FIRST THINGS FIRST | Nick Wright reacts Chiefs advance with 26-7 win over Dolphins

FIRST THINGS FIRST | Nick Wright reacts Chiefs advance with 26-7 win over Dolphins

Icicles on his mustache and the Chiefs froze out the Dolphins in Kansas City 262 yards from momes through the air had another 40 on the ground uh Nick what is the number one reason our Chiefs brought home the dub is that a serious question yes uh

Coach manie’s here hi uh I mean listen cuz they’re the damn Chiefs and it’s January and everyone chill chill listen I the and oddly through much criticism and critique what the whole world saw was oh wait they built a team perfect for playoff football in the AFC cold weather need to

Be able to grind out victories how and I know what everyone’s going to say oh the Dolphins were all injured yeah on defense but not on offense on offense that was the full strength Miami Dolphins and aside from one bad pass that turned into a 50- yard touchdown

They got shut down through throughout oh it was too cold well what’s it going to be like next week in Buffalo or Kansas City or the week after in Baltimore or Kansas City it’s going to be cold and the Chiefs coach and this is where you should love them they accepted who they

Were late in the year they are a ball control cut out the mistakes kill you with defense take the points and expect our super duper Star Quarterback to make a couple amazing plays and then they’re hard to beat since that Cincinnati game they’ve had 17 drives that mattered not

Counting Neel Downs end of game they have scored 13 on 13 of those drives they’ve had three punts and one turnover and I know all in honor of Eminem being at the Lions game all eight mile this I know’s going to say but what about the

Red Zone Nick the Red Zone The Red Zone where they would have scored four Red Zone touchdown instead of two if not for an egregious Block in the back penalty and Patrick Mahomes helmet being cracked in half so he has to essentially miss a play the answer is they were never in

They were never you know if I may say there was never a doubt and I’m going to be a little understated here agree with I’m going to be a little understated because it’s just the Wild Card round like I don’t know the franchises that make a big deal with the Wild Card round

I don’t maybe once one a time but not in this lifetime for me so no I mean listen nobody wants to play this and so they won the biggest reason they won is cuz it’s the Chiefs in January so unless you have Tom Brady you’re you’re basically

Have a 1 in 15 chance of beating and a 0% chance of beating them in regulation you like it go ahead that’s what happen I like what what who wants to play the Chiefs nobody I I do love how they’re playing on defense thank you one for 12 on third down that’s

Fantastic the the pressure the variation of the pressure the fact that they fact that they’re willing to run the ball the ball there it is physically run the ball control the time of possession 34 minutes I think that’s all fantastic I think the fact that they were able to

Perform in cold weather love the idea that they’re actually getting some wide receivers involved in the offense that’s positive too sorry that’s positive too uh they’ve got Superstars at the game and Taylor Swift I would just like their other Superstar to play like a superstar on a more consistent basis Patrick

Mahomes I think give when you got when you when you’ve got the when you are in your mind the greatest quarterback of all time which we know it is not true we know who the greatest quarterback of all time is you need to perform at that at that level especially now in the

Playoffs and there were a lot of good you didn’t think he was great I thought he was I thought he was okay I thought he was okay I just my my expectation for him and maybe this is my fault maybe my expectations for him are higher than

Yours are and and hold on i’ like to see perform go ahead they had four field goals and two touchdowns now it look it was a good win I I didn’t see anything that surprised me anything that made me say oh my the playoffs have arrived now

So have the chiefs they were playing the Francy fancy prancy Dolphins cold weather all right we the Dolphins can’t beat good teams they showed us that all season long they can’t even score against good teams all right so look the defense of the Chiefs

Is great but to get up here and act like oh my they put everybody on notice everybody scared they did the same thing they’ve been doing season except Rashid rice did catch the ball but guess who was dropping it Travis K all right I mean so I look they were fine I think

They played pretty much how won by 19 points against a team three weeks ago was playing for the one seed here’s the thing because Wilds keeps throwing out this stat if you score 21 no if you score 21 you beat the Chiefs and it’s it’s a misleading stat

The more accurate stat is this the Chiefs are unbeatable when they score 21 and if you guys think and so literally unbeatable and if they don’t turn the ball over a separate issue the one loss they have when they haven’t lost the turnover battle one of the turnovers was

A pick six which is almost like two turnovers in itself so there there is a level of the Chiefs the reason you’re not seeing more wow plays from Patrick Mahomes and the reason they’re struggling in the red zone is because the Chiefs Patrick is refusing to take

Chances there and there are I believe there are plays that could be made thrown into the end zone that he’s saying right now under this context of a playoff game against the Dolphins when they can’t score not going to do it yeah I’m not going to put the ball at risk if

You guys think all of a sudden he’s lost the ability to make those plays when all I heard all year was all I heard all year I need one receiver to step up can one of these guys step up and to which we now yada yada can we show Rashi rice

