Nick feels ‘drastically better’ about Chiefs after win, Brou grades Dallas | FIRST THINGS FIRST

Nick feels ‘drastically better’ about Chiefs after win, Brou grades Dallas | FIRST THINGS FIRST

live from New York. It’s a show doing away with a a witty pathy open to bring you breaking news. Yes. I want to talk about Nick Bosa out for the year. Are you ready to give up on the 49ers even more than you had already given up on them? I mean they they do seem snake bitten brew. It it’s I I haven’t seen a team like the last 10 years. Every other season it feels like they got tons of injuries and sometimes for consecutive seasons. So, I’m I’m going to keep faith cuz the defense has been banking those three wins is huge. But I just But the this isn’t a threemon injury. This is such a bad injury. Even the insiders have to admit he’s out for the year. They can’t even pretend he’s going to be back. There is one bright spot for the 49ers. We’re back. I told you guys we are back. Brock, rest up. Will get a shot somewhere next year maybe. Somewhere very close to where he’s at right now. Just kidding. We have an excellent power pack show. We’re starting with Kansas City gets a win. Chiefs scored 22 points against a woolful Giants squad to avoid a dreaded 0 and3 start. All smiles. Not exactly. Travis Kelce was frustrated and took it out on Andy Reed. Andy took it out on him again. Andy hit him that time. I guess this was a good thing. If it happened to any of the other players in the entire league, it’d be front page news. But here it’s just firing up the team, I guess. Okay. Do you feel better, worse, or the same about your Kansas City Chiefs? Drastically, drastically better. The Super Bowl hangover lasted 10 quarters. And it was, Listen, the last time the Chiefs were in this spot, it lasted about seven, eight games. This this year, I believe it lasted two and a half, three games. And we saw in the second half notably them get back to being a semblance of who we have known them to be. And over the course of these three games, my biggest worry after week one, my single biggest worry was I was like, “Oh my god, for the first time really since Spagnolo’s been there, do we have a bad pass defense?” And then in week two it was better and yesterday obviously they took Russell Wilson who I mean NFC offensive player of the week for four. Listen, he had 450 yards. Well, it didn’t help the Cowboys. He had half a thousand Malik Neighbors on a milk carton. So, that I felt better about the pass defense over the, you know, from week one to two and then two to three. Yep. They are begrudgingly finally attempting shots downfield. And the last two games, it’s been the same thing. Taquan Thornton can make a great play. Patrick misses him and then he’s like, I’m going right back to him. He makes it. Last night, Taekquon Thornton can make a great play. He doesn’t quite hold on to it. Patrick goes back to him. The running game is still not good, but actually last night was the best it’s been absent Patrick. Patrick had one, right? He had five carries, but three were kneel downs. So, small improvements as they steady themselves. And the team that I compare this Patriot team or this Chiefs team to is the only team they’re chasing in anything. the Patriots who made eight straight conference championship games. The Chiefs have made seven. Four of those eight years from 2011 to 2018, they started two and two. They spent the they spent the beginning of the season kind of figuring it out. So all of that logically makes me feel better, but most importantly, emotionally and kind of metaphysically, there was a moment last night that I think we will look back on. So, a quick reminder for the audience, if I may, with some video. The one other time, the only time I said I felt worse about the Chiefs than I did after week two was the beginning of the 2021 season when they’d gotten blown out by the Bucks in the Super Bowl, then got blown out by the Bills, then got blown out by the Titans, then they played a bad New York Giants team that they barely beat, and then they played the Packers. and Jordan Love in an ugly awful game to save their season. And famously at the very end of the game, there was, you know, for first things first fans, the pass heard around the world. Everyone remembers it, you guys. And it was that moment I came on TV the next day and said, “Oh, Patrick’s out of his funk. The two high safeties didn’t ruin his career.” And the rest of the year they lost one time in route to the AFC Championship game which to be fair they did lose. And now this year we have the instead of the pass heard around the world we have the tackle that turned the tide. Patrick Mahomes after Isaiah Pacheco turns the wrong way. He throws it backwards again with a play that I truly believe a game saving. If it’s a game-saving play, it’s a seasonsaving play. And so we’ve had the passard around the world, bro. We’ve had we now have the tackle that turned the tide. And I got to tell you, Patrick Mahomes league MVP after three weeks is probably gone. However, Patrick Mahomes defensive player of the year. Who’s made who’s made a bigger who’s made a bigger defensive play this season than that one? Somebody tell me. The chief the Chiefs are a true contender. Their season might be over if that’s a scoop and score. 