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Nick Wright
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Damon Amendolara
Yeah, so the Bears came. They came out looking pretty good. Caleb had that nice drive in the beginning of the game. Seemed like they were controlling it. Yeah, even JJ McCarthy threw a pick six, but they still turned it around and won. So obviously Caleb Williams lost last night. What was your biggest takeaway from this game?
- [02:52]
Nick Wright
All right, I'm officially a little concerned about Caleb. I was not at any point Last year. But the sequence of the last 96 hours where I listen I I'm a subscriber. I was already a subscriber to Tyler Dunn substack. It's like 50 bucks for the whole year. Support real journalism. He he is the guy if people are like I oh let me It's Go Long TD. Let me see if you go to Golong TD.com if that takes you there. I actually don't know the answer that no. So hold on, let me see what the actual so oh no, it does. Oh maybe yeah golong td.com but it's on substack. He is the guy who broke the story a year ago De Monz that Sean McDermott tried to rally the troops by being like the 911 hijackers thing. He has real sources, he is a real journalist, he's totally independent. So I was already a subscriber of his. He has released a three part book on Caleb's first year with the Bears. It ain't great and it is to me highly concerning. It also discusses it's a the person who comes out looking the worst is Ryan Poles, the gm. Caleb doesn't look great though in it either. And it talks about a shaky work ethic, not necessarily galvanizing leadership. And then a shocking statement from some of his sources that there is a belief within the front office that was kept from the coaching staff that Caleb might have the learning disability dyslexia, which there is obviously no shame in that at all. However, one of the ways dyslexia can manifest itself obviously is you transpose words or letters and that one of the reasons they postulate he might have trouble translating the play call from his headset to his wristband and getting it in, getting plays in on time is a confusion about what he's reading. And that is not something that is, you know, you can't overcome but it is something that has to be accounted for. And the reporting is that the front office kept it from his coaches last year. Now obviously Ben Johnson, one would think has all this information and if you watched last night you saw most notably that play on the sideline when Caleb spun out of trouble, went to the sideline and then ripped an absolute laser to I don't know if it was DJ Moore or Rome, I'm not sure Rome, why the talent demons A is undeniable and hypnotizing it just is like and you saw that obviously throughout his remarkable collegiate career but his right now deficit on the pre snap parts of being an NFL quarterback To me are going to slow his development. And you saw that left and right last night that getting plays in was still a problem. Motioning guys when there's a few seconds on the shot, on the shot clock, on the game clock or play clock was still a problem. Like some things that he really needs to be at this point, in my opinion better at those things have become at one game and have not improved.
- [07:21]
Damon Amendolara
And you don't think his decision making at all improved a little bit from last year.
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Nick Wright
So I do think his decision making improved. I'm talking about the pre snap operation. I'm talking about getting the team out of the huddle, conveying the play call in time, doing the things necessary to prevent these 5 yard pre snap penalties. That was brutal. The whole night just was. And while his decision making I thought was better and he was quicker getting the ball out, his accuracy was shaky.
- [08:00]
Damon Amendolara
Yeah, he's putting a lot.
- [08:01]
Nick Wright
He missed putting a lot on him. Putting a lot on a lot on the ball and also just missing. There were a couple spots he missed guys wide open. And so if I am being fair, which I have to be, I, I still believe in Caleb Williams. I am less certain that superstardom is in his future. And.
- [08:40]
Damon Amendolara
Wow.
- [08:41]
Nick Wright
I think that is for me as a guy who said he would come into the league as a top 10 quarterback. Tough pill to swallow, trust me.
- [08:54]
Damon Amendolara
But you don't think it might be a little, a little early with it being game one? Like if they were to go and put it on the Lions, would that change stuff immediately?
