Friday’s spirited episode of Pat McAfee’s daily “The Pat McAfee Show” drew mixed reactions, but Ryan Leaf’s stance on the matter is clear.
Leaf, a former college football commentator for ESPN, claimed in a post on X that McAfee was “supposed to have been high 80% of the time on his TV show!! (sic).”
The comment came in response to a post by quarterback coach Quincy Avery criticizing McAfee’s wild show from Dublin, Ireland last week, in which he drank beer during a broadcast from JR Mahon’s Pub.
“Nobody thinks it’s crazy that someone can get drunk on ESPN and everyone acts like it’s cool?” Avery wrote on X about the McAfee broadcast on Friday night.
The next day, Leaf joined the discussion and seemed to address the amount McAfee receives for his daily show on ESPN.
It is unclear where exactly Leaf got the information that supported his social media claim.
Leaf’s problems with McAfee go beyond Friday’s show.
Leaf, who was selected second in the first round of the 1998 draft, claimed last week that the well-known personality was partly responsible for ESPN dropping him in the middle of the 2023 college football season.
During an appearance on Outkick Hot Mic, Leaf claimed that McAfee and Kirk Herbstreit played a role in his firing after Leaf got into a dispute with the two over their comments about the conference’s realignment.
“The coordinating producer calls me and I say, ‘Well, you don’t make that decision. Who makes that decision?’ He said, ‘Well, someone above my pay grade.’ And I said, ‘Well, you have to get someone above your pay grade to call me,'” Leaf claimed. “They did and by that point I had confirmed with people why it happened. So when I got them on the phone I just said, ‘Yeah, I think that’s about right. I think you and I, we don’t have any shared values and so I think this is probably the right decision.’
“I understand, I understand. You have people worth $85 million (McAfee’s contract) that scare you. You have to adjust. I understand that from my side.”
During the interview last Tuesday, he also described McAfee and Herbstreit as “oversensitive” and “narcissists.”