0 and three dead. Instead, the quarterback with a with a force fumble fumble recovery. I feel great. I feel we are so back where we’re at. Yeah, this is where we’re at. I could tell Nick was feeling good when I came cuz you know, usually you walk down and Nick is just in his notes in his phone doing something and he was so talkative. He was so chatty. Yeah. He was reminiscing about that pass around the world turn the tide. So he is back. That play I I would I agree with a lot of what you said. I mean that play was phenomenal. When usually I bristle when most quarterbacks are called the best football player in the world, you know, cuz there’s so many other things. And it was a terrible throw. But when I saw that, I was like that’s that’s what came to my mind. Best football player in the world. He threw the ball backwards and Pacheco’s running the ball. How many quarterbacks would have done that? I guess so. Like very few I think that is a very phenomenal play. It’s a great play, but it’s also No, it’s a No, I mean that’s based on obviously all the stuff he’s done in the past, but I’m just saying that was a great play. But to answer your question, I feel the same. What? Now, I was not the same about the Chiefs. Okay. I wasn’t I wasn’t as down as a lot of people were on the Chiefs. I was like, “Look, be patient. They’re fine.” I obviously wasn’t writing them off. I agree with Nick. The second half it looked like some type of flip uh switch was flipped and they played much better. But I’m not ready after, you know, one half of good football against a horrific Giants team to say the funk is over. Obviously, next week, you know, we’ll see what happens with the Ravens. Then they got Jacksonville. Jacksonville could be a good good barometer. If they beat the Ravens, obviously you’re going to say they’re out of it. But I thought it was a tale of two halves. And the first half, they just didn’t look very good. Like terrible. Seven, they had seven penalties. That was a big part of it. Y especially in the second quarter, they had seven penalties. I checked it out. They only have five games last year where they had seven or more penalties in the entire game and seven in the first they only had one in the second half. So they cleaned that up. Obviously Momes the backwards passes obviously weren’t great but second half he came out and threw the ball well. Not just running it and making plays, but he threw it well. I look, I think you could look back at this weeks or months from now and look at this as good because he is developing something with Taekquin Thornton. If nothing else, their timing is is developing, but also Thornton, I’m sure, is gaining more confidence. Like he is the deep threat right now. So when Worthy gets back, when Rice gets back, now that’s another That’s the other thing. We talked all last week assuming Worthy was going to play. Yes. Not not assuming but and then he felt like he was going to play and he didn’t play. He will be playing against Baltimore. Fake news hat is fake news is real. I can tell you that he’s going to play against Baltimore and then you two more you hold on for you know few more weeks and then Rice is back. KW you you seem like you feel like they lost and so I think they definitely won. Um I’m trying I was while you guys were talking I was trying to come up with a nice way to tell this story but I don’t have a nice way. So again, I don’t this story is not going to be good. Do you want to hear it? Last time I said, “Well, good. I’ll give it a shot.” The last you went the last time. Have you ever been Have you ever been randomly around a celebrity that you don’t notice? One time we were at the bar. Yeah. You guys thought that happened with me and Wayne Gretzky in Kansas City and I knew it was Wayne Gretzky. I just played it so cool. I should I just played it so cool that Wilds was like, “I don’t think Nick knew that Wayne Gretzky.” I was like, I don’t think he knew that I was Nick Wright. Crowded bar, world famous celebrity in this bar. Someone comes in be like, “You know that’s world famous celebrity?” I said, “Where famous somebody?” Looks totally normal. That’s the Chiefs. Yeah. I thought this was