA Senior Insider Shams Charania joins the show to chat about tonight’s NBA Cup Championship game, what was going on with LeBron missing time, and everything else happening in the NBA. In hour 2, 4x MVP, Super Bowl Champion/MVP, future 1st ballot Hall of Famer, and QB for the New York Jets, Aaron Rodgers joins the show to chat about the Jets win on Sunday and his big day with Davante Adams, his thoughts on what should be going into voter’s minds as they vote on MVP, his appreciation for Lamar Jackson, his thoughts on Jordan Love’s play this year, some of what has been going on in the media, 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. We’ll see you tomorrow, cheers.

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