Local Hour: The Monster Miami Sports Night

Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: Local Hour: The Monster Miami Sports Night
Date: December 15, 2025
Location: The Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami
Main Hosts: Dan Le Batard, Stugotz
Contributors: Chris Cody, Mike Ryan, Greg Cody, Tony

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Episode Overview

On this “Local Hour,” the crew dives into what’s being dubbed a “Monster Miami Sports Night” – with the Miami Dolphins, Heat, and Panthers all playing pivotal games simultaneously. True to form, the conversation ricochets across South Florida’s sports scene, with plenty of signature show banter: debates about what constitutes a genuinely major sports night, strong opinions on NFL quarterback storylines, and in-depth celebration of the show’s own highlight (Jai Alai) championship. It’s vintage “Le Batard Show”: local pride, sports skepticism, inside jokes, playful grilling, and a fascination with the melodrama of professional football.

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Key Segments and Discussion Points

1. Is This Really a "Monster Miami Sports Night"?

[02:24 – 04:15]

• Dan asks if co-hosts agree with Craig Zaslow’s claim: is tonight truly a “monster” sports night for Miami?
• Chris Cody is skeptical, noting all the teams are around .500 and only the Dolphins' game has real stakes.
• Dan pushes on the novelty of all three teams playing on a weeknight, calling it "not normal."
• The group jokes about the difficulty of watching all three and whether true fans actually want to multi-screen.

Memorable Quote:

“Tonight is not a monster night in South Florida sports. It’s the seventh biggest night in South Florida sports history this year.”
— Chris Cody [04:15]

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2. Jai Alai Championship: Le Batard Show Triumph

[05:17 – 08:56]

• Dan celebrates the Cyclones’ championship in "Battlecourt" Jai Alai, a team partially owned by show members.
• Play-by-play audio of the winning point is shared, followed by the playful uraveling of postgame egos:
  • Who deserves credit as "GM of the Year"? Mike Ryan or Chris Cody?
  • The team’s journey and perseverance, especially sticking with star player Manu, are highlighted.
• Greg Cody is gently mocked for the conflict of interest in reporting on his son’s ownership.

Memorable Quotes:

“This is the Manu championship right here.”
— Stugats [07:05]

“We are celebrating this more this weekend than Inter Miami’s championship because Messi went to India. He wanted a parade for the 37th best of his 43 titles.”
— Dan Le Batard [11:00]

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3. NFL Weekend: Chiefs, Josh Allen, and AFC Uncertainty

[16:57 – 24:29]

The Chiefs Collapse

[17:15 – 21:32]

• The panel dissects the end of the Kansas City Chiefs’ season after a shocking home loss and Patrick Mahomes’ injury.
• Comparisons are made with Tom Brady’s career arc after injury.
• Chris and Dan debate whether "winning close games" is a real team skill or just luck and quarterback talent.

Notable Quotes:

“The Chiefs dynasty died yesterday. The whole dynasty did. Andy Reid is on fumes… Kelsey done. Mahomes’ best days are done.”— Chris Cody [19:48]

“What tilts the odds in your favor on one score games is do you have a great quarterback… This year Mahomes… wasn’t able to win them because it’s not an ability.” — Dan Le Batard [21:32]

Josh Allen: The Bills’ One-Man Show

[22:30 – 28:52]

• Josh Allen’s Herculean efforts are praised; the panel notes Buffalo’s historic comeback win and Allen’s unique fear factor for defenses.
• The group scoffs at announcers prematurely crowning New England’s Drake May as an MVP when Allen was the true difference maker.
• Josh Allen’s impending fatherhood is briefly mentioned for color.

Memorable Quotes:

“If you’re on defense, you fear him on third and 11 and you fear him on fourth and four.”
— Dan Le Batard [25:02]

“Josh Allen is a different quarterback than anybody else… That was not a deficit that was safe with Josh.”
— Chris Cody [26:57]

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4. The Floundering Bengals, Joe Burrow’s Sadness, and Organizational Cheapness

[38:39 – 43:36]

• Dan rails against the Bengals' organizational culture, describing it as "cheap" and unmotivated to win before Burrow.
• Joe Burrow’s gloomy press conferences and body language are debated: does he love football or just winning?
• The show notes statistical anomalies: the Bengals’ defense has allowed them to lose more high-scoring games (30+ pts) than should be possible.

Notable Quotes:

“The Bengals, in my lifetime, are the only football team I have ever covered that I have thought to myself, they have no interest in actually winning.”
— Dan Le Batard [40:28]

“We haven’t been a good football team. You know, bad football—bad football teams do losing things. And number one, your quarterback has to play better than I did today.”
— Joe Burrow, postgame [39:37]

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5. Miami Roundup & Panel Banter

[43:44 – 47:28]

• Greg Cody and company preview the concurrent games: Dolphins (NFL), Panthers (NHL), and Heat (NBA), hoping for a 3–0 sweep for Miami.
• Greg insists he’s all-in: “Dolphins aren’t done. I’m watching this game tonight… I’m into it.” [45:00]
• Coy jokes about Panthers hockey, correcting singular/plural on “Mammoth/Mammoths,” and a callback to local favorite, Josh Bell updates.

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Additional Highlights & Running Gags

• Mascot Shenanigans: Dan wishes the Jai Alai mascot had appeared “stained from a weekend of debauchery, smoking a cigarette” [07:51].
• On Lengthy Championships: Greg Cody admits he watched the whole Jai Alai match but thought it was “long,” drawing Dan’s ire for not being a true fan [09:53].
• Panel Chemistry: Frequent teases about “fake enthusiasm” and classic show in-fighting, especially around owner vs. GM credit for the Cyclones’ victory.
• Sound Offs on Announcers: Stugotz calls out the overhyped MVP narrative during Patriots games: “A block though, I mean, putting it strongly…” [27:57].
• On Being a Fan: The pain and pride of multi-sport, multi-screen Miami fandom surface throughout.