supposed to be this amazing person. Looks totally normal. That the Chiefs just look like any other team. That’s totally true. Not what do they do? Great. Like I don’t know. They just look like any other team that played the Giants. And I know we’re acting like the tackle that turned the tide perhaps did turn it. Chiefs this season points. Those are the last three games. Now, the first two teams they played were really good and have good defense. Okay. Points are largely the same. We’re going to score around 20 points. The yards around 300 total yards. Yards per play actually less against the Giants. A few a handful of bombs. Mahomes is not completing a ton of passes. Pass completion percentage is way down. But last year completion percentage, not only do I not care about it, I don’t think you guys actually care about it. You just talk about it because last year when we were talking about it being the worst year of his career, he had the highest completion percentage of his career. Completion percentage. I think it depends on the other the other things. I But I agree with you, Wilds. Right now they don’t right now the only thing special about them is the uniform and then who we know the head coach and the quarterback are and the fact that they have for seven straight years played their best football at the end of the year. To me the point of yesterday was to make sure they didn’t dig a hole they couldn’t get themselves out of. And so I’m not acting like they were predicting a blowout, right? I mean this it was almost a blowout but and so are you gonna move on? Yeah, we’re gonna we got Okay, just real quick before we move on because here is the one other thing Drew because Wild’s kind of you know poo pooed it. If they now the Chiefs are one win away from flipping the narrative entirely from not only are they fine but it’s what’s wrong with Baltimore who then themselves will be feel like we know what’s wrong with right or one and three which leads us to I mean I couldn’t I it snuck up on us KW first things first three week four Baltimore and Kansas City season I’m telling you what if Baltimore loses Tonight, two 1 and2 teams coming to Kansas City desperate for a win. First things first, ball three is say something. I need a W in this. 0 and2. Come on, Ravens. You guys look awesome. I don’t know what’s going on here. Nick definitely has somebody doctoring his system. Oh, no. That’s the Washington Post. They crush. Yeah. All right. Go ahead. That’s a great leave that up there. Uh check in on the champs who found themselves in a huge second half hole before Jaylen Herz and his much maligned aerial attack led a comeback capped off by a block field goal which sealed the game for Philadelphia. Well, we got to invest in a small steady cam. Giana, can we invest in one of those small steady send to the Eagles to thank them for their wins? Uh Brew, what did the Eagles prove in their comeback win? Well, they proved a few things. The first being that they own the Los Angeles Rams and everybody’s all American Matt Stafford. They just do. All right. They’re they won four straight games against the Rams. The Rams haven’t beaten them since 2020, I believe, when Carson Wentz was the quarterback. Love it. So, they own them. And yesterday, Nick, it felt like they big brother them. Not that they spotted him the lead, but it was like they were like, “Okay, this is ridiculous.” You know, like and at halftime, they just were like, “All right, that’s enough is enough.” And just totally outplayed him in the second half. And obviously in the second half they proved, “Look, open up the offense. I’m not saying you have to go Justin Herbert against the Chiefs or old Patrick Mahomes, whatever, but open up the offense and let Herz throw the ball. You I don’t disagree with what AJ Brown said. I have no problem with him saying it because he’s absolutely right and that will open things up for Saquon. Saquin still he played he had a few nicer runs in the second half yesterday but still has not been able to get it going because the defenses are stacking the box and not thinking you’re going to throw. So if you Jaylen’s proven I can throw every time he does it recently it’s worked. So, I’m again, I’m not saying throw it 35 times a game, but open up the offense, you’ll be a better team. Desperation to let him throw is your point. And if you start doing it now, if by some for some strange reason, he’s struggling and it doesn’t work or you lose a few games cuz he’s throwing too much, you can dial it back, but they need to open it up a little bit more. Uh here is Jaylen’s stats in the just the second half after being down 26-7. Four drives, uh 16 completions on 23 attempts, 200 yards in the second half, three touchdowns, uh no