- [09:06]
Nick Wright
Maybe I'm going to look back on this and say I was, you know, 10 hours after the game. It was reactionary. But I am like I am. I understand most of the audience has not read the Tyler Dunn story and again his substack is golong td.com I, I highly encourage people. It's. It's worth the six bucks a month. It's less than that. Four bucks a month. It's worth it just to read this story. To be totally honest with you, it that story shook my faith in a real way. And then this game, you of course, Listen, he started 10 of 10. It started great. It ended so poorly. And listen, he's not the only culprit in this. Which brings us to Ben Johnson where there were. I didn't like Ben Johnson's decision early to not kick the field goal. I just think you don't have the Lions team from last year. You're also playing a team that is going to be hard to accumulate points on as Evidenced by the fact your offense, you know, struggled to score points throughout the night. I know they finished with 24. One touchdown came with two minutes left and another one was a pick six. But JJ at that, you know what I mean there was reason to believe JJ would struggle early and he did. But the bigger problem is, and evidently Peyton Manning peeped this on the Manning cast because of course he did. I was surprised Joe and Troy didn't. But this is going to, this is a coaching note. That is simply it. Listen, nobody's in the Brian Callahan category. More on him later. But this was a mistake by Ben. So here's situation. He understood we've got to score before the two minute warning. Caleb almost ran it in before the two minute warning and at 204 or 205 they end up ruling him, you know, out of bounds at the 6 inch line. They then do a quick pass score. They score it 2:02. They have one timeout with the two minute warning and one timeout. If you force a three and out, you're going to get the ball back with about a minute left, down three points and be alive. Without the two minute warning and one timeout you're going to get the ball back with about 20 seconds left and be dead. It's that simple. The two minute warning must be retained in part because I think Ben challenged a play because he didn't understand the rule. Now that's a tricky rule because let. So let me back up to it. The rule is if someone is knee is on the ground and you touch them, they're down immediately. What Ben saw or his guy in the booth saw is oh, we didn't touch the player with who was down. We punched the ball and we punched the ball so cleanly it did not. We never touched the player until the ball was loose. So is that a fumble? And so he challenged it and the answer is no. It's not even just touching the ball. When a player is down on the ground, he's down. So that's like a nuance of the rule. Head coach needs to know that. So like that was. So that's why they only had one timeout instead of two. But now we get to 202 left and Cairo Santos who missed a field goal earlier and is not known for the strongest of legs, Damon Ben Johnson tells him kick it out of the back of the end zone to retain the two minute warning. Kevin OConnell tells his guy, if you can return it, return it. Don't worry about the yardage. Just return it to burn these two seconds. Sidebar no one's ever done this, but I would encourage it. The actual sharpest play there for that returner if he only has to burn two seconds is to catch it and run sideways staying in the end zone to burn as much time as possible and then just step out the back of the end zone for a touchback or kneel it for a touchback. Then you still get the 35 yard line. You don't risk a fumble, you burn more time because the guys have to get to you. But again that is PhD level coaching of which you know, not everyone is is is here yet. That's fine. Kevin OConnell did a great job with it. But here is the nuanced part that that matters in particular with the new touchback rules to mon the new touchback rule is if you kneel it in the end zone, if you kick it into the end zone and they kneel it, they get it on the 35. They did not change the fact that if you kick it out of bounds you get it at the 40. So if the all if the the single most important thing to your team is that they not be able to return this kick and you don't have a cannon legged kicker who can kick it out the back of the end zone on command, then you don't ask him to kick it out the back of the end zone which he might not be able to do. You ask him fire that thing 45 degree angle right out of bounds which everyone can do. You give up five yards, who cares? You guarantee. So instead of the 35 it's the 40. That doesn't matter. What matters is now that next play happens at 202 there's nothing they can do about it. That was a mistake by Ben Johnson. I saw it in real time people. Peyton Manning on the Manning cast evidently saw it in real time and I and I thought that that was a mistake. So listen, I thought, I don't think that was like an awful first game by Ben Johnson. But the bad challenge and the trusting that Cairo Santos can just boom it out the back of the end zone were very costly mistakes.
- [16:22]
Damon Amendolara
So were you giving him as a grade in his first game?
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Nick Wright
Blew a big lead. Offense didn't really get going after the opening script. Those mistakes C plus C plus C plus giving him a C plus. All right, let's spend a second on jj.
- [16:40]
Damon Amendolara
Yeah, I was about to say so after seeing that performance by jj, what do you expect from him moving forward?
