Nick Wright breaks down what Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs' offense must improve heading into the 2025 NFL season to return to Super Bowl form. Later, Nick explains why Travis Kelce will return to top tight end form following a down season. Later, Nick reacts to Luka Doncic's massive contract extension with the Los Angeles Lakers. Next, Nick breaks down why LA should go all in on LeBron James and Luka right now. Lastly, Nick breaks down why Sean Payton, Bo Nix, and the Denver Broncos are one of the NFL's most overrated teams heading into the 2025 season. #Volume
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the best of the week for What's Right
with Nick Right the best takes in moments from this
week on the show. Enjoy.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
So Mahomes came out and said, I'm going to do
whatever it takes to win, whether that's passing for a
lot of yards or not passing for a lot of yards.
So we've seen Kansas City win in a number of
different ways. How do you think that the offense or
the Chiefs need to look in order to succeed this year?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Listen, I do think there's an element of they need
to get their swagger back and pump the ball down
the field. Now, I think people need to remember how
we got kind of to the point that we got
to with this offense being the way it is. And
(00:45):
I talked about this yesterday on TV, but I think
it's worth revisiting. Three years ago, they're playing the number
one defense in the NFL in the Super Bowl. They
score third thirty eight points without a single play longer
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than twenty five yards and the longest play of the
game is a Mahomes scramble. The very next year they
come back, they're in the Super Bowl, having the offense
having struggled all year long receivers just openly revolting against Patrick.
(01:27):
In the Super Bowl, the biggest drive up to that
point of Mahomes's life eleven play, sixty four yard dank
dunk DNK dunk field goal, and then in overtime one
of the greatest drives in NFL history thirteen play, seventy
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five yard drive where the longest play once again is
a Mahomes scramble, dank dunk, dnk dunk. No big explosives.
Last year offense just eking along and pulling games out
of the fire. So why am I saying when they
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gone Super Bowl win, Super Bowl win, Super Bowl loss,
after being seventeen and one going into the Super Bowl
with Mahomes' starter, Because I think one of the reasons
Patrick started to press early in that Super Bowl demonsay
is because being down fourteen for last year's Chiefs felt
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so different than any of the previous year Chiefs. Down
fourty eighteen three years ago was okay, we can start
playing now. Down ten in every Super Bowl they've ever
played in, take the lead back in a heartbeat, And
so because it was so death by a thousand cuts,
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they felt they needed to. I think Patrick felt like
man we better score, right, because we don't have this
one playability. So I think they need to get that back.
And I think the better offensive line, hopefully healthier receivers,
even though she's now dealing with the growing Hollywood Brown
still out with an ankle, that's not great. That should
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help that. I also saw there's an unbelievable stack courtesy
an unbelievable stack courtesy of Warren Sharp that I would
like to go over for a moment. But so, quarterbacks
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record when trailing entering the fourth quarter over the last
five years. Let me give you the top three from
three to one. Demonse in third place, best record when
trailing entering the fourth last five years. Okay, Jalen hurts
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eight and fourteen, so that's pretty good. I mean it's
third best. That so thirty six percent of the time
the Eagles are trailing going into the fourth, they win
anyway when Jalen starts. Second place, Lamar Jackson seven and
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ten forty one percent of the time, So that's almost
half the time bro that the Ravens are trailing entering
the fourth, they win when Lamar's the quarterback. So third
place is thirty six percent. Jalen second place is forty
one percent. Lamar is again courtesy Warrensharp first place record
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the last five years when trailing entering the fourth quarter.
Patrick Mahomes fourteen and seven sixty seven percent. That means
the Chiefs would be an eleven twelve win team if
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every game they trailed going into the fourth quarter and
the other like CJ. Demonse is one two, three, four,
five six seven, He's eighth on this list, two and
ten twenty percent. Josh Allen is above average three and
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fourteen eighteen percent, Joe Burrow four and twenty three fifteen percent,
Brock Purdy one in ten nine percent. Like, so, I
say that for this reason, it's under standable that the
(06:01):
Chiefs kind of carry themselves like, eh, we'll figure it out.
But it's harder to do that after you've got your
teeth kicked in in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
That is.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
They need to.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
They need to go ahead, Demani, Yeah, and I think
Josh Simmons, the rookie left tackle, and Xavier Worthy's ascension
is going to help that quite a bit. By the way,
late the Madden ratings for this year, Xavier Worthy a
higher rating than Marvin Harrison Junior and Rome A doonsday
(06:46):
to top ten now just barely, but still like that
is the highest rated rookie receivers were neighbors than Brian Thomas,
then Xavier Worthy. So yeah, I do think they need
to bring back, as brew would call it, the light
show a bit, and I'm optimistic that they can. All right,
(07:09):
let's talk a little more cheap before we get some
other stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Andy Reid's been hyping up. You got Travis Kelcey. He's
saying that he's calling him. He's calling him, felt saying
he looks twenty, he's all slender. A year ago, you said,
Travis Kelsey's got about eight more good games in him,
games great games, not good, Sorry, got eight great games
left at him.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Has that number changed since?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Like what would he have now at this time? Well?