interception, passer rating of 137. What I like the most about it upon reviewing the game because I was obviously deep with my favorite quarterback Drake May, my second favorite quarterback now, Jaylen Herz, uh, is knowing, you know what it reminded me of, Nick, when Saquon was like talking about the tushbush. Everybody knows what’s coming and you can’t stop it. The big knock on Jaylen Herz is can he complete these passes when everybody knows coming. Fiveplay drive, 79 yards. Second and 13, AJ for 38. Uh, third and 10, Devonte for 16. Third and 10, eight minutes left. AJ goes for 25. Third and 10, under five, AJ for another 23. So this, everybody knew it was coming. He has to throw the ball. Hasn’t really thrown the ball all year. Still successful. And I didn’t make any sarcastic comments there at all. Just what do you mean? I’m just trying like he’s the best quarterback in the world. No, I’m just trying to just give solid analysis there. Just running off some numbers, not doing any funny voices, not doing anything crazy, not saying I told you so to anybody, just trying to just you should you should be professional. Here’s the thing. Kevin Wilds believes in Jaylen Herz more than either more than the Eagles offensive coordinator does. Like the I don’t know what his deal is. He needs to open. He had to get he had to get talked to by the leader of the team. Correct. And that was a good job by Jayla being like, “Hey, sorry, my mic pack fell off. Oh, that’s why my hands behind my back here. All right. I’m not trying. Thought you were doing like a Houdini bit. No. Can we show the numbers? The f show the first half numbers. Go through both of these. Uh if we could. So, I mean 33 yards in the first half is impossible. Yeah. And then 255 in the second half is phenomenal. And then Jaylen passing the ball first 10 quarters of the year. Seven passes that went more than 10 yards through the air. Second half against the Rams, nine. And so this was to me kind of a best case scenario for your take, Kevin Wilds, which is why I’m going to pay the Eagles as big of a compliment as I possibly can. Wow. What did the Eagles prove in the comeback win? At this moment, the 2025 Eagles are the 2024 Chiefs where they are. What? What’s wrong, Wilds? What’s wrong? I don’t think they they think that’s a compliment. I don’t The defending champ that is undefeated in real life finds a way to win, but they’re undefeated in real life, but winless in hypothetical situations. They are the they they literally won a game with a block with blocked kicks like the Chiefs did. They are the team that knows how to win and can beat you a million different ways, but it doesn’t none of the games feel clean. You know what I like the and it is they have they have graduated to the championship pedigree thing which is the I mean I I I I we can act like the 2024 Chiefs season was a total disaster. They won 17 games and went to the Super. I just don’t know. I just we put it on a platter like it’s a compliment for me. Maybe I know but if you said that at at you know city hall in Philadelphia I don’t know if it’ be like Yeah. Well, I feel like Nick, and I’m I’m sure there were some games that were because I’m thinking of the Denver win that didn’t feel that impressive with the block. Yeah. But there were other it felt like a lot of their wins were just they didn’t play that well, but they were low scoring, but they won. This one felt for Philly. I get what you’re saying, but that second half was just bulldozed. And that I totally agree that that feels good. But it was where and it even gets to and we can like the they’re getting a bit of the zaprruder film did you miss this call stuff from the internet like the Chiefs got last year which right which we would be remiss by the way since it was such a story last week if we didn’t at least follow up briefly on the tush push stuff right so the tush push because Pereira pointed out immediately right their the fourth down tush push they showed it I don’t the and he is like, you know what I mean? That’s it’s so hard to call that’s a false start. The thing is this, it wasn’t hard at all in the Saints the Saints game cuz the Saints game there was a tush push. There was a false start and they called it. So, I have another announcement because the tush push I do think people are going to get flagged on. Yeah, except the Eagles, right? Which is why it’s not the tush push anymore, boys. Oh, this this guy is bad. Tush push gone. Long live the early bird. It is. They’re the only ones who can get away with it. Tush push in the lab. In the lab. The top tackle that he’s been waiting all the hard time. The early bird KW be honest. Early bird’s pretty good. Early bird is good. We call like early bird’s going to keep