- [16:47]
Nick Wright
Well, listen, I think that the comeback and his role in it and the confidence he's going to get from it, you know, if, if they, if they didn't get that comeback at the end, it was just he threw a pick six and they lose. I think the next few weeks could be real rough. Instead, a guy whose rep coming in was just a winner, makes big plays, galvanizing force just adds to it. In his first ever NFL game. Pretty good. Like, that part is really good. So I didn't think he was that impressive. I didn't think he was that good. But he had the moments which I think are, you know, super relevant and super, you know, useful. And so I want to give him credit for that. Am I, am I sold entirely that like, you know, he's going to be a franchise quarterback? No, of course not yet. After one game. But for what his rep was demanz. That was an awesome start.
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Damon Amendolara
That was fit his description in this game.
- [18:04]
Nick Wright
Yes, for sure. Will you give. Let's. Oh, go ahead.
- [18:09]
Damon Amendolara
Okay. Will Caleb be getting similar treatment to the Prince? You know how Trevor had bad coaching and then he had his coach and that was officially his first year.
- [18:18]
Nick Wright
Well, let's listen. I mean, if Trevor does what the Prince did, which is have an awesome second year, make the playoffs, win a playoff game, then yeah, we can just say. Or if Caleb does. Sorry, if Caleb does what Trevor did, we can just say, yeah, it was, it was all on eber flutes and I think a lot of it was on bears dysfunction, Eber flu. Again, I'm not saying like I'm out on Caleb. I am saying that the stuff, some of the stuff that I wanted him to be just a little tighter on, I didn't see. And that's just that, that just is what it is. Reminder about our friends, our new presenting sponsor, Hard Rock Bet. Everybody knows and loves the Hard Rock hotels and casinos. And now you can use the top rated Hard Rock Bet sportsbook to place your bets all NFL season and beyond. Hard Rock Bet is the only legal sports book in the state of Florida, the only one in Florida. And it's also available in Arizona, Ohio, New Jersey, Indiana, Tennessee, Virginia, Illinois and Colorado, with more states launching all the time. You can also play on Hard Rock Bets online casino if you are in New Jersey. Throughout the football season, we'll be using Hard Rock Bet lines to make our predictions for the biggest games as we gear up for the NFL season. Sign up for Hard Rock bet. Make a $5 bet and you'll get $150 in bonus bets if you win head over to Hard Rock Bet and sign up to make your first deposit today. Payable and bonus bets Not a cash offer offered by the Seminole Tribe of Florida in Florida. Offered by Seminole Hard Rock Digital LLC in all other states. Must be 21 plus and physically present in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, New Jersey, Ohio, Tennessee or Virginia to play. Terms and conditions apply. Concerned about gambling in Florida? Call-888- admit it in Indiana. If you or someone you know has a gambling problem and wants help, call 1-809 with it gambling problem, call 1-800- gambler in Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, New Jersey, Ohio, Tennessee or Virginia.
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Nick Wright
Bills, Ravens.
- [23:57]
Damon Amendolara
Yeah. So that game didn't disappoint. Obviously. Buffalo came back against my Ravens. That 15 point lead erased. Harbaugh has now blown 17 double digit second half leads. Bigger story here is the Bills win or is it the Ravens loss?
- [24:14]
Nick Wright
What do you think the bigger story is?
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Damon Amendolara
The bigger story here is, oh my gosh, the Ravens got to stop shooting themselves in the foot. The penalties and just a fumble. The. The penalties are just so frustrating. The penalties and just how we move when we need something. The Bills have the momentum. They're coming back and we're running end arounds with Zay Flowers. Just rather get a first down and.
