The sports media star's stratospheric rise has been built on unpredictability paired with a showman's sense of their audience.

Pat McAfee clearly does not think much of Andrew Marchand and his reporting. On Thursday, Marchand wrote in The Athletic that McAfee had effectively "banned" ESPN insider Adam Schefter from his show following the NFL insider's last appearance back in March.

Adam Schefter hasn't appeared on The Pat McAfee Show since early March. While that will change today when Schefter joins the progrum, The Athletic's Andrew Marchand reported Thursday that ESPN's most high-profile NFL insider had been banned from McAfee since the beginning of free agency in March.