How Pat McAfee Broke The ESPN Machine | ALL THE SMOKE 

He's still on RU-vid though, only the first half of the show is on ESPN, the rest is on RU-vid , the entire show isn't on ESPN.

He’s a very similar example to Joe Rogan. Spotify seeked Joe out and paid him an estimated $150-200m just for the rights to exclusively stream his podcast, Joe stilled owned the show and all the content AND he still got to pocket all the $ from his ad reads which was like $100K+ per episode. Pat was similar in that he was able to demand what he wanted monetarily & with creative freedom. Reason why is because he put in the work to sign that $300m+ with DraftKings I believe. Both of them have the leverage through hard work AND the ‘don’t give fuck I’ll bet on myself’ attitude.

Why is Pat sooo important? I didn’t know who the f he was until this epsn came in

@@CarolCityCane305then you were just out of the loop my friend

@@CarolCityCane305 Because he's a self-made media presence and has a big following. He produces his own show. He reportedly took a pay cut to go to ESPN. If they fire him he can just go back to youtube and get his millions from DraftKings. So ESPN has very little leverage over him compared to any of their other talent.

Who is pat ?? 😂

Pat never needed ESPN

@@Kaybaptistawe get it buddy, you don’t like Pat. You don’t have to tell the world😂 what a fucking weirdo lmaooooooo. WHO TF ARE YOU, weird mf

He's rating are pretty bad

@@hangtime1111 your looking at tv ratings for a show that started on youtube. Most of us still consume this show on youtube, ESPN came to him. He didnt go to them.

This is why leverage is all that really matters in negotiations. It also shows how much technological advancements have helped change the dynamics of leverage in this mediascape. Local radio shows are a different flavor of sports radio their national counterparts because each fulfills a specific role in the media chain. Dan was a celebrated local media star. The size of the market he inhabited (Miami/Florida) helped put him on ESPN's radar, but didn't give him any real leverage in his dealings and negotiations because he didn't have the reps. It also undoubtedly forced him to work outside of his preferred lane. Now, he's back in it, only now the regional borders that exist for local/regional media stars are infinitely more vast than they were when he made the move to ESPN. Pat benefited from those regional borders expanding to allow him to get those national market reps without actually being at that national market stage. That difference might sound minute but it's the difference between the Aaron Rodgers joke causing the cancellation of his of show and not doing so. It's crazy how right Machiavelli was 500 years ago.

ESPN and the NFL helped build Pat up behind the scenes and then brought him under their umbrella to get into the podcasting world. It was made to look like it was done organically but it wasn’t. It was all a set up.

Dan is saying that and he’s proud of Pat for doing so.

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​@@emunetyyet he had to pay the NFL millions to show highlights. You realize he was podcasting and doing barstool

Whomever’s hosting’s opinion. Why do you think Woody Paige never won when Max Kellerman was hosting?

Dan's show will always be the goat

No one knows how the points work! I just know the way they’re allotted is dictatorial in nature!

@@em-wf7gwPats show blew Dan’s out of the water almost immediately.

It doesn’t fit his narrative.

That is a fact, Obama built and used them to begin with. Trump just continued, doing it.

@@josephhuman7390yep

@@josephhuman7390 the videos were literally from Obama presidency that he’s talking about

Wait till he finds out about the drone program and how obama used it to go after a US citizens in Yemen.

Yeah and you get free 5G with your COVID vaccine too. 😃

That would be a yes..they always tend to look over the guy that was literally named the "deporter in chief" i.e. Barack Obama

I was about to make that point

Obama and Biden built those cages

Yes he did

😂😂😂 🧢

I’m not a fan of Dan, but that’s cap there was a point at espn dam near everything went through his show.

@@justarandominternetdude2579 Yeah you guys are clowns pat was on a level by himself that Dan could never reach

@@michealking7999 you must of forgot what espn was like from 2010-2018.

@@justarandominternetdude2579 yea cause no one besides senior citizens we’re watching it lmao 🤣

Let’s be honest even if Pat stayed on RU-vid he still could’ve gotten Tom on the show.

He has a show. He’s the owner of his IP and has taken his show to the internet 🛜

@@lewisjones3345 lol I was being sarcastic. I know he has a show. Just saying by the way he was rambling, you’d think he didn’t.

@@chiefgangmusic ohh my bad. Just hard to detect sarcasm on here

@@lewisjones3345 No worries at all and in all honesty, I appreciate the sensible response. With Dan having his show for so long now, you could’ve easily sent me a crazy response but you didn’t and I thank you for that. It’s actually refreshing to see some rare maturity in the comment section. Blessings to you!!

