Why Pat McAfee HATES The Pro Bowl 

I realized the pro bowl was a joke when Stafford threw for 40 touchdowns and 5,000 yards and did not make it . The people voted Eli in instead. I’m not even a lions fan and I was mad about that.

Wish it was actually competitive

Sean Taylor (RIP) quite possibly is the only player to give 110% in a pro bowl

Watching this is like having a NFL insider.

He’s not kidding. In 2008 the Ray Guy award went to a kid from Oklahoma State who had the least punts and the lowest average EVER among winners, and he wasn’t even in the top 20 in ANY punting category that season.

Let’s all pledge to vote some 3rd string left guard and see if they get picked to go to the pro bowl next year.

Newspaper: picks Pat’s teammate for POY Ray Guy: chooses a punter with worse stats for the award Polamalu: lines up in the C gap

The fact that he played “I’m So Paid” by Akon and Jeezy when he heard he made the Pro Bowl is HOF worthy 😂..

The ad segway literally makes my day every day lmao I always forget it's coming.

They need to bring back the QB distance throwing thing

They should just call it the "Popularity Bowl" because the people who actually deserve to go don't get elected

Pat could do a TED talk about the benefits of the taliban and it’d be good

I was in the Army and military "awards" are the same way. Its basically higher ranking people trying to boost their own ego. I remember one guy from my unit got a meritorious service medal, which is a pretty high ranking award....for creating an excel spreadsheet. I'm not joking. Of course on the award it said something like "for creating an organizational system that boosted the unit's efficiency" or some nonsense.

This is the same reason I hate college football playoffs. A committee chooses rankings? Dumbest thing I've ever heard

Skills comp is far and away the only part worth watching anyway. I'd rather see that + all the minigames that take place because that's what that weekend should be all about

Why does Pat have to pay the Bills? I feel like the Ravens or 49ers would be a much better investment.

"bad players make the Pro Bowl just because of their name" Let me tell you about Poncey, 35th ranked center per PFF while there are only 32 teams

I remember last year Russell Wilson didn’t get voted in! 😂

The picture of Aaron Rodgers in the top left when the camera zooms out😂👍

I actually liked the few years when some old nfl players drafted players. I thought the games were a little more competitive and you even had teammates playing against each other. They should also move the game to after the super bowl so Super Bowl players can play in it.

The ad break is amazing

Let's just skip the game, and just have a bunch of the fun skill challenges. Because it's more fun than the actual pro-bowl.

Imagine the pro bowl with every player trying their hardest

This is why I love listening to Pat. No crap, just straight up calling BS like it is. This was wonderfully honest. It's a great honor, but not a very fun watch.

The NFL should just get rid of the pro bowl. The game itself has become an absolute joke and the top tier stars always sit it out. What's the point.

Remember when Manziel had a better season than Jameis Winston but they didn’t want to give him back to back Heisman awards?

How the world revolves: its not what you know, its who you know.

Pat I think I played soccer against you as a kid... 34 From NY and our travel team used to go to tournaments in Hagerstown, and Harrisburg. FC Broome or Vestal Attackers sound familiar?

“let him enjoy his little fake ceremony that didn’t matter” 😂😂

it’s because Troy lined up in the C gap

I love Pat mcafee. He was on recommended and I watch these little clips alot. Seems like he's a good dude.

Just do SKILLS competition

"I was happy for him (pats soccer teammate) in the moment, couldn't be selfish, didnt tell him how mad i was till like 3 months later, Let him enjoy his fake ceremony that didnt matter"😂😂 i love pat

"situations are situational"

I love football. Always have. I'm a season ticket holder. I've never watched a single snap of the probowl.

Who doesn't like seeing players from other teams playing together?

