The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 868 - Feel Good Friday With Ian Rapaport and JJ Watt

Episode Date: March 17, 2023

On Today’s show, Pat and the boys recap the WILD week that has been the kickoff of NFL Free Agency & all of the March Madness action. America’s favorite NFL Insider, Ian Rapaport joins the show and talks to Pat & the boys about his perspective on the Aaron Rodgers conversation and ongoing trade situation, including how the Packers lack the leverage that has been reported by some. Rapsheet gives some more insight on what being an insider is like during the Free Agency Frenzy and how the Bengals & Chiefs Left Tackle moves developed. In the second hour, AJ Haw—No! JJ Watt joins the progrum for an hour and 15 minutes and talks to the guys about everything from his life in retirement to his thoughts on Lamar Jackson, D-Hop, and the upcoming Draft. In the third hour, Pat answers some phone calls on the 5 Hour Energy Phone Line and wraps up the week that was. Have an incredible St. Patrick’s Day Feel Good Friday and an even better weekend. We appreciate the hell out of all of you. See you Monday, cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, beautiful people. Welcome to our humble abode, the Thunderdome, on this feel-good, happy St. Paddy's Friday, March 17th. Program starts now. Feel good! It is a feel-good Friday, a super feel-good Friday, because it is St. Paddy's Sláinte to absolutely everybody out there. St. Paddy's Day is one that is held in very high regard in the McAfee family. My name is Patrick McAfee. Obviously, my father, I thought, was 100% Irish. Yeah, interesting. But then I did the 23andMe, and I found a little bit of Paisano in me,

so I don't know if it's from my mother's side or my father's side. But we obviously have taken this holiday very serious for a long time. In previous St. Paddy's, you would have potentially found me at noon already at a cloud 14 to 15 because we had started at about 7 a.m. with the old kegs and eggs. Hell yeah. That was a real deal back in Pittsburgh whenever we were kind of growing up, late teenage years, obviously early 20s.

And then whenever I was very fortunate to make it into the NFL, it was a trip I made every single year back to Pittsburgh. And old Tim McAfee was at the party before I was. That was not a normal thing. Tim McAfee was meeting me at wherever we were meeting before I even got there, and he had already had a Guinness cracked open. And then by the end of the day, whenever he was trying to find himself, he said, I need a couple of Irish car bombs to get my head back straight.

He said, it's like a coffee. I said, Tim, it might have a little bit of a cafe taste because you're putting the cream, obviously, into the Guinness. But that is not a coffee. That's going the other way. Don't fucking tell me, you know, Tim McAfee. So I have much respect for this beautiful March 17th date. I appreciate the hell out of everybody that's out there celebrating

today, tomorrow, the next day. And I I've gotten a chance to do a St. Patrick's Day in Ireland before. They actually just stayed up the entire night beforehand in the town that I was in. Then there was a parade in the morning and then they all kind of went to sleep at like 1130

noon. At the particular town that I was in, I don't know if that's everywhere. I'm not acting like I know all of Ireland. Y'all motherfuckers were not nice at all to me. I do not want to start any more beef over there. I am just saying that I love this holiday. I appreciate that it is, you know, synonymous with just having a good time. I think the Irish people obviously are known for a lot of things. But we will fight you.

Absolutely. Okay? Day or night. We will drink with you. And we love those fucking potatoes. I do believe that is probably what a lot of people think of immediately. Any form. But the fact that St. Patrick's Day is synonymous with Ireland and the Irish folks, and it's

all everybody having a good time, having the same exact mindset, I think is a beautiful thing. Cislantia. Hey, to all of you. Hell, yeah. Enjoy today, and shout out to Bud Light setting us these green, tall, long. This isn't a long neck, I guess. Is it? No, that's a long body.

Short neck, aluminum, beautiful. Long body. Still counts. Yeah, still long neck. It's a bullet. I started having a couple swigs of this thing because I didn't know if it was green beer inside of it. So I wanted to find out if it was green beer or not

because I didn't even know what was about to happen to my mouth because we're on the program. You know what I mean? Not green beer inside of it. Just green can, beer inside of it. Shout out to Bud Light. Shout out to everybody enjoying it. Tim McAfee and the McAfees are getting

started in like 20 minutes or so. Here we go. A little bit later start for them this year, but I do believe they are going to tie one on. Can't wait to see them later. Chat with them later. See what they got going on. The toxic table is here, but looks a little bit different. Happy St. Paddy's at Boston Corner. Campbell, obviously, an Irishman

from Boston. What a holiday. You look fantastic in that jersey. Yeah, thank you. I didn't want to mark out for AJ too much, but when he comes on, I'm looking forward to the exchange. I actually have never worn this one. It's been sitting in my closet for a long time. This morning I woke up, holy shit, St. Patrick's Day on a Friday.

I'm going to grab my green pub shirt because, obviously, the pub, we went through that whole entire thing. There's so many people listening right now that have no idea what that is. The pub was this condemned shithole that these dudes lived in whenever we first started this company. They were getting paid way too much money to be living in the absolute

dog shit that they were living in. And they somehow got kicked out of this house as opposed to suing the landlord for allowing them to live in this house. They called it the pub. No floor was flat. It was a shithole. But the pub did gain a little bit of notoriety because of how terrible it was.

And it did host one St. Patrick's Day without killing anybody somehow. So the pub is very much dead. No. The spirit lives on. The pub will never die, Pat. The pub almost is dead is the guy that lived right next door that shot himself okay it's still alive until pub cat goes the pub will never die

the neighborhood in which the pub was in was certainly a fascinating one yeah it was like new nice house new nice house new nice house shithole pub yeah new nice house new nice house new nice house but with all these new new nice house. But with all these new nice houses, there were some people going through some shit, we found out, right? Oh yeah, big time. There was some big time neighborhood drama that was going on, and anytime anything went wrong, they said, well, it must be

the assholes that live in this condemned... We're always the neighborhood app. Yes. They were always, literally, there was a gunshot that happened, and everybody thought it came from these guys' house. They were like, has to be from the scumbags in the shit bag. Because there was like six cops outside of

our house, too, so it was like, oh, that's obviously them. No, it was the neighbor guy. Shooting himself. Yes. Did not kill himself. It is like a bicycle burr situation. He was cleaning his gun. Yeah, I'm sure that's what it was. Nonetheless, Happy didn't put the pub shirt on and put on a champion shirt on. Because the pub, shit.

AJ, champion. Yeah, he's a great guy. And like you said, he's a champion. But yeah, I'm glad I finally got to wear Connor O'Neal Campbell as well as my middle name initials, Cock. Oh, that is great. Did not know that. That's great to know on the same page. It is a feel-good Friday all of a sudden.

Is your middle name after Robert O'Neal? No, Sha did not know that. That's great to know on St. Patrick's Day. It is a feel-good Friday all of a sudden. Is your middle name after Robert O'Neal? No, Shaquille. Oh. I don't know if he's Irish, but I do like the fact that Cock is your name all of a sudden. Yeah, so, I mean, it kind of always goes back to that, especially on St. Patrick's Day. Everybody calls me Cock.

It's kind of one of those things we used to do in Boston, joke around. Oh, that'd be Boston Cock. Boom. You know what I mean? Because he's C-O-C. Oi! Oi! Oi! Mick McMahon is sitting

next to you. He has a purple hood.