On today's show, Pat, Chuck Pagano, AJ Hawk, and the boys chat about tonight's Thursday Night Football game between the Vikings and Eagles, and who they like when taking into account all the different injuries that both teams are dealing with on a short week before making their picks. Joining the progrum to make his picks for this weekend and preview tonight's Thursday Night Football matchup is 3x Super Bowl Champion, former GM of the Cleveland Browns, NY Times best selling author, host of the Lombardi Line and the GM Shuffle podcast, and friend of the show, Michael Lombardi (22:34-48:14). Next, 7x National Champion, the greatest college football coach of all-time, Nick Saban joins the show for his first of weekly appearances to chat about last week's game against Texas and what opportunities that provides moving forward, his thoughts on people talking about him retiring because he's making a weekly appearance, his thoughts on the CFB expansion, why no one is panicking, what he's told Jalen Milroe this week, and more (1:09:06-1:26:04). 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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