Set the Edge made a great video on what needs to be done to the pro bowl

I would like to see Pat make a sitcom where he is a fired div q 1 coach and now coaches a division 3 college football team and ends up winning the championship and gets interviews for div 1 jobs only to be overlooked and goes back to his old job and becomes saltier every season

It's always nice to comeback at rewatch the hits

"everybody's a fair weather fan"

I should have been a punter. But no I was built to be a lineman they said

The Pro Bowl should be more like the ESPYs. Big gala, red carpet... Kevin Hart could host and load it with highlights.

My favorite part of the pro-bowl was the skills challenge old school style, as a fan I enjoyed seeing the best players that could play had a could (not the Brady crap) 2 weeks after the SB to have fun competing for a prize, back when you'd get both QB's that played the SB went and competed, and they should have competitions for all including punters and kickers seeing the SB MVP out competing with his peers was so much fun, and worth watching

Pat is the first insider for the internet in the NFL. He's a well of information that we wouldn't have access to otherwise.

Shoutout to long snapper rick lovoto of the eagles on his first pro bowl

I always thought the pro bowl was especially bad when it came to punters and kickers. It appears that for kickers, what is most important is the number of big kicks you made in big moments, not necessarily how well you played throughout the year. Make a 40 yard game winner in OT on Monday night football and you'll probably get more votes than someone who routinely drills 50 yarders.

This same thing happened to my HS quarterback. He was 3rd in the state in passing yards and 1st in AAAAAA, he won North Georgia Touchdown Club Offensive player of the year, beat the second best QB in the region by over 900 yards, but didn’t get named 1st team all region.

I love watching the players having fun..

Excuse me sir but I think everyone hates the “pro bowl”..........

I hear you pat on that high school award. My whole life changed in 8th grade for the worse, sadly I was young and let it effect me, but I was a tremendous baseball player, and tryouts were held for our areas first high level travel team. I was clearly top 3 talent as I was good at pitching, played SS 2B and 3B and could catch and even played RF if a team realized our RF was weak. Politics ensued and all the coaches sons and friends of sons made the team, and I overnight went from popular to outsider because I didn’t make this squad. Yet all year this asshole coach called my house weekly begging me to travel with them for tournaments as a pitcher and add on player. So I went to my County coach and asked for him to enter the same tournaments as the travel team , knowing we were less talented but they had me and this kid Nick , we were both as talented as anyone in our county. And we were able to compete against that asshole coach and get back at him a bit and we won the county championship behind my 2 hitter. Sadly it hurt my soul and I never played baseball again , I focused on golf the next 4 years and partying lol and got very good at both I made states all four years of high school and was recognized each year for counties and districts , yet I watched as richer lesser talented kids got awards and scholarships lol politics suck ...

Pat u become one of my fav nfl intel... keep it up

They should choose based on stats for that season. QB with the best stat wins automatically but you could also get bonus points for brilliant stuff they did in a certain match etc. Stats dont lie

Last time I watched the Pro Bowl was when Ochocinco said he was going to kick some PAT's. They didn't let him. I think they should let players play out of position if they want to. Let some of these former QB's throw a couple of passes.

Wish Polamalu wasnt in the C gap 😥

That pic of A-Rod above the sign 😂😂😂

Great timing on the Pro Bowl story way to go Pat you da man

The Rey guy one sounds exactly like the Lou groza this year

Pro Bowl doesn't work on paper, OR in practice.

It’s pretty fun for the fans to be able to see some of the best players right next to you

Growing up playing hockey here in Canada. When it was time for player of the game awards to be giving out. It was generally picked by the referees.

Za’darius Smith is one of three players to have 17 tfl’s 12 sacks and 35 QB pressures but didn’t make the pro bowl

sad lions fan stating my existence

Needed to hear that. I was still mad about only being all-city honorable mention my senior year. Then I went to the all star game and I was the OL that played the entire game.

Pro Bowl STINKS!

