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2:05Welcome in! Watch right with Nick Wright Episode 502. This episode of Watch Right with Nick Wright is presented to you by Boost Mobile. Everything is right in the world again. And it doesn't mean the Chiefs are going to win the Super Bowl. I mean, they probably will. But be honest, America. Last year felt weird. The Chiefs aren't good. The Ravens aren't good. The Bills are good. Kind of, but can't win their division. The AFC Championship game is a 10-7 slog in the snow and Denver between Jared Stidham and Drake May. You missed us. You missed us. It's all better when Kansas City is still the standard.

3:10And even with a quarterback, nine months to the day of knee reconstruction, we're still the damn standard. The only reason the Chiefs didn't have the... Oh my God, the Jags, they did look great against the Browns. Oh, the Bears scored 59. The only reason the Chiefs didn't have the biggest blowout of the weekend is because we took knees instead of kicking that field goal. 24 would have been the high water mark. We took mercy on the Denver Broncos. The Chiefs had nine years atop the AFC West. Denver had nine months, and now it's back how it's supposed to be. Straight to Boyz, we're on C-by-Boost Mobile. I don't care about any of these things. Hi, Demons, hey. What's up? This dumb clipper stuff that I don't care about. Bad US Open, that I went to the semifinal of.

4:11But got stuck in traffic for two hours because of a wreck. And then the Uber driver went the wrong way. And I ended up having to get out and run. And I had literally front row center court for the US Open, and I got their mid-third set. Not great. But who cares? Great to see you. If you're new to this program, Tuesdays and football, we do hit on every game from the weekend. Every single team will be mentioned. Every game will be discussed. And we don't always lead with Monday night football. But when it's the return of Patrick Mahomes and the announcement of Kenneth Walker and the chiefs with a running game, who to think it? Multiple Super Bowl MVP's on one team. That might be good. We are going to lead with Monday night football. I'll try to keep this to less than half the pod, but no promises. Demons, hey, take it away. I once after tearing his ACL Patrick Mahomes makes his return.

5:15So there were some oopsies in there, but he came out ran and got that touchdown. And the defense performed, your rookies performed. And Kenneth Walker ran him into the ground. The floor is yours. You haven't been able to speak positively about the chiefs in a minute. I know you're excited. Kenneth Walker is micro the big story. The young defense is the secondary big story. But the biggest story is of course Patrick Mahomes in record time from an ACL. No pun intended with never a doubt in his mind that he was going to be on that field for week one of the season. He tore his ACL demands in the 14th game of the year.

6:15So this is I just want people to understand Mahomes is injury history. 2019 he dislocated his kneecap. He missed two games. They won the Super Bowl. 2022. He suffered a high ankle sprained in the playoffs. The exact injury that currently has AJ Brown out on the IR and out for six weeks. He missed one drive. And they won the Super Bowl. And in 2025 is he tore his ACL and he missed three games. And now he is back. And to announce he is back. And also to announce some of the chiefs issues of wide receiver are still not fixed. On the opening drive of the game. He ran it in for a touchdown. They got a holding penalty. So he ran that son of a bitch in again.

7:17It could have been no better for one of the defining athletes of the 21st century, which he is. To show the world. He's not worried about that damn knee. Then against what is supposed to be an excellent defense with an undrafted rookie free agent protecting his blind side. Against one of the Super Bowl favorites. The defending division champions and a team that has more hope going into this year than they've had since Peyton Manning was their quarterback. That he reminds them guys. It's the AFC West. I'm in my prime. I'm already healthy. And as has been the case every year of my career, save one.

8:22The division still goes through me. And folks can argue and all they want about Josh and Lamar and Stafford and Joe and these other great quarterbacks. And they are great quarterbacks or Caleb or Drake or Trevor who I believe are going to be and are turning into great quarterbacks or Justin Herbert who in an alternate dimension is a great quarterback. But all those people arguing all that stuff. No, that deep down at their core. When the chips are down in the biggest spots, there's only one choice on who you want

9:25running your team. And it's 15 in Kansas City. And he reminded you of that last night. And even in a game where he didn't have it, he starts the game demands a two of 12, two of 12 and everything looks off in the passing game. And then he finishes 13 of 15 with one miss and one miss communication that I thought the broadcast did a good job explaining Xavier worthy didn't run the right route, but fine, it's a pick. It goes on Patrick Resume. Couple touchdown passes that touchdown throw. And there has been a lot, a lot on chiefs Twitter of chiefs fans, clinging and complaining

10:27about how this team went about their offseason. And there has been a lot of, and I haven't really, I alluded to this once on the TV show, but I've never really discussed it. A lot of folks who this offseason to, I think the best way to put it is turned on me because they thought that I was couching my true feelings about how the chiefs approached this offseason because of loyalty to either Brett Vich or the organization or the some some nebulous, you know, force. When in reality, the reason that I supported the way the chiefs built this team this off season is because I fucking agreed with it.

11:28I believe if you have Patrick Mahomes as you're starting quarterback as frustrating as it can be to not throw a ton of resources into wide receiver. What you've got to have is a defense that can get off the field on third down. They threw all their resources into that with Patrick Mahomes coming off an injury. What you've got to have is a running game that has to be respected. They threw their free agent money into that and then see what magic Patrick can make. Now we'll talk about the receivers in a bit. If that's how they're going to look this year, that's not good enough. They are going to have to address that during the season. If folks talking about this is a reset. This is a rebuild. No, it's not.

12:31This chiefs team is going to start the year 4 and 0. They're at home Sunday night against the cults. Then they have brutal road trips in Miami and Las Vegas. And then an early by week home for the chargers and then some tough games ahead. But they instantly showed the world. You're going to have to respect our running game. Our defense much like 2022 is very young but with spags pulling the trigger is going to be at least create splash plays and Patrick's only going to get better. So you think it will be at full power? I think the season do you think you'll ever be able to get there? I mean, I think by the end of the season, there's no doubt.

13:35I would imagine my homes will be at 100% post the buy. I think that they will slowly, you know, slowly bleed in a bleed him, but get him rolling. I also think, right. And I also think, Demon's a that part of his shakingness early a little bit was rust. But the other piece was he was and he said it after the game last night. He was mostly a one read quarterback because I don't know how much he trusted the protection. Yeah, well, I think it would be kind of about getting hit, but really the protection like undrafted free agent left tackle first came back from injury that Broncos past rush. I think he just wanted to get the ball out. He clearly was not afraid to get hit because he's running the ball. And Andy was not afraid to let him get hit.

