Nick Wright’s BEST NFL over/unders PREDICTIONS + Aaron Donald RETURNS, preseason REACTIONS

**Nick Wright** (0:03)
Welcome in What's Wright? with Nick Wright Episode 496 We are back. Well, half of us are back. As you saw from the split screen, Demonsi not here today. Listen, Demonsi is learning the beginning stages of fatherhood during school season and daycare season, and multiple jobs, and all of the big life stuff that a lot of us learned around his age. He's learning right now. And he, a week ago, had a kid that was a little under the weather, a baby that was a little under the weather. He now has some work to make up at his real job at Fox, working on the herd. And so Demonsi is not here today. He will be back on Thursday. We will, you know, pick up the slack for him in the meantime, but I am so happy to be back. We have so much to get to. This is one of my favorite shows of the year. As we do win totals, 32 over-unders for all 32 teams. And while we won't bet all 32 of them, we will tell you which ones we are betting and which ones we are locking in, but we will give you our liens on all 32 teams. Also, by the way, a little What's Wright? announcement coming on Thursday. We might have an additional new, better-than-ever gambling sponsor for the show Thursday. But today, as Ernie Johnson would say, we are unsullied by advertisement, so but we're just going to do our over-unders. Luckily for team win totals, it's pretty, you know, the the number is pretty uniform across all sportsbooks, prediction markets, whatever it is. So we have all of that to do before we get into the show. And I have about six hours of content that I need to jam back into about the next 75 minutes. A huge thank you to Ty Butler and Damon Bruce for filling in while we were off. Selfishly, for me, it made the show feel big and important. The fact that we had fill-in hosts, that I wasn't here and the show was able to still keep moving along as we move towards episode 500, which will be next week, which is just perfect timing on episode 500, being right when the NFL season starts. But Ty Butler and Damon Bruce did a phenomenal job filling in for me. I really appreciate it. And if you guys liked it or even if you didn't like it, but you probably did, maybe throw their channels, Ty D Butler and Damon Bruce, their channels on YouTube, a follow, a subscribe. Speaking of followers or subscribers, we are this close to a quarter of a million on YouTube. We're at 246,000 and change. The goal was to get to 250,000 by our 500th episode. I think we're going to come up just short of that goal, but we still should be there pretty soon. So we appreciate you. You can follow us on iTunes, Spotify, all that great stuff. But let's get right into the show. Starting with straight to voicemail brought to you by our great friends at Boost Mobile. Jalen Brown giving a key to the city of Boston. That's so cool.
It really does seem like he really invested a lot of time, energy, money, and a lot of himself in the city and in doing work in the city. Listen, he played there for a decade. They went to two finals. They went to six conference finals. They won a championship. He's a Celtics legend. Even for a team with the history as the Celtics, he won a finals MVP. He helped deliver them, what is it, Banner 17 He's a Celtics legend. I thought the ceremony they did for him was really cool. Joker, out at round one of the US Open. I should be at the US Open maybe tomorrow night, definitely Saturday afternoon, and Messi retires from Argentinian soccer. Again, I am putting one chip on the roulette wheel of takes, as Wilds would say, that Messi plays in the 2030 World Cup, at least in a game, because Argentina will get to host a game at that World Cup. Reminder to everybody, we will bring back at some point the mailbag. You can send emails to what'swrightmailbag at gmail.com. However, before we get to the NFL team over-unders, which even if we go fast is going to take a lot of time, there are two Rams related takes I need to get to. One or news items, I guess. One is Aaron Donald is a Ram again. We'll do that in a second. The other one is the viral take of the day from yesterday from Dan Orlovsky. Orlovsky said on GitHub, if Matthew Stafford gets another one, meaning another championship, another Super Bowl, he has an MVP in his back pocket, he becomes top five, top seven all time conversation.