Patrick Mahomes is Unstoppable, Dave's Mom Has a Mike Ditka Story, Film Nerd Showdown with Marc Sessler, Points Per Game with Geoff Schwartz

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Meadowlark Media

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4.7 • 32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

It’s episode 18, so naturally, the Football Americans pay tribute to the NFL’s greatest to ever wear the number—plus, Shek’s mom pops in with a birthday story for her childhood neighbor, Mike Ditka (yes, really).‘Heed the Call’s’ Marc Sessler stops by for a film-nerd showdown on Tarantino vs. P.T. Anderson before everyone dives headfirst into the week’s Jerk List.The questions are unending… Where’s the defense in Buffalo and Pittsburgh? Is KC fated for another Super Bowl run? Is Christian McCaffrey the 49ers’ Jenga piece holding it all together? Should the NFL outlaw on-field jersey swaps? Then, Geoff Schwartz joins for Points Per Game to answer life’s great mysteries: Why does college football only have half a white stripe? What’s going on with the Jets? How far can Drake Maye take the Patriots? The Colts are good. The Raiders are bad. Everything’s right (and wrong) in the football universe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Few weeks ago here on Football America, we asked if we're watching right now the goats in the four major sports.
0:05.6	Last Friday, right after we wrapped up, episode number 17, in which we debated which number 17 is ultimately better.
0:12.0	Josh Allen or Phil Rivers, number 17, showy Atani, number 17, had maybe the greatest postseason game in baseball history.
0:19.6	It's a football show, but we do like the
0:21.5	other sports as well. And so we honor the greatest MLB of all time. It is clearly Otani now.
0:27.0	And we may also be guilty of turning our nose up or getting distracted by other pro football
0:31.9	players. We are looking at arguably the greatest quarterback, at least, in pro football history. I hesitate to say
0:39.0	Mahomes is the best football player ever. I don't know. Mahomes v. say like Lawrence Taylor is
0:44.9	on par with comparing Patrick Wai and Mario Lemieux. They're both French Canadians who know how to
0:50.4	skate, but that's about the extent of it. Anywho, best ever in football,
1:11.1	goats. Even if you don't think Mahomes is the greatest QB ever, we can now all agree he's still good, and that's bad news for the rest of the AFC. Is this really going to happen all over again with the Chiefs? All of a sudden, as much as we've tried talking ourselves out of KC, they look like the conference's best team.
1:11.1	Hate to go back to Mahomes and Stanos, but he does feel an effort. As much as we've tried talking ourselves out of KC, they look like the conference's best team.
1:15.1	Hate to go back to Mahomes and Stano's, but he does feel inevitable.
1:20.6	And just imagine if Mahomes and his pals do get back to the Super Bowl, that it'd be four in a row.
1:24.1	And unlike the bills in the 90s, they've actually won some of those games.
1:26.2	So get ready, everybody.
1:29.3	We can get distracted by Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen,
1:34.2	but number 17, Josh Allen better steal himself deep down in places he doesn't like talking about.
1:38.4	He knows Patrick Mahomes is inevitable. Let's start the show.
1:48.5	Hi and hello, my fellow football Americans.
1:51.4	Welcome to episode 18 of Football America.
1:56.4	We have much to talk about reacting to NFL week seven, maybe some college football too,
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