FIRST THINGS FIRST | Nick Wright pleased with Mahomes' performance in the match Chiefs vs Raven

picked up right where he left off last year Xavier made some big plays um and so it's just we're going to continue to build and build and and hopefully get Hollywood back and uh see what this offense can really be okay here's where we're at now we updated this graphic now 5- one against Lamar uh Nick were you happy with this performance I think this was a perfect scenario for the Chiefs not a perfect performance for momes but it was the perfect performance for Mahomes and here's what I mean uh he looked sharp threw the ball 28 times 25 were exactly where he wanted them to be he had three misses it was 10 yards per attempt you know guy had his Ju Just the second or the yeah the second touchdown of 20 plus air yards in the last two years was that one you saw that what I anticipated would happen which is that o that short over the-middle to rice and Kelce like I was talking about yesterday it was all rice not a lot of Kelce was there and that Rapport was there and he had two awful mistakes one awful mistake and one almost awful mistake that will infuriate him that will keep him sharp for the Bengals game the pick at the end of the first half was terrible yeah and it it was just a I know he got hit a little bit but it was unnecessary he was first down it was terrible and it the game the Chiefs could have really just not ended the game but Taken full control there instead the Ravens go down and get get a field goal and then the play at the very end of the game was unnecessarily risky because it's fine if you just get sacked or go down keep the clock running but for him to make that mistake of that throw that gets tipped and could have been picked but to then make an unbelievable play to prevent the interception I don't if we can show the video prevent the interception and make the catch which again clock management wise was enormous it would have been Ravens ball with 220 in the two-minute warning instead it was Ravens ball with a minute 51 so if I were by Patrick Mahomes standards this is like a B minus game yeah but I'm I'm thrilled with that given what I think it sets the script for for the rest of the year well look I think the point you had made about Rashid I actually think he could have a Travis Kelce type year like he he was great underneath I mean and that's going to be open especially when they get Hollywood Brown It's going to be wide open so yeah that that was one of the strengths of the offense to me um but coach I think a lot of the things the Ravens did were self-inflicted wounds that are correctable now if you want to say that's who they are well if you want to win the Super Bowl that can't be who you are and the head coach and the staff need to take care of it and stop they have to get the players to stop making these self-inflicted errors because and the Chiefs look good particularly the rice you know rice underneath but offensively their touchdowns one was a completely broken play the one the the pass to worthy that is that's correctable for the Ravens the Run by Worthy was just a great play that's just a great touchdown run but then the third the other touchdown where PCO scored on the one yard run that if there's no rough in the passer call on the Ravens it's third and 20 and that likely ends in a field goal because the Ravens defense in the first half had kept them to two field goals one possession they started from the chief or the Ravens 14 after the F I'm thinking of course that's a touchdown and so I just think the Chiefs got a few big plays one of blown coverage by the uh by the Ravens and so the Ravens I feel coach can look at a lot of these things and say okay we can correct the things that beat us and they're in control it's not in the chief's control yeah the Chiefs definitely benefited from a new defensive coordinator and it looked like Baltimore has some things to work out but I mean I know we're classic one I'm just I'm just celebrating being correct I know we're celebrating Worthy's gigantic catch where there's nobody within like seven miles of them great throw great catch against air so that that was good and then the team meeting on the reverse that worthy had I think you know that was well designed by the Chiefs but not very well defended on the other side of it and you're right the self inflicted wounds are are a problem and and Baltimore has these postgame proclamations where you know we're going to get him next time and he better not talk and I'm going to find him and all these things kind of like we heard after they were eliminated from the playoffs but you're right they they need it's it's a little bit less of that and more of fixing the the the errors that are preventing them from winning a game like this and and the self-inflicted wounds are are they're killers and they're Killers against a team like Kansas City which no room for air which didn't have very much air and and even with Rice's catches I think they found something formally which got a nice match up they found wherever 40 was go after him that guy I thought he was a fullback play one of those things that structurally really played out well and didn't seem like it got fixed very quickly and and to the chief's credit they took advantage of it multiple times before it did get get addressed coach are you just narrative wise we've been having these little battle that you know it's still game one but you were impