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Speaker 2: Welcome in special episode of What's Right with Nick Wright
Speaker 2: Ever bringing you today for the holiday break, if you will,
Speaker 2: where We're gonna look at four of what I've been
Speaker 2: told are my best takes of the year, and that
Speaker 2: must have been hard work. I mean, I for the
Speaker 2: producers to find just four. I mean We've got all
Speaker 2: these episodes, all these takes, and the producers had to
Speaker 2: spend their you know days, right before Christmas finding just
Speaker 2: the four best, and then equally hard, I would imagine
Speaker 2: be finding my four worst, because how many episodes did
Speaker 2: you listen to start to finish all sixty minutes and
Speaker 2: you're like, damn, not a single bad one. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's a lot of work for you guys that you
Speaker 2: guys are putting in the extra hours around the holidays,
Speaker 2: which I greatly appreciate. Demand. Let's start with the best,
Speaker 2: and we should have some sound associated with all these demons.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, what's the first one?
Speaker 3: You started off twenty twenty three with an all time heater.
Speaker 3: You doubled down on the prince that was promised in
Speaker 3: the Jags beating the Chargers in the playoffs last year,
Speaker 3: even when they were down twenty seven points, you still
Speaker 3: bet on your guy, Trevor Lawrence and it paid off.
Speaker 3: You celebrated with a victorious IG Live.
Speaker 2: The Jaguars were four and eight, and somebody had the
Speaker 2: foresight to say, they're still winning the division. And I
Speaker 2: told you guys a month ago that the next time
Speaker 2: they lose was gonna be in Arrowhead to the Chiefs
Speaker 2: in the divisional round. No, you don't say everybody laughed
Speaker 2: at me.
Speaker 3: To undefeated on Saturday.
Speaker 2: Undefeated on Saturdays. I forgot about that stupid take I had.
Speaker 3: Does this belong in your top four winning takes?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Definitely. You were there with me for that watching
Speaker 2: that whole game. That was crazy and the I mean,
Speaker 2: it wasn't looking great in the first half. We're not
Speaker 2: gonna lie. Uh And you know what take, what take
Speaker 2: other people had that I didn't, That actually is a
Speaker 2: take that aged really well, was that the Chargers should
Speaker 2: have fired Staley right after that game, that they should
Speaker 2: have moved on from him right there, that they weren't
Speaker 2: gonna Yeah, and that was that one's not even mine
Speaker 2: now Trevor. Unfortunately, Trevor this year he's dealt with some injury.
Speaker 2: I thought that he was gonna have an MVP caliber season.
Speaker 2: He obviously hasn't. I still think the Jags, if he's healthy,
Speaker 2: are dangerous come to the playoffs. But yeah, we'll always
Speaker 2: have last year when I never abandoned the two and seven.
Speaker 2: I think they were at one point Jacksonville Jaguars all
Speaker 2: the way to a playoff victory, and then they went
Speaker 2: to Arrowhead and threw a scare into my Chiefs after
Speaker 2: Mahomes got hurt. All right, next, all.
Speaker 3: Right, next up, we have your most viral clip of
Speaker 3: the year. When you called out the tush push.
Speaker 2: I said it six months ago. I'll say it again,
Speaker 2: I will eventually be proven right that tush push play
Speaker 2: is a.
Speaker 3: Blight on the league.
Speaker 2: It's bad for the sport. It should not be allowed.
Speaker 2: The reason the NFL will ban this is because the
Speaker 2: place sucks. It's not exciting, it takes all suspense out.
Speaker 2: It's an ugly play. That's it. The NFL changes rules
Speaker 2: all the time to make things a better television product.
Speaker 3: He said it was an unattractive play and that it
Speaker 3: was bad for TV and called that it will be banned.
Speaker 3: A few months later that it will be banned, and
Speaker 3: a few months later Commissioner Roger Gourdell caught out the
Speaker 3: play for that exact same reason. We'll see if you're
Speaker 3: truly right after this season. But that's got to be
Speaker 3: up there with one of your best ones, right well.