- [24:41]
Nick Wright
Well, I'm glad you did you bring up that end around with Zay Flowers. The. Because I. From what I said on the show yesterday or did that bother you organically as much? Yeah, that. That play. Demonte is like lost in the conversation surrounding the game. That was insane. Like you need one first down to win the game. Derrick Henry is killing them. I understand Henry got stuffed on first down. You cannot use one of your downs on Zay Flowers. You just can't. It's got to be Lamar fall on his hands. You know, if see someone open, throws it or run or Derrick Henry. So that I agree with entirely. And I also agree with you. The bigger story is the Ravens loss because the Bills. Listen, Josh Allen is an unbelievable player and since he stopped turning the ball over, he stopped being a roller coaster and I stopped calling him one. Like I've been fair about Josh Josh always had this amazing talent and he was a little too high variance of a player early. He removed some of that variance and now he's just a killer. So the Bills coming back is not that shocking. The Bills defense looking as bad as it did for the vast majority of that game is actually a little concerning. Like weirdly, if I were a Bills fan demand, I would be over the moon thrilled about the win. And you have the tiebreaker and you have the easier schedule and you've never had the one seed since you've been, since you've had Josh Allen. You now have a real shot at it this year. Like all of that is super positive. But deep down I'd be like, yikes. That defense, like that's, that's a bit of a concern. But the story is Baltimore once again inventing a way to lose because they, this is what they do. And I, I know Harbaugh, Harbaugh tried to make the point essentially that Harbaugh tried to make the point that yeah, we've blown a lot of big leads, but we have a lot of big leads. Like how fair. You know what I mean? Like we were in this position more than most. Mike Sando has this, these figures. I think it's good. Since the start of the 2022 season, there are seven teams, Demons A who have had multiple score fourth quarter leads at least 20 times. Okay, so seven teams have had multiple score fourth quarter leads at least 20 times. And Harbaugh is right that the Ravens have the most. Most of them. The Bengals and The Bills have 21, the Lions have 22, the Chiefs have 24, the Niners have 25, the Eagles have 28 and the Ravens have 31. So that is a lot. Here's the problem though. Record. In those games, from best to worst, The Chiefs are 24 and up. And honestly, I just did a whole Mahomes thing. I don't need to do it again. That's the least surprising stat in the world because while it's been a while since the Chiefs have been able to generate some big lead, the idea, I can't even conceptualize what it would look like for the Chiefs to blow a big lead.
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Damon Amendolara
Yeah, no, for.
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Nick Wright
You know what I mean? For the Chiefs to be up 13 in the fourth and lose like they like with Patrick, it just doesn't happen. Like they're not going to make those mistakes. And Andy obviously deserves credit for that too. But the Chiefs are 24. 0. The next best is the Eagles 27 and 1, then the Lions 21. And 1. The Bengals 20 and 1, the Niners 23 and 2. And the second worst is the Bills at 19 and 2 and then the Ravens at 25 and 6. So yes, the Ravens have had more, slightly more opportunities, but the Chiefs have never lost in the last three years in that spot. The Eagles, Lions and Bengals have lost once, the Niners and Bills have lost twice, and the Ravens have lost six times. That's not nothing. It's just not nothing. And I don't, I don't know that the Harbaugh Lamar combo is going to get over the hump, man. I just don't. And it's, Lamar is obviously, you know, just getting better as a player. Getting better in the playoffs. Like, I also thought Demons a. How did you feel when you saw Harbaugh was punting on fourth and two and a half?
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Damon Amendolara
I mean, it's easy to say looking back at the game, like definitely got to go for that. But also we weren't stopping them. So it probably does make more sense to go for it in that situation because the Bills have just been, they've been doing everything they wanted. So it's, it's not 4th and 5.
- [30:19]
Nick Wright
Well, and here's the other piece and.
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Damon Amendolara
I, and Derek Henry and I know.
- [30:24]
Nick Wright
Lamar said he was cramping, but what you can do there is. Because the Bills used a timeout. They used a timeout. You get two minutes there to kind of recover. You then trot your offense out, try to draw them off sides. 40 seconds to recover. If you don't call timeout, another two minutes to recover and then you got to go for it. Because if you, if you don't get it, you might get the ball back. You know what I mean? If you don't get it and they score, you get the ball back. And if you do get it, the game's over. And here is my only criticism of Lamar from that game. My only criticism. When he threw the pass on third and nine where he did three yards.
- [31:12]
Damon Amendolara
Short of the 6A over the middle.
- [31:15]
Nick Wright
I assumed, I think it was actually the Hopkins.
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Damon Amendolara
I think that it was the Hopkins. He walked over and talked to him. Yeah, it was.
- [31:22]
Nick Wright
I assumed he threw it there because he, like, I obviously knew they weren't going down. Correct. But he was comfortable throwing it short of the sticks because it's four down territory. You know what I mean? Like, that's what I assumed was the case. If you're not, if you don't know you're going for it, you can't. In my, you can't throw short of the sticks there. Like, you've got to try to go get the first down. I also have a question for you to Monte, and if the answer is, had nothing to do with the game, that's fine. You sent out a tweet an hour into the game that said that had a superhero. A bowl of ramen, maybe, and then a trophy. Before you tell me what that is, I have a question. Is that a bowl of ramen in the. In the picture?
