The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: 20 More Minutes For Sushi (feat. Nick Wright)
17 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What challenges does Nick Wright face coming off a losing fantasy week?
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All right, kicking things off with Smirnoff, the official vodka sponsor of the NFL and the number one vodka in the world. Chris Cody, you're here. Smirnoff!
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of the ultimate fantasy football punishment reveal?
Wow, you're on the money with Smirnoff. Smirnoff! Chris, you know what goes great with Smirnoff? Smirnoff! Yes, but I'm really talking about the game day fit. The style's got to match the vibe. Smirnoff! All right, here's the deal. Game day is everything. And that's exactly why your fit has to match the occasion. Smirnoff!
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Here's the kicker. One lucky fan will take home the grand prize, a trip to the biggest game of the offseason. Plus, one fan will win Alaylee May's one-of-one game day jacket. Wow. The merch will be dropped on select dates from December to January 21, and it's all courtesy of what brand?
Smirnoff!
That's right, Chris. Fans 21 and over can head to Smirnoff Socials to learn how to sign up. And don't forget to grab a bottle of Smirnoff vodka, number 21, at your local retail. Smirnoff. Please drink responsibly. Smirnoff. Number 21 vodka distilled from grain, 40% alcohol by volume. The Smirnoff Company, New York, New York. Please do not share with anybody under legal drinking age. Smirnoff.
No purchase necessary. Must be legal. U.S. resident, 21 or older. Sweepstake starts 12-15-2025 at 12 a.m. Eastern and ends 1-23-2026 at 11-59-59 p.m. Eastern. See official rules at program website. Mike, you know I have one rule to live by, right? Don't place parlays on multiple long shots. Don't say a game is won when it hasn't hit triple zero. Always drink your Jägermeister ice cold.
That's the rule. Everything else is merely a suggestion. Everything else? Everything else. Wearing clean underwear every day? Well, that's just a personal decision. Brushing your teeth? Obviously smart, but not a rule. Never pee-pee on an electric fence. Okay, maybe there are two rules, but the one that is 100% that I insist on completely, Jagermeister, must be drank ice cold.
Or don't drink it at all. Damn, that's cold. Exactly. You're finally starting to get it. Drink responsibly. Jagermeister liqueur, 35% alcohol by volume, imported by Mass Jagermeister U.S., White Plains, New York.
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Chapter 3: How does Nick Wright feel about Patrick Mahomes' knee injury?
I believe Josh Allen one day is going to win a Super Bowl. Part of me kind of likes the fact that if this is the year, I'm like, yeah, he won the Super Bowl, but Patrick wasn't in the tournament. So it's kind of like half a ring.
Chapter 4: What body parts would Nick Wright give up for Mahomes' health?
But this is a great year to do it. Go to the Super Bowl, bro. If Bo Nix or Drake May get there before Josh and it's because, oh man, they had better D-tackle play, then go jump in the ocean, bro. Like, go to the Super Bowl. I'm sorry. I got to point out a couple of things that you said. Number one, you said it was apparent by the Chargers game, if not a few weeks earlier.
Didn't sound like it was apparent to you when you come on the show. You were talking pie in the sky. We got this. We got to do this. The other thing you said was, I'm sick of these fans complaining. They say, oh, my quarterback's a superhero. But when they lose, oh, they start complaining about the line and all that stuff. That's what you just did. You just did that about your own team.
Okay, so Amin, again, and I'm not trying to start more beats with people on the show, but I would strongly recommend in the future, if you're going to run back words that I said, you actually listen to the words that I said. Because to deal with the first thing, what I said was, it was apparent to everyone but me.
So I was front-running that obvious criticism that I was going to receive because I was the last one. I even think I said I was the last one holding out hope. It became apparent to me, I said, by halftime at the Chargers game. And you don't know what I was saying during the Chargers game because I was watching that alone, sad in my house. That's first of all.
Second of all, what damn excuse did I make at any point in any of this for Patrick Mahomes? And first of all, no excuses are necessary. Prior to this year, he'd played in five of the last six Super Bowls. But when have I at any point said, that, yeah, there is nothing that could be done. I haven't said any of that. I said the Chiefs didn't have it. He's on the Chiefs.
Everybody needed to be better this year, including the quarterback. So, like, we can do the argument jujitsu if you want, but, you know, you got to tell me what I'm arguing with. I kind of feel like you're making the same argument that Juju just made about, hey, even though my quarterback is amazing,
There are structural issues with my team that makes it kind of perhaps an obstacle for them to achieve the ultimate prize. Sweet Christ, man. Are you comparing the worst, the 2025 Chiefs, which were from quarterback play on down, the worst Chiefs team of the decade, Two, a Bills team coming off its best win of the year. Josh Allen, some people believe, is the league MVP.
They're, I think, the highest scoring team in the conference. They have the best past events they've had in the last three years. Like, these are apples and bowling balls, bro. I'm not comparing the teams. I'm comparing Sargent semantics.
The argument that you are making is strikingly similar to the argument you're striking down from other people, regardless of the caliber of team that we're talking about. What is the argument you think I'm making, bro? What are you saying? You got it. It's okay. It's the holiday season and the 50th anniversary of Miller Lite. The holiday is all about spending time with friends and family.
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Chapter 5: Why does Nick Wright feel worse for Packers fans than Chiefs fans?
That's how it works.
Into their late 30s. Say it again. What'd you say? Yeah, but I understand. It's not myopic, though.
Chapter 6: What are the implications of injuries on NFL teams' playoff chances?
Like, yeah, he turned 33 months ago, and they just missed the playoffs after playing in damn near every Super Bowl of the last decade. I think it's fair. Again, I guess you're asking me to prove something that is unprovable. The point that I would make, and I'm not trying to be combative, and I'm not trying to be annoying, but maybe I don't know any other way.
is there was unless they were going to have an endless run at some point they were going to have a down year and whenever that happened it would also as a tautology be when mahomes and andy are the oldest So, at any point, whenever they have the down year, it could be like, well, all of it caught up to them and they're older and Andy's lost his fastball a bit and Patrick's, all of it.
Now, there is a real factor of a real sports tragedy of he suffered a devastating injury, which I am not overlooking. What I am saying is we consistently see guys at skill positions come back. So the Stefan Diggs come back from a torn ACL as a much older wide receiver. So I don't think
That this is going to have some super long-term knock-on effect I am worried that if he continues the Brady trajectory Brady his first year back from the torn ACL they won 10 games It was one of his worst statistical seasons. They got
locked in round one of the playoffs 33 to 14 by Baltimore and he wasn't back to being Brady till the next year when he was the best quarterback in the league in 2010 and they were 14 and 2 but even that year they ended up losing in the first round of playoffs to Mark Sanchez like and so Brady went three years wrapped around the ACL without winning a playoff game if that happens to Patrick it will just be conventional wisdom he's done they're done
Tom, of course, then went to eight straight conference championship games and five of the next eight Super Bowls. So I guess we'll see. But you keep wanting me to say I'm worried. I'm not worried. And maybe I'll be an idiot, but I'm not worried.
He's got to go because he's respectful of his colleagues and he's got a meeting to get to. He's the host of FS1's First Things First. He's also got the podcast What's Right with Nick Wright that he does with his son. You came on here and you said at the beginning, I don't want to do editorial judgment for this show, but let's do some on the way out.
Would you like me trying to say, would you like to hear me trying to say the word matriculate earlier in the show? Or would you like to hear the sound of Pablo making a joke to Adam Freeland that made you roar with laughter?
I'd like to hear matriculate, please. I'd like to hear that. Let me hear it again.
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