14:35They call the speed option with the lead late in the game. Now here's what I will say about my homes running, Demon's a before we get to the major runner Kenneth Walker. When the chiefs have been rolling historically, my homes using his legs was one of the biggest reasons he is such a playoff riser was because it was something he so rarely did in the regular season. He would use his legs to escape pressure like it to then throw the ball. It's a roll out, but not as a scrambler not to run down the field. Last year from game one, he was using his legs to get yards and this year game one is using his legs to get yards. I don't love that. I'm consistent on that. I the only quarterback in the league who is physically imposing enough to just have,

15:46you know, quarterback driven runs being huge part of their game regularly. And you don't worry about injury is Josh Allen, but even Josh Allen last year evidently broke his foot or dealt with a foot injury at the end of the season from the residual wear and tear. So I don't love that piece of it. But Patrick is a competitor man and he's not going to do any of this half speed, which is why him not having to and their ability to lean on Kenneth Walker is so critical. So let's talk about him. What does Kenneth Walker bring to the team that you guys didn't have before? And do you think that this is the new identity and do you worry about putting too many miles on it? No, listen, I'm not worried about putting too many miles on Kenneth Walker. Like he got a big contract. That's the, you know, he's a running back.

16:48He wants to be the bell. I like the rookie backup running back. Emmett Johnson, the kid out in Nebraska, both of those guys, I mean, Emmett Johnson is dramatically better as a backup running back than any running back we've had on the roster the last two years. And so the, here is the, the point that I was making all off season and folks, I don't know why people thought I was overstating this. I was not arguing that Kenneth Walker was the best player that changed teams this off season. That was obviously Miles Garrett and Trent McDuffie's a better player and he left the chiefs and Jalen Wattles, a hell of a player.

17:51DJ Moore is a good player like it. Jalen Phillips is a good player like what I was arguing is no team. Upgrading any single position more than the chiefs upgraded running back. Even Miles Garrett to the Rams. That was he was traded for Jared verse and I am here to tell you as great as Miles Garrett, even when he's healthy is the gap between Jared verse and Miles Garrett is smaller than the gap between Isaiah Pacheco, post broken leg and Kenneth Walker. The chiefs have not had a running game that opposing teams respect at all since Pacheco broke his leg. And even with Pacheco, they, they weren't terrified of it. He's a really good stories is seven-throw pick and I like him and I feel sick.

18:58But he, you know, it's now having back surgery and Detroit like his body is broken down on him and that's awful. But teams last year simply dared the chiefs to run and when the chiefs did run, they couldn't run. Even against light boxes, even against formations that you should be able to run on, which allowed teams to drop extra people in coverage, which created money or throwing windows for Patrick, which when you add it to the overwhelmingly disappointing receiver production last year, you had an offense that just died on the vine. And now you have a team that if you're the cults next week, Demons, a are the cult spending most or this week, their prep, figuring out how to stop the chiefs past or run. The fact that that's even a question, the fact that that's even a question makes it so

20:02much better for Patrick. And so, and shout out to Andy Reed for not being conservative early. First drive over the game went for a fourth down. And half up just a touchdown on their own side of the field. Fourth and one at the 39 went for it and Kenneth Walker pops for 61 yards. It Patrick said it at the team luncheon. It's going to look different, but we want to dominate like the old chiefs. You're damn right. And they're one of two teams that has not had a thousand yard rusher in the last nine years.

21:03Patrick's never had a thousand yard rusher. He's never had what you would consider a plus plus running back since the first 10 games of his career when cream hunt young cream hunt was on the team before they cut him because of the domestic violence incident. And so he's been doing it with Damien Williams God bless him Darren Williams, Shady McCoy, old Shady McCoy. I mean, obviously, Patechekko old cream hunt. The best running back you could argue the most impactful running back they've had in the last five years, Jerrick McKinnon as a pass catcher as a receiver out of the back field. And now you got Kenneth Walker who just ran it right down the Broncos Throat's all night. All right, let's talk about the defense for a minute, Dema. Yeah, you've been telling everybody about Delane Woods and Thomas.

22:08Chris Jones came out and said that this is his favorite group of rookies. How impressed for you with him in this game? I mean, Spags gets the primary credit. Delane plays three snaps. Got a pick and then hurt his shoulder. That's a concern. He dealt he hurt that shoulder in training camp or in the off season was held out for some training camp. The fact that he does not the X-ray was clean as good MRI this morning. If you guys see why we're on the air. Any news on the MRI. Uh, you know, let me know in here or let us know in the chat, by the way, reminder, if you're here in the chat, subscribe on YouTube. Please subscribe on Spotify on iTunes. Let me see where we're at on YouTube. Did we hit 250,000 yet? This is a risky thing I'm doing right now. We are at 247,000 in change. So subscribing on YouTube helps us a ton.

23:08iTunes Spotify helps us a ton as well. And if you see any got producers, if you guys see, if there's news on Delane's MRI, I'll take it. Um, Peter Woods, a year before he was drafted, was projected by some to be a top five pick. He then had a terrible final year at Clemson. He went 29th. Armace and Thomas has legit burst off the edge and had an impact last night. The chief's last year could not get off the field on third down. And I, people are like, oh man, deepened one that good last year. And you lose. Jalen Watson in free agency, you trade McDuffie. Let's talk about that for a moment. Jalen Watson was a seventh round pick that was an amazing, like story for Kansas City,

24:09played great, very happy. He got that 17 million a year from the Rams. He gave up two touchdowns in their opening game. And we'll see how he looks outside his bag system. McDuffie came into the chiefs as an instantly was the best slot corner in the NFL. He then understandably did not want to play in the slot because slot corners don't get paid like outside corners played on the outside last year or a lot. Did not play as well as he did in the slot got traded to the Rams. They paid him like an outside corner. He's playing outside corner. That's not where he's at his best. I love the player. Love the player. He can be the best slot corner in football. That's where the Rams should use him. But the chiefs have a history with spags of getting the absolute most out of these secondary guys. No Williams was someone they drafted.