Speaker 2: Listen, I just I this is one of those times
Speaker 2: where I'm just surprised other that I'm allowed to be
Speaker 2: like the only person saying something when it's so obvious
Speaker 2: to me, Like everyone was talking about should it be,
Speaker 2: is it fair? Is it not fair? Is it dangerous?
Speaker 2: Is it alt risk? And it was just so obvious
Speaker 2: to me. None of that matters. The NFL is a
Speaker 2: television show, and this is terrible television. The NFL is
Speaker 2: going to change it. And now what you're seeing already,
Speaker 2: I believe, just my hypothesis is the NFL is trying
Speaker 2: to almost grease the skids to changing it by enforcing
Speaker 2: more procedural penalties on it. You saw Jason Galzie get
Speaker 2: penalized for moving the football on it this past week
Speaker 2: because they do not want that to be a central
Speaker 2: part of the offense for one of their marquee teams.
Speaker 2: That was so clear that that was gonna happen next.
Speaker 3: You were right on your Chiefs at the at the
Speaker 3: beginning of the year through the end with your mantra
Speaker 3: never a doubt on their way to their second Lombardy
Speaker 3: of the Mahomes era.
Speaker 2: Who could have seen it coming? This God Doog show,
Speaker 2: that's who could have seen it coming? Let's go, Oh
Speaker 2: it's the Bills year. Oh the Bengals have their number.
Speaker 2: Oh they're gonna miss Tyreek Hill. Oh mahomes Is hurt.
Speaker 2: Ain't a day thing matter when you have that quarterback
Speaker 2: and that coach.
Speaker 3: Your confidence continued to grow as you made some prold
Speaker 3: predictions for this season. Will this become a Category two
Speaker 3: take well?
Speaker 2: The undefeated year obviously is you know, died on Opening Night,
Speaker 2: which almost almost made it so bad it was good.
Speaker 3: That almost like.
Speaker 2: Calling for a team to go twenty and oh and
Speaker 2: they don't get to one and oh is just kind
Speaker 2: of like hilarious. And had they like started five and
Speaker 2: oh and then lost, it wouldn't have the same panache.
Speaker 3: As what happened.
Speaker 2: Yea. Now I believe the Chiefs are gonna win the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl, and I though the way my super Bowl
Speaker 2: pick is Chiefs Cowboys. It would be great. I was
Speaker 2: so close to having it dead on last year, and
Speaker 2: I'm sure we'll talk about that later when I had
Speaker 2: Chiefs Niners. Yes, I'd love to have a Chiefs Cowboys
Speaker 2: super Bowl. But the most fun for me, for the
Speaker 2: TV show for everyone is a Chiefs Niners super Bowl.
Speaker 2: That's the most fun. The most fun is if PERTY
Speaker 2: just keeps rolling, wins a League MVP days before the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl, and then takes on the Chiefs. That's the
Speaker 2: outcome that I think sports fans deserve. I don't think
Speaker 2: that's the outcome they're going to get because I don't
Speaker 2: think the Niners are gonna get there, But that would
Speaker 2: be that would feel like the highest stakes for me
Speaker 2: of any Super Bowl imaginable. All right, last one, have
Speaker 2: you ever.
Speaker 3: Been more right on someone than Draymond Green this year?
Speaker 3: He's always gotten into on the court trouble. But after
Speaker 3: a Shenanigans in Sacramento, you said the juice is no
Speaker 3: longer the squeeze. Well, dreywond kept going down the same road.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so we'll see. Listen, I I want to
Speaker 2: be I mean, obviously Draymond's not dealing with the decline
Speaker 2: of his team and his play well, and he's going
Speaker 2: through some things I don't I don't really buy though
Speaker 2: I've said it before and I'll say it again. The
Speaker 2: punishment of like has to go to counseling and it's indefinite.
Speaker 2: Doesn't jive with the fact that he said it was
Speaker 2: an accident. He said this last thing he didn't mean
Speaker 2: to do. And so you if you're someone who it
Speaker 2: is a clumsy analogy, I apologize, but has gotten two
Speaker 2: DUIs and then you get arrested for a third and
Speaker 2: you tell your friends, family, everyone that will listen. Guys,
Speaker 2: I know I've made mistakes in the past. Time I
Speaker 2: didn't have a drop to drink. I fell asleep, the
Speaker 2: cop was wrong. He's I'm going to fight this. I
Speaker 2: know I've made mistakes. I was not drinking. And then
Speaker 2: the next day you check into rehab. It's like, well,
Speaker 2: hold on, wait a minute. Draymond sat at that press
Speaker 2: conference and said I was trying to flop. I did
Speaker 2: not mean to hit him, and then the next day
Speaker 2: the NBA says you need to basically undergo counseling for
Speaker 2: anger management.
