Coaching Challenges and Team Dynamics

On today’s show, Pat, Coach Chuck Pagano, AJ Hawk, and the boys preview tonight’s Thursday Night Football game between the Broncos and Chargers, preview the entire week 16 NFL slate, and also look ahead to this weekend’s College Football Playoff games, in what is arguably one of the best football watching weeks of the year. They also cover the dysfunction reportedly going on with the New York Jets and Woody Johnson and his family, as well as some of the other biggest sports stories happening this week. Joining the progrum is 7x National Champion, member of College GameDay, the GOAT, Nick Saban to preview this weekend’s college football playoff games, chat about his issues with the transfer portal and not developing players or having depth, and more. Later, the 6th President of the NCAA, Charlie Baker joins the show to chat all about the landscape of college athletics, NIL, the transfer portal, the college football yearly schedule and if changes are coming, and some of the other key issues facing college sports right now. 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’re off tomorrow. Tune in to ESPN2 on Saturday night at 8PM for the megacast of Tennessee/Ohio State as we’ll be LIVE on the field, and then we’ll be back for Overreaction Monday. Cheers

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