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [02:24] – "Monster Miami Sports Night" debate
• [05:17] – Jai Alai Championship celebration
• [17:15] – Chiefs dynasty collapse & Mahomes injury
• [22:30] – Josh Allen, Bills comeback, AFC playoff talk
• [38:39] – Bengals, Joe Burrow’s mood, and questioning franchise cultures
• [43:44] – Previewing Miami’s all-teams night

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Memorable Quotes – Speaker Attribution & Timestamps

• "Tonight is not a monster night in South Florida sports. It’s the seventh biggest night in South Florida sports history this year."
  — Chris Cody [04:15]

• "This is the Manu championship right here."
  — Stugats [07:05]

• "We are celebrating this more this weekend than Inter Miami’s championship because Messi went to India. He wanted a parade for the 37th best of his 43 titles."
  — Dan Le Batard [11:00]

• "The Chiefs dynasty died yesterday. The whole dynasty did. Andy Reid is on fumes… Kelsey done. Mahomes’ best days are done."
  — Chris Cody [19:48]

• "What tilts the odds in your favor on one score games is do you have a great quarterback… This year Mahomes… wasn’t able to win them because it’s not an ability."
  — Dan Le Batard [21:32]

• "If you’re on defense, you fear him on third and 11 and you fear him on fourth and four."
  — Dan Le Batard [25:02]

• "The Bengals, in my lifetime, are the only football team I have ever covered that I have thought to myself, they have no interest in actually winning."
  — Dan Le Batard [40:28]

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Final Thoughts

This episode is classic “Le Batard Show”: irreverently local, wide-ranging, and full of passionate, informed (and uninformed) sports debate. From Miami’s “monster” sports night to existential NFL questions about dynasties and quarterback legacies, the crew finds ways to make each topic personal, hilarious, and just a little bit absurd. Even for those who missed the episode, the energy and fan-first perspective shine through, making it easy to follow the conversation — and care, or at least laugh, right along with them.

Transcript

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[Dan LeBatard]

Craig Zaslow is maintaining that tonight is a monster Miami Sports night. Are you. Are you in agreement with a monster Miami Sports Night tonight?

[Chris Cody]

No, I don't think you're a monster. If you're playing a regular season game and you're both around 500, you know, I don't know.

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, he's not saying it's just football. He's saying it's the Heat, the Panthers, and the Dolphins all playing at the same time on a weeknight. That's not normal, right?

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, it's sort of annoying. Like, what if you want to watch all three games?

[Dan LeBatard]

You know, you still can in the modern age with all the technologies that people have.

[Chris Cody]

Really?

[Greg Cody]

They're on three different channels.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, but you're flipping back and forth.

[Tony]

I mean, a couple screens.

[Dan LeBatard]

You know, I think sports fans know how to watch three games at the same time.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, but they don't want to. You want to concentrate on a game.

[Greg Cody]

Well, they're staggered. Like, one of them's at 7.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

The other one's at 7:30. And the other one's at 8.

[Dan LeBatard]

15.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah. It's fitting that the only one that really qualifies as a big game is the last one of the three.

[Greg Cody]

Okay, well, that's great. So that's the main event.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah. Okay.

[Dan LeBatard]

I don't think any of them are that big. Like, what? What. Why would the last of the three qualify as a major event?

[Chris Cody]

I mean, the Dolphins are fighting for their playoff life. I almost sounded like Zaszlo there for a minute.

[Dan LeBatard]

It was fake enthusiasm. It really was. And you started laughing right afterward. You're laughing at yourself. I heard that squeak come out of you. That sounds like a Christmas toy.

[Chris Cody]

Correct.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yes. The Dolphins are fighting for their playoff light. You can't and muster faux enthusiasm.

[Chris Cody]

Playoff life, that's like a mix of.

[Greg Cody]

Me and Eric Reed. I think you did there.

[Chris Cody]

Kaboom. That's my Eric Reed impression.

[Dan LeBatard]

Is that right? Yeah, I. I. Usually with impressions, you can just let them stand on their own. You don't have to explain right afterward what they are.

[Chris Cody]

Tonight is not a monster night in South Florida sports. It's the seventh biggest night in South Florida sports history this year.

[Mike Ryan]

That's your Eric Reid. This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats podcast.

[Smokey Robinson]

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[Dan LeBatard]

Have a wonderful time on this Miami Monster. Miami sports night. We begin with highlight. Champions again. Highlight is back, Jack. Mike Ryan went all over South Florida celebrating with the trophy this weekend. I felt like co owner Chris Cody was pushed out of the way so that Mike Ryan could party with the trophy and Chris Cody couldn't get anywhere near the trophy. Let's play the winning point. Hundreds of people.

[Mike Ryan]

Shit stirring again.

[Dan LeBatard]

Hundreds of people at Jai Alai to celebrate this historic championship as the Le Batard show with Stugats continues to try to keep Jai Alai alive as we have for 20 years. Here's the winning point for your champion Cyclones. Nicholas with the catch at 13.

[Chris Cody]

Low and hard. Manu is there again. Backhand from the 10 on the wall.

[Mike Ryan]

Clean misses both ways.

[Dan LeBatard]

Here is Inyaki winding up.

[Mike Ryan]

What a scoop by Etcherberry.

[Chris Cody]

Placement is caught by int. Inaki Inaki. That lands in and scores for the win and a championship going to Inaki Amanu of the Cyclones and the Cyclone squad.

[Tony]

Gotta be a better call than that, no? For a championship point.

[Mike Ryan]

Relax. We didn't make it very dramatic.

[Dan LeBatard]

That was a hugely memorable last point. Dramatic with a lot of flourishing. And then at the end, Mike and Chris give traditional owners interview.

[Mike Ryan]

That's right, Chris.

[Dan LeBatard]

This team and it started back in the draft back a few months ago. How confident leaving that draft room were.