So this year? Yeah, so I felt he. I thought
he used a couple last year. Certainly the playoff game
against Houston Texans was peak Travis. And I also thought
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he left a lot out on the field the Christmas
Day game against Pittsburgh that if they knew they won,
they were going to get the long rest that they
all desperately needed. Now, those aren't the only big games
he had all year, but some of the other big
games yet I just thought, were you.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Know, the.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Teams not being able to deal with him, or you know,
the how the game play in philadelph So again, swifties, please,
because I got absolutely crushed for this take last year
because people misunderstood what I was saying. I think when
you are Travis's age at that position, you have to
(08:41):
be very diligent about when you go full throttle, and
I think he knows that he only has so many
full throttle games left now. I think that added chip
(09:06):
on his shoulder for the fact that he didn't play
up to his standard he said last year, and the
way they got their ass kicked in the Super Bowl,
and the fact that he shed some weight, had probably
a better offseason, maybe replenish some of those games that
game count. Yeah, I've got to see him in Week
one to give this a real answer. But I'm going
(09:29):
to go out on a lemon say this. I think
Travis this year will once again be one of the
three most impactful players at his position. I think Travis
and brock Bowers and then maybe Kittle, maybe Laporta, maybe
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Speaker 2 (11:44):
A Seleuca sign is three year, one hundred and sixty
five million extension with the Lakers over the weekend. We've
all been waiting on that. So now that's finally happened,
do you think that it's time for eled to really
press the gas on trying to succeed in the now?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Well, listen, I got it, I said after they didn't
re sign Dorian Finney Smith that I thought there was
a chance I put Lucas signing the extension. Was it
ninety percent? I had it. I dropped it to like
seventy five percent. So I do think this is good, important,
real news. I also think that because he signed the extension,
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they are able to slow walk this a bit if
they want to, because Luca is not going anywhere over
the next three years. And by the way, the next
deal he'll signed Demons will be the league's first million
dollar a game deal super Max.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Yeah, well, was that what he was supposed to? Was
that what he was coming up on in Dallas?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
No, it was No, he could have signed.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
No, the.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
He would have gotten the biggest deal ever in Dallas.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
But it wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
We wouldn't have gotten that threshold yet. But three years
from now his contract will average more than eighty two
million a year, and there's eighty two games. It's a
really remarkable thing. Here is though my general Lakers take that.
No One, even the biggest anti lebron folks, haven't been
(13:14):
able to explain to me where I'm wrong on this.
I think it is overwhelmingly likely that over the lifetime
of this extension, these next three years, Luca never has
a teammate better than Lebron is right now. Now, listen,
(13:37):
maybe they're gonna get Yannis, and I'll be wrong. Maybe
they're you know, they have their eyes on Joker, and
I'll be wrong. But Shay ain't going anywhere, and Tatum's
not going anywhere, and now we're like running out of
people who are better than Lebron right now. Okay, So
(14:02):
I would, if I were the Lakers, prioritize trying to
win right now, because if they think this is their
last year with Lebron, I do not know that Luca
is going to have a better running mate than Lebron
over these next three years. Now, again, if they have
real intel that if they keep the cap sheet clean
(14:26):
in two years, Yannis plans on just coming there in
free agency, then so be it. Then you know what,
if they like then see you know, it's not like
they're drawing dead this season, like they've got a nice roster,
then then keep it flexible. But that's a hell of
(14:46):
a gamble to take, like a hell of a gamble
to take.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Do you are you worried at all that there's like
a riff potentially forming between Luca and Lebron or do
you think that Luca knows that it's.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I don't think yeah, yeah, I don't think it's between
Luca and Lebron at all. Lebron was Luca's all time
favorite player. Luca is the guy Lebron tried to sign
to his shoe line. Luca like, I don't think there
is anything between them at all. I think there is
some obvious frustration for Lebron, fair or not that the
(15:23):
Lakers are not pressing the gas even more on this season. Now,
you can say that's unfair, that they shouldn't whatever, but
that is to me, the entirety of the frustration is
that right there.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Oh yeah, So Baker Mayfield came in into that number fifty
in the NFL Top hundred list. He answers this year
as the eighth best odds for MVP in Tampa Bay
also just drafted Amika Agbuka and they're getting gowing back
from his injury. What are your expectations for Baker this year?
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Expectations already has another really good season. Ceiling is he
is a frontline MVP candidate and they are a true
contender in the NFC, Like, I think that's on the board.
And here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
In order for.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Them to be a contender, he has to be an
MVP candidate because that defense is not going to be great.
They are gonna have to outscore people. But Baker had
forty touchdowns last year. He was a badass, man. Yeah,
I mean he was a badass last year. I'm so
and he right now has I want to make sure
(16:31):
I'm right about this that I didn't miss it yet.
He's on the best non rookie contract in the NFL.
Three years, one hundred million bucks for Baker Mayfield. He
is one more good season away from getting a two
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hundred and fifty million dollar deal. He's been that level
of player and I'm just happy for him, man, because
this shit went so sideways on him.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
His teammates love him. He is true to himself. He's tough.