25:10They believed in. They elevated him. Mansor Delaan was the number one corner by a mile in this draft again. The three snaps one pick. Good start. Gotta get healthy. And they got Lajerius. Sneed back. Old vintage Belichek Patriots model of we develop a player. Someone else pays him a bunch of money. He is not good with them. They caught him. He comes back and he's excellent immediately again. I'm a Titans fan. Like you got to be kidding me. Jerry Cedwell is with the Titans. All he had was knee surgery and got questioned about an alleged drive by shooting that he was in a car for. They got rid of him and now he's back and he's just talking shit to courtland Sutton and locking people down. It's just delightful. And if they have a past rush, they're going to be fine because here's the other thing to

26:11say that was supposed to be the best offensive line in the NFL. Didn't look like it yesterday. And so in 2022, the chiefs had the youngest defense in the NFL. And then in the Super Bowl, there's Trent McDuffey on the sideline saying we won the Super Bowl. We don't even know that understand the defense yet. They they needed again, it's very early, but they needed a monster draft. I'm liking the early returns. Before we get to Denver, let me tell folks about one of our new sponsors, our friends at Polymarket footballs back folks time to level up your approach to the NFL in college football this season with Polymarket. Polymarket is a legal prediction market now available in all 50 states. Unlike traditional sports books on polymarket, you can trade on all things football from

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30:15First reason I'm nervous number one, Demonce. Here's the Broncos opening a couple months of football. Next week, home against the Jags, then the Rams, then Attenham Niners, then Attenham Chargers, not that hard, then home for the Seahawks on a short week. That's the first five games. Rams, Niners, Chargers, Seahawks, then theoretically a little respite in Arizona, even though they looked awesome. And then back at home against Kansas City. Now the end of their schedule, after that, it's smooth sailing mostly. Got to build them a Patriots game late. But this thing could get away from them quick. This was a very big game for them and they didn't just lose. They got embarrassed. They couldn't tackle. They couldn't exploit the undrafted free agent at left tackle.

31:17They couldn't run the ball. Jalen Wattle. Like someone should tell them they traded for Jalen Wattle, maybe throw them the ball. And Bo-Nix looked flustered. Couldn't stop dropping the ball. One of them was not called a drop. It was called a forward pass. More on that we talk about the Lions game. I don't know when this God dog rule changed. These things that have been quarterback fumbles my whole life. They're like, no, actually, we saw his intent in the back of his mind. He wanted to throw forward. So how can we call it a fumble? It's because his hand was like diagonal with his head. Like this is it needs to be here's the thing. I know. So parallel. Screw it. We'll just talk about it now. I know that if you're going forward and get hit, you only have to be going forward a tiny bit. And if you get hit and the ball goes forward, it's an incomplete pass.

32:18I know that. But. Bo-Nix was going forward and didn't get hit. The ball got slapped out of his hand and went behind it. That's I honestly feel like this is a baron steam bears situation like the where everyone thinks it's the baron steam bears and we like know it's a baron steam bears. What's that called guys put it in the dock? The Mandela effect. Yeah, when everyone's like, yeah, I remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison. They're like, no, he didn't actually that's wrong. I feel like that's what's happening right now with fumbles in the NFL where all of us collectively are like, this fucking fumble. And then all and then the refs and Mike Ferreira and everyone's like, no, you rules. The rule has always been whatever the intent in the quarterbacks heart is is how we rule it. I'm like, what the balls behind it? Like what are you talking about?

33:18So I thought Bo-Nix was obviously fumble. His hand is going forward. And then a chiefs player doesn't hit him and even if they do hit him, the ball went behind him. And then the ball, they're like, no, that's an incomplete pass. What? And the Jared golf thing was even worse. Once again, I'm right about replay everyone will agree with someone every single person watching that game in real time when the Jared golf thing happened. They're like, well, that's a fumble. And they're like, no, he had brought the he got it and even brought the ball forward yet. And he threw it backwards. They're like, yeah, but in his hopes and dreams, he was going to throw a forward pass. So how can we not honor that? What? I'm just perplexed. And everyone's like, no, this is how this is the rules. I'm pretty good about knowing the weird NFL rules. And like, people think it's this, but it's that. I love, man.

34:19That's why I love that. Yes, but that's not even my problem. My problem is I feel like this is a siop that they're just like, that they just decided like, not only are we changing it, we're not going to tell anyone we changed it. And we're going to everyone's going to agree. Like you know what? This is what hot take. I now know what being gaslit feels like. I feel like the NFL is gaslighting me about what a fumble is. I'm like, and they're just saying it's so matter of factly like I'm dumb. Like on the Jared golf play, they're just like, no, like we all know the rule is even if it's not moving forward, if he just starts to bring it up and he intended to throw it forward, what? And there's like, yeah, that's the rule. And part of me, honestly, when I saw the Jared golf thing, I was so unsettled by it,

35:21by how matter of fact they were about, yeah, of course, that's the rule that I almost didn't want to talk about it because I was like, is that like embarrassing for me? I didn't know. But then I was like, no, I do know. And this is not how it's been called. Neither here nor there. Lying the gas. I am. Do you know, do you know what gaslight the term comes from? It's from your car, right? It's like, no, not a 50 miles when the gaslight comes up. No, that is honestly not a terrible gas. No, it is from a movie called Gaslight, or is it called on? Fact check me on that movie gas. Yeah, a 1944 movie where a man is basically executing psychological warfare on his wife. And one of the things he does is, he leaves the gas burner on. And so she's like, do you smell that?

36:22He's like, what are you talking about? Like, no, I don't smell that evil. Exactly, but that's where the term comes from. Yeah. A 1944 movie. And then it was basically that term was kind of inhybernation for the better part of 80 years. Yeah. And then I'll just be honest, therapy speak brought it back. Now, how are things gaslighting? Now you're in an argument with your girlfriend and you're like, I didn't do that. And she's like, you're gaslighting me. And you're like, no, but I literally didn't. Like, what do you mean? You're like, why? You're like, you left the door open. It's like, no, I didn't. I didn't. They're like, I'm sick of the gaslighting, but it made a big comeback. Okay, let's get focused. We wanted to focus. Sorry. I was trying to talk about Jared Goff. No, I wasn't. I actually was not. I was trying to talk about bone X. I was talking about bone X and how shaky he looked back on topic. Cause bone X fumbled three times and we're not even counting that fake one.

