Chiefs THROTTLE Broncos, Mahomes RETURNS + NFL Week 1 REACTION | Nick Wright

Nick Wright (0:03)

Welcome in What's Wright with Nick Wright, Episode 502 This episode of What's Wright with Nick Wright is presented to you by Boost Mobile. Everything is right in the world again. And listen, 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 in Denver between Jared Stidham and Drake May.

You missed us. You missed us. It's all better when Kansas City is still the standard. And 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 voicemail, Broncos, you buy Boost Mobile. I don't care about any of these things. Hi, Damonza. What's up? Dumb Clippers stuff that I don't care about. A bad US Open that I went to the semifinal of, but 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 there mid-third set. Not great, but who cares? Great to see you. If you're new to this program, Tuesdays in 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'd have thunk it? Multiple Super Bowl MVPs 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. Damonza, take it away.

Damonza (3:04)

Nine months after tearing his ACL, Patrick Mahomes makes his return. So, 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.

Nick Wright (3:26)

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 to Monday in the 14th game of the year. So this is, I just want people to understand Mahomes' injury history. 2019, he dislocated his kneecap. He missed two games. They won the Super Bowl. 2022, he suffered a high ankle sprain 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, 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 at 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.

It 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 name than against what is supposed to be an excellent defense with an undrafted rookie free agent protecting his blindside. 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, the 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.