On today’s show, Pat, Chuck Pagano, AJ Hawk, and the boys preview tonight’s Thursday Night Football game between the Chargers and Raiders which will see Easton Stick stepping in to start for the Chargers following Justin Herbert’s season ending finger injury. They also discuss Ben Roethlisberger’s comments on the Footbahlin’ podcast about the Steelers losing their tradition, the NFL rule changes that will potentially come into play next season, and everything else we need to know happening around the league as week 15 kicks off tonight. Joining the progrum to chat about Tommy DeVito’s success, the problems in Pittsburgh, the report about Belichick being done in New England, whether or not the Cowboys can sustain what they’ve been doing and much more is former NFL GM, 3x Super Bowl Champion, NY Times best-selling author, and host of the Lombardi Line and GM Shuffle Podcast, Michael Lombardi (21:24-54:35). Next, the Attorney General of West Virginia, Patrick Morrisey joins the show to chat about the Ohio-led coalition that he has joined that is filing a lawsuit against the NCAA in hopes of granting waivers to transfer student athletes including WVU men’s basketball player, RaeQuan Battle (1:15:48-1:32:26). Later, 16 year NBA veteran, NBA Champion, and current ESPN NBA analyst, Kendrick Perkins joins the show to chat about Zion’s weight, the Draymond Green situation and why everyone is making such a big deal about it, the Giannis game ball situation than transpired the other night, his thoughts on the in-season tournament, the beef between Ime Udoka and LeBron James, and ultimately who he thinks is going to win the NBA Championship (1:56:49-2:26:30). Make sure you subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow to watch the show. 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.
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