He is a legit awesome playoff performer. Like this is
the thing that people I think underrate with Baker. He
has played I think five career playoff games. I'm gonna
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tell you what he did in the first playoff game ever.
The Cleveland Browns go into Pittsburgh, hang forty eight on him.
Baker throws for two sixty three touchdowns a one fifteen rating.
Second playoff game ever, his only ever bad playoff game.
He's against the two time defending AFC champion. Uh oh,
(17:49):
I'm sorry. He's against the defending Super Bowl champion Chiefs,
and he's twenty three to thirty seven for two hundred yards,
one touchdown, one pick, seventy five rating. But he's in
arrowhead and round two against the twenty twenty Chiefs, like
no shame in that. He then makes the playoffs with Tampa.
His first playoff game ever against Philly, and again, it's
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so crazy, this is Philly. This game was in January
of twenty twenty four. Yeah, exactly, thirty two to nine,
three touchdowns, no picks, a one to twenty rating. The
next game against Detroit three hundred and fifty yards, three touchdowns,
two picks, a ninety five rating, they lose by eight.
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And in the game against Washington last year, a wild
one where he only throws eighteen times, but he's fifteen
of eighteen for a buck eighty five, two touchdowns and
a one forty seven rating. In his playoff career, he's
got a one zero six rating twelve touchdowns, three picks,
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like he's just been awesome in the big yeah. So yeah,
So I'm a Baker believer through and through. All Right,
let's do these last two real quick.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
James Cook is holding in as he looks for his
contract extension. After a few years a big dollar running
backs paying off. It seemed like the debate was put
to rest, but that conversation opens back up again. Or
do you think Cook is just.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Not that guy? Well? No, I just I think Cook's
really good. But I the Bills have no cap space.
He's under contract for five million bucks. They know they
can franchise tag.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Him for not much. And even if you.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Think he's awesome, do you think he's gonna be awesome
four years from now?
Speaker 2 (19:38):
So like go, I ask me a huge part of
their offense last year, like huge buffalo the.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Last two years, right, I just think they think he's
gonna blink. Bro. I don't think it's that they you
know what I mean? I think that they think we'll
give him a little more money, but not long term,
you know what I mean? Nothing long term and then
or maybe a one year extension. But the report is
he wants you know, I don't know if it's what
he wants. I don't want to get this wrong, but
(20:05):
I saw four years forty million bouncing around, which is
only ten million a year. But I just think they
think at that position, his style, in two years he
could be done and they just it's just such a
tough business for running backs. Man, It's just such a
tough business for running backs.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
So, yeah, the media has been super high on the Broncos.
You have not been so is Sean Payton. He came
out and said, the short term goal is winning the division.
But this is a team capable of winning the super Bowl.
I've coached six teams that I thought could win a
super Bowl. This is my seventh. Yes, should we believe
in this? Is he too high? Too low?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
He also said Bo Nicks in the next two years
is going to be a top four or five quarterback
in the world. He also said he's going to be
a superstar. Also, by the way, check out when you're
subscribing to What's Right with Nick Wright on YouTube, there's
another new channel you can subscribe to on YouTube. Did
(21:07):
you see this? Demanse uh bo Nix's new YouTube channel?
Speaker 4 (21:13):
And my my take that Bo Nicks My take going
into the draft was bo Nicks was Mac Jones.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
For those of you wondering how that has how that
looks so far, well, Mac Jones. In year one with
new the New England.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Patriots made a.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Somewhat fraudulent Pro Bowl as an alternate bon Nicks check.
The team won ten games, kind of surprisingly made the playoffs.
Bon Nicks check. The team played the Buffalo Bills in
Round one, lost by four touchdowns. Bo Nicks check, and
Mac Jones that offseason trademarked Mac ten and all this
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silly stuff because he was a future star. Go follow
Bonnix on YouTube. Here is my problem with the Broncos
hype and discussion. Gosh darn it, you know what I
you know what? I actually think it's value add it
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draws attention exactly right here is here is what I
think people are not recognizing when they are talking about
the Broncos as content. Broncos have an excellent defense and
that matters now. Dre Greenlaw's dealing with a quad already,
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and Hufanga, who I love as a player, has been
injured every year since his rookie season. Those are their
two big additions. The other problem is this last year, demonse.
They ten games. Okay, the first game they won, they
beat Baker Mayfield, salute, that's a real thing. Who's who
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they beat after that? Okay, Aaron Rodgers, who the Jets
then got rid of. They then beat Spencer Rattler, who
is in a quarterback the Saddus quarterback Battle of the year.
They then beat Bryce before Bryce got hot. They then
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beat Kirk Cousins right before they benched him. They then
beat Gardner Minshew who I left that out earlier. They
actually beat Gardner twice. They then beat whoever the hell
was starting for the Browns at the time, Jamis, who
is currently I think a third string quarterback. They then
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beat Anthony Richardson and they then beat Chad Henney. That's
all their wins. Now we are now saying they're contenders.
Well to be contenders, Let's just start with the conference.