[Greg Cody]

You in this version of the team.

[Stugats]

Vibes are really strong. Leaving that draft.

[Greg Cody]

I'm just so glad we stuck with.

[Stugats]

Manu this whole time. The start, the end. I'm so happy Manu is the man. This is the Manu championship right here.

[Dan LeBatard]

And Mike will ask you too, how's it feel? Second championship in Cyclone team history.

[Mike Ryan]

And it felt like a really long time to be able to go full circle, close things out here in Magic City. It's a special feeling. Special team like Chris said to be to be able to stick with our captain. Mount. Ooh. Is Such a special player. Best backcourter in the world. Bueno. Coming back from injury, being super steady when the whole world doubted him.

[Greg Cody]

Hyrule.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm so happy for him. He's a veteran. He's never been to a final before. For him to win it, he was a crucial, crucial draft pick. Are you looking at the GM of the year? You might be looking at the GM of the year and the special weapon under the Takeo.

[Dan LeBatard]

Let's go. All right. We'll let them celebrate. Enjoy their moment, folks.

[Greg Cody]

What a season.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

I can't tell you how much I love that mascot for all the wrong reasons. Like, I wanted him to come in here this weekend stained from a weekend of debauchery with a Smoking a cigarette. I saw that during that interview. Mike said, you might be looking at the GM of the year, whereupon Chris Cody pops up in your screen and then runs off of the screen as soon as Mike says we're looking at the GM of the year. And I don't know whether he was talking about his. Mike, the GM of the year is Chris the gm.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, just stop it.

[Dan LeBatard]

Why?

[Mike Ryan]

The cycle drive a wedge.

[Dan LeBatard]

You can't do it.

[Stugats]

It's not.

[Mike Ryan]

Is it in your DNA to just.

[Greg Cody]

Be happy for people you open.

[Dan LeBatard]

You can't. Seconds into the show spelled in without the D, the N and the A.

[Mike Ryan]

Come on, dog.

[Tony]

I mean, to Dan's point, who is the gym of the year?

[Stugats]

Cyclones.

[Mike Ryan]

We'll share it. You guys are getting bogged down on the wrong thing.

[Greg Cody]

You said looking at the DM of the year.

[Tony]

Who is it?

[Mike Ryan]

We. Season eight Battlecore champions, period. That's a headline here. Where was the Greg Cody column? Yeah, where was it? Where was it?

[Tony]

Next to the back of my day.

[Chris Cody]

Are you serious?

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah. Yeah. You wrote an article about Chris becoming owner. You'd think that we'd get a full circle.

[Dan LeBatard]

There seems to be a conflict of interest on the reporting that Greg Cody does on this show versus real journalism. Yes. You wrote an article about your son being the owner of the. Of the Cyclones.

[Chris Cody]

I barely remember.

[Dan LeBatard]

How emotional. How emotional was it? You were there.

[Mike Ryan]

You were there.

[Dan LeBatard]

When you say you barely remember. We remember. Before this moment, the most memorable moment in high lie at that front time was you coughing so much during the pandemic that you. You fell down on the floor. You passed out. You fell down on the floor.

[Chris Cody]

I fainted is what happened. I did not faint the other night because I was. I was. The adrenaline was coursing through my veins. It was an exciting night. Hundreds of fans were there and. And the action was great. I mean, it was just. It's a really interesting sport. Highlight has died all over the country, but we're keeping it all over the world. In South Florida, I watched the.

[Greg Cody]

I watched the whole thing, Dan. I watched the whole. It was on ESPN plus. I watched the whole match was long. I'm gonna be honest. All right. It was the entire. My entire shift on espn. I'm on the radio and I had on my iPad. I watched the entire match.

[Chris Cody]

And.

[Greg Cody]

And then you could see Chris. At one point, they showed Chris in, like, the. The. The backstage area.

[Stugats]

At one point the camera came up to him.

[Dan LeBatard]

They're like, we're going to show you. So yes.

[Stugats]

Had to do the thing of, like.

[Greg Cody]

He was, like, watching, like, really nervous mid match. And then he gave, like. And then he did like, one of these. I think you were doing, like, like a clones kind of deal.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, yeah.

[Stugats]

It's this motion.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, it's the double C. That's not.

[Dan LeBatard]

What that looks like.

[Chris Cody]

Hey, relax.

[Mike Ryan]

Family show.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's not what that looks like. That doesn't look like. They're up your double C. What are the C's? What. What is this?

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, I see double C's.

[Stugats]

Let's go, Craig. Let's see it.

[Mike Ryan]

C stands for crank.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, Very good.

[Greg Cody]

I watched the whole thing.

[Dan LeBatard]

I know.

[Greg Cody]

I'll be honest. I didn't know what was going on, but I watched.

[Dan LeBatard]

I watched the whole thing. Well, what was going on is that their champions again. The Cyclones are champions again. And we continue to leave, keep high, lie alive in South Florida and beyond. And I believe that we are celebrating this more this weekend than Inter Miami's championship because Messi went to India. Want a parade for the 37th best of his 43 titles. And so there was no Inter Miami parade. But there is a celebration of another South Florida championship. Mike, where did you end up with the trophy all weekend? The trophy was at space. The trophy was at the University of Miami women's basketball game.

[Mike Ryan]

It was at the men's hoops game.

[Greg Cody]

How did you get to bring it in?

[Mike Ryan]

I know, folks.

[Chris Cody]

Mike Ryan, golden cane.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

Clear it.

[Mike Ryan]

Look at that.

[Stugats]

I can't wait for my day with the trophy.

[Mike Ryan]

I took a photo with Sebastian.

[Tony]

You get a day with the trophy.

[Mike Ryan]

There were smatters everywhere. Clones go.

[Stugats]

Clones thinking elbow room. Flanagans highlight, highlight, champion.

[Mike Ryan]

Right there.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's a cup.

