Best Of - Drake Maye's MELTDOWN should scare Patriots fans, NFL Week 1 Predictions, Nick BLASTS Michigan-Western Michigan ending

Nick Wright (0:00)

Welcome to the best of the week for What's Wright? with Nick Wright. The best takes and moments from this week on the show. Enjoy.

SPEAKER_2 (0:09)

So yeah, the game was rough. Darnold went down in the first drive. You got AJ Brown. He went down Drake Maye through three interceptions. Seahawks still found a way to get it done. Who do you think should be more worried or panic this morning? New England fans with Drake Maye or Seahawks fans with Sam Darnold's injury. Can I say one thing before you start though?

Why on earth? This game was so bad in the Super Bowl. It was like a really bad game. We thought we should make this the first game of the season in the next year.

I feel like it panned out to be the same exact thing the last game of the season was last year. Well, listen.

Nick Wright (0:46)

It's two marquee teams. When you look at Seattle's home schedule, there were only a few real options for who that game was going to be.

I didn't think they were going to put Seahawks Rams as the first game of the year. I thought they might save it. So take that one off the board. Seahawks Niners, Seahawks Chargers, Seahawks... There's another home game. Giants doesn't really have the star quality. So your other home game possibilities were Seahawks Patriots, Seahawks Cowboys, Seahawks Bears and Seahawks Chiefs. Those are home Seahawks games.

When they set the schedule, they don't know if Mahomes is going to be healthy. So you can't have the Chiefs on your standalone Wednesday night game without Mahomes out there. So he's out. You don't... Cowboys, Seahawks Cowboys, every Cowboys game is such a big ratings draw anyway. You don't need to almost burn the opening game of the year. So I thought that was out. So it was really, to me, it came down to Seahawks Bears or Seahawks Patriots. I thought they'd go Seahawks Bears, kind of a big Caleb thing plus the defending champs. The NFL decided, let's give the Patriots a chance to get some get back. It was a huge risk, huge reward moment for New England. You go out and win that game, that might all of a sudden just cure your Super Bowl hangover. Might as well be like, you know what? We're better, we're a different team. You do all those things. The flip side is you lose the game, and you're like, oh man, they're just better than us. You lose the game the way they lost it, and that's a tough one to recover from. So listen, the Darnold piece of it is pretty simple. If he did not break his hip, and they seem to be confident he did not, he should be back at some point, and if he's back, they should be okay. So like, we can, we'll do more on the Seahawks, and I don't, you know, love starting with the losing team, because it feels negative rather than starting with the winners, especially when they're defending champs, you win with your backup quarterback. But the story of that game yesterday is unequivocally, undeniably, the absolute meltdown by Drake Maye.

They had the ball three times in the fourth quarter, all three possessions, he threw a different type of outrageous interception.

Up ten to three, in the fourth quarter, in control of the game, on second and nine, on the plus side of the field, throws a bomb down the deep sideline, that it wasn't easily picked because it was tipped by one, caught by the other. The other, but it was in the double coverage. You have control of the game, you're up a touchdown, you're one first down away from being up double digits in the fourth quarter against Drew Lock. You give the Seahawks life with that. Seattle then comes back, scores their only touchdown of the game on a gutsy don't let it be forgotten in the details of the game, play call.

Fourth down, which was a pretty obvious go for it situation, was fourth and one, but fourth and one with a backup quarterback, you call a pass, have him drop back. JSN, Cooke's, the highest paid corner in the history of the NFL. And then scampers to the end zone. All right, tie game. We got a ball game now. Very next possession, Drake Maye throws not a carbon copy, but a very similar interception to the one he threw in the Super Bowl, where he just didn't read where the safeties were. The one in the Super Bowl when Collinsworth says, I don't know what to tell you there.

If you remember, I think his exact quote was, I got nothing for you there, Mike, because he didn't know why Drake Maye did it.