How did you do against playoff teams in your conference? Well,
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you played Pittsburgh week two and lost. You played the
Chargers week six and lost. You played the Ravens week
nine and lost. You played the Chiefs week ten and lost.
You played the Chargers week sixteen and lost. You played
the Bengals, who weren't in the playoffs, but that was
a playoff level game that game because they were still
alive Week seventeen and lost. You then played the Bills
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in the actual playoffs and lost thirty one to seven.
Why am I supposed to believe that team all of
a sudden is going to be great? Now? Folks out
there like, oh, Nick, you always just hate on the Broncos.
Last year preseason gambling show our favorite win total of
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the year Broncos over five and a half, even though
I didn't believe in bo Nicks because that number was
too low. They had a last place schedule. Russ, it
was so terrible for him. I'm just calling it as
I see it. And right now, is there any other
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team this year or any year that you can remember
that had the pretty universally accepted worst quarterback in their
own division that we were like, yep, that team look
out for him. Like, let's just look at the other
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teams across the league who have the worst quarterback in
the division. What we think of them? Justin Field's and
the Jets were we afraid of them? Whoever's starting for
the Browns, Lacko, how are they looking? The the Colts
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with Daniel Jones, the Giants with Russ, the Vikings with JJ,
and again that's harsh on him, but he's just young
now maybe Demondic. Maybe it's Caleb. Yeah, I mean the again,
(26:28):
I don't think. I don't think people is even though
Caleb stock is dropping, have JJ ahead of him. In
the South, the Saints with whatever they're dealing with. And
in the West Seattle with Darnold or Arizona. I guess
with like I, I just they just believe in them.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
I am.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
They believe in themselves.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Sean Payton has talked a lot of ship though, and yeah,
and listen, this is a tricky one because Sean Payton,
as great of a coach as he is, he must
be a better hang because the media loves him. So
many of my colleagues at Fox just from the one
(27:19):
year of working with him, they love him. I think
Peter Schrager, my pal, he loves him. And we kind
of give Sean Payton a you know, like he walks
into Denver, does the interview about what a clown show
it was under Nat Hackett, and by week three the
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Dolphins are hanging seventy on him. Last year, after sneaking
into the playoffs and then getting absolutely demolished by Buffalo
has the audacity to say, if we had won this game,
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we really liked our next matchup, which was going to
be against the Chiefs, a Chiefs team that then beat
the Buffalo team that he lost to by one hundred
and now he's like, talking Division isn't big enough for us,
We need to be talking super Bowl when that team
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has not won the division since the last year they
won the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I just now, I think, is what's going on?
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (28:38):
And here's the other thing, Demanse, I am very, very
prepared for a month into the year the Broncos to
maybe be four and ugh and people and people are
firing stuff back at me because their softest part of
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their schedule is the beginning in my opinion, home for
Tennessee at the Colts at the Chargers, which is a
home game home for Cincinnati. But I'm curious how the
rest of that's going to go for them. And we'll see.
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But I am I this is one where I've put
my money where my mouth is. I'm in the process
right now of negotiating a real Broncos bet with Poker
Legend and one of the best sports betters ever, David Baker.
I think I'm going to give him Broncos to win
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the division at plus three twenty. And I think we're
also going to what demands you look fussered by that.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
He wants to bet and give you money for the
Broncos winning the division.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Well, I got to give him plus three twenty. So
you know what I mean, if we bet one thousand bucks,
he can win thirty two hundred. But yeah, he wants
that bet and he but I'll also I think bet
him make miss playoffs and so like maybe I'll be wrong,
(30:22):
but I'm I want this take understood and I want
to see and you know what, maybe I'll maybe I'll
make a third bet with David if we can find
a fair price on this and have it be an
either or and if it's neither, then it's no action.
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Which is the Broncos are so much more likely to
finish last in the AFC West than finish first. They
are like I think the Chargers are a are better
than them. I know the Chiefs are better than them,
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and I think the Raiders, because of schedule, coaching, quarterback,
I think the Raiders can pop. Now the most likely
outcome is the Broncos finished third. I understand that, but
I see no outcome whatsoever where the Broncos finish first.
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And we'll see, we'll see how the future superstar bo
Nicks looks come November. Maybe I'll be wrong. I doubt it, though,
uh and boss Ajs says in the chat show us
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the team and quarterbacks the Chiefs beat, it's not that
impressive last year.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
If we can do that, that's pretty funny.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
I let's see who are the teams in the who
are the quarterbacks the Chiefs beat last year? Lamar, Josh Allen, Cousins, Herbert, Carr, Purty, Minshew, Baker, Nix, Bryce,
Minshew Herbert. I thought, I said Burrow, oh Cleveland, whoever
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was their quarterback? Then CIJ whoever the Steelers quarterback? Oh Ross,
then CJ again, then Josh Allen, So every single quarterback
in football. Though, yeah, they didn't play their guys. They
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said everyone and U and then they got crushed in
the Super Bowl. They beat every So in other words,
they beat every single good quarterback in football except for
Jaden who they never played, Hurts who beat them, and
Stafford who they never played. Good try good effort
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
So Mahomes came out and said, I'm going to do
whatever it takes to win, whether that's passing for a
lot of yards or not passing for a lot of yards.