Cuz Rashid rice all of a sudden I don’t know people talked a lot about this Tyreek Hill trade forget the fact we we got Trent McDuffy here’s their playoff production the last two years keep in mind last year Rashid rice was playing in college football so Rashid rice has

Been as productive as Tyreek the last two years just yesterday so you have Isaiah Pacho is a good running back Travis Kelce who even at aging had 70 yards in a game where he had three drops Rashid rice who was excellent momes who made no mistakes and the best defense in

The football against a defense that’s not wasn’t great to begin with and then then was banged up for deed a depleted and demoralized coming in playing in ridiculously we’re just trying to bring you down they don’t look that much better to me than they looked in the

Regular okay so then here’s my question but this is why this is what I’ve been trying to convince you guys to do all year is Judge this Chief’s team against this year not against history because had they won this game 35-27 I bet you guys would be sounding

Very differently but that would be more concerning that would be a closer win where the defense got pushed around they won by 19 be excited like you’re excited if they had won 35 to7 right and a few more touch my God one of the coldest games in

History so let’s talk so let’s talk about it just real quick if I may so one touchdown caught off the board for a block in the back that when you watch those don’t matter they they didn’t I’m asking coach a question coach said if they had won 35 to7 he’d feel

About him and I’m that block in the back is not called it’s 30 to7 you think there’s a fundamental difference in how the Chiefs played if that call gets made or not cuz I don’t I I don’t I think it’s the exact same game and so no I

Don’t if I mean Baltimore just beat Miami by how many points 56 to 19 in hot weather where Miami likes to play hot weather but were the Chiefs not playing the same weather no they were just playing in cold weather Chief I’m saying the same weather as Miami the Chiefs

Control know Miami can’t points in a playoff you going a little far two almost throws for 200 yards just looked off and uncomfortable the entire game The Once Mighty Dolphins offense stalls yet again here’s two a postgame I don’t feel any pressure at all um I I I have full trust in in

Myself I have full trust in in um you know what what I’m I’m capable of doing for our organization um but outside of that we’re focusing on on tonight and what happened you know we’re we’re going to simmer on this um and see what we can

Do to get better from it uh going into next year okay are you disappointed In Tua no you’re not disappointed when it’s what you expect listen he is who he is this is why eye tests exist led the league in passer rating should he be the

MVP or L the leag in passing yards don’t care listen I I I don’t want to be harsh but he is undersized doesn’t have a very strong arm and has never played well in the biggest spots it’s just who he is and now you’re up against a great defense with a great defensive

Coordinator and it just continues the trend and we can show you his history every biggest game of his career he’s been back week 17 to make the playoffs bad week 17 the next year had to win that week and the next week to make the

Playoffs bad week 17 this year to be the one seed awful week 18 this year to win the division and be able to play in balmy weather which evidently is a prerequisite for for an NFL team unbelievable bad and last night terrible the one big play they made was a bad

Throw and so I just I I understand what all the numbers say and I understand that Dolphins fans try to be like oh my God his eye discipline you got to he tricks guys we watch the games he this is a team that will not be able to reach

The next level with a quarterback of this level and that’s just what it is yeah it’s interesting when you look at the last three games he played the three seed the two seed the one one seed going back in those three game he’s got I think it’s four interceptions and and

Five P or four touchdowns five picks his quarterback rating was like a 62 a 64 and a 72 which is 30 30 points below his season average and it’s just so disappointing to to to see that at at the end of the season when they should

Have had the division locked up and then they limp it in the playoffs and then he has a performance that he does it’s it’s it makes it hard to think he’s the long-term answer correct Brew look at this graphic a head-to-head Dolphins against the Chiefs Chiefs and peka was

Just out there churning pushing the Dolphins around third down uh the Dolphins weren’t Tough Enough one for 12 on third down big plays usually you see something in from the Dolphins there but even then uh the Chiefs dominated so were you surprised the Dolphins didn’t put up a

Fight you you really asked me that question did I just because I I have no idea because usually you expect a big fight in the playoffs were you surprised the doph I’ve been telling y’all all season they’re electric all right they’re glitzy they do all that but when it’s

Time to fight when it’s time to Knuckle Up what do they want to do they want to break dance all right and I’ve seen a lot of break dancing in my day but never in -4 degree weather with a 25 below wind you guys are bad all right and this

Stuff won’t this is cute this is break danc we got new ones yeah Bo they about to get down this is the Dolphins and this looks great in November this looks great in Miami when it’s 90° you put the cardboard down and all that this looks wonderful but what if

Somebody’s tackling them what if it gets cold outside what if somebody’s trying to run them over you think they moving like that no no they’re not and that is the Dolphins and I’m telling you the off season they got to get stronger they got to get tougher they got to get a defense

That’ll stop somebody cuz this as wonderful as it is and it’s great to Boogie sometimes you just got to knuckle up and they can’t do it thanks coach ex J dophins Dolphins one and six against playoff teams so that’s that coming up