Speaker 3: Well hold on.
Speaker 2: So, in my opinion, part of Draymond, since it's an
Speaker 2: indefinite suspension, part of his return to play, should have
Speaker 2: to be him. And you know acknowledging no, I was
Speaker 2: lying there. I definitely meant to hit him because I'm
Speaker 2: a maniac at this moment of my career on the court,
Speaker 2: and the part of it that's the It sucks for
Speaker 2: Steph because Steph is somehow as good as ever. Clay
Speaker 2: is coming on a bit, but we know Clay is
Speaker 2: a diminished player, and Draymond is flailing about literally and physically.
Speaker 2: All right, last one, DeMont before we get to and
Speaker 2: I don't even know how they found four of them,
Speaker 2: but go ahead.
Speaker 3: You got a quick bonus take here. So I was
Speaker 3: away some time ago at you and Dora had a
Speaker 3: debate over a which was the best barbecue spot or
Speaker 3: barbecue place between Kansas City and Houston.
Speaker 4: It's kind of a general consensus that Texas has the
Speaker 4: best barbecue, and.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you that that is nonsense. If we are
Speaker 2: ranking barbecue, it's Kansas City one, Memphis two, the Carolinas three.
Speaker 2: That's the list.
Speaker 4: Number one is Texas according to what DOORA second is
Speaker 4: Memphis according to what do Youora heard is Kansas City, Missouri.
Speaker 2: According to what do youorra Google? You agree with me
Speaker 2: on this right that Texas barbecues is good but overrated,
Speaker 2: and Kansaity barbecue is the best barbecue of anywhere in
Speaker 2: the world.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't go as far as to
Speaker 3: call it overrated, but Kansas City barbecue is definitely better
Speaker 3: than Texas. And I'm basing that much.
Speaker 2: It's only it's only overrated by people who say it's
Speaker 2: the best. Something can be good but not even close
Speaker 2: to the best. And your sister really infuriated me that show.
Speaker 2: She was like, no, it's Texas. Everybody knows it. I'm like,
Speaker 2: what do you mean? She's like, look and she she
Speaker 2: was like, look at this and showed me like a
Speaker 2: Google page where it was like Texas is the best,
Speaker 2: Give me a break. That was the worst take. Door
Speaker 2: didn't give many takes, but that was the worst take
Speaker 2: anyone gave was the Texas over Kansaity barbecue. All right,
Speaker 2: what am I losing takes? What are we doing here?
Speaker 3: We're losing takes? All right? You may have been right
Speaker 3: on Casey last season and maybe right on them again
Speaker 3: this year. Maybe, But when it comes to betting on
Speaker 3: your Chiefs, let's just say you have not done your best.
Speaker 3: It's actually an intervention. We are urging you to please
Speaker 3: stop betting the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: Oh, Nick, you always picked the Chiefs. False.
Speaker 3: I definitely knew.
Speaker 2: I definitely knew that I tend not to include the
Speaker 2: Chiefs and Knicks picks.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: But I typically, and you know this, Demanse, do not
Speaker 2: pick the Chiefs and Knicks picks.
Speaker 3: That's my favorite saying.
Speaker 2: I don't typically put the Chiefs in Knicks picks because
Speaker 2: they're not a great covering team. And you guys know
Speaker 2: I don't pick the Chiefs every week. The Chiefs actually
Speaker 2: are rarely in the picks. Two not three, not four,
Speaker 2: not five, not fixed. Yeah, I think Ken City went.
Speaker 2: It's when it's only a point and a half spread,
Speaker 2: you don't have to do much analysis. Who do you
Speaker 2: think is gonna win?
Speaker 3: Stop it, get some help. Just stop betting with your heart,
Speaker 3: bet with your mind. You're straying away from the process.