So we've seen Kansas City win in a number of
different ways. How do you think that the offense or
the Chiefs need to look in order to succeed this year?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Listen, I do think there's an element of they need
to get their swagger back and pump the ball down
the field. Now, I think people need to remember how
we got kind of to the point that we got
to with this offense being the way it is. And
(00:45):
I talked about this yesterday on TV, but I think
it's worth revisiting. Three years ago, they're playing the number
one defense in the NFL in the Super Bowl. They
score third thirty eight points without a single play longer
(01:06):
than twenty five yards and the longest play of the
game is a Mahomes scramble. The very next year they
come back, they're in the Super Bowl, having the offense
having struggled all year long receivers just openly revolting against Patrick.
(01:27):
In the Super Bowl, the biggest drive up to that
point of Mahomes's life eleven play, sixty four yard dank
dunk DNK dunk field goal, and then in overtime one
of the greatest drives in NFL history thirteen play, seventy
(01:49):
five yard drive where the longest play once again is
a Mahomes scramble, dank dunk, dnk dunk. No big explosives.
Last year offense just eking along and pulling games out
of the fire. So why am I saying when they
(02:13):
gone Super Bowl win, Super Bowl win, Super Bowl loss,
after being seventeen and one going into the Super Bowl
with Mahomes' starter, Because I think one of the reasons
Patrick started to press early in that Super Bowl demonsay
is because being down fourteen for last year's Chiefs felt
(02:36):
so different than any of the previous year Chiefs. Down
fourty eighteen three years ago was okay, we can start
playing now. Down ten in every Super Bowl they've ever
played in, take the lead back in a heartbeat, And
so because it was so death by a thousand cuts,
(03:00):
they felt they needed to. I think Patrick felt like
man we better score, right, because we don't have this
one playability. So I think they need to get that back.
And I think the better offensive line, hopefully healthier receivers,
even though she's now dealing with the growing Hollywood Brown
still out with an ankle, that's not great. That should
(03:22):
help that. I also saw there's an unbelievable stack courtesy
an unbelievable stack courtesy of Warren Sharp that I would
like to go over for a moment. But so, quarterbacks
(03:45):
record when trailing entering the fourth quarter over the last
five years. Let me give you the top three from
three to one. Demonse in third place, best record when
trailing entering the fourth last five years. Okay, Jalen hurts
(04:09):
eight and fourteen, so that's pretty good. I mean it's
third best. That so thirty six percent of the time
the Eagles are trailing going into the fourth, they win
anyway when Jalen starts. Second place, Lamar Jackson seven and
(04:30):
ten forty one percent of the time, So that's almost
half the time bro that the Ravens are trailing entering
the fourth, they win when Lamar's the quarterback. So third
place is thirty six percent. Jalen second place is forty
one percent. Lamar is again courtesy Warrensharp first place record
(04:55):
the last five years when trailing entering the fourth quarter.
Patrick Mahomes fourteen and seven sixty seven percent. That means
the Chiefs would be an eleven twelve win team if
(05:15):
every game they trailed going into the fourth quarter and
the other like CJ. Demonse is one two, three, four,
five six seven, He's eighth on this list, two and
ten twenty percent. Josh Allen is above average three and
(05:37):
fourteen eighteen percent, Joe Burrow four and twenty three fifteen percent,
Brock Purdy one in ten nine percent. Like, so, I
say that for this reason, it's under standable that the
(06:01):
Chiefs kind of carry themselves like, eh, we'll figure it out.
But it's harder to do that after you've got your
teeth kicked in in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
That is.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
They need to.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
They need to go ahead, Demani, Yeah, and I think
Josh Simmons, the rookie left tackle, and Xavier Worthy's ascension
is going to help that quite a bit. By the way,
late the Madden ratings for this year, Xavier Worthy a
higher rating than Marvin Harrison Junior and Rome A doonsday
(06:46):
to top ten now just barely, but still like that
is the highest rated rookie receivers were neighbors than Brian Thomas,
then Xavier Worthy. So yeah, I do think they need
to bring back, as brew would call it, the light
show a bit, and I'm optimistic that they can. All right,
(07:09):
let's talk a little more cheap before we get some
other stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Andy Reid's been hyping up. You got Travis Kelcey. He's
saying that he's calling him. He's calling him, felt saying
he looks twenty, he's all slender. A year ago, you said,
Travis Kelsey's got about eight more good games in him,
games great games, not good, Sorry, got eight great games
left at him.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Has that number changed since?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Like what would he have now at this time? Well?