[Mike Ryan]

You would hear whispers. Kyle Se Loft touched it. Ah.

[Stugats]

Everyone showed up.

[Dan LeBatard]

Look at Jason Tache.

[Stugats]

Dwork was there. Jordan McPherson was there all the big names?

[Tony]

I think. I think Mike ryan bullied Jordan McPherson, by the way, into going that night, because he came out and opened the thing and said, hey, Jordan McPherson, what the f. About the AP vote? And then he's like, what do you want me to do, Mike? He's like, come to the highlight game. And he's like, okay, I'll be there.

[Mike Ryan]

And then all of a sudden, he showed up.

[Dan LeBatard]

Greg, what were the highlights for you?

[Chris Cody]

The highlights?

[Greg Cody]

Were you there the whole time? Were you the whole match?

[Stugats]

Miller lights for the highlight for him?

[Chris Cody]

Of course I was. And by the way, to your point, it's a long game. You know, you got to tighten it a little bit. Like, what is it about?

[Mike Ryan]

I've never.

[Dan LeBatard]

I have never heard, after winning a championship, someone who actually cares about their team complaining that it was a long game, that they had to. Because you two don't care.

[Greg Cody]

Like, you're not.

[Dan LeBatard]

No. You're noticing the length of the championship win because you're looking at your wristwatch, wanting to get out of there. You don't actually care.

[Chris Cody]

Look at this.

[Dan LeBatard]

What a moment. You can stop faking that you care by complaining about how long the match is carrying.

[Chris Cody]

Right there.

[Mike Ryan]

Hoisting the trophy. Earlier this year, he gave you crap for banging a drum at a Panthers game.

[Stugats]

We can see why there was no highlight article after this.

[Dan LeBatard]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Dan LeBatard]

Daughter. This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugach. The Dolphins play against the Steelers tonight and what we saw from the Chiefs yesterday is the seismic story in the sport because not only is the Chiefs thing done, that game finishes with Mahomes on the turf making you wonder oh wait a minute, how much longer is Andy Reid gonna want to do this? How much longer are their coaches gonna want to do this? If it's Mahomes to the middle of and he's already getting hit more. He's got, he got hit more the last two years than he had in the previous six combined because of what his offensive line is. Only Herbert has been hit more this year than Mahomes and at the very end for a worthless cause and that Chiefs team is better than its record. That rare is the rare is the rare is the non playoff qualifier that has this kind of point differential. In fact comparatively Denver is such a fraud like comparatively an 11 game winning streak where all your games is on an average of seven point victories. The the Chiefs have a great point differential, lost, lost a bunch of close games and are going to miss the playoffs even though they're not actually worse than the.

[Chris Cody]

Dolphins. Wait a minute. Listen. The Chiefs were known before this season for winning all those close games. That's been the big difference this.

[Dan LeBatard]

Year. It's not an ability Greg, the winning of close games is not an.

[Chris Cody]

Ability. Of course it.

[Dan LeBatard]

Is. No, it's.

[Mike Ryan]

Not. It is when you're playing bad teams. Although we looked at it, their one score victories that made everybody concerned, hey, how sustainable is this Came against bad teams. And this year their one score defeats came against good teams. They dipped. They weren't as good. Kelsey obviously looks a little different. Mahomes, I have always wondered, how is that body type going to age? He's torn his ACL in year nine. Should be noted. So did Tom Brady. Both missed the playoffs and then Tom Brady went on a several decades.

[Greg Cody]

Run. Enough with the comparison. Like as if Mahomes is going to replicate Tom Brady's career. You know, Brady had practically three hall of Fame careers. The first run, then he got hurt. Then the second run, and then the Tampa.

[Tony]

Run. But he's walking in his footsteps as he's got the three Super Bowls. Same injury is gonna miss the year. They're gonna be.

[Greg Cody]

Bad. They're gonna get Jeremy seven Super Bowls. We act like it's so easy.

[Tony]

Okay, but now this is the next act of Patrick Mahomes's career. Now it's actually another three Super.

[Greg Cody]

Bowls. Does Mahomes win another Super Bowl? Your best.

[Mike Ryan]

Guess?

[Stugats]

Yes.

[Dan LeBatard]

No.

[Chris Cody]

No. I don't think so either. They're done. The Chiefs dynasty died yesterday. The whole dynasty did. Andy Reid is on fumes. He's looking for an exit.

[Greg Cody]

Strategy. Kelsey's definitely.

[Chris Cody]

Retiring. Kelsey done. Mahomes best days are done. The offensive line, well.

[Dan LeBatard]

This. This is what I didn't have though, right? This is the part I did not have. Not after nine straight division titles, seven straight AFC championship games, and three straight Super Bowls. I did not have anything happening yesterday that would make me question next season this quickly. And the thing that happened is the thing that makes you wonder, oh wait, did it all just come apart because they're trying to beat the Chargers and they can't do anything offensively and they lose at home. 16 to 13 to the Chargers. And at the end of the game he's getting hurt. None of you guys had that either, right? That we. Even if they were eliminated, we would have thought of that as anti climax, but we wouldn't have thought, oh, wait a minute, what does this mean until the middle of next year? Oh, wait, their defensive coordinator and their coach are super old. Do they even want a part of whatever is the problem with how many people they're paying guaranteed money when they can't get out from under what this season was? What I'm Telling you though is that team was not as bad as its record. And you seem to object to what I'm saying, that winning one score games isn't an ability. Minnesota had it last year and then they went into the playoffs and they didn't have it.

[Chris Cody]

Anymore. But my point is, and it's quantifiable, Kansas City has before this year has been noted for winning a lot of one score.

[Dan LeBatard]

Game. Last year they were great at one score games, but this year wasn't. What happened to the ability? If it's an ability, what happened to.

[Chris Cody]

It? Okay, so you're saying last year was not an ability. They got lucky last.

