The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Patrick Mahomes is Unstoppable, Dave's Mom Has a Mike Ditka Story, Film Nerd Showdown with Marc Sessler, Points Per Game with Geoff Schwartz
20 Oct 2025
Chapter 1: Why is Patrick Mahomes considered unstoppable in the NFL?
A few weeks ago here on Football America, we asked if we're watching right now the GOATs in the four major sports. Last Friday, right after we wrapped up episode number 17, in which we debated which number 17 is ultimately better, Josh Allen or Phil Rivers, number 17, Shohei Itani, number 17, had maybe the greatest postseason game in baseball history.
It's a football show, but we do like the other sports as well. And so we honor the greatest MLB-er of all time. It is clearly Otani now. And we may also be guilty of turning our nose up or getting distracted by other pro football players. We are looking at arguably the greatest quarterback, at least in pro football history. I hesitate to say Mahomes is the best football player ever.
I don't know.
Chapter 2: What birthday story does Dave's mom share about Mike Ditka?
Mahomes vs. Lawrence Taylor is on par with comparing Patrick Waugh and Mario Lemieux. They're both French Canadians who know how to skate, but that's about the extent of it. Anywho, best ever in football. Goats! Even if you don't think Mahomes is the greatest QB ever, we can now all agree he's still good. And that's bad news for the rest of the AFC.
Is this really going to happen all over again with the Chiefs? All of a sudden, as much as we've tried talking ourselves out of KC, they look like the conference's best team. Hate to go back to Mahomes and Stanos, but he does feel inevitable. And just imagine if Mahomes and his pals do get back to the Super Bowl.
Chapter 3: How do Tarantino and P.T. Anderson compare in film?
Then it'd be four in a row. And unlike the Bills in the 90s, they've actually won some of those games. So get ready, everybody. We can get distracted by Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen. But number 17, Josh Allen better steal himself deep down in places he doesn't like talking about. He knows Patrick Mahomes is inevitable. Let's start the show. Hi and hello, my fellow football Americans.
Welcome to episode 18 of Football America. We have much to talk about reacting to NFL Week 7. Maybe some college football, too, with our pal Jeff Schwartz. Some points per game for you. And also, in his debut on Football America, one of my favorite fellas in the business, Mark Sesler from Heed the Call on his way. He'll be participating in the Jerk List. Maybe some movie talk as well.
In the meantime, like I say... Fellas, Gino and Mike. Mike and Gino, it is episode 18. We have to honor the greatest football player to wear that jersey number. Obviously, a short discussion required here today.
Chapter 4: What is the Jerk List and who gets called out this week?
It's Peyton Manning, right?
That's an easy one. It's got to be Peyton Manning. The only one I could even think that might be in his stratosphere is Justin Jefferson if you project his career out based on what he's done so far.
Yeah, you got to win a Super Bowl, though. So it's easily Peyton Manning, even though he was a complete liability in that Super Bowl with the Broncos and Von Miller carried him to the finish line. It's Peyton Manning.
We agree Caleb Williams is not headed to the Hall of Fame. He wears No. 18. Randall Cobb. Chaz Joyner wore the No. 18 for the Chargers. He's a Hall of Famer. Here's a crazy thing about the No. 18. Darryl Strawberry wore it. One of my favorite things, it's...
sort of trivia is in 1988 no one under the sun who watched baseball would have believed that neither daryl strawberry nor doc gooden would make the baseball hall of fame and yet here we are hey a guy who is in the hall of fame is mike ditka and i just learned before we get the sessler in shorts here that um he's 86 years young uh mike ditka one of the legends in pro football lore and
As it happens, I know somebody personally who grew up on the same block in Aliquippa, PA.
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Chapter 5: What are the current NFL team dynamics for the Chiefs and 49ers?
That would be one Michelle Zubasic. You may know her best from my programs as Moe Damaschek. My mother, Moe, are you there?
I am here. Hi, Slug.
