NFL Week 1 Predictions: Broncos-Chiefs, Bills-Texans, Commanders-Eagles, Ravens-Colts, Bucs-Bengals

Nick Wright (0:03)

Welcome in to What's Wright? with Nick Wright episode 501 This episode of What's Wright? with Nick Wright is presented to you by Boost Mobile. And a request for you guys to subscribe to the show on YouTube, Spotify, and iTunes. It helps us a lot. It's, you know, many people say this is, you know, this is the legacy I'm leaving to Demondsey Dior, Indiana. I own the business. So, like, you're guys subscribing is, you know, helping, you know, it's really, it's the inheritance that I'm leaving to the kids. How are you, pal? How are you doing?

Demontae (0:34)

I'm doing amazing this morning. How are you doing, pops? Week one is here.

Nick Wright (0:38)

This is the week one is here. This is the first of your 20 favorite shows that we do. Your favorite shows are our 20 Friday in the NFL season pick shows.

We have a new sponsor. It is brought to you by Polymarket. But that doesn't Polymarket. You know, it allows you to pick these games, you know, with a point spread the way that we always do. And so none of that will change. We will get to the Polymarket piece of it in a moment. But what we are trying to do as always is be better than 53% picking these games against the spread. That's what we are trying to do. Whatever you want to call them, picks, predictions, anything, it doesn't matter to us. The goal remains the same. It's professional football. They set a point spread. You pick a side. You want to be on the right side. What we do every year on this is we go through the entire slate. We used to separate them into categories of like be careful. They're trying to trick you. Stay.

We have. We've simplified it. There are five games we are picking. Every other game we are staying away from. However, I will if I have a significant lean on a game, tell you which for all of the games I'd tell you if I had to pick every game of the weekend, which again, reminder folks out there, you don't have to pick every game. You don't have to even. We do five official picks a week. You don't even have to do five. Some, you know, you listen to the show. Some weeks you might be like, you know what?

Checking out the I'm on Polymarket. There's only one game I like. That's fine. Some weeks you might be like, I'm staying away from all of it. Again, this we are not in. This is not a financial planning show. This isn't a let's add to the Christmas budget show. With that said, we are trying to win. We are trying to be right more often than we are wrong for, if for no other reason than the pride of it, to go along with the potential financial benefits. Now that everyone's understood, and I am very transparent about this stuff because I have been picking NFL games and putting money on NFL games for, I'm 41 to Monza.

I have been doing this for, wow, 25 years. 25 years is correct. Um, I, since we've been doing the pod, I had one truly outstanding year where I was one of the best against the spread pickers in the country. That actually is the, the reason I was so lucky to strike up a friendship with the legendary, arguably the goat of poker, the late great Doyle Brunson, was because Doyle would, I was very, very hot that year. Colin was very hot that year. And Doyle had a bit of a system where if my picks and Colin's picks aligned, he went with it. So that was, and so he and I, he and I became friends. I was able actually to watch, I watched the Bengals beat the Chiefs in the regular season of 2022 from Doyle's house, about five months before he passed away.

And so, sorry, there's a little sidebar piece. But, so we've had a couple, we've had one great year.

We've had three B- to B years. And we've had one D-plus year.

Last year was a B- The year before, I think, was the D-plus year. The year before that was a B-plus. And the year before that was the A-triple-plus year. We are, we are shooting for, if I'm putting it on a grade scale, I would be happy with somewhere, I'd be happy this year with a 3.6 GPA, a solid A-.

Solid A- is what we're shooting for. I'm not getting greedy. Just a solid, solid A-. Same process as last year?

Demontae (5:36)

Same process as last year.

Nick Wright (5:38)