37:26That wasn't a fake one. Now one of them was a bad snap. He fumbled once on the sideline. That would have been scooped and scored, but Sneed barely stepped out of bounds. He dropped it once. He couldn't make a throw. He was 4.7 yards per attempt. He was awful. Yeah. That's, that's concerning. The only receiver, and this is gosh darn it, for the fifth straight year, the Chief's can't cover tight ends. Have an Ingram just killing us. Um, but another one of my big off season takes to Montaille and then we'll get to the other games. Jesus half hour on this game. Um, the best defense last year is not always the best defense this year. In fact, it very often changes a lot. It's very stable, relatively speaking year to year because it's so quarterback based. So the best offences are, you know, if you're a top five offense last year, you got a good

38:27chance of being top five offense this year. Like that's usually how that goes. Defense, there's so much randomness of do you, you know, do are they sacks or pressure or just pressures to you when the turnover battle different, what's the opposing quarterback schedule, all those things. And what with the three best defenses in the league last year by a lot. Seattle, well, they look pretty awesome again. Houston couldn't get any pressure on Josh Allen. The whole game allowed 36. Denver, you know, rookie left tackle, undrafted, Nick Benito erased, allowed 31 and they can't and they can't tackle anymore. Now again, I think Denver's defense will be better by defense. I think that's a lot year to year. Go ahead. Um, extra, but yeah, I just with the, with the Nick Benito sound like there was something the way they were lining him up, letting him, yeah, it would have worked the way he usually

39:28does is what I got from it. You know what Nick Benito, you got, you got to beat the chiefs. I got shot at. This is embarrassing for me. This is, you know, it's more embarrassing for Nick Benito. That was about to say you got to beat and I was sick of all undrafted free agents. I was like, it's your own name. But then I realized I forgot his name, Khalil Benson. You got to beat Khalil Benson. Um, all right, there's one other Broncos thing that has to be discussed here. How long until you think Sean Payton takes back the reins on the play, Goli. Oh boy. If I'm Davis Webb, I'm not a good little anxious. Keep in mind, here's the timeline of Davis Webb becoming the Broncos play caller. Davis Webb had potential head coaching opportunities, including possibly the Buffalo Bills and

40:35Josh Allen. Sean Payton did not want to lose him. So Sean Payton said, I will for the first time in my career, give up play calling and give it to you. So you stay here. So Davis Webb is like, okay, I will forego my head coaching opportunities potentially to stay here. At half time of week one, Sean Payton was asked about it and couldn't even lie. He was like, ask me after the game, but this sucks. He didn't say this sucks part. It is an absolute non zero chance that Sean Payton in short order snatches that back from Davis Webb, which totally neuters his, you know, head coaching ascension. And the Davis Webb's just like out of luck in a tough situation. Tough spot. And it is something to watch.

41:36That is absolutely something to watch. Because Sean Payton was not enjoying that was not enjoying that. Um, all right. We've got 15 other games to get to. So let's try to do it as quickly as we can. Let's get to probably the best game of Sunday and probably the most important bills taxons. You and America were very excited about this game Houston Buffalo on Sunday. It was a light show lived up to the hype, but it all came down to a dropped pick at the end. By last year there is roller coaster Josh Allen back. So here's the thing probably yes, and I don't think that's bad. I. So Josh Allen was utterly sensational in this game for 58 and a half minutes.

42:36He's running all over Buffalo. Well, one great run. And then he sniped one touchdown from James Cook. And I really encourage folks really encourage folks. Because the NFL tweeted it out because it was like Josh Allen's 80th or 81st or something rushing touchdown and insane number. Watch James Cook on the Josh Allen quarterback sneak from the one. He don't love it. And it's not like and it's not like Chris Brusard like I don't like it. I love it. It's really don't like he didn't like it. He's like that could have been my touchdown. I'm getting sick of this shit. That Josh Allen was again you guys in San being unfair watch it. You can see it. They snapped the ball. He just immediately starts walking off the field. He's like this. All right. Um, but Josh Allen was great. He was great.

43:38His defense was not that good. CJ Stroud looked like a real quarterback for the first time in a while. The bills off into line was great holding up for him against that edge rush. So Josh was great. And was it they were in position to win the game. And with a minute 48 left at the Houston 34 so in field goal range out chip shop down one on second and 11. There no reason whatsoever. He threw up not a 50 50 ball. A 90 10 the defense is way ball up to Josh Palmer. And Camarri last year. Let it hit him this chest. And it felt harmless lead to the ground. And the very next play on third and 11 Josh Allen through an absolute laser beam.

44:43The Josh Palmer for the game winning touchdown. How different is the discussion of last year. You know catch it. Well listen if last year catches it. Josh is. By some folks getting fairly heavily criticized. And by and by you know the folks were supposed to be smarter than the rest of us. They're like well actually. You know he played so great who cares he threw the game away. Like because that's a bit that's. About 30% of the people covering the NFL think it'd be better if we didn't fucking keep score. We like let's we can feel who deserved the win. And so. So that is what happened. And here's what I will say about what happened that angle surprise people. If I'm a bills fan I'm totally fine with it. And that's actually the only way you're ever going to win a Super Bowl.

45:48Let it fall. Yo low Josh Allen. And just hope he catches a hot hand in January. You like and I think Joe Brady is going to lean into that. I think Joe Brady you know Joe Brady got the job in part because. He's so tight with Josh Allen. I think Josh Allen wants to play this way. I think the bills are the scariest this way. Now. That is a recipe for potentially you losing in the playoffs to an inferior team with an inferior quarterback like you did last year against Bones. But it's also the only recipe for you guys beating. I'll just be honest Patrick my homes in the playoffs if he's rolling or under any circumstances. You've got to let Josh be Josh.