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Damon Amendolara
Oh, yeah, it's a bowl. It's a bowl of ramen. Yeah. Watermelon.
- [32:28]
Nick Wright
Like, was it spec. Are you. Are you going to tell us what that was?
- [32:32]
Damon Amendolara
It had nothing to do with the game. I was about to eat.
- [32:35]
Nick Wright
I knew it. I was gonna get.
- [32:38]
Damon Amendolara
Okay, Pops, Pops, Pops. I mean, let me come out and be.
- [32:41]
Nick Wright
Be fair.
- [32:42]
Damon Amendolara
Yes. Everything to do with the game. I was tweeting super bowl champs. I thought the Ravens are gonna win the game. That's why I left it cryptic.
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Nick Wright
But super bowl champs?
- [32:54]
Damon Amendolara
Yeah. Superhero. It's a bull.
- [32:56]
Nick Wright
I had it totally wrong.
- [32:58]
Damon Amendolara
What?
- [32:58]
Nick Wright
You. I thought I had it totally wrong. And I thought our producers were gonna laugh. What people don't know about you is while you're not what I would call a chef, you do consider yourself a bit of, like, an elite ramen savant. Yes, Savant. Like adding eggs and different ramen. And I honestly thought you were watching the game and made yourself, like, a great ramen meal watching it and were, like, calling yourself, like, the king of making ramen noodles. I swear to God, that's what I thought. I. Now I'm the champ. Another ball now. Super bowl champ. That's pretty good. All right. That's pretty good. Okay. All right. Do you have a. You have a Derrick Henry tweet for me or. Not tweet, but question.
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Damon Amendolara
Oh, yeah.
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Nick Wright
Yeah.
- [33:53]
Damon Amendolara
Oh, yeah. So aside from the fumble, Henry looked good as ever, obviously. He had 169 yards and two touchdowns. Do you think that it's safe to say that the cliff isn't coming this year because you said he was getting old?
- [34:05]
Nick Wright
Sure doesn't seem like Cliff's coming. Holy moly. That guy is unbelievable.
- [34:10]
Damon Amendolara
And that's scary for my futures.
- [34:12]
Nick Wright
Unbelievable player. Yeah. All right. The. And I have no problem with Lamar shoving the fan.
- [34:21]
Damon Amendolara
Me neither.
- [34:21]
Nick Wright
Fan shoved him first. I have no problem at all. They didn't talk about on the broadcast. Bills fans stop throwing on the field. They were the. They were the originators of throwing sex toys on sporting event fields before it caught up. Caught fire. In the wnba and when Lamar when Derrick Henry was running for his touchdown, they threw a water bottle on the field. They they famously threw snowballs at the Chiefs. Like icy snow. Like they stop throwing stuff on the field. Like I I, I have to listen every year to how Buffalo's got the greatest fans in the world because it's cold there and they shovel the stadium for him. Like stop throwing stuff on the field. All right. Ever sign up for a football phone? Playing thinking wow, Amazing price and a few months later, surprise your bills higher Boost mobile you pay 20amonth forever Unlimited talk, text and data starting at just 25amonth. No price hikes, no contract. Forever. Plus Boost Mobile is now a legit nationwide 5G network. They've invested billions building 5G towers across the country. Visit boostmobile.com or head to your local Boost store today and and get unlimited talk, text and data for $25 a month. Forever 5G speeds not available in all areas. After 30 gigs, customers may experience slower speeds. Customers will pay 25amonth as long as they remain active on the Boost Unlimited Plan.
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Damon Amendolara
So, yeah, we remember how the super bowl went. So we've got that rematch coming up this weekend, and they are both coming off of underwhelming divisional performances. The Eagles obviously won, but they probably did win in the fashion they would have liked. And the Chiefs lost. How close to the Super Bowl? How. How close to the super bowl game do you think this will be?
