Episode 364 - Is It Saturday Night Yet?

Mitch Unfiltered

Mitch Levy

Football, Sports

5 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

RUNDOWN

Mitch and Hotshot break down the massive Seahawks–49ers matchup, laying out the stark difference between winning the NFC's top seed versus entering the playoffs as a road-bound wild card. They debate San Francisco's battered defense, Seattle's dominant defense, and whether Sam Darnold can rediscover the early-season form that once put him in MVP conversations—especially after scoring just 18 total first-half points over the last four games. Mitch floats a classic emotional hedge: bet the 49ers money-line so a Seahawks win feels priceless and a loss at least comes with consolation cash.

Mitch and Brady Henderson break down Seattle's 27–10 win over Carolina, praising another elite defensive performance while sounding alarms about the offense's habit of slow starts and turnovers, with just 18 first-half points over the last four games. They preview Saturday night's NFC West showdown in Santa Clara, weighing a battered 49ers defense against Brock Purdy's red-hot offense and debating which version of Sam Darnold shows up. The segment closes with Taco Time honors for DeMarcus Lawrence and Zach Charbonnet, as Seattle stands one win away from the NFC's No. 1 seed and a first-round bye.

Rick Neuheisel joins Mitch for a wide-ranging College Football Playoff preview, diagnosing Clemson's 7–6 collapse as the moment NIL and the portal finally "happened" to Dabo Swinney, and reacting with surprise to Kyle Whittingham leaving Utah for Michigan as a potential cleanup hire. Neuheisel breaks down all four CFP games, backing Ohio State to survive Miami, Texas Tech to upset Oregon, Indiana to knock off Alabama, and Ole Miss to take down Georgia. He locks in Ole Miss plus the points as his official pick, staying hot at 8–6 against the spread while handing out Taco Time honors along the way.

GUESTS

Brady Henderson | Seahawks Insider, ESPN
Rick Neuheisel | CBS College Football Analyst, Former Head Coach & Rose Bowl Champion

TABLE OF CONTENTS

0:00 | High-stakes NFC showdown looms as Seahawks chase the No. 1 seed, debate a hedge bet, and wonder where first-half Sam Darnold went.

3:08 | BEAT THE BOYS - Register at MitchUnfiltered.com

24:07 | GUEST: Seahawks No-Table - Brady Henderson; Seahawks dominate Carolina but face the ultimate test: hot Niners offense, shaky starts, and everything on the line in Santa Clara.

44:24 | GUEST: Rick Neuheisel; College football's new reality hits Clemson, Michigan turns to Kyle Whittingham, and Neuheisel makes his CFP picks with Ole Miss as the hill to die on.

Transcript

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0:00.0	unfiltered.
0:02.4	And then, when he knocked him out, it was like, oh my God, a breath of fresh air that
0:08.7	somebody broke this guy's jaw in half.
0:11.3	Watching blood come out of his mouth was a breath of fresh air.
0:14.7	The breath of fresh air.
0:15.8	Bitch is unfiltered.
0:17.6	Technically, we're on Seattle's number one hit music station, Q93, talking about the fucking Fiji's. We're like, our program directors probably driving and going, what the hell are these guys? It almost came to blows. Oh my. Either of us would back off. No. Unfiltered. When it came over the wire that Andy Gibb had died, there was no internet at the time. I broke into a song to make the announcement that Andy Gibb had died,
0:41.1	and that was my last DJ shift in my life.
0:44.0	I was removed from the air after that.
0:46.6	Unfiltered.
1:01.4	Episode 364 of Mitch Unfiltered. Hot Shot, we're going to do a little different show this week. It's an abbreviated edition, a mini New Year's edition, because in months that have five Mondays, like December, we typically take a Monday off or a weekend off.
1:13.8	Yeah.
1:14.1	I thought I might get shot if we didn't do an addition of Mitch Unfilcher this week with a slightly large game on Saturday at 5 p.m.,
1:24.7	which I wish they could play right now.
1:26.7	I'm ready for the 49ers and the Seahawks right now. Why do we have to wait? I know. If we're not going to do a show and talk about this, why are we even doing this FACTA podcast? We'll sit and talk about preseason football, all kinds of horseshit. But yes, on a week like this, we got to be here. We got to talk about this. Because after watching that 49er game, I am so fired up. That just felt like a playoff game. It felt like two pretty darn good teams down to the last play. And I'm like, can't Saturday get here. Let's go. I'm ready. So rather than six segments, which we typically do on Monday shows, we're going to do three. You and I are going to do a few minutes here.
2:03.0	Then I'll have the Seahawks No Table
2:04.7	with Brady Henderson of ESPN.com.
2:06.9	And then I'll have Rick Neuheisel
2:08.8	previewing the four playoff games this week
2:11.6	and talking about the new Michigan head coach
2:14.1	presented by Taco Time Northwest.
2:16.2	And that's it.
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