keep it rolling. Everyone else is trying to do tush push. Brotherly shove would have been Philly, but it was called tush push. caught on syllables. Yeah. Listen, if they’re going to do it, they can get away with it. The poor the poor Saints can’t. They can’t. Uh, Eagles in Tampa Bay. Battle of the undefeated teams. That’s going to be a good game. Tampa’s beaten him last year, but Tampa’s on everybody. Now, Packers were talking about going undefeated yesterday. They were talking about losing to the Browns. Cleveland pulls off the upset 13-10. We’re not on the Cowboys anymore. Keep going. Concerned about this Packers performance. The Browns. The Browns who got blasted by 24 points a week ago in Baltimore. I was there. I watched it. The Browns who Nick have yet to score 18 points in a game this season including 18. Include yesterday. The Browns whose quarterback has two touchdowns and four interceptions this season. That’s who you lose to. I don’t like it one bit. I love it. I love this. Why? I love it because it is just what the doctor ordered. Why? They were way they win two games over two good teams and now they got the offensive lineman talking about we want to go undefeated, right? They saw themselves at top Nick’s tears and thought they had arrived. JLo was on Bruised Ballot and thought he was the man. They clearly went into Cleveland taking the Browns lightly. They felt like they were playing a college team because the way they got pushed around on the line of scrimmage on both sides. Like they have been shutting everybody down in the run. I think the Packers defense was pretty good. The defense was fine. But but but they have been shutting everybody down in the run. We I was talking about that every week. Oh, they got two yards a carry against the Packers. Yesterday the Browns got five yards a carry and they the the kid Judkins almost had 100 yards. So they ran. That proved to me when they ran on I get it. They didn’t score a ton of points, but they don’t have an offense that can score points and they still were able to run the ball on the Packers. So to me, this is I’m serious. This is what they needed. They were a little bit cocky and thinking that, hey, we got Micah, we’re the best team in NFC. We’ve arrived. And now they know they got to get back into the lab. And JLo turned into J with that pass. Yeah. So quickly, the thing about him, Nick, he had gone nine games without an interception and usually he’s streaky. I know, right? So if he Let’s see if this turns into another streak of interceptions or he fixes it real quick. This is just So here’s the deal. I don’t really care about Micah’s comment because I thought the defense was exceptional. The Browns had three points going into this moment and the only reason they got a touchdown there, he returns it to the four. You know what I the the the Packers defense did its job. The Packers offense struggled the whole game and then despite that, all you have to do is not turn the ball over, right? It’s the if if you go incomplete there, that’s fine. You are punting to Joe Flacco to go 80 yards on the Packers defense. He’s not going to do it. So when I this to me was just confirmation that my take when the Packers trade for Micah Parsons, I I will double down on it. The most intriguing person in the NFL this year is that guy, Jordan Love, because if he can just be steady and good, they can win the championship. But that type of mistake to me, Brew, you’re talking about as a wakeup call. I look at it as a flashing red light. Like that was concerning. That’s the only way you lose that game. Cowboys went to Chicago, got cooked, Dak threw two interceptions. Uh Matt Ibra’s defense got gashed for the second straight game. They were uh Cowboys this season. Here’s the defensive ranks without Micah Parson. 28th in points, 30th in yards, pass rating 31st, and dead last in third down. It’s almost like the defense that for four years was the worst in the league when Micah wasn’t on the field is playing whole games without Micah on the field. All right, we’re taking we are looking live at the question mark beneath which is really a question. Well, we never know. Yeah, Bruce, sometimes you’re doing a whole preamble and then you’re like and that’s why they get C minus. Allow me to do my preamble. Um, look, I really thought they were going to win this game going into it. I thought they were when they gave up 450 yards to the shell of Russell Wilson. I should have known better, right? But Nick, you said it. The Cowboys are proof that EPA is a legitimate statistic. I mean, ser the last four years, EPA has said that they are the best defense in the league with Micah Parsons on the field and the worst defense in the league without they are the worst defense