Speaker 3: Let's get back to the process. We are not going
Speaker 3: to get back on top of things with a few
Speaker 3: weeks that we have left if you keep betting the Chiefs,
Speaker 3: especially as heavy favorites. We know that it's never been
Speaker 3: the thing to do. Let's rally. My teasers are in
Speaker 3: the dumps. You still have life. Let's get into it.
Speaker 3: None of us gonna pass the night. You know we
Speaker 3: have to be better. All right.
Speaker 2: Well that's really well done by you, guys. I didn't
Speaker 2: see that coming. Now. I didn't realize I'd bet on
Speaker 2: the Chiefs six times this year. I didn't realize that
Speaker 2: every time I've done it, I've said I typically don't.
Speaker 2: Now six times is you know we're sixteen weeks into
Speaker 2: the year. That's not even every other week. I also
Speaker 2: will say this, if I was looking at that correctly,
Speaker 2: I'm two and four betting the Chiefs one of those
Speaker 2: losses was the Jets game when Mahomes took a knee
Speaker 2: instead of scoring a touchdown that would have given me
Speaker 2: a cover, right. Another one was the Bills game when
Speaker 2: the referees stole the cover from me. So in my heart,
Speaker 2: I'm four and two betting the Chiefs the Packers. One
Speaker 2: was bad. I got that one wrong, and I don't
Speaker 2: even know what the other the Backers item laying six
Speaker 2: they lost by eight, and I don't even know what
Speaker 2: the other one was where I didn't cover. But uh yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, I thought about including them in Week
Speaker 2: sixteen against the Raiders minus ten. I didn't. Well, by
Speaker 2: the time you guys see this, we'll know whether or
Speaker 2: not that covered. Uh But what is noteworthy is in
Speaker 2: the history of Nick's picks, I don't think I've ever
Speaker 2: bet against the Chiefs, which is probably bad process. I've
Speaker 2: never once taken the team playing the Chiefs to cover.
Speaker 2: That's probably bad process. I can admit that, all right.
Speaker 3: Next, you are the harshest critic on the then two
Speaker 3: time reigning MVP Nicola Jokic in early twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: This is the part that kills me about the voters
Speaker 2: A lot of them are talking at folks or writers
Speaker 2: and they make predictions. Very few are picking the Nuggets
Speaker 2: to win the title. Why not? The West is wide open,
Speaker 2: they have the best player, they have home court. Shouldn't
Speaker 2: they be the title pick unless you actually, deep down
Speaker 2: don't think he's the best player, in which case, stop
Speaker 2: giving him the MVP every year.
Speaker 3: And why you have come around to the on the
Speaker 3: Serbian It did take a while to get there. How
Speaker 3: hard was it to swallow this one?
Speaker 2: Well, listen, I was wrong on certain things, and.
Speaker 3: So here's just wrong. You were just wrong?
Speaker 2: Well, well, I was wrong about his ceiling and how
Speaker 2: great of a player he was. There's no doubt I
Speaker 2: was wrong about that. I didn't see what other people saw.
Speaker 2: I was wrong about that. I was not wrong that
Speaker 2: giving him a third straight MVP would have been crazy.
Speaker 2: I was not wrong that giving him the back to
Speaker 2: back MVP when his team was a sixth seed I
Speaker 2: thought was the wrong result. I still feel that way
Speaker 2: about those MVP awards, that it was giving the a
Speaker 2: second straight MVP when MVPs, except for Russ, had always
Speaker 2: come from teams that were a top three seed, and
Speaker 2: certainly not breaking the President we're not gonna have a
Speaker 2: third straight MVP. I stand by all those I was
Speaker 2: wrong about how good he was and wrong about what
Speaker 2: the Nuggets could do. I was wrong about those things.
Speaker 2: My feelings about the historical precedent mattering for MVP awards.
Speaker 2: I don't feel like I was wrong about those. I don't,
Speaker 2: But I was wrong about the big picture stuff. What
Speaker 2: demanse go ahead?
Speaker 3: I mean, the third year that you said he shouldn't
Speaker 3: got the MVP, he went on to win the finals. Yeah,
Speaker 3: still on the same side of that argument.