Hello, how are you?
Good.
Would you like to say hello to Mike or Gino? And by the way, if anybody's hearing... Hi, Mike and Gino.
It's nice to see you again.
Hey, Mama Mo. Mama Mo. I like that. I do, too. It's funny that, Mo Mo, if you're hearing an echo, it's because old Mo happens to be in the room right next door to me here. She came out to watch Jean-Claude Van Damme and his pals win Crespi. Shout out to the Crespi South. Thank you. A program-defining win against Silesian the other day. But that's not what you're here to talk about, Mo.
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Chapter 6: How is college football different from the NFL regarding uniforms?
Like I say, Mike Ditka was and is your age. And you grew up on the same block that he did. But you weren't allowed to play with him.
I was not. It wasn't a block. We lived in a community. It was like row houses, only not charming like row houses. It was a community called Linmar in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania.
Projects.
Well, yes. Right. They were. They are still there. Still producing great football players. But Mike Ditka lived like two rows down from me. We had a community playground, of course. But it's the mid-40s, 1940s. So it's a basic playground. Slides, swings, monkey bars.
But you weren't allowed to play with him.
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Chapter 7: What insights does Geoff Schwartz provide on the Jets' struggles?
No. Why? Because one day I was hanging from the monkey bars because what else do you do? Mike Ditka pulls down my underpants. I was not the only one. I don't know. There were other girls that he would do this to. So I go home. I'm crying. I tell my parents as I remember. I think my father went down and talked. I think his name was Big Mike, too.
Mr. Ditka, who was like, what do you want me to do? And I came home. I was not allowed to be at the playground when Mike Ditka was there. I didn't do anything. But if I was there and Mike came, I had to run back home because who knows what would go on.
It's a shame you weren't available to give Mike Ditka's Hall of Fame introductory speech.
That would have been a nice tale to tell. It would have been great.
Chapter 8: What predictions are made for the Patriots and their future?
But I moved when I was 11, so we had no further interaction. So bottom line, happy birthday, Mike Ditka. Happy birthday, Mike Ditka. Yes. Yeah. Okay. Say your goodbye to Mike and Gina. Bye, Mike and Gina. Good seeing you.
all right what a treat belated i held off on bringing this show bringing this guy onto the show because he's one of the great delights out there and i thought we'd get a little bit maybe of a mid-season swoon and he would boost our collective spirits you know him as one of the heroes from heed the call
Before that, around the NFL for many moons, always delightful making his pages on social media and otherwise one of the most fascinating characters, not just in sports media, nay, walking the big blue marble, period. He's my pal. It's Mark Sessler. What's the poop, fella? How are you?
We are pals. You've lifted me up beyond, I believe, actual human acclaim. It's always a joy to be with you. You've come on our show many times, and I'm happy to join you at this moment. It's a little bit of, as you say, a little slice of heaven.
Well, you know, we have gone back and forth, obviously, some deep dives on the AFC North. My team remains the Pittsburgh Steelers. You've been on again, off again with the Cleveland Browns. I'd like to talk to you about that. But before we do anything pro football related, we're obviously getting into the jerk list in just a second here as well.
Gino and Mike, Mike and Gino, preparing the statements that we will react to in just a moment here. Meantime, you and I have been texting back and forth, along with our pal Dan Hanzus, on the remarkable picture, probably the best picture of 2025 at minimum. One battle after another, how, say you, did it live up to the expectations hailed as nothing short of the best movie of the generation?
Let's start there. Does it meet that standard?
I don't know what generation we're in, but like, yes, because I think I mentioned to you that... I have this remarkable, striking memory. I lived in Washington, D.C. at the time, and their train station had an incredible movie theater that was a wild movie theater. It was wild. It was just like the population would go in there and make a lot of noise. That's where I saw Pulp Fiction in 1994.
That's where I saw Legends of the Fall with a wild girlfriend. I'll just mention that. But, like, crazy things happen in this movie theater.
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