46:48Roller coaster be damned and just hope that in the playoffs they drop it. Because you're not going to be good enough to win four consecutive playoff games. You don't have a dominant defense. You don't have great receivers. You have a great running back and a great offensive line and one of the most talented quarterbacks in football. You just got to hope he gets hot. And that the mistakes don't kill you. That's the scariest bills team. The scariest version of the bills is we're building the whole plane out of Josh Allen. Plus James Cook. And there's going to be a lot of variance. But that's just what you got to do. So I'm not going to listen. I thought Josh on the whole. You got away with it. And because you got away with it that was just an awesome game.

47:49Like sometimes it just goes your way. And bills chiefs Ravens. Those are the teams that matter in the AFC. A weekend. I don't care. Listen, I maybe the Jags will delightfully surprise me. Maybe the chargers more on them in a bit will surprise me. But it's those three teams and the bills. I don't feel I think the bills best path to beating one or both of those teams in the playoffs is. Josh just has a monster game and gets away with the craziness. Just who he is. It's who he wants to be. I know everybody kills me for this. His first playoff game ever tied. And over time you threw a backwards lateral over the back of his head.

48:50There's no reason. It's just a wild stallion. Like you just got a lot of me. No, that's a crux spirit. Yeah, I mean, he's just like. And it's close though. Can't tame it. Can't tame it. Like brew made this comp yesterday to Mons and I think you'll like it. There is some prime again prime apex Russell Westbrook to him. We're just like you live and die. You got to take the bad with the good. Yeah, you got to take the good is great. And the good is great. So I'm not going to kill him for that. Like it's just they scored 36 on Houston. And the last was a laser beam. Yeah, well, so listen. I think he used. I think Buffalo's offensive lines been underrated. I think Houston's defense will be fine. Demiko's too good. My guess is that's the most points they'll give up all year.

49:51If I'm a Texans fan while the end of the game sucked and CJ's fumble sucked. CJ thrown for 275 couple touchdowns. I'm like, OK, we can build on this. Like that is not a disappointing. Yeah, it's not a disappointing loss. It is disappointing, but it's not a devastating loss. And you just assume the defense will be better. And if CJ can be anywhere close to that, you're in good shape. All right, next game. You were skeptical of the giants all over the off season and love the moves that Dallas made in the off season. But it was the giants who performed it came through. Buffalo is obviously first game with the new team. What was the bigger story here? The Cowboys lost or the giants went. Bigger stories. So we'll get to the giants in a minute. He did look good. Bigger stories, the Cowboys lost because there were two teams to monsey this off season

50:56that the general media sentiment about did not align at all. At all with the betting odds. And they were opposite directions. And those two teams were the chiefs and the Cowboys. The chiefs were discussed as an average team. That was around a coin flip to make the playoffs. And Vegas had them with the fifth best odds to win the Super Bowl and the favorites to win their division. But that is not how they were discussed. I think in the whole national media only me and Barnwell picked them to win the Super Bowl. The Cowboys were the opposite. Vegas saw the Cowboys as a decidedly mediocre team. Around the 13th best Super Bowl odds. Underdogs to win the division.

51:57They'd be better than a coin flip to make the playoffs. And they were discussed as a very trendy Super Bowl pick. And Dac was a very popular MVP pick. And week one they were bad at everything. Hickins no showed. CDLAM was fine. Javante Williams one big play was taunting on a touchdown down 14 that cost them the ability to go for two if they wanted to. And then they missed the extra point. And the defense they brought all those resources into. Nobody knew what they were doing. I thought Chris Connorth was going to have a conibption fit. Chris Connorth's like they can't cover the flat. He's wide open. Like they can't cover the right flight, not flight, but the midway down the field to the right side. They kept hitting.

52:58It was it was playing the Giants Greg Roman and Matt Nagy were calling plays like when you play your young cousin on Madden and he doesn't know how the coverage is working. You're like, all right. I also just do it again. You guys still open. Right. You just all right. I'm going for wide and you're in goal line. He's going to be open. Adjust and the Cowboys couldn't do it. So I we've talked a lot about listen week one can be a liar and we don't know why we're seeing what we're seeing in week one. If the Giants are just stone excellent then the Cowboys shouldn't be that worried. If the Giants are who I think they are, which is going to struggle to get to 500, the Cowboys

53:59should be terrified. Now on the Giants side, you like Jackson Dart, Danny likes Jackson Dart. He looked really good. I like credit where it's due. It's first game of the second year. I'm still nervous with how often they run him and how he runs, but he was effective. He was careful with the ball. He was responsible so to speak. So you've got it. You know, I have to allow the games and the results particularly with young players to really matter. And one game in nothing but high marks for Jackson Dart who was efficient, accurate, good. I still feel like the media is a little higher on Cam Skataboo than his production demands.

55:10I understand he's a hard running player. And we love that. But he's fine. Like I don't totally, you know, there is a little, this is an old reference, but there's a little Peyton Hillis and how much people love him. Peyton Hillis was a hard running white running back for the Browns who was so irrationally popular that he one year when they were doing it via fan vote, one, not a VVP. The cover of Madden. I mean, you get that in like an actual act. No, I understand that. But again, like when I tell you he was on the cover of Madden and when I tell you it

56:10was because he had a best player. I mean, he had a 11, listen, he had a really good season. He had 11, 100 rushing yards and 11 touchdowns. I mean, the rest of his career, he had 11 or 1200 rushing yards and six touchdowns. Like it was such an absurd thing that happened. But so I get that why this guy is a fan favorite. I think he's fine. I don't think he's one of the 15 best running backs in the NFL. But the Giants looked really good and we now see them against the Rams in, you know, a game that'll tell us a lot about both of those teams. All right. Let's go on to the next game. Oh, man, the highest scoring week one game ever. The Bears defeat the Panthers 59 to 37 and Ben Johnson loves it. Before the season, he announced that he won Chicago to have the greatest offense ever. And then he doubled down post games saying that that will always be the goal. Want to be the highest scoring. Want to have the most wins.

57:10We want to win super balls. But what about the defense? Yeah. So let's talk about the good first. I mean, Caleb was utterly sensational. The Bears threw for 270 and ran for 290. You just can't have a better off into date than they had. And they did it, Demonset, with the guy that we all thought was going to be their number one receiving option, Colston, Loveland, zero catches. Can you imagine if you're a fancy football player and you have Colston, Loveland, spent a high draft pick on him, the Bears score 59 points. And you get zero points out of you. Like, what happened? It's like, oh, he got hurt. Nope. He was out there the whole game. So one of the reasons I'm so bullish on Caleb is because the things he needed to improve year one to year two, he did. He needed to improve the terrible sac rate and the pre-snap penalties.