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Nick Wright
Oh, I don't. Listen, I do not think Kansas City's going to get blown out. I. Look, I will. If Kansas City gets blown out, I will be concerned. Okay? I also, spoiler alert, don't think Kansas City is going to lose. And I think that the Chiefs being home dogs with Patrick being healthy is a slap in the face. Especially because I do think it's fair to say Philly did not look overwhelming in week one. You know what I mean? Philly looked fine, but they looked kind of lucky. Not lucky, but fortunate to get out of that game with a win against a Dallas team that there were no expectations for. Okay, so I. I also Think that those of us that have been hoping for or planning on, you know, the Mahomes light show, as Brew calls it, to come back, going to have to wait some more time because obviously they knew they weren't going to have Rasheed Rice in this game, but now they also won't have Xavier worthy in this game. And so I think it's going to be a lot of ball control, a lot of short, intermediate stuff, and a lot of, you know, Mahomes makes some magic. But I think you have a pissed off, urgent Patrick Mahomes and I think he will deliver. I'm going to add to it that where my, where my concern comes in this game is is Jalen hurts, going to have four seconds to throw and that chief secondary not be able to hang in there. Now, I know Jalen threw nothing but short except for the one bomb and had nothing but time against Dallas. But I also know that Justin Herbert had nothing but time and carved up the chief secondary. The part of the week one game that was most dispiriting and most concerning to me, Demon say, was how the overall pass defense for Kansas City looked. Now, will Philadelphia take advantage of it? Okay, like, will Philadelphia lean into that part of their, of their offense? I don't know. I mean, AJ Brown went 58 minutes in week one without a target and they, they still moved the ball and Jalen was brilliant scrambling. But that's another piece of this game that does concern me. Designed pass plays, Jalen drops back, they wait. They wait. No. 1. The Times the coverage holds up, no one's open, Jalen's able to run. So I think Philly will be able to move the ball if they lean into the passing game. I, I think the Chiefs run defense has been one of their underrated factors the last couple of years. And even in that super bowl when the Chiefs got annihilated, the run defense was obviously really impactful or I did a good job, I shouldn't. Impact was the wrong word. Did a good job against Saquon. The story of the super bowl was the disastrous offensive line play from Kansas City. And now I'm excited to see it because the Chiefs upgraded at left tackle, obviously, and the Eagles don't have the edges they had last year. Now they still do have Jalen Carter in this game. As we talked about, he is suspended for this game, but he's playing in this game. And how will those matchups look? If Patrick has even a modicum of time, I believe he will be able to make hay against this Eagle secondary that I believe is going to be a work in progress throughout the year. Obviously, dejean is very good and Quinion Mitchell is excellent and maybe I should call DeJean Excellent and Quinn Mitchell very good. But they're both, at the very least very good players. But there isn't a single other person in that secondary that you trust. I as far as demand say, you know, will you panic? Should I panic? If The Chiefs are Owen2I the answer to that is unequivocally no. And here is the thing that it is Frustrating is the wrong word, but annoying that folks don't don't seem folks speak with authority and don't have the memories I guess that I do on what the Chiefs have actually been in, you know, the Mahomes era. In 2021, the Chiefs started 3 and 4, 3 and 4 coming off getting blown out in the super bowl by Tampa. They started the next year 3 and 4 and then found themselves, as they always do, at the absolute worst. In overtime of the AFC Championship game in 2023, the Chiefs in November to December lost. They had a stretch where they lost one, two. Yeah, five out of eight, including within that stretch where they lost four out of six. And in that where they lost three out of four. And the only win came against the woeful Patriots where they didn't even look that good. And they responded to that by winning the Super Bowl. The idea that they've never had that, it's just been see, and even last year, even though they never lost games, people hated how they looked at various points in the regular season and they found themselves in the super bowl again. So it is just flatly inaccurate to say they haven't faced any regular season adversity or downswings during this time. It's just that the baseline is so high that they have been able to obviously more than overcome it. But I so I wouldn't panic. I will come on here, you know, Tuesday, if not before. If they get manhandled by an Eagles team that I don't think as good as last year's Eagles team, it is time for real concern. Not panic, but concern. If it's a really good game and they end up coming up on the short end of it, I won't panic at all. But I think Kansas City's better than Philadelphia. And I also think this and this.
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Damon Amendolara
Is the with like, without the like.