[Dan LeBatard]

Year. They.

[Chris Cody]

Did. Okay, they.

[Dan LeBatard]

Did. They've got a great quarterback. Look what tilts the odds in your favor on one score games is do you have a great quarterback. So yeah, if you've got a great quarterback, you're more likely to win one score games. But this year Mahomes is a great quarterback. Wasn't able to win them because it's not an.

[Chris Cody]

Ability. Okay. I think winning teams often get denigrated for reasons like this. OK, we're saying that New England's 10 game winning streak was because they had a soft schedule. We're saying Denver is winning a lot of close games. Denver just beat Green Bay, which was a.

[Dan LeBatard]

Real. Denver's average margin of victory during this winning streak during the 11 wins is seven points. It's the smallest one ever for this kind of winning.

[Chris Cody]

Ever.

[Dan LeBatard]

But. But they're not dominating people, they're just beating them. And you tell me whether you'd be surprised if Bo Nix loses a playoff game to Herbert by one.

[Chris Cody]

Score. I wouldn't be surprised by much this season. This has been a crazy NFL season all the way around to that point.

[Tony]

Though. Yeah, they've been beating teams just barely. But then you look at a team like Green Bay who you look and say, okay, they might be the best team in the league and then they dominate that team and you're like, okay, wait, like this team might be for real with the defense and Bo Nicks could just do enough. He has another four touchdown performance and they can go on a run. They can make it to the super bowl.

[Dan LeBatard]

Easily. A lot of teams in the AFC could make it to the super bowl easily because you've got all of the usual participants in the AFC out. Look at how many quarterbacks have appeared in the AFC championship game over the last 22 years. It's like five or six. In terms of like it's always the. It's always the Same guys in. In the game and now they're all eliminated. So of course, of course you're looking at what Josh Allen, the story of the day yesterday. There was a ton of football news yesterday, right? A ton of the football story of the day yesterday was what Buffalo did to New England as New England's trying to wrestle the top of the division from them. And all I'm listening to during the game, Drake, Drake Mays blocking down the field, everything's about he's the MVP. The MVP. MVP. No, he's not. No, he's not. The MVP played in the other huddle. The MVP is the guy who scores four touchdown a game, 10 times more than anyone else since 2020. And it's the guy who came back from 21 down or what was he. Yeah, it was 21 down. The Patriots had the longest streak in league history of if they're up 17 at home, it was 120 games. They never lose the game and they lost it.

[Mike Ryan]

Yesterday. As someone that just reps the shield though, I came away bummed overall because of what happened to Mahomes. Like, you rep the shield, I rep the shield. And I wanted to see Josh, see if he could go through that quarterback. And now Josh Allen doesn't look like he has to go through the quarterbacks that Dan highlighted. Lamar Jackson, Joe Burrow. You don't think Josh.

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[Mike Ryan]

You'Ve. You've been firing off the definitive windows close, you've been saying the Chiefs are done and Josh Allen's not making the Super Bowl. I think. I think Josh Allen's locking up some W's. The odds reflect this. If you check DraftKings sportsbook odds improved with what happened over the football.

[Greg Cody]

Game'S gonna go on road win three games in.

[Mike Ryan]

Playoffs. Well, they may not have to. They're still alive in that.

[Greg Cody]

Division. Yeah, I mean there it's. The series is tied 1 1. So it'll come down division record right now, both those game back in the division and a game back overall. I understand New England still pretty.

[Mike Ryan]

Much. I understand your point. In theory, like, is Josh Allen going to go through three road games potentially. And as Dan highlighted.

[Dan LeBatard]

No.

[Mike Ryan]

1. Bo Nix doesn't scare anybody. He just showed you what he can do climbing back from a 21 hole at Foxborough. If there's a quarterback equipped that you feel confident in going through these other quarterbacks in the afc, it's certainly Josh.

[Greg Cody]

Allen. If he doesn't win this year, Josh Alle. He's never going to.

[Dan LeBatard]

Win. Well, let's. I Don't want to do always and never. I do want to highlight a couple of things that are aberrations. One of them, the bills six times this season, six that defense has allowed a rusher to have 185 plus yards to the other team has had 185 or more rushing yards. Six times, Josh Allen's four and two in those games. What's happening with Josh Allen is something that, that of the remaining quarterbacks, this can only be said, I believe, of one, not two, not three of the remaining quarterbacks. If you're on defense, you fear him on third and 11 and you fear him on fourth and four. You are desperately want the bills to punt on fourth and anything because he's going to scramble around back there and make plays when he's down 14 to 3 last week in the game and they look beat against the Bengals on 4th and 4. It doesn't matter against him, you are terrified on defense because he's different than any player in the league in terms of how much he can just patchwork his team to be four and two when they stink at stopping the.

[Tony]

Run. And outside of James Cook, like, who's he throwing the ball to, right? It's a couple of tight ends. It's Khalil Shakir, like, they don't really have anybody that's super dominant. It's just Josh Allen willing every single second of the.

[Chris Cody]

Game. He's. He's a different quarterback than anybody else. And when the score yesterday I think at one point was 24 to 3 or 24 to 7 and they showed Mike Vrabel on the sideline just with a huge grin and you could tell his vibe was, we, we have.

[Greg Cody]

This. He looked like, he thought, like, we're the best team.

[Chris Cody]

Now. We have this game. And I said to my wife, has he watched Josh Allen play? Has he watched Josh Allen go to.

[Greg Cody]

Work? He looks really.

[Chris Cody]

Overconfident. He did. And that was not a deficit. That was safe with Josh.

[Greg Cody]

Allen. You see, he got his wife pregnant. Josh Allen, big news over the weekend.

[Stugats]

Too. Congrats to.

[Chris Cody]

Them. Yeah, how about.

[Dan LeBatard]

That? I'm watching the announcers in that game and the Patriots go up seven, nothing. And they start having the MVP.