I’ve seen in years. Like every one of Caleb’s four touchdown passes, I’m not taking anything away from him, but the receiver was wide open. Every single one of and and a few of them nobody was within 15 yards. One was a flea flicker. I still Well, still he’s still People were flee flickers. It was And Ben Johnson did a great job calling plays uh in the game, but didn’t even need a touch. And then offensively with Dak, I look I heard he was playing as better than any quarterback in the league. That’s what people were saying. People were texting me after I said that’s ridiculous on the air and he has his two interceptions. I know one of them wasn’t his fault, but then George Pickkins, how you dropped that ball? You know that interception. The one bright spot was Javante Williams, who I’ve always liked. 10 totes, 76 yards, but even he fumbled. So even the bright spot, you got just give me that. You just took it from me. Just took it from me. So even the bright spot turned out to not be a bright spot. So that leads me to the bottom line which everyone wants to see. It’s an F. You know it’s an F. In fact, it’s such an F that I got to hear from my boys. Oh, we have a button. I Well, you know what the button does? The F button. Hey, Jerry. I got a question. Hey Jerry, one simple question. Jerry, where’s Micah? Where’s Micah? That defense game versus the run game versus the pass game. So it was another F game. F game. F game. F game. Absolutely. Excellent job. Excellent work. Better work than the Cowboys. No. F game already. Speaked yet again. Uh downhill. I I want to let Greg as always. I want to let Greg go. So, I’m just going to add something. You guys know the last time Caleb Williams played in a game that he wasn’t sacked? Never. USC. Yeah. September of 2023 against Stanford. the last team to not be able to sack Caleb who’s the Stanford Cardinal. Um so listen and and now and CD goes out which was their own you know and uh how long is that how well listen Stephen Jones said he had a high ankle and but then they tried to say he might play this week. I saw I’m not sure who reported it but since we went on there saying he’s probably going to miss a couple weeks. High ankle for a receiver is you even if it’s the most mild, you usually miss sometime. Absolutely. And it’s one of those injuries that lingers all year because if he if he gets touched, if it gets just tweaked, it almost reestablishes the initial injury. But yes, f game. This is this is very fitting. Like I think what has always been frustrating for me as a as someone who’s played on offense is when a critical player goes down like is your offense simply just tailored to that individual. I know how important of of a player CD Lamb is. Everyone does. However, you have to have a counter punch. You have to have a plan in place if that if something h were to happen. And it’s like when when CD Lamb went down, it’s it’s over. It’s he’s so heavily relied on to produce and to create opportunity for everyone else that it there’s no way this team is going to have success. So when Jerry’s asked, “Do you still play still believe we’re a playoff team?” No. No. Not when we the one thing that you have going for you cuz he said number four is out there. Well, yes, number four is out there, but if number 88 isn’t out there with number four, it doesn’t matter. Especially with the numbers that we’re seeing with this defense. Uh, look, it was terrible. Yeah, it was terrible. This is fitting. I would have given him because I’m I’m a little soft sometimes because CD is a receiver and I know the value of receivers is great. Corner. You would have given him I would have given him a D because no the Cowboys defense is unplayed right now and I mean Diggs is not himself and he’s hurt. Bland is hurt. They they don’t have the horses on defense and they can only win shootouts and without CD Lamb they can’t win shootouts. It’s going to be a bad if if the Packers Micah comes to town next week. Oh, next week without CD it’s going to be a disaster. Not going to be good. On the other side of the ball, Caleb just came alive just short of 300 yards, throws four touchdowns, tallies a passer rating of 143. The Bears locker room fired up. They counted the preseason game prep. Uh Caleb yesterday completed 68% of his passes again just short of 300 yards, but career best yards per pass, touchdown interception ratio. Nick mentioned he was never sacked and passer rating according to Ben Johnson 142.6. I would have rounded up in the locker room. Sure. Just saying. Uh, Nick, are you back in on your guy Caleb? I never gave up on Caleb. What? What are you scoffing about, Brew? You dropped him like a bad habit. No, I would expect you of all people, Brew, to respect this. I was trying