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Nick Wright
Without words, without Rice and Worthy. Well, so here's the thing on that. I think that when Rice and Worthy are back, Philadelphia will be better than they are right now because I think Philadelphia's defense has so many new pieces. It's going to be a, you know, a work in progress, so to speak. I also like here is. And again, people can disagree with me. People can say that I'm, you know, waving pom poms, as Bruce says sometimes. And the, you know, with the pom poms, when I wave them, all I see is you've been right every year. But I firmly believe that given how Philadelphia played in week one, that had they been playing the Chargers, they lose similar fashion the Chiefs do. And given how the Chiefs played in week one, had they been playing the Cowboys and that defense, there's no concerns about the Chiefs offense right now. Like, I don't think Philly or Kansas City should be happy at all about how week one went. Now I know Philadelphia is one and oh and Kansas City's own one, but it feels to me like both of those teams had to be pretty uneasy about their performances. The only thing Philadelphia I thought did really well in week one was Jalen. I thought Jalen scrambles were just elite. You know what I mean? Jalen's ability to make something out of nothing was phenomenal. And the only thing the Chiefs did really well in week one was the Mahomes kind of magic broken play craziness. Like nobody on the Chiefs or the Eagles outside of their quarterback should feel great about week one and so we'll see how they both respond. But to your point, Damanze about without Rice and Worthy for Kansas City, if, if Kansas City wins the game without Rice and Worthy, that is a shot in the arm.
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Damon Amendolara
That's panic time for Eagles.
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Nick Wright
Well, I listen, I think Philadelphia's got the infrastructure and the too much talent. I don't think like there's not a lot of panic that should happen in week, you know, in week two.
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Damon Amendolara
If like if that just being like your top competition and they don't have like two of their best offensive guys.
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Nick Wright
So here's the thing. I don't this is for Philadelphia or Kansas City. I simply don't believe in cross conference rivalries in the NFL and I don't believe in your top competition ever being someone in the other conference. Like, because it has to be such a perfect storm for you guys to play in a game that matters. Like let's just say for the record or for example, I should say that Philly does blow out. Kansas City just annihilates them. It looks just like the Super Bowl. While that would reasonably shake anyone's faith that the Chiefs can beat the Eagles. It to me should barely shake your faith at can the Chiefs win the Super Bowl? Because like the, the Eagles would have to get there as the Chiefs have to get there, obviously, but the Eagles would have to get there. You know, so the, in a weird way like that Charger game and how the Chargers exploited what were Chief's weaknesses was a bigger concern than anything that could happen Sunday. Because the Chargers are direct competition. You play them again, you, you could play them in, you know, in the first round of the playoffs like Philadelphia maybe, you know, has Kansas City's number, but the packers clip, I mean, it doesn't even matter. And so that the. It is very rare that a cross conference rivalry be the rivalry. It has to be almost NBA, LeBron Cav, Steph Warrior style, where it's like these two teams are just dominating. Inevitable, right? That where we're going to end up. And that's just not to me realistic here. I know you wanted to ask me about how I'm watching the game.
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Damon Amendolara
Yeah. What is, what's going to be your plan for the game? The setup? Are we kicking people out of the house?
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Nick Wright
I think I'm going to be back home. I might stay in Kansas City for the game, but I think I'm going to be back home there. There is a chance I stick around and watch the game in person, but I don't think that's what I'm going to do. So I don't have, I guess, a good answer there.
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Damon Amendolara
Go ahead. It would be high stress for you.
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Nick Wright
Well, it'd be a home game. Like I certainly would never watch this, a game like this on the road.
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Damon Amendolara
Right.
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Nick Wright
And again, if people don't know the reason we're recording this Wednesday, the reason I'll be in Kansas City is we are doing the Show Live, the TV show Live from Power and Light, 2 O' Clock Central time on Friday. And I would love any and everyone in Kansas City to stop by. And again, anyone that shows up with a first things first related sign, I'll buy you a beer. And so the logistics or legality of that, I don't really know, but I'm just going to come there with a pocket full of twenties and hand them out to people who have first things first signs. So the, that's, that's the plan. It'll be great. There, there is a level, it would seem like of trepidation from some other folks of how big the crowd's going to be. I think the crowd's going to be.
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