So this year? Yeah, so I felt he. I thought
he used a couple last year. Certainly the playoff game
against Houston Texans was peak Travis. And I also thought
(07:57):
he left a lot out on the field the Christmas
Day game against Pittsburgh that if they knew they won,
they were going to get the long rest that they
all desperately needed. Now, those aren't the only big games
he had all year, but some of the other big
games yet I just thought, were you.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Know, the.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Teams not being able to deal with him, or you know,
the how the game play in philadelph So again, swifties, please,
because I got absolutely crushed for this take last year
because people misunderstood what I was saying. I think when
you are Travis's age at that position, you have to
(08:41):
be very diligent about when you go full throttle, and
I think he knows that he only has so many
full throttle games left now. I think that added chip
(09:06):
on his shoulder for the fact that he didn't play
up to his standard he said last year, and the
way they got their ass kicked in the Super Bowl,
and the fact that he shed some weight, had probably
a better offseason, maybe replenish some of those games that
game count. Yeah, I've got to see him in Week
one to give this a real answer. But I'm going
(09:29):
to go out on a lemon say this. I think
Travis this year will once again be one of the
three most impactful players at his position. I think Travis
and brock Bowers and then maybe Kittle, maybe Laporta, maybe
(09:52):
the kid in Arizona or the other candidates. But I
think Travis and brock Bauers are going to be up
there at and I'm Travis is especially because teams are
gonna have to respect the deep ball more this year.
He's gonna have a lot more room to work with
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A Seleuca sign is three year, one hundred and sixty
five million extension with the Lakers over the weekend. We've
all been waiting on that. So now that's finally happened,
do you think that it's time for eled to really
press the gas on trying to succeed in the now?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Well, listen, I got it, I said after they didn't
re sign Dorian Finney Smith that I thought there was
a chance I put Lucas signing the extension. Was it
ninety percent? I had it. I dropped it to like
seventy five percent. So I do think this is good, important,
real news. I also think that because he signed the extension,
(12:21):
they are able to slow walk this a bit if
they want to, because Luca is not going anywhere over
the next three years. And by the way, the next
deal he'll signed Demons will be the league's first million
dollar a game deal super Max.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Yeah, well, was that what he was supposed to? Was
that what he was coming up on in Dallas?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
No, it was No, he could have signed.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
No, the.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
He would have gotten the biggest deal ever in Dallas.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
But it wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
We wouldn't have gotten that threshold yet. But three years
from now his contract will average more than eighty two
million a year, and there's eighty two games. It's a
really remarkable thing. Here is though my general Lakers take that.
No One, even the biggest anti lebron folks, haven't been
(13:14):
able to explain to me where I'm wrong on this.
I think it is overwhelmingly likely that over the lifetime
of this extension, these next three years, Luca never has
a teammate better than Lebron is right now. Now, listen,
(13:37):
maybe they're gonna get Yannis, and I'll be wrong. Maybe
they're you know, they have their eyes on Joker, and
I'll be wrong. But Shay ain't going anywhere, and Tatum's
not going anywhere, and now we're like running out of
people who are better than Lebron right now. Okay, So
(14:02):
I would, if I were the Lakers, prioritize trying to
win right now, because if they think this is their
last year with Lebron, I do not know that Luca
is going to have a better running mate than Lebron
over these next three years. Now, again, if they have
real intel that if they keep the cap sheet clean
(14:26):
in two years, Yannis plans on just coming there in
free agency, then so be it. Then you know what,
if they like then see you know, it's not like
they're drawing dead this season, like they've got a nice roster,
then then keep it flexible. But that's a hell of
(14:46):
a gamble to take, like a hell of a gamble
to take.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Do you are you worried at all that there's like
a riff potentially forming between Luca and Lebron or do
you think that Luca knows that it's.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I don't think yeah, yeah, I don't think it's between
Luca and Lebron at all. Lebron was Luca's all time
favorite player. Luca is the guy Lebron tried to sign
to his shoe line. Luca like, I don't think there
is anything between them at all. I think there is
some obvious frustration for Lebron, fair or not that the
(15:23):
Lakers are not pressing the gas even more on this season. Now,
you can say that's unfair, that they shouldn't whatever, but
that is to me, the entirety of the frustration is
that right there.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Oh yeah, So Baker Mayfield came in into that number fifty
in the NFL Top hundred list. He answers this year
as the eighth best odds for MVP in Tampa Bay
also just drafted Amika Agbuka and they're getting gowing back
from his injury. What are your expectations for Baker this year?
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Expectations already has another really good season. Ceiling is he
is a frontline MVP candidate and they are a true
contender in the NFC, Like, I think that's on the board.
And here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
In order for.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Them to be a contender, he has to be an
MVP candidate because that defense is not going to be great.
They are gonna have to outscore people. But Baker had
forty touchdowns last year. He was a badass, man. Yeah,
I mean he was a badass last year. I'm so
and he right now has I want to make sure
(16:31):
I'm right about this that I didn't miss it yet.
He's on the best non rookie contract in the NFL.
Three years, one hundred million bucks for Baker Mayfield. He
is one more good season away from getting a two
(16:52):
hundred and fifty million dollar deal. He's been that level
of player and I'm just happy for him, man, because
this shit went so sideways on him.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
His teammates love him. He is true to himself. He's tough.
He is a legit awesome playoff performer. Like this is
the thing that people I think underrate with Baker. He
has played I think five career playoff games. I'm gonna
(17:25):
tell you what he did in the first playoff game ever.
The Cleveland Browns go into Pittsburgh, hang forty eight on him.