58:13They cleaned that up immediately with Ben. And this year he needs to improve not darting easy passes. And he looked to have improved that. His best throws are still super elite. He ran, this was, I couldn't believe this, Demonset. In Caleb's first two years in the NFL, he only had three rushing touchdowns. He stunned me. I couldn't believe it. And then week one he had two. So like he is deadly with his legs and he used them like those were dynamic runs. So the Bears offense looks amazing. That defense looks awful. Now it's possible that I'm going to have to eat crow on years of Bryce Young takes. Yeah, there we go. Yeah, listen, you don't sleep with Carolina, man. Bryce threw for 360, had a one-ton rating, three touchdowns. So maybe it finally all clicked for Bryce. My concern would be if I'm a Bears fan of, man, if it didn't all just click for Bryce

59:20and he's the same guy he's been, our defense is really big trouble. So listen, I think the Bears are going to be really good. Let me back that up. I think the Bears are going to be an awesome offense. Awesome. But there's a chance they are the bangles from two years ago where they just can't, or the Cowboys from last year, where the defense undoes everything. Like the defense is so bad, it turns every offense they play into a top five offense. And if that defense can just be average, and maybe they are the team that trades for Max Crosby if the Raiders end up trading, then they're a legit threat. I think this team with the average defense is a legit threat to make the Superl. But I don't know if it's going to have an average defense. And we'll listen, I'm skeptical of Carolinas entire operation.

1:00:23Obviously, their defense did not look good. But Bryce was great. Jalen Coker was awesome. Tett McMillan was good. So that is the Panthers don't feel great after being on one, but that whole division's on one. So, you know, it is what it is, so to speak. All right. I know you guys want to do a Nick Wright public defender. Sorry, everybody with eyes could see the Caleb played amazingly, but you'll be back in the blind. It is time for the return for Nick Wright public defender, a counselor, defend PFF saying Caleb saying 19 quarterbacks are better than Caleb loops. Yeah, I'm actually, you know what? I wrote a letter to the bar and I'm resigning my position as public defender on this one, because I can't. But I do want to discuss it. That's why I wanted you to do it.

1:01:24But I'm not going to do that. If you're new to the pod, the public defender bit is where I prove to my sister and my father, both of whom have law degrees that I also could have been an attorney, but I, you know, I'm doing the far more important work of arguing about sports. And I defend an indefensible position, but I don't want to do that. I want to actually discuss the PFF thing, especially because I'm now been alerted. The PFF wrote an article why Caleb Williams, week one, PFF grade, doesn't match his box score. And they included my tweet in the article. I'm reading this for the first time. So I'm going to read from their article and we'll hear it together at the center of it always quarterback Caleb Williams who finished with 334 total yards for touchdowns. He completed 21 of 29 passes for 269 yards. Two scores. No, interceptions. No, 124 pass rating while I've ever drinks while adding 65 yards and two scores on the ground.

1:02:27However, Williams earned just a 64 passing grade 16th amongst the 30 quarterbacks who threw at least 13 passes before Monday night. On the surface, those numbers seem all some possible to reconcile for touchdowns, no interceptions 59 points yet only a middling PFF grade. It raises a question that gets asked annually. How can a quarterback produce at that level without grading accordingly and they then include my tweet? They then write the answer lies in what PFF grades are designed to measure. PFF grades were built to be box score agnostic and to capture everything the box score misses. Every play is evaluated on what the player did with it independent of what the stat line says happened afterwards and that works in both directions. A quarterback can finish with an underwhelming stat line and still grade well. If the reads were right, the throws were placed well and on time and whatever went wrong did so after the ball left his hand. Yeah, we all get that. Another quarterback can finish with a pristine stat line and grade more modestly if he was

1:03:30asked to make routine throws all afternoon and his receivers manufactured most of the production after the catch. Yes, we understand as well. With the grade measures, the part of the play that quarterback actually controls, the read the decision, the throw, not the result that lands in the box score. They didn't explain their grading system more thoroughly and so now we'll get to the Caleb part. Williams drop back 40 times against Carolina. 11 of those drop backs earn positive grades with eight earning a play grade of 0.5 and three earning 1.0. He didn't grade higher than that on any play, though that's less than knocking at might sound before Monday night football. One quarterback can earn a grade better than 1.0 on any play. Okay. Another 23 drop backs earned a zero grade. Those were the expected plays routine plays that leave six negatively greater plays, five earned negative point five relatively minor mistakes. Okay, he keeps going.

1:04:30This is a more boring article than I expected. They're really explaining their grading system. God's P F 15. They are, man. Were you guys? That is the exact right point. I'm so glad you got down to it. Because first of all, pro football focus with respect. You don't know if it's the right read or not. You're guessing. It's fine. You all have to guess to a degree. That's fine. And I do understand and appreciate trying to have a statistical evaluation that is independent of the box score. I get wanting to say, hey, we just talked about Josh Allen's potential game losing interception.

1:05:31That's that bad of a decision whether last year comes down with it or not. We need to have a way to evaluate that. I agree with that. Okay. Where some of these independent evaluators get a little high on their own supply is not recognizing that there needs to be on any of this because it is not, it's not mad. And it's not an exact science. And your formula that you're talking about is just a fucking guy given grades. It's not a baseball player's war, which is just we're putting the numbers into a formula. The numbers are non-debated facts and then spitting it out.

1:06:32There is a lot of art to what you're calling science. And what I think they consistently fail to recognize is there needs to be a common sense factor to hold on a second, guys. I understand that our greater went through every play and charted every play and came away with this grade. But does it make sense for us to put out into the world? Is it accurate? Is it actually what we're trying to say? That in week one, Caleb Williams play garnered a 62.5 grade while Sam Darnold who threw

1:07:44three passes and then pulled his butt muscle garnered a 62.3. We good with that? Hey guys, we're giving Caleb a 62.5 and Jaden Daniels who was objectively awful for three quarters. We're giving him a 73.5. We want to run this through someone else's eyeballs for a second. Hey guys, Aaron Rogers just played football like he's a 42 year old man who spent the days leading up to the game talking about his fiance wanted to sleep with other people. We're throwing him an 80. Do we think that accurately represents the football that was played this weekend?

