NPDS - The Dolphins have benched Tua! Are the Chicago Bears moving to INDIANA!? The Oscars on YouTube!? (Episode 1393 Hour 1)

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

Sports

4.8 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘convicted’ as in Mike McDaniel as in Tua Tagovailoa as in Quinn Ewers as in Zach Wilson as in those Miami Dolphins. Tua has been benched. The $50 million man. Stephen Ross has decisions to make, and each is so costly it blows my mind! (12:40) NPPOD. (20:00) The Chicago Bears of Indiana? It could happen! That’s what Bears CEO Kevin Warren wants everyone to believe. What happened to the Arlington site? (30:30) The New York Mets have signed another Yankees castaway. This time it’s Luke Weaver. That means all three Yankees closers from the past three seasons are now on the Mets. (39:00) Review: Jackie Brown. (43:00) The Academy Awards are headed to YouTube!? What!? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:39.3	I'm Convicted.
1:08.0	That's the nothing personal word of the day it is Thursday December 18th
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1:21.9	we're going right to the videotape, Warner Wolf,
1:28.5	because there's big news out of Miami.
1:31.3	Tua, Tunga Viloa, is benched.
1:36.9	We talked about yesterday.
1:38.1	I didn't think it was possible.
1:39.2	I didn't think Stephen Ross would actually do it.
1:42.0	Forget Mike McDaniel having the opportunity to do it. I didn't think the owner would approve it,
1:46.0	but no sooner did I underestimate the desperation
1:51.0	of the Dolphins who are already eliminated from the playoffs.
1:54.0	They've got three meaningless games.
1:56.0	It's not like playing spoiler.
1:58.0	Who cares in the NFL?
2:00.0	You're either playing in the postseason or you're not, and these guys are not.
2:05.0	Another year older for Stephen Ross as he heads into 2006.
2:11.4	The amount of dead money associated with Tua because of the four-year,
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