Why is this dude suddenly everywhere? And what’s with the wifebeater? ESPN is such trash.
Pat McAfee
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I happened to catch him on the gym TV today. He flexed on his show. The guy working out next to me played for the Cowboys for a year or two. We both just looked at each other and shook our heads.
He's a DudeBro insanely popular with all other DudeBros. ESPN is paying him a fortune to save their cratering rating. To justify his huge contract ESPN is putting him out there every minute possible. GameDay. Texas-Bama alt broadcast.
Bro TV. He’s aimed around my age range (barstool sports crowd) and younger, but I cannot stand him. Hard pass for me.
The beef he started with Max Duffy last year was telling. Dude got a national microphone. He could've humiliated Max. Instead, he just repeats something about NFL over and over and says some cuss words. Nothing funny. Nothing clever. Just the lamest tongue tied wrestling promo.
He’s really annoying l. I wish they would take him off Gameday.
Whatever you think of Mcafee is anybody interest….but he’s a nfl guy not a college dude at all. So why muck him up with game day?
It’s same old espn….low in sports and high in entertainment is what they are🤮
And I’ll bet Mcafee will lose a ton of his brand and following due to aligning with work espn
It’s same old espn….low in sports and high in entertainment is what they are🤮
And I’ll bet Mcafee will lose a ton of his brand and following due to aligning with work espn
He's got the Stephen A Smith itis.
He gets a reaction.... and had a fan base.
That's all ESPN gives a damn about. They could hire some actual analyst but they chose to employ Stephen A, Skip, McAfee etc.
He gets a reaction.... and had a fan base.
That's all ESPN gives a damn about. They could hire some actual analyst but they chose to employ Stephen A, Skip, McAfee etc.
Players go on his show because he’s a former player but I think he’s a loud mouth over paid jerk.
ESPN is getting a exactly what they paid for.
They were hemorrhaging viewers and money. He brings in the demographic they had been losing. He’s a win for them.
America! Greatest country in the world. A guy like that can say whatever he wants (likely to elicit responses such as this thread) and make MILLIONS.
Have not watched college gameday in years....just SEC nation is all I watch from 10-12.
When they kept rolling out Lee Corso that past decade....it was abundantly clear football analysis was not for sports fan but more of the entertainment only ESPN behavior (not that I can see what is so entertaining of Corso)
Guys quit clutching your pearls every time someone new and different comes along.
Pat Mac is just a continuation of what Joe Rogan, Dave Portnoy, and all the other podcaster types are.
They're not suit and tie journalism school robots or puppets. They're coming up via alternate forms of media/entertainment and appealing to masses of people who aren't sitting around on the lazy boy waiting for a groomed puppet anchor to read from a script.
PM didn't need Espn, they needed him. They needed his demographic. Kind of like Spotify needed Joe Rogan.
PM show had some good interviews with all sorts of people. The book club segment they did with Aaron Rogers was so different and more interesting than most other block/segment type shows. AR is a guy who's always been portrayed as one thing, those segments with PM talking about books and life will change your perspective on him.
Not sure if he still does, but before Disney, he had a Jared Lorenzen figure front and center on his desk among other trinkets and things. Always thought that was cool.
Pat Mac is just a continuation of what Joe Rogan, Dave Portnoy, and all the other podcaster types are.
They're not suit and tie journalism school robots or puppets. They're coming up via alternate forms of media/entertainment and appealing to masses of people who aren't sitting around on the lazy boy waiting for a groomed puppet anchor to read from a script.
PM didn't need Espn, they needed him. They needed his demographic. Kind of like Spotify needed Joe Rogan.
PM show had some good interviews with all sorts of people. The book club segment they did with Aaron Rogers was so different and more interesting than most other block/segment type shows. AR is a guy who's always been portrayed as one thing, those segments with PM talking about books and life will change your perspective on him.
Not sure if he still does, but before Disney, he had a Jared Lorenzen figure front and center on his desk among other trinkets and things. Always thought that was cool.
Don't forget "nfl analyst" Mina kimes. No male non former player ever got that job title but she is qualified to it apparently.
I think he's a douche, but gotta respect his hustle. Dude took his 8 year NFL career (as a punter, no less) and parlayed it into millions and millions of dollars after retirement. Props. A douche...but props.
Good point.....but he gets almost all NFL exclusive interviews....and is big one was Aaron Rogers....and he's pretty much irrelevelant this year now and even if he comes back for 2024....he's done. 40 year old dudes and achilees....don't mesh well.
So, I'd argue a portion of Mcafee fanbase was not cool with ESPN and some have left him. His shtick of WWE sideshow, dropping F bombs, he only sells for NFL....he'll draw zero college interest and they can run him on college gameday....he won't move that needle. I think ESPN will dry up his base and he'll fade into less and less the next 3 years.
I have no need of the yammering that pregame show sports commentary provides. The 5min I happen to catch when I sit down to watch a game is torture enough. I turned off almost all ESPN radio and TV outside of games themselves, when I was forced to listen to Colin Crowhard spew for a week at a time at a contract I worked for 6m. They might as well have put a ventriloquist on there, because that dummy is obnoxiously idiotic and biased.
I preferred hearing from players and coaches when I was younger, but they're not hired these days for info as much as shtick and polish. I appreciate Cole Cubelic and a couple others, but I rarely catch them because of the blah, blah blah they are surrounded by
He looks like he smells like booze. When he is not drinking, he is sweating.
Even though I'm a big Reds fan and remember him playing for us in the mid-90s, I forgot how genuinely solid his baseball stats were (at least his years in Atlanta and Cincinnati). Looked that up again recently and was like damn.
Yep, and if it weren't for the Bob and Tom show, the dude would be bagging groceries right now.
Yeah its really simple, all you have to do is act like your a brash, no hold barred, dont care what I say, look at me I'm a crazy cool former punter guy and ESPN bite on that in a second. That whole schtick is so tired and over done though I'm still a little surprised they went so far with him being on game day etc.
Probably right... not too long ago who was facing charges for PI, etc. after deciding he needed to swim in an old canal in a popular nightspot district in Indy. Total goofball. Some people like that. To each their own...
The only time I watch espn is when UK is playing for all I care they can take espn and the SEC channel off the air
I always thought of him as an average fielder, but playing Centerfield between Otis Nixon, who would catch more balls in his cap than Deion could with a glove and Andrew Jones probably isn't fair to Deion. Of course Nixon was most likely high, but he was a glove.
I'm mostly just saying that he was a totally respectable offensive player, when many others have tried and failed to master two sports. Jordan a "prime" example.
Deion was just slightly above average in MLB, but that's still commendable because he was an epic performer in the NFL.
My son is a Jaguars fan and I took him to the Colts/Jags opening week game in Indy. The dude was on the big screen constantly in a wife beater....It was embarrassing.
Deion played a NFL game and several hours later played in a MLB playoff night game. Macafee could never.
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