[Greg Cody]

Conversation. It's not one of the.

[Dan LeBatard]

Mvp. Well, the color man, though, says when they ask him who's the MVP, the color man says, says right now at 7, nothing. Drake Mays, the MVP. And they wanted so badly to make the story that when Henderson, who Saquon Barkley reincarnated in the open field When Henderson is going 75 yards with a touchdown and Drake May is blocking for him. The announcers, I can hear them getting out of their seat to celebrate. Look at the quarterback running down the field, making a block 70 yards down the field. He is the MVP. No, he's not. It's the other.

[Stugats]

Guy. Block is putting it strongly. He just got in the way. He ran down the field and.

[Greg Cody]

Just kind of like stride for.

[Stugats]

Stride. A block though. I mean, putting it.

[Greg Cody]

Strongly. The MVP's in the other conference. Stafford's the.

[Tony]

MVP. Yeah, it's number.

[Stugats]

Nine. We didn't hear that at.

[Dan LeBatard]

All. The reigning MVP is in the other huddle and it has not yet taken been taken away from him. And neither has the division. Drake May had the chance to do that yesterday. And here's the other thing Josh Allen has. And this one, this one's not small, man. The Patriots are down and it's fourth and four and they've got it at their 21 yard line with all their timeouts and more than two minutes in the game. And the announcers are saying the correct thing. You cannot give it back to Josh Allen because the MVPs in the other huddle. You cannot give the football back to Josh Allen because he'll finish you. It's just not something that exists anywhere else. Vrabel coached that game exceptionally well. And at the end, the other quarterback is there and you fear him. And so you go for it on 4th and short at your own 21 yard line and the game's.

[Mike Ryan]

Over. I couldn't believe theater yesterday. Watching the NFL for week 15. You have is this the end for the Chiefs? Questions. You have Buffalo having a Waterloo moment, needing to come back from 21:0 and telling Drake May no, the division isn't yours yet. You're wondering aloud if you're ever going to see Joe Burrow.

[Greg Cody]

Again. Is Trevor Lawrence.

[Mike Ryan]

Good? Miles Garrett is chasing a record for.

[Greg Cody]

Sacks. Week 15 I was locked into Philip Rivers. I watched like that whole game. I really enjoyed watching Philip Rivers.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yesterday. A lot of people did. I do think that something has changed with Jacksonville and it's making Jacoby Myers their number one receiver. It's made them less incompetent at some of the very basic things on offense, that they were just super.

[Greg Cody]

Sloppy. ETN's awesome.

[Dan LeBatard]

Too. He is experts. But I thought that Brian Thomas was a number one receiver and he is not. And soon as they moved him from number one receiver receiver, all of a sudden their offense got a whole lot more.

[Tony]

Consistent. Well, remember during the bye week. Liam Cohen said, all right, we're going to give Travis Hunter the ability to be kind of like our one a guy and BT will be another guy on the other side. And then Travis Hunter gets hurt. Then all of a sudden they have it flux. They trade for Jacoby Myers and their offense has been awesome since.

[Dan LeBatard]

Then. Well, I want to move on. I want to ask all of you this question because we spent a lot of time talking about football around here and any Monday I can come in here and say, hey, who do you guys think which guards play played well yesterday? And nobody would have the answer to.

[Stugats]

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[Dan LeBatard]

Today. Don.

[Stugats]

LeBatard. All right, we gotta go back out there. That was big. Wake em.

[Tony]

Up.

[Dan LeBatard]

Up. Oh, he doesn't want. He doesn't want to be bothered anymore. Now it's getting tense because he didn't need that. As a result, he needs something that.

[Greg Cody]

Happens. You can see.

[Stugats]

Him. Mother.

[Dan LeBatard]

Effing. Can we.

[Stugats]

Bother? Are we bothering you right.

[Dan LeBatard]

Now? Turn on your.

[Chris Cody]

Microphone. My microphone's on.

[Stugats]

St. Paint the.

[Chris Cody]

Scene. The paint the scene is. I got to go to work. Good.

[Dan LeBatard]

Night. This is the D Ler show with the st. I want to submit to you guys based on what you've seen of the Bills defense and statistics. Do you think that for The Bills, yes or no question. Joey Bosa has had a good season. Yes or.

[Chris Cody]

No? No. Not, not a great season. I think he's done.

[Dan LeBatard]

Well. Let me do it another way. Five sacks is what he's got this season. Has he had a good season, yes or.

[Chris Cody]

No? 5 sacks, Joey Bosa at his age, that's a good.

[Mike Ryan]

Season. I mean he made a game saving.

[Dan LeBatard]

Play. Well, this is what I was going to say. He is causing more fumbles than anyone in the league. And to me, if I can have that as an ability, if I could get that from somebody, caused five fumbles, that person has had a good season almost no matter what else they've done. If you can lead the league in caused fumbles, you have had a good season. Just with that. I just don't know that we measure that position very well. We usually do it with sacks. And so just about anybody listening to this, if I say five sacks for Joey Bosa, they'd be like that's one every three games. That's not.

[Chris Cody]

Great. Right. But he was a good add to a defense that needed.

[Dan LeBatard]

Him. Yeah, but they haven't stopped anybody this year. They haven't been good at defense and they haven't been great at pass rush, which I thought they were going to.

[Mike Ryan]

Be. They probably lose that game if he doesn't make that pass deflection. Wide open receiver there. The last line of defense was Joey Bosa's arms and he got him up. And now we're talking about how the Bills wouldn't let the Patriots take.

[Dan LeBatard]

The division, which is exactly what happened in Foxborough yesterday. Those fans spoiled, entitled, earned arrogance. Those fans thought halfway through that game this is us eliminating the Bills as the top of this division. And then the entire stadium is rolling backward. Afraid of Josh Allen at the end because you know what's in the other huddle? What are you smiling about?

[Greg Cody]

Whatever. It's two, two teams that neither one of them win the Super.