...king A DUDE

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100 agree. I was like, why does this dude look like he’s about to cry and why didn’t he have that same energy when the Obama admin started putting those kids in cages? Because he is uninformed on politics and has no business commentating on it on a national level. The bosses were right to shut him up as all he was doing was making a sports channel look dumb and dividing the country further in the process.

yeah. this video summed up everyone annoying about him

😂😂 yeah his truth not the truth

Pat lives in this dude’s head rent free. All the clips i see of him on yt are him talking about pat.

And it’s a sports channel so… their viewership went out the window when they brought politics into it. You can find that content on MSNBC, CNN, Fox News etc.

@@markkeller7974 I’m not blaming the players per say but the sports world overlapped with politics for awhile they didn’t have much a choice

which might be the only thing i agree with ESPN about, I watch sports to escape that stuff, and stopped watching sports programming bc they became so intertwined, which is fine just not for me and I was the biggest ESPN stan from 5-20

Exactly.zero politics.just moronic fake alpha sports takes from the Midwest.macafee is unwatchable if you have a brain and like sports.

thats false. If you understand ESPN back when Dan was there, he had like 3 shows on ESPN. He was running ESPN. And they started suspending him over BS...and thats when they started suspending Jenelle Hill and Michael Smith over BS when they headed up Sportscaster at 6 and many other people of color for stuff. The diff is that Pat called out execs and other stuff and didnt get suspended one damn time...this is how he broke the machine because he did his show outside ESPN and had the upper hand. He is their money maker, and they know it

I don't think he has either because the rules that apply to him only apply to him but I don't think hes the face of the machine for that same reason, hes a one off and hopefully that leads to changing the machine

@@DJ_BROBOT he said it in the interview. “I cant talk about things unless someone in sports talks about it first.” We dont tune into espn and sportscenter to hear what msnbc fox news, cheddar, vice and any of the that stuff. We tune in to get away. This has been the gripe about espn and why ppl dont watch anymore.

Let's not talk about racism because it bothers the privileged folk who refuse to acknowledge it because it drags them down.

@@J.dot_84 It drags everyone down, that's the point. There's a time and place where this is needed. Not in every aspect of life does it have to be the focus point. Sports is a mental escape from reality and shouldnt be about negative shit. Like Morgan Freeman said "Stop refering to me as a black man, and i'll stop refering to you as a white man. Stop talking about it"

@J.dot_84 yeah we don't want to upset black people

@@J.dot_84nah we just tired of all the constant victimhood

​@@matthewrutters6842 look who gets upset when this topic is being talked about...lol u ❄️

@youngowns that's the vive I got of Dan, supportive or not

Pat was better b4 espn they needed him more than he needed them as evident by the amount of layoffs they made to give him that deal

Right winger?

Not jealous, envious

I mean he’s straight up salting the roads right now hahah

💯 percent. I couldnt stand Dan’s radio show…. Stopped listening.. Dan wasn’t anywhere near Pat McAfee. My Irish grandmother would say, “Dan thinks a lot of himself doesn’t he?” In her prissy Irish way ha!.

A disease that they have yet to find a cure for. 😂

And he’s white!

He looks like a trump supporter

ESPN wanted "Yes men" and Pat fits that role. You never hear him challenge Rodgers do ya? If he had Kaep on, you btches wud be so emotional..

FJB

@@Jaypocalypse Biden is your president

McAfee talks about politics all the time but you don't recognize it as such because he's saying "god bless America, I love our troops..." What's more political than war?

​@J.dot_84 you're just entirely too sensitive and like to pretend things are more deep than they are to fit your narrative. If you consistently watched pat and the boys for awhile then you'd realize anything remotely political is to be taken in comedic fashion and they tend to laugh at the "stooges" on both sides. I've heard Pat say a billion times they don't get into politics and avoid convos that he could easily get into. He has Rodgers on there once a week all season so he has plentyyy of opportunities lol you're just soft and he triggered you with a comment at some point and you've never been able to get over it because you're mentally weak and you're watching a show you clearly shouldn't be watching since you take everything personally. Get over yourself, princess. We don't care about you or your feelings, esp when it comes to a TV show that you could easily avoid... but then you couldn't play the victim, could you?

Yes we do! Thats why ESPN is dying and these platforms are thriving. They talk about every aspect of life and how it correlates to sports and its participants.

Unless you agree with it you mean 😂

​@@J.dot_84 saying you love this country and respect the troops has nothing to do with war. Just because you salute the troops doesn't mean you want WW3