Nick Wright REACTS: Seahawks WIN, Sam Darnold INJURED, Drake Maye STRUGGLES + Week 1 NFL storylines

SPEAKER_1 (0:03)

Kevin Durant is easily a better scorer than LeBron James, but you watch Kevin Durant play.

Nick Wright (0:09)

I wasn't listening. What happened?

SPEAKER_1 (0:12)

He actually tuned that out. He just can't hear any LeBron sliders.

Damonza (0:16)

What did he say?

Nick Wright (0:17)

That Durant's better?

Damonza (0:18)

He's a better scorer.

Nick Wright (0:20)

Well, that's odd because they average the same amount of points and LeBron's got a better field goal percentage.

SPEAKER_1 (0:24)

Right.

Nick Wright (0:25)

That's interesting.

SPEAKER_1 (0:25)

It's an interesting take.

Nick Wright (0:26)

Everyone agrees with you, by the way. Everyone's wrong.

Welcome in. That was 499 episodes ago. This is What's Wright? with Nick Wright, episode 500

SPEAKER_1 (0:42)

The glory days, man.

Nick Wright (0:44)

The glory days. Damanze had more hair. I had less hair.

We're doing it straight from the couch in the waning days of COVID. Welcome in. Damanze, I can't believe it, man. You've been here for, I don't know, I'd say 425 of the 500 episodes, maybe more. You took a summer off when you moved to LA. You kind of took this summer off as well.

SPEAKER_4 (1:13)

Probably missed 30, 40 episodes.

Nick Wright (1:15)

But you've been there for most of it. I've been here for 496 of the 500 episodes, as Ty Butler and Damon Bruce filled in for me a few weeks ago. But we're here. We didn't time this out to where it's like, oh, if we do this schedule, the 500th episode will be the first football show of the year. It just was a happy accident, and we got one hell of a game last night to discuss. This episode of What's Wright? with Nick Wright, as always, back set from episode one, is presented to you by Boost Mobile. And we have so much to get to. Reminder, tomorrow is our pick show, now brought to you by our friends at Polymarket. I will give you, we will go through every game on the slate, my stay aways, my five picks. Damonza will give you his winning.

Really sharp, historically, we will see how many times he teases through the zero this year.

Teaser coming up, all of that is tomorrow. But, the Seahawks lost their quarterback for at least the game, maybe longer. It didn't matter, they were able to win the game. So we will get to all of that in just a moment. But first, straight, the voicemail brought to you by Boost Mobile. Jalen Brunson is going to host SNL, that's cool. JJ. McCarthy is the 3rd string quarterback from Minnesota, that's not unexpected. Mike Tomlin wants to coach Josh Allen. I would have thought he would have had a chance to coach Josh Allen this year. He left his job, Sean McDermott left his job, Mike Tomlin said, I want to go work for NBC, didn't even throw his hat in the ring.

Also, Brock Bowers with a MCL trim, which is stunning, that that news came out, so he's going to be out at least a couple weeks, bad news for the Raiders. But Damonza, before we get to Seattle and New England, I'm told you guys have something for the 500th episode.

Damonza (3:10)

All right, so we've made it through 500 episodes and we have picked up some pretty big fans along the way. Let's hear what one of them has to say.

SPEAKER_4 (3:18)

Nick Wright, man, 500 episodes, that's unbelievable. We appreciate all your support from Kansas City.

You're the man, I know you bleed Kansas City red, and we, again, we appreciate every bit of that. Let's go get them for 500 more. All right, my man.

Nick Wright (3:41)

Wow, that's stunning.

Let me tell you real quick before we get to the game why that's stunning. Great job, Bluedock, getting that done. Appreciate the chiefs. So here is a sneaky thing that really loyal and diehard listeners know this story. But I haven't told it in forever. I'll be very quick here because we have to get the football game from last night.

I have not talked to Andy Reid in any long form since I've been on the TV show.

I'm pretty open about the relationships I have with the chiefs. You guys know I have a relationship with Patrick. I have a relationship with Brett Beach. Andy and I, you've seen each other shook hands. I maybe hugged him once at a parade, but he and I haven't really spoken. In part, it's because I was always very worried Andy Reid didn't like me because of a snafu involving Jamal Charles being inducted into the Port Arthur Hall of Fame. When they asked me 10 years ago to emcee, what they said was the roast of Jamal Charles as he got into the Hall of Fame, I emcee it, I do 10 solid cutting minutes, making fun of everyone, up to and including comparing Andy Reid's game clock management skills to my college sex life. He did not find it funny at all. And then in the following 90 minutes, clearly no one else got the memo that it was a roast. They thought it was a toast. And it was just 90 minutes of people saying nice things about everyone. And I opened it up with just 10 minutes of mediocre, mean comedy. And I haven't spoken Andy since then. That's unbelievable.