Baker throws for two sixty three touchdowns a one fifteen rating.
Second playoff game ever, his only ever bad playoff game.
He's against the two time defending AFC champion. Uh oh,
(17:49):
I'm sorry. He's against the defending Super Bowl champion Chiefs,
and he's twenty three to thirty seven for two hundred yards,
one touchdown, one pick, seventy five rating. But he's in
arrowhead and round two against the twenty twenty Chiefs, like
no shame in that. He then makes the playoffs with Tampa.
His first playoff game ever against Philly, and again, it's
(18:12):
so crazy, this is Philly. This game was in January
of twenty twenty four. Yeah, exactly, thirty two to nine,
three touchdowns, no picks, a one to twenty rating. The
next game against Detroit three hundred and fifty yards, three touchdowns,
two picks, a ninety five rating, they lose by eight.
(18:34):
And in the game against Washington last year, a wild
one where he only throws eighteen times, but he's fifteen
of eighteen for a buck eighty five, two touchdowns and
a one forty seven rating. In his playoff career, he's
got a one zero six rating twelve touchdowns, three picks,
(18:55):
like he's just been awesome in the big yeah. So yeah,
So I'm a Baker believer through and through. All Right,
let's do these last two real quick.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
James Cook is holding in as he looks for his
contract extension. After a few years a big dollar running
backs paying off. It seemed like the debate was put
to rest, but that conversation opens back up again. Or
do you think Cook is just.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Not that guy? Well? No, I just I think Cook's
really good. But I the Bills have no cap space.
He's under contract for five million bucks. They know they
can franchise tag.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Him for not much. And even if you.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Think he's awesome, do you think he's gonna be awesome
four years from now?
Speaker 2 (19:38):
So like go, I ask me a huge part of
their offense last year, like huge buffalo the.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Last two years, right, I just think they think he's
gonna blink. Bro. I don't think it's that they you
know what I mean? I think that they think we'll
give him a little more money, but not long term,
you know what I mean? Nothing long term and then
or maybe a one year extension. But the report is
he wants you know, I don't know if it's what
he wants. I don't want to get this wrong, but
(20:05):
I saw four years forty million bouncing around, which is
only ten million a year. But I just think they
think at that position, his style, in two years he
could be done and they just it's just such a
tough business for running backs. Man, It's just such a
tough business for running backs.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
So, yeah, the media has been super high on the Broncos.
You have not been so is Sean Payton. He came
out and said, the short term goal is winning the division.
But this is a team capable of winning the super Bowl.
I've coached six teams that I thought could win a
super Bowl. This is my seventh. Yes, should we believe
in this? Is he too high? Too low?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
He also said Bo Nicks in the next two years
is going to be a top four or five quarterback
in the world. He also said he's going to be
a superstar. Also, by the way, check out when you're
subscribing to What's Right with Nick Wright on YouTube, there's
another new channel you can subscribe to on YouTube. Did
(21:07):
you see this? Demanse uh bo Nix's new YouTube channel?
Speaker 4 (21:13):
And my my take that Bo Nicks My take going
into the draft was bo Nicks was Mac Jones.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
For those of you wondering how that has how that
looks so far, well, Mac Jones. In year one with
new the New England.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Patriots made a.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Somewhat fraudulent Pro Bowl as an alternate bon Nicks check.
The team won ten games, kind of surprisingly made the playoffs.
Bon Nicks check. The team played the Buffalo Bills in
Round one, lost by four touchdowns. Bo Nicks check, and
Mac Jones that offseason trademarked Mac ten and all this
(22:02):
silly stuff because he was a future star. Go follow
Bonnix on YouTube. Here is my problem with the Broncos
hype and discussion. Gosh darn it, you know what I
you know what? I actually think it's value add it
(22:23):
draws attention exactly right here is here is what I
think people are not recognizing when they are talking about
the Broncos as content. Broncos have an excellent defense and
that matters now. Dre Greenlaw's dealing with a quad already,
(22:45):
and Hufanga, who I love as a player, has been
injured every year since his rookie season. Those are their
two big additions. The other problem is this last year, demonse.
They ten games. Okay, the first game they won, they
beat Baker Mayfield, salute, that's a real thing. Who's who
(23:10):
they beat after that? Okay, Aaron Rodgers, who the Jets
then got rid of. They then beat Spencer Rattler, who
is in a quarterback the Saddus quarterback Battle of the year.
They then beat Bryce before Bryce got hot. They then
(23:33):
beat Kirk Cousins right before they benched him. They then
beat Gardner Minshew who I left that out earlier. They
actually beat Gardner twice. They then beat whoever the hell
was starting for the Browns at the time, Jamis, who
is currently I think a third string quarterback. They then
(23:55):
beat Anthony Richardson and they then beat Chad Henney. That's
all their wins. Now we are now saying they're contenders.
Well to be contenders, Let's just start with the conference.
How did you do against playoff teams in your conference? Well,
(24:17):
you played Pittsburgh week two and lost. You played the
Chargers week six and lost. You played the Ravens week
nine and lost. You played the Chiefs week ten and lost.
