The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
Thu, 13 Feb 2025
Nick Wright is here to brag about his Washington Post feature story where he's dressed in a Louis Vuitton jacket even though his Chiefs were blown out in the Super Bowl. Hey, did you guys know getting pressure with four is good for a team's defense? Nick is willing to admit Patrick Mahomes didn't meet the moment in the big game, but did Mahomes choke? Also, after Jessica jokes about things being rigged in Kansas City's favor, Nick hurls insults her way. Then, has the Mahomes vs. Brady debate officially replaced the LeBron vs. Jordan debate? Plus, Dan's experience coaching football as a 14-year-old. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: Why is Nick Wright on the show today?
Tony is angling to be a Nick Wright rival. He says he's trying to incite the Vanquisher to bring him out. Go ahead, Nick. What did you think? I saw you waiting and I saw you getting agitated while we were talking. What are your thoughts? And welcome. Nice seeing you.
You too. Well, you know, I was a little agitated, but only because I couldn't hear the content. So I don't know what you guys were talking about. And you and I, you know, I'm a bad texter, but I assume you brought me on. Talk about that Bronny James step back. Oh, is LeBron such a bad dad now? Oh, kid, young kid got his sea legs under him out here cooking.
We don't want to talk about any other alleged GOATS children on this show. I know that, but my goodness gracious, how are you guys? I don't know what else to do with this basketball season.
I'm sorry for your loss. You've transitioned, huh?
You know, oh, you want to talk about the Super Bowl? I mean, you guys are forward. This is new media. It's Thursday. We're in the 2025 football season. But I suppose we could look back. Dan... I should have known this might happen, and I'm going to show you why. I'm going to reach behind me and hold up the thing I've always wanted my entire life because I'm a child of the 80s.
I respect physical print media. Wow, a newspaper. And days before the Super Bowl. It's been a while. This was in the Washington Post. You see that glorious picture right there? And if my life were a movie, that would have been the culmination of the montage of endless winning.
By the way, I need to tell people who didn't see the blur there that that's a feature story on you, correct? In a Louis Vuitton jacket? That's a feature story on me.
In a Louis Vuitton jacket that I bought from a guy in Copenhagen a year ago to wear to the Chiefs parade about how... Listen, you guys can make fun of me all you want. I am an open book on this show. One of the reasons I come on this show, other than the fact that I love Dan, is I think it makes me more humanized.
Now, do I occasionally imply to the audience I might have a little dispensable income to buy Louis Vuitton jackets from Europe? Or to gamble? Sure. But the audience gets it. I've deserved it. I've worked hard. Back to the story. So I've always wanted that. I've always wanted a newspaper article I can put in my office about me and the Times, the Post, something.
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Chapter 2: Did Patrick Mahomes choke in the Super Bowl?
And the story was, the gist of it was, my career arc and a career theoretically taking off right alongside my hometown Chiefs team took off. It was almost too good to be true. And then it was. And now I have to deal with one of the worst Super Bowl performances of all time, which I can deal with.
But what I am not as prepared to deal with as I shake in preemptive anger is folks that either just started watching football or total morons or just don't care about the truth acting like, well, if a quarterback's that good, does he ever have that bad of a playoff game? And the answer is yes, every single one of them always. So I'm doing okay.
Before you came on, Tony was saying that because of the one-score game and 12-0 that the Chiefs could have easily been 5-12 this year.
Okay, yeah, I mean, listen, that's why Tony's on that side of the room, to not really pepper in those sports tips. I mean, the thing is, like, I like Tony, but I'm just telling you, yes, I agree that if you turned their wins into losses, their record would have been worse. That's all I'm saying.
It's definitely true. But what is the explanation, though, Nick? Because I was saying if you keep playing that game, I think it's going to keep going that way. I don't think Mahomes forgot how to play football. I don't think Andy Reid and Spaggs became stupid. I think Spaggs stopped what the Eagles do best, and I didn't think that anybody could do that.
And what happened after that is just you got mauled the way every team would get mauled if those were the discrepancies on both lines.
So here's the thing though, those discrepancies shouldn't have been that big of an edge. The Eagles in the Super Bowl two years ago had the most sacks of any team in 30 years.
the or since the late 80s i should say uh so more than that the eagles this year were middle of the packing sacks and the chiefs while they had an issue at left tackle and so they slid their guard over to tackle it's not like they were the worst offensive line in football we didn't we went into the 2020 super bowl saying oh man you got four backups on the offensive line that could go poorly and it did so i i credit the eagles players
and game plan and execution but to answer your question it's why it went the way it did is a two-fold reason that we actually oddly have for both of the two reasons I'm about to give you an exact one-to-one corollary for it which was the first reason is a very very simple one that not that smart people will say to try to sound really smart which is you know
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Chapter 3: Is the NFL rigged? Jessica and Nick Wright debate
We can't let them do it again. I mean, it's very obvious what happened there.
Mm-hmm. I'm sorry, you guys didn't have Jessica's mic on. You just had a total doofus talking for a minute there. I mean, the jig is up.
We all know it's rigged, right? Like, that's what happened. Mid-game, they were like, we got to write a new script.
We got to write a new script. So here's the thing on that. Oh, no. And now I'll just bring the mood of the room down. I actually think engaging in any of that is tangibly bad for our business. So I think the reason we all get these awesome jobs and platforms and opportunities is because people credibly believe in the sport.
And the fact that the players, the owner, the commissioner were all asked about this nonsense leading to the Super Bowl, I think was one of the true sour points of this NFL season. And again, the iconic image of this football game is Patrick Mahomes getting two hands dead to the face from Jalen Carter. And it's on NFL.com right now as like, what a play.
And so we all know there's missed calls in the NFL. It's a shame to me that the Dove Kleinmans of the world have created this as a legitimate talking point.
I need to let you go now, but I think you just called. I got five minutes. Did you call Jess bad for business? Did you call? Is that what you just did?
I mean, it's obviously rigged. I've been saying it all season, Dan. This is something I certainly believe in. So thank you, Nick, for really explaining to us why it's not a good thing.
No, so here's the thing, and I don't mean to be harsh here, and I was joking the last time I was on about Jess being added to the rivals list, but maybe I shouldn't have been. I know you're kidding. I know you're like now patronizing me and like trying to act like I missed it. I know you're kidding. It's very rare a conversation goes on.
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Chapter 4: How does Nick Wright handle criticism of his analysis?
No, but, Nick, I'm not talking about the game. I'm saying that to say that Patrick Mahomes choked in this spot was not mentally right for it isn't about this game. It's about your having to be wrong about what you think this team is.
No, and right, and this is where I'm telling you, like, I disagree with your analysis of my analysis. I do not think there is.
That's a great T-shirt. That is a great T-shirt. I disagree with your analysis of my analysis.
Yeah, I mean, I do. And I haven't said the word choked. You keep throwing out jokes.
I mean, that's what you're insinuating. Come on, Nick. You haven't said it because they're your team. The moment's too big for them is saying it. Like, you're just putting it in rose-colored Homerism.
Oh, I reject that as well. The moment got too big for them. That's choking. That is choking. That's the definition. Maybe.
Say it now. Just say it. You'll feel better. You'll feel better.
Just say it.
How is that not the definition? What is the definition of choking?
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