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NPDS - Super Bowl LX preview! What am I watching!? Framber Valdez to the Tigers!? What about Skubal! (Episode 1410 Hour 1)

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

Sports

4.98.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘carrots’ as in Bad Bunny as in Super Bowl as in Seahawks as in Patriots as in Santa Clara! The Super Bowl is here! Can Sam Darnold lead the Seahawks to a Super Bowl victory? Is Drake Maye going to become the youngest QB to ever win a Super Bowl? Is Mike Vrabel going to go from Patriots player winning a title to a Patriots head coach winning a title? Are people going to tune out of Bad Bunny’s halftime show? So many storylines! (12:28) NPPOD. (19:03) The Detroit Tigers went to arbitration with Tarik Skubal. The Detroit Tigers signed Framber Valdez to a $115 million deal on the same day. Coincidence? Let me explain! (35:40) Review: People We Meet on Vacation. (38:35) Anthony Davis has been traded by the Mavericks. He played just 29 games for the franchise. What a trade for Luka Doncic. (46:05) Let’s give another update on the WNBA. Any deal? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The Carrots. That's the nothing personal word of the day for February 5th,

0:43.6

2020. Last show before Super Bowl Sunday. We'll be back Monday, of course, to talk about

0:50.1

everything that happened over the course of the weekend. If you didn't understand why

0:55.7

carrots is the nothing personal word of the day, then you are not paying attention to what

1:00.3

has become one of the top three stories going into Super Bowl weekend. And I love the NFL for doing

1:10.3

this. Because for whatever reason, the Seahawks and the

1:13.3

patriots I don't know why people have patriot fatigue or leftover dynastic patriot hatred

1:21.2

it's been enough years since they won like I don't know five six seven eight years it's won, like, I don't know, five, six, seven, eight years.

1:30.6

It's like an eternity.

1:33.5

So it should be exciting.

1:34.8

Drake May, a young second year MVP candidate quarterback, but that's not enough to get the

1:42.1

interest going.

1:43.1

The Seahawks are sexy, great defense,

1:46.7

great receiver, running back, a Jets quarterback, but no. There has been very little in the way

1:56.3

of excitement, and they're already saying, oh, Santa Clara is not a good place for a Super Bowl where

2:02.3

the Niners play because all the events are spread out between San Francisco and Santa Clara.

2:09.2

Give me a small break. It's like saying the Olympics have to be in one place inside a city.

2:16.6

You see what, in Paris, they're everywhere,

2:18.3

outside of Paris.

2:20.3

Anyway, so that's not even a big deal,

2:23.3

but people focused on that.

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