You played the Chargers week sixteen and lost. You played
the Bengals, who weren't in the playoffs, but that was
a playoff level game that game because they were still
alive Week seventeen and lost. You then played the Bills
(24:38):
in the actual playoffs and lost thirty one to seven.
Why am I supposed to believe that team all of
a sudden is going to be great? Now? Folks out
there like, oh, Nick, you always just hate on the Broncos.
Last year preseason gambling show our favorite win total of
(25:02):
the year Broncos over five and a half, even though
I didn't believe in bo Nicks because that number was
too low. They had a last place schedule. Russ, it
was so terrible for him. I'm just calling it as
I see it. And right now, is there any other
(25:23):
team this year or any year that you can remember
that had the pretty universally accepted worst quarterback in their
own division that we were like, yep, that team look
out for him. Like, let's just look at the other
(25:44):
teams across the league who have the worst quarterback in
the division. What we think of them? Justin Field's and
the Jets were we afraid of them? Whoever's starting for
the Browns, Lacko, how are they looking? The the Colts
(26:06):
with Daniel Jones, the Giants with Russ, the Vikings with JJ,
and again that's harsh on him, but he's just young
now maybe Demondic. Maybe it's Caleb. Yeah, I mean the again,
(26:28):
I don't think. I don't think people is even though
Caleb stock is dropping, have JJ ahead of him. In
the South, the Saints with whatever they're dealing with. And
in the West Seattle with Darnold or Arizona. I guess
with like I, I just they just believe in them.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
I am.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
They believe in themselves.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Sean Payton has talked a lot of ship though, and yeah,
and listen, this is a tricky one because Sean Payton,
as great of a coach as he is, he must
be a better hang because the media loves him. So
many of my colleagues at Fox just from the one
(27:19):
year of working with him, they love him. I think
Peter Schrager, my pal, he loves him. And we kind
of give Sean Payton a you know, like he walks
into Denver, does the interview about what a clown show
it was under Nat Hackett, and by week three the
(27:41):
Dolphins are hanging seventy on him. Last year, after sneaking
into the playoffs and then getting absolutely demolished by Buffalo
has the audacity to say, if we had won this game,
(28:03):
we really liked our next matchup, which was going to
be against the Chiefs, a Chiefs team that then beat
the Buffalo team that he lost to by one hundred
and now he's like, talking Division isn't big enough for us,
We need to be talking super Bowl when that team
(28:24):
has not won the division since the last year they
won the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I just now, I think, is what's going on?
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (28:38):
And here's the other thing, Demanse, I am very, very
prepared for a month into the year the Broncos to
maybe be four and ugh and people and people are
firing stuff back at me because their softest part of
(29:03):
their schedule is the beginning in my opinion, home for
Tennessee at the Colts at the Chargers, which is a
home game home for Cincinnati. But I'm curious how the
rest of that's going to go for them. And we'll see.
(29:24):
But I am I this is one where I've put
my money where my mouth is. I'm in the process
right now of negotiating a real Broncos bet with Poker
Legend and one of the best sports betters ever, David Baker.
I think I'm going to give him Broncos to win
(29:47):
the division at plus three twenty. And I think we're
also going to what demands you look fussered by that.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
He wants to bet and give you money for the
Broncos winning the division.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Well, I got to give him plus three twenty. So
you know what I mean, if we bet one thousand bucks,
he can win thirty two hundred. But yeah, he wants
that bet and he but I'll also I think bet
him make miss playoffs and so like maybe I'll be wrong,
(30:22):
but I'm I want this take understood and I want
to see and you know what, maybe I'll maybe I'll
make a third bet with David if we can find
a fair price on this and have it be an
either or and if it's neither, then it's no action.
(30:46):
Which is the Broncos are so much more likely to
finish last in the AFC West than finish first. They
are like I think the Chargers are a are better
than them. I know the Chiefs are better than them,
(31:07):
and I think the Raiders, because of schedule, coaching, quarterback,
I think the Raiders can pop. Now the most likely
outcome is the Broncos finished third. I understand that, but
I see no outcome whatsoever where the Broncos finish first.
(31:29):
And we'll see, we'll see how the future superstar bo
Nicks looks come November. Maybe I'll be wrong. I doubt it, though,
uh and boss Ajs says in the chat show us
(31:50):
the team and quarterbacks the Chiefs beat, it's not that
impressive last year.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
If we can do that, that's pretty funny.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
I let's see who are the teams in the who
are the quarterbacks the Chiefs beat last year? Lamar, Josh Allen, Cousins, Herbert, Carr, Purty, Minshew, Baker, Nix, Bryce,
Minshew Herbert. I thought, I said Burrow, oh Cleveland, whoever
(32:26):
was their quarterback? Then CIJ whoever the Steelers quarterback? Oh Ross,
then CJ again, then Josh Allen, So every single quarterback
in football. Though, yeah, they didn't play their guys. They
(32:46):
said everyone and U and then they got crushed in
the Super Bowl. They beat every So in other words,
they beat every single good quarterback in football except for
Jaden who they never played, Hurts who beat them, and
Stafford who they never played. Good try good effort
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