Pro bowl would be more fun if everyone was forced to play out of position. Seeing Richard Sherman at QB, or pat Mahomes at WR would be fun

Participation award is my "Favorite" award

No idea who this guy is but I clicked because I saw that tweet dude made and wanted to see somebody in the business of American football's take on his tweet. I was not expecting such a nuanced response though. Not a fan of American football but I quite enjoyed seeing such a thought out response that wasn't just a tear down of the kid in question. In a world where everybody is taking everything so personal it's refreshing to see a calm, rational response from anybody.

Should use it as a backup position combine. Basically send the Dolphins and the Bengals.

Pro bowl is just a popular contest and I find it so biased.

As someone who works for a local newspaper, he's 100% right. I've been tasked with picking the all-state high school team as an intern with 3 weeks on the job. Those awards are meaningless

Best quote- Situations are situational

They should make them play sports other than football. Ping pong, dodgeball, etc.

this guy can talk forever huh. Guess that's why he's got a show.

Fax it will be so fun,all the best players going against each other that's sick.

Great show

You can save 11:29 mins by just looking at the thumbnail

It's a good lesson to learn that everything has politics involved when it comes to people making decisions in groups.

Greatest show on earth! Cant wait for the show to go o and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on

The seat geek add got me 😂

It was cause of that damn polomalu in the C gap

Damn, this is a downer. Parents got me pro bowl tickets as a birthday present last night, now there is this lol.

I wish they did the pro bowl draft like they did for a couple years bc the game seemed alittle more competitive bc some players thought they should’ve been picked earlier so they played alittle harder. The live draft on tv was great plus it needs to back to after the super bowl in Hawaii

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Fan voting needs to be gone making the pro bowl should be a real accomplishment not a popularity contest

Its a free trip to Hawaii and a shiny recognition. Its like how the government gives soldiers shiny pins instead of bonuses or raises. Pointless, but god do ppl eat that up like nobodies business!

LETS GOOOO....i hung up on em, pulled a u turn in the middle of a highway lol

So true Pat. I remember my first pro bowl like it was yesterday

David Harris for the Jets was a perfect example. Guy could have been a pro bowler almost every year he played.

Of course this appears in my feed on the day of the ProBowl lol

I didn’t make second team all league in football this year and it felt like a total popularity contest

I really relate to what you said at the beginning. I played highschool golf and my senior year last year before coming to college I played the best golf I had. I shot at 37 on the front one match and played good golf that whole season and went to the regionals as an individual. A teammate of mine won MVP and he was cocky so I absolutely hated it and I still don’t think he deserved to get it because yeah he put up decent numbers now and then but I was almost always playing better golf than him day in and day out. But what’s in the past is over and I can’t go back. So I’m gonna live out my life after college spending my days working at a golf course somewhere beautiful hopefully with my future wife and kids and live a happy life

I don’t mind the Pro Bowl, looks cool with all those different helmets on the field.

I think it should be a skills competetion like they used to do on Espn.

Same story for me lmao. -Only player from my school to make the all-state team in over 5 years. (yes, our school sucked that bad) -Led the team in several stats -Told by opponents that their coach's game plan was centered around stopping me My team's MVP award for 2 years straight went to the guy who was maybe the 5th best player on the team and would hang out with the coaches after practice and reffed little league games every time they asked him to. That's when a group of us decided awards really don't mean shit. Oh that and when i found out "Shakespeare in Love" won an Oscar over "Saving private ryan" lmao

Your ad 😂😂😂😂😂😂 I love it

That is so true Awards are sometimes BS when I was in middle school I played for a soccer team. Few weeks before school ended we had an awards ceremony every player who participated would get an award and was recognized I was there but I wasn’t even in the list or my name wasn’t even called what’s worst I was with the team.

All I can imagine is him doing the weezy verse. Pat like "Only to find out you live in a doll house, damn."

I've always felt that they need to change the pro bowl to some sort of combine type of competition. Make it teams of like 3 players and they compete in different events for points to win money for charities of their choice

Pro Bowl would be way better if they removed the fan votes. Keep Player and Coach votes and use stats

Whos getting this right after the 2020 pro bowl rosters were introduced