1:08:45Well, that's what our greater say. It's just like, what are you watching? And the arrogance with which the arrogance with which they're like, oh, you guys are looking at the box score. Well, a little. I mean, again, I will now go to their exact grading of Caleb. They said that in this game, 12 of his 30 plays were positively graded. I'm sorry, that's incorrect. Sorry. That I don't want to misrepresent because he played with him on 30 plays. My apologies. Of the 30 quarterbacks this weekend, Caleb had the 12th most positive plays and the 13th

1:09:46most negative plays. What? Did he say that he was 7th worst this weekend in accurate throws? He was 9th worst in perfectly placed throws. He was 7th worst in catchable but inaccurate. Hold on. Let me just read this one last thing because the last paragraph. One of this is to save Williams played poorly and his grade isn't saying that either. I don't know, bro. Then maybe you guys have a messaging issue, but there's 32. There's as of Sunday, 30 quarterbacks had played. You had him 20th.

1:10:47He produced two big time throws. Good for a 6.5% big time throw rate. How dare you folks? You, Neanderthals, questioning our science. What do you flat-earthers? Not believing that we have defined beyond a shadow of a doubt big time throw. We've taken phrases that guys say to each other hammer on high-necks and a bar on Sunday watching Red Zone. That's a big time throw. And we've defined it beyond a shadow of a doubt. Get the fuck out of here. I mean, Williams made high-level plays largely kept the ball in a harm's way, helped lead one of the league's most productive offenses. He also missed on roughly a quarter of his throws and had one particularly costly mistake that never appeared in the interception column.

1:11:48A 64-facin grade reflects that entire body of work, not simply the result. The box score tells you what happened. The grade is designed to tell you how it happened. Well, you know what? Then consider that the grade unsuccessful. Because it didn't tell me how anything happened. Most weeks these two stories will look familiar. When they don't, as was the case with Williams and week one, the play-by-play evaluation helps explain why. Or, or listen, all makes a lot of sense. Williams-raiser, the simplest solution is often the correct one. Or you guys just wrong. Yeah. I mean, that's it. You know what? On the board as well. To make it stuff confusing. 100%. All right. I said we'd get to every team. We've gotten to like eight. So we're going to really have to fire through these. But first, you ever notice everything keeps going up. Rinse going up. Streaming services going up. Your favorite real spot something you think solider should cost extra.

1:12:50Not with boost mobile. With boost mobile, you and your phone will not play the will this go up soon game. Why? Because boost mobile is unlimited talk, tax and data plan at a price that will never go up. In fact, same price you'll pay for life. So switch now. For unlimited wireless unlimited wireless pardon me. At a price that will never go up only at boost mobile after 30 gigs, customers may experience lower speeds, as long as they're remain active on the boost unlimited plan. All right. Demons, let's do this as quick as we can. Go ahead. Some embarrassing losses. The chargers lost to Arizona while being nearly double digit favorites and Jacoby Percent starting a quarterback green Bay allowed 29 unanswered points to Carson wins. We'll double digit lead and the Rams and their Australia travel fiasco who had the most but embarrassing loss and we would. The most embarrassing loss is the packers because of the way it happened. The most telling loss is the chargers because of the issues they have and the most concerning big picture stuff is the Rams.

1:13:52So I'm going to do this quick as we can because I do want to get to every game and Demons he's got to get to work and I actually, Demons he's got to go work on cowards show. I have to go go on cowards show. So like we're really we're up against it. Green Bay collapsing against Carson wins just can't happen. And Matt LaFlore seats got to feel a little warm. They keep blowing these double digit leads. They can't win a game without like a Parsons. It's it's highly concerning and allowing 27 consecutive points to was it 27 no 29 there are 22 to 10 29 consecutive points in a divisional game that you had in hand and that you knocked Kyler Murray out of early disastrous Arizona. Listen, Jacobi. Every one more than every once wild Jacobi for sets going to show up and be like I'm a starting quarterback in this league. Now every so often also he's going to show up and look like the slowest player in the

1:14:53entire NFL and just be throwing up picks. But Jacobi can look solid and he's confident and he's a pro Justin Herbert on the other hand. Once they once that punt got blocked. First of all you're trailing the cardinal 16 14 before the punt got blocked. No, it's not even his face. It's that these are how the three possessions ended on first and 10 a bomb to show off that beautiful cannon of his to a guy with two defenders around him who was five foot eight who had two catches last year. Probably not the decision you want to make next possession on 4th down throw short of the sticks and the next possession on 4th down throw short of the sticks. The chargers who play the Raiders next week, Demons, a who looked good.

1:15:53Fine I guess. And then after that, Demons, a here's the chargers next seven weeks at Buffalo at Seattle home for Denver at the chiefs at the Rams home for the Texans at the Ravens. Good night. Good luck. Curious to see who the fall guy is this year. My guess is we're going to blame hardball for the guard rotation. We're going to say, oh my God, that Tyler Biotis injury. Just couldn't overcome. And then they're going to zero in on congestion. Herbert get some wide receivers. Forget the fact that the only reason to have Lad McConkey in the second half of that game was because he threw Lad McConkey the ultimate hospital ball and got the poor guy's chest caved in. Niners Rams. The nighters looked awesome. Really played great. They didn't even overuse McCaffrey, but Miles Garrett missed a ton of camp.

1:16:58Everyone ignored it except for Greg Rosenthal shout out Greg Rosenthal and NFL daily because they're like a stapper Miss camp last year. Greg seemed concerned. Miles Garrett then have the single worst game of his career and that's now having knee surgery. Jalen Watson, one I talked about him earlier, one of their big off season acquisitions got cooked. They're playing Trent McDuffie out of position and Matt Stafford looked old. I'm not saying you panic with the Rams, but the reason I said I thought they were a touch overvalued. Now all of a sudden they're like, oh my God, we've got to have Aaron Donald. They didn't think they were even ever getting Aaron Donald a couple of months ago and they were the super bowl favorites. All right, let's go to the blowouts. Your Jags and my Ravens beat up on some bad teams this week or we don't know if they're bad, you know, I guess Trevor had four touchdowns in Lamar and Derek Henry looked amazing. How much are you reading into these games? Listen, we do know the Browns are bad.