Speaker 2: Because everyone because hold on, okay, because so for two reasons,
Speaker 2: if I may just quickly, one is leading into that.
Speaker 2: When I was making the case the guy just got
Speaker 2: bounced in round one, let's not give him a third
Speaker 2: straight MVP, everyone told me I'm a clown and that
Speaker 2: it's a regular season award for this year only, so
Speaker 2: what happens in the postseason shouldn't matter. Now folks are saying, oh,
Speaker 2: now the postseason does matter. I agree, the postseason matters,
Speaker 2: which is why in a just world he wouldn't have
Speaker 2: won it the year before, and then he could have
Speaker 2: won it last year. But overall, yeah, I was wrong
Speaker 2: about yo kics, that's correct, but the MVP stuff I
Speaker 2: stand by next.
Speaker 3: Next. You might not call this a losing take, but
Speaker 3: I am. We will. You had two fifty to one
Speaker 3: tickets this year and you were so close the Chiefs Eagles,
Speaker 3: Super Bowl EXACTA and the Lakers to win the finals.
Speaker 3: The producers and I begged you to hedge, and you
Speaker 3: refuse to time after time and ended up losing. Would
Speaker 3: you take it back, knowing what you know now?
Speaker 2: No, absolutely not.
Speaker 3: No, I wouldn't.
Speaker 2: And here's the thing. Here's the thing that I don't
Speaker 2: that maybe I don't want to sound fatalistic, but the
Speaker 2: fact of the matter is this, I'm gonna die with money
Speaker 2: leftover unless something goes terribly awry when I'm when I die,
Speaker 2: there's gonna be some amount of money left. I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna have drawn down to zero. So all of these
Speaker 2: me not hedging. It just is actually costing demands a
Speaker 2: door Indiana money. It just draws down what they eventually
Speaker 2: will get. Like so, I'm fine, I got a good job,
Speaker 2: I live a good life, and I'm not hedging. I
Speaker 2: don't gamble to hedge. What's the T shirt we were
Speaker 2: gonna make? I'm a goddamn gambler. The I'm not hedging.
Speaker 2: I forgot what it was, but it would have been
Speaker 2: a good, good T shirt. All right, last one, go ahead?
Speaker 3: All right. Admittedly you could still be right on this one,
Speaker 3: but fading the forty nine ers has not has not
Speaker 3: looked great this season. In the preseason gambling show, you
Speaker 3: bet them to win under ten and a half games
Speaker 3: and raise plenty of red flags about their season to come.
Speaker 3: They're the number one seed in the NFC. Now it's
Speaker 3: not too late to join me in the public. Do
Speaker 3: you think this will turn into a category of two?
Speaker 3: Take or will uh? Or will I be proven right?
Speaker 2: No, it's a category. It's gonna be. It's gonna be
Speaker 2: my most legendary category.
Speaker 3: Two.
Speaker 2: This is gonna be so glorious when six days after
Speaker 2: I am proven right on a massive playoff stage, when
Speaker 2: the Niners with the script will probably be something like this.
Speaker 2: The Niners are playing a playoff, the NFC championship game,
Speaker 2: and somebody makes a mistake, somebody fumbles, or there's a
Speaker 2: tipped pass, pick or something, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: the games not perty's fault. The game script goes against
Speaker 2: the Niners and they're playing from behind, and then, as
Speaker 2: we saw perty that month, he had to play from behind,
Speaker 2: the picks come, the mistakes come. All that's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: I am going to be able to be the one
Speaker 2: media member that never wavered and four days later he's
Speaker 2: gonna be handed the league's MVP Award. That's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: So this will be a category two. Our producer, Victor,
Speaker 2: Victor hold it up for the camera. We actually did
Speaker 2: make these T shirts. I forgot it and we just
Speaker 2: never sold them. We should sell them in trintage. Can
Speaker 2: we all have this T shirt? Hedging is for cowards
Speaker 2: and stock traders. I'm a gambler. Oh, I love it.
Speaker 2: I want to wear that T shirt. I love that.
Speaker 2: I didn't even know we actually had a mate. See
Speaker 2: you guys in twenty twenty four. Hey, it's Nicker right.
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