to be kind to my dear friend Danny. In fact, as as is written in 2 Corinthians verse 9 and 10, give what you have decided in your heart to give, for God loves a cheerful giver. I thought you all people would understand that to do right by myself. I love you. I love you getting into work. I appreciate that. I expect that to be able to bless abundantly versus 101. I assume that wouldn’t be thrown in my face. My god. Listen, uh I I this is the type of game that I thought he would have last year. Yeah. And that in the NFC title game. Oh, yeah. Maybe that would have been great. Um and yes, everything has to be reverse curved against this Cowboys defense at this point. But still that not getting sacked. I think honestly, and Greg, you can tell me if you think I’m being too kind here. I feel like Caleb last year, the moment the flea flicker tossed back to him is off, he’s looking to run or throw it away. You know what I mean? Like he was almost too cautious last year with not making a mistake. And the fact that he had courage is the wrong word, but you know what I mean? He was like, “No, we’re going to stick with it.” Yep. And that is I understand Burton hasn’t beat, but that’s a hell of a throw a hell of a throw. It was about 60 something yards. And so he now again, if he’s going to be graded against the people in his draft class for this season thus far, he’s been the best one. Now it’s Jaden missed a game and Drake, you know, has, I think, actually played well. Just makes a lot of mistakes. The Penn was terrible. McCarthy’s hurt. Um I’m leaving Bo Knicks has been, I think, mediocre. But like this is a hugely positive sign. And as Danny’s talked about, Greg, now they win next week, which they’re supposed to, you’re fine going into the buy. You’re settled and you’re fine. You’ve seen the week- toeek progression that you hoped under Ben Johnson. Yeah, this was this was very positive. It was like the perfect storm. You you kind of alluded to what Dallas gave up the prior week against the Giants and Russell Wilson. It’s like as a player, you see these games and you’re like, there’s no way they gonna play us like that. There’s no if they do that, I’m going crazy. I’m go. So, when you turn on the film and you see holes throughout an entire defense on on how you can attack them up front, at the second level, every single level of their defense, it’s exciting. You have to be able to put together a game plan to support that. And I thought Ben Johnson did a phenomenal job of setting up all the other plays going 12 personnel that’s two tight ends and shuring up the the fact that our quarterback’s not going to get hit today. Our quarterback’s not going to get pressure to where he is uncomfortable and he can’t get in rhythm. They establish that early. Set up the flea flicker. Now you make plays. You’re positive. Things are happening. I think I still there’s still work to be done. Yeah, of course. against a defense like this, you got to tip your hat to Caleb. He did exactly what he should have done in that game. Yeah, look, I thought Ben Johnson did a great job calling plays. He called a few design runs for Caleb, you know, which I I wanting him to do. So, that’s something they can lean into because obviously he he’s got that skill, but the question is, look, he was great. I don’t want to take anything away from him. Obviously Dallas’s defense is horrific. The thing for him is he’s got to be consistent because remember as I pointed out last year he has some moments that were and all of these moments do show you like his ceiling is crazy. Like his ceiling is is star, superstar, whatever. All that people thought he could be. He’s just got to become consistent at doing it every week. And if a g you have a like next week, let’s say they the spectacular play isn’t there, he’s still got to be on time, not make the mistakes. still miss some of those. He missed a few throws. He did. But next next week is just such a massive game for the Bears. It really is. But it’s a by any means it doesn’t matter how they win cuz if they can beat the Raiders next week, they then have a buy and then who do they play coming out of the buy? The team that ended their season last year, the Commanders, the whole Jaden Caleb, the the Hail Mary, the whole thing. And so you have extra time to prepare. He’s got to beat the Raiders coming up, which is hard to do. 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The Kansas City Chiefs beat the New York Giants 22-9 and end a 2 game losing streak. Nick Wright, Chris Broussard, and Kevin Wildes ask if the Chiefs’ Super Bowl hangover is officially over, and Broussard grades the Dallas Cowboys following their loss to the Chicago Bears.

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