1:18:02Yeah, no, I want to read you. I want to read you a tweet from quarterback coach and I believe Dishon Watson, either Confedon or coach or whatever, Quincy Avery, Quincy Avery, who much like the folks at PFF just understand the game at a higher level than us Roobs. Tweets, yesterday afternoon, I do understand people not liking Dishon etc. I also don't think you guys watched the same tape. I also saw things he definitely needed to do better, but the way you guys are talking about it makes it obvious you didn't watch it with an honest perspective. You know what Quincy, I'm going to be honest with you, we must not watch the same tape. Correct. If you came away from that game and you're like, you know what?

1:19:03Some good, some bad from Dishon. The opening drive, drive of their season, he throws a pick, he then tries throwing another one, he fumbles the ball and then made a few nice plays once they were down like 34 to nothing. Get out of here. What are we doing? It was just god awful quarterback play while the game was in the balance. That's the tape I saw. Again, maybe this is another baronstein bear situation. It's like the fumbles. Maybe Quincy Avery has access to the tape, the good Dishon and Watson tape and where a fumbles a fumble. I have access to awful Dishon and Watson tape and everything I thought was a fumble is not a fumble. What do I know? Never on the other hand looked great and that touchdown pass to the back of the end zone with four guys around him. Oh my. Look from a Holmes mountain today on first things first, Trevor going to be up there. Dumas and your Ravens looked amazing.

1:20:03Yeah. Jesse mentor. I really like him. I liked him already. Lamar looks, spray willing to run. Eric defense wasn't rolling over. Eric Henry is just one of the best athletes of my lifetime. Period point blank. Like the guy was one of those maybe the most dominant high school running back ever. A great college running back comes into the NFL and just crushes everyone and he's still going. Not like a conventional running back either. Like they're not normally built like he is. It's a thing. It's more like from the 70s and 80s. Okay. He is kind of old school and like how giant he is. He's still taller than the guys from the 70s and age, but they did. You know, he's so good man. The rate, listen, I picked the Ravens to be the one seed for a reason. Lamar's got to prove it to me in the playoffs. Now's not the time to talk about that. They look scary and really good. And we've talked a lot about these teams that have brutal schedules.

1:21:06Ravens not one of them. Ravens next five home for the Saints in Rio for the Cowboys. Home for the Titans at the Falcons at the Browns before they have to go bills, bangles, Jags. So, you know, they've got five and one at worst, probably six and all written all over them. All right. Let's do the quick hitters. All the go ahead. Cincinnati defeats Tampa Bay 33 to 27. This and bangles fans you call me a hater. All you want. I don't believe your I, I am not yet a believer that your defense is fixed. I thought Tampa Bay moved the ball and Baker just had some of the most clownish fumbles I've ever seen. It was maddening to the sound like a guy who had Tampa Bay plus three and a half Detroit. I'm sorry. New Orleans plus seven and a half. Jags minus eight and a half and the chief's money line all tied together is sure it does. But I'm still very upset. Baker.

1:22:07I'm a great first game for Baker with the contract. Bangles though they get off to a one and a start despite Burrow not playing great. I thought he might have lost the form with the pick six. So it's a good win, but I'm still skeptical of the defense. We'll see four sacks, four force fumbles really productive. We'll see if it's sustainable Tampa. They're going to kick themselves on that one Detroit New Orleans. New Orleans eight Detroit is going to be until they get their safeties back. The Josh Allen might throw for 500 yards if he wants to Tyler Schuck just threw for four ten their past defense is going to be a problem. We are you know what we already touched on this game because the fumble rule thing and anybody are doing that the saint should have kicked the extra point and overtime and just you can't kick an extra point with 90 seconds left and overtime and just accept a tie in week one. It'd be you have to go for it. Um, all right next game. Um, Philly defeats Washington 2422.

1:23:08I was a little underwhelmed by Philly. I thought the way they were imposing their will defensively early they'd be able to do it the whole game. Landon Dickerson to the IR. That's a big injury for them. But sake one had the one big run. Jalen to his credit made three huge plays and three big spots. Jaden started really really poorly like six of 18 or something crazy. Got, you know, hot late they blew the two point conversion. That would have been a terrible loss for Philly. Instead they escape with a win. It is what it is. It's kind of like a last couple of years kind of ugly and ugly Eagles game, but they end up winning. Next. Uh, Pittsburgh. He said Lanna about 2013. Yeah. I was stillers fan. I'm not overwhelmed by that win. TJ Watt had to save the game against Cooper Rush. Um, beaten it in all the land. I think six like how he ended up where he was that that ended up a touchdown was crazy. He's such a great player, such a great, great player. Um, I could spend an hour talking about why Aaron Rogers would do that podcast the

1:24:13days before the season on his teammates podcasts. I just, it just, it seems like such a baffling decision that I can't, I can't even wrap my mind around it. Um, you had to beat that Falcons team with the quarterback situation. The Falcons, I think could be a live team that defense looked better than we thought it would if they get panic. Spac soon. Next. Oh, we got the jets to feed in the Titans 23 to 10. Remember when people were like, you know what? It's not fair to cam ward. He's the number one pick and no one talks about him. No one talked on going into the draft. No, the no one saw him on him. Hey, man, you know who's really, really happy that no one talks about cam ward right now, cam ward. That he is, he is hurtling towards like some big is bust like number, like number one pick. I mean, I, it's early.

1:25:13So I don't want to say that. But that's what I was going to say. Like he, to mark his rostles like looking around. It's not great. And he's got it like that was that offense had no life whatsoever. Shout out to the jets, forget the win. And then lastly, the Raiders beat the dolphins 27 13. Good win for the Raiders. I, I will admit to the audience, I was not locked in to jet Titans or Raiders dolphins. I thought we did great. Thank you to blue dot. Thank you to volume. Thank you to Monse. Thank you to Polymarket. You're a small bowl. Thank you. Any future sponsors that want to join us. Thank you to everybody who's watching live. I'm late for work. Demand is late for work. We will see you guys on Thursday. What's right? This is an I heart podcast. Guaranteed human.