Transcript
AJ Hawk (0:01)
Friday feel good. Friday, October 3rd is the Pat McAfee Show. I am AJ Hawk sitting in for.
Pat McAfee (0:07)
Pat at his desk.
AJ Hawk (0:09)
He's at Tuscalooska this weekend. Boys football, it's a beautiful thing. Last night we saw Kirk and Al call a beautiful game. The Niners find a way to win 26, 23. We thought there might be another over or another tie ball game. I should say there was. This was an overtime, Obviously, we thought we might get two tie ball games within what, the span of four or five days. That would have been wild. NFL is rolling. Baseball is rolling. Yankees are moving, moving on to the next round. Mr. Ty Schmidt. And Pat is down in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Pat, where are you? And this thing looks amazing, man. What's going on?
Pat McAfee (0:43)
I'm in Teatown, AJ and obviously Sean McVay didn't want to have another tie either. He said, I'm going to go ahead and go for this thing. We ain't tying this up. With 3 minutes and some left in this particular ball game, that'd be bad for the league, that'd be bad for the NFC west. That'd be bad for the game in general. And I him making that decision. But he certainly blamed himself. There was a lot of other things that could certainly be to blame for the San Francisco 49ers getting a massive win last night, including Mac Jones is an absolute monster Kyle Shanahan system. Mac Jones has an opportunity here to have the second career that all these other quarterbacks have been having. Obviously, we look at Baker Mayfield and we say, wow, look what Baker's done. He's become the guy in Tampa. They said he's the franchise. They've paid him as such. They've treated him as such. He's going on to do his thing. Danny Dimes in Indianapolis, this guy might win the mvp. Mvp. Sam Darnold, first in Minnesota, then out there in Seattle, and now we're with Jared Goff whenever he goes up there to Detroit. Now we're witnessing Mac Jones in his greatest form. Mac Jones, we remember him from his rookie campaign where he was so damn good for New England. He was gradient at the Pro Bowl. He was laughing, he was kicking people in the balls. It was fun. It was fun. This guy out of Alabama had one of the most prolific college football seasons in the history of college football with Sark as his offensive coordinator. And everybody thought he was going number three to San Francisco until draft day. Whenever we were told by a source, I said that wrong with a before there. But we were Told by somebody, hey, it ain't Mac Jones. Mac Jones ain't going number three. So we go on our little Internet show that obviously before ESPN didn't exist in a lot of people's minds that wear suits, and we say, hey, our source are telling us that Mac Jones ain't going three. At that exact moment, the draft odds for him to go number three. And then everybody else kind of just went absolute haywire. Then we sat around and waited to see if our source says were right, if we're doing actual journalism. And it turned out Trey Lance goes number three and Mac Jones falls. And he didn't look as cool as he looked last night, certainly, but on draft night, he certainly looked the part for New England. And what happened up there was a little bit of success. Then defensive coordinator and a special teams coach become his offense coordinator and his quarterback coach. It ends up failing miserably. He ends up leaving there, bouncing down to Jackson. Then now he's getting an opportunity with the guy who potentially wanted him in the first place, but then got talked out of it with so much upside of Trey Lance, and with the massive amount of success that he's having right now, you have to wonder if Shanahan sits down at night with that cool, flat bill, which I assume he sleeps with on, and he says to himself, I knew it. This guy is the right one for me. And it does feel like in this system, he is perfect. AJ I mean, they had injuries galore, obviously. Christian McCaffrey is one of the most dynamic players. DeMarcus Robinson last night, Bourne last night, I mean, you name it, you go to Fungus, Tongus, whatever the hell his name is in for Kittle, he's going crazy. And then obviously the Juice is out there doing his thing. But watching Mac Jones in this offense with what he has learned, what he has, what he's capable of doing, it's just like a perfect marriage. And I don't know how many times Shanahan has wondered what if, what if, what if from the very beginning. But maybe after those stops, Mack needed that to get to this point. So maybe it's not a fair judgment of this Mack versus rookie Mack, but damn, this Mack looks really good for this Niners team. And they get a huge win and obviously cover eight and a half point spread, which Shanahan was pissed off about. Allegedly, Shanahan went up to Mac Jones at 4 and said, I can't believe they made the spread from three to eight and a half. They're disrespecting us. And Matt Goes, I don't even know what that means. I agree. And they go out there and do it. AJ I like the cut of the jib of this Niners team, and I like it more this particular year whenever Mac Jones is in there playing, as opposed to banged up Brock Purdy, who's also worth $200 million. AJ it's interesting dynamic out there, but huge win for the Niners on a Thursday.