[Mike Ryan]

Bowl. Who do you have winning the Super Bowl? Like you're, you're just so.

[Dan LeBatard]

Definitive.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah. In like burying teams that are right now like odds on favorite. So who do you have, I.

[Greg Cody]

Ask you right now, Bills and Patriots to win the super bowl or the field? What are you to going.

[Mike Ryan]

With? I'll take the.

[Greg Cody]

Bills.

[Mike Ryan]

Really? I'll take the Bills field. I'll take the.

[Greg Cody]

Bills. You just lost money and I won.

[Mike Ryan]

Money. I think this is how the story.

[Chris Cody]

Goes. Chargers have a chance. They have a.

[Mike Ryan]

Chance. They're.

[Dan LeBatard]

Odds. I was.

[Mike Ryan]

Chargers. I locked in a Chargers AFC because I Couldn't be. I couldn't believe their odds. They were like north of +1000. I understand like the, the alt injury they're. They're all line is like yeah they're killing Justin Herbert but their defense is good enough that they got a shot in these. I like that as a flyer but. But oh, I think it's, I think the stars are aligning for the Buffalo.

[Chris Cody]

Bills. The Buffalo Bills are going to be much better on defense when they get Ed Oliver back. That's a big huge reason why everybody running the ball against them. When Ed Oliver is healthy again, which should be soon, I think the Bills are appreciably better on.

[Dan LeBatard]

Defense. I'm going to say it again off of that injury yesterday. This is from Bill Barnwell. Including sacks and quarterback knockdowns, Mahomes has been hit 153 times this season. A figure time topped by only Justin Herbert. It brings me to the way that Joe Burrow has been talking recently that a lot of people have heard sort of the sadness in his voice cuz he's getting hit a lot. It hurts to get up in the morning. It hurts to rehab through injury. And I will tell you something else that hurts that I think is being undercovered when it comes to Joe Burrow. Speaking of sadness because Joe Burrow may love football, but I think what he loves more is weight winning. It's winning football that he loves. Losing football is a different thing. And I will tell you that the Cincinnati Bengals, before Joe Burrow got there were a cheap laughing stock organization for decades. A sad place to work, cold, antiseptic. You don't like being at the facility, not just because you're losing, but because the program is cheap. Your owners don't actually care about winning. Joe Burrow going to the facility, losing or winning in a city that's different than that.

[Stugats]

One.

[Dan LeBatard]

Cold. And your. Your premises are cheap. Everything around you feels small. Joe Burrow lifts it. But the Bengals have been something you've laughed at for 40 years cuz they're cheap. And so Joe Burrow walks in and whatever the stuff he's looking at everywhere is bleeding dark and sad. Winning covers a lot, but losing doesn't help you getting up in the morning. If your body hurts and it's physically cold and you're walking to a program that you know is like, oh this place is stinky. They're cheap people here I've lifted them. And then you get yesterday. Do you have the sound of him in the post game press conference yesterday where Joe Burrow the last couple of weeks sounds sad, and it makes me wonder whether he loves football or just winning at.

[Mike Ryan]

Football. We haven't been a good football team. You know, bad football. Bad football teams do losing things. And number one, your quarterback has to play better than I did.

[Dan LeBatard]

Today. Do you feel like there's too much weight on.

[Mike Ryan]

You? Where it feels like if you're not perfect, the team is good enough.

[Dan LeBatard]

Around you to pick you.

[Mike Ryan]

Up? You know, I feel confident in all those guys in the locker room. There's not a team in the NFL that would have won the game today if I was a.

[Dan LeBatard]

Quarterback. Joe Flacco loves football. Philip Rivers loves football. I don't know whether Joe Burrow loves football or just winning at.

[Greg Cody]

Football. You see? Talk about being cheap. The Bengals, yesterday, they didn't clear the snow off the seats. The NFL requires you to clear the snow off the seats before the fans arrive. The Bengals didn't do that. So they're likely going to get fined by the NFL. Can you imagine? You show up to the game, it's however little degrees it is, you have to clear the snow off your seats to watch your team score zero.

[Dan LeBatard]

Points. The Bengals, in my lifetime, are the only football team I have ever covered that I have thought to myself, they have no interest in actually winning. They're here to make money off of the business of it. They are not interested in spending except as much as the league and the rules insist that they.

[Chris Cody]

Must. If I were Joe Burrow and I gave him a lot of credit, because I would love to. The truth, the absolute unvarnished truth from a quarterback in a situation like this. Not that he would ever say it. Joe Burrow should have said, we have the worst defense in the NFL. It's quantifiable. Our defense has given up more points than any other team in football. Tough to play like that. Tough for an offense to go into a game knowing that they might have to score 34 points to.

[Dan LeBatard]

Win. Yeah, but they needed to yesterday. The Ravens needed to score one point to.

[Chris Cody]

Win. Right? That's true. That's.

[Greg Cody]

True. How would you get the one point? That's hard. That's.

[Dan LeBatard]

Hard. It was.

[Tony]

Gonna. Can we just kick an extra point.

[Dan LeBatard]

Guys? It was gonna be hard to stop them from scoring the one point that they would have needed to.

[Chris Cody]

Win. Yes. No, that's. That's fair in that case. But the. The larger point is that the defense.

[Dan LeBatard]

Sucks. But that has nothing to do with yesterday. Yesterday. I know that they've had. They've had more games this year. I Think, Jeremy, look this up for me. They've had a number of games this year where they've scored 30 plus plus points and loss. Joe Burrow has had a number of games, so that would be fair. On another day, not yesterday, though. A quarterback could have won them that game.

[Chris Cody]

Yesterday.

[Dan LeBatard]

Right. They needed a quarterback to not throw a pick six that Van Noy is handing to Gilman.

[Greg Cody]

With. That was.

[Tony]

Awesome. It looked like a baton race where it's like, here, take.

[Dan LeBatard]

It. That was the fact that Van Noy knew that that's. I need to give this to somebody. I got no shot faster than me. I'm not going to make it those 90 yards or a quarterback that.

[Mike Ryan]

Could hit a streaking wide open Jamar Chase. I didn't. I think it's really interesting that after those comments a few days ago, Joe Burrow threw up like his worst.

[Greg Cody]

Game. We all should have known. Like watching that press conference last week. It should have been so obvious to everyone. Oh, they're gonna be really.

[Mike Ryan]

Terrible. Zero points against a defense that has struggled this year. And Joe Burrow doesn't look like himself at all. At.

[Greg Cody]

All. How did it happen, Dan? Like, how did it happen where he returned three weeks ago and he was. He was asked on the sideline by the reporter before the game started why he hurried back and just like, I love football, we get paid a lot of money to play a game I like. You know, football's fun. And then just three weeks later, I don't know if he's gonna play football.

[Dan LeBatard]

Anymore.

[Mike Ryan]

They. These two teams played. The Bengals, moved the ball, they.

[Greg Cody]

Kicked the shit out of.

[Mike Ryan]

Them. Yeah, they look good. And then he says he doesn't know if he's having fun and he's worried about the head injuries and he sounds like he's got this really dark energy and they throw up zero points. I think. I think you could really look into those.

[Sponsor Voice]

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[Greg Cody]

Dan. The handicap seats were covered in snow when the fans got.

[Chris Cody]

There. Come on, is that a big deal? The handicap seats, even the handicap seats, you get a name, you say Ada. Now you get a neighbor to brush off your seat for you. The seats are this big. The seats are this big. You go like this with your hand. Get rid of.

[Stugats]

This. Let me give you Such a Florida guy right.

[Dan LeBatard]

There. Let me give you a better stat here, okay. Over the last two years, okay, the rest of the NFL when scoring 30, 33 points is 136, 10 and 2. So there have been 148 games played and 10 of them have been losses. Cincinnati, when scoring at least 33 points the last two years, four and seven. So seven of those. Seven of those 10 losses are Cincinnati. It's just their defense is.

[Chris Cody]

Terrible. That's my.

[Dan LeBatard]

Point. And he's feeling kind of.

[Chris Cody]

Hopeless.

[Mike Ryan]

Yes. Can't believe how golden didn't fix this. I am.

[Dan LeBatard]

Stunned. It was right so monster Miami Sports Night. According to Zaslow, the Dolphins are playing. Are you going to hate watch that? How does this.

[Greg Cody]

Work? Why would I hate watching.

[Dan LeBatard]

Them? My.

[Greg Cody]

Team? I want. I'm going to watch.

[Dan LeBatard]

It. Because you hate watching.

[Greg Cody]

Tua. Well, I hate watching Tua, that's for sure. But the a chance. Fun to.

[Chris Cody]

Watch. Yeah, he.

[Greg Cody]

Is. Give the ball to a.

[Dan LeBatard]

Chance. Is he.

[Greg Cody]

Healthy? Is he expected to.

[Chris Cody]

Play? Expected to.

[Greg Cody]

Play. Hey, give the ball to Hn. I like watch. I like watching Minka. He's fun to watch. I mean I'm into this team, man. They got a game that matters. Hey, there's some teams out there like the Kansas City Chiefs. They're done. Dolphins aren't done. I'm watching this game tonight. I'm into it. Hopefully by the time a Dolphin game starts, matter of fact, because the game starts at eight. Fifteen Panthers start seven. Hopefully a Panthers maybe we got. We're up like two. Nothing at the stupid lightning by that. So I'm in a great mood. The Heat game will still be like maybe early second quarter. Maybe the Heat got a.

[Dan LeBatard]

Lead. I don't.

[Greg Cody]

Know. I can't predict the future, but hopefully, I mean, can we go 30.

[Dan LeBatard]

Tonight? Roy. Roy the Lightning, have they fixed everything or just in the regular season? They fixed it in the regular season, which is where Cats are rolling right now.

[Mike Ryan]

Roy. Yes. The Panthers are currently hot with that four nothing winning.

[Greg Cody]

Dallas. You know about that. Shut.

[Dan LeBatard]

Out. How can they be hot if they just lost to Colorado 62 in.

[Greg Cody]

Colorado. Kind of a back to back in Denver. Possible.

[Dan LeBatard]

Game. Colorado. Colorado has lost how many times this year?

[Greg Cody]

Two. Two times in regulation. Panthers going to go there second. I have a back to.

[Mike Ryan]

Back.

[Greg Cody]

Please. Panthers won four to five. They just skunk the Dallas Stars. We're cooking with gas right.

[Tony]

Now. How about the Mammoths? Are they.

[Greg Cody]

Good? I mean Panthers didn't care if they're good.

[Dan LeBatard]

Enough. I don't think it's mammoth. It's just the Utah.

[Tony]

Mammoth. Oh man.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay. It's a singular still.

[Mike Ryan]

Learning.

[Dan LeBatard]

Fine. Still learning Singular ass. That was taken not not a bunch of mammoth.

[Tony]

Ass. Only one.

[Dan LeBatard]

Mammoth. A singular mammoth.

[Greg Cody]

Ass. One of them Kachuk is coming.

[Dan LeBatard]

Back soon and tonight the Heat play.

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[Dan LeBatard]

Defensively.

[Greg Cody]

Wow. Still doing vcna.

[Dan LeBatard]

Huh? He found a bit that works. And in the style of this show, we run it right into the ground several several episodes past its expiration date. We continue doing Josh Bell updates. Well, the original ones weren't any better than that. I miss Josh Bell. Josh Bell is worthy of an update locally. That's a good local update as.

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[Greg Cody]

Franchise. God, 30 tonight would be so good. Panthers, Heat, Dolphins. Oh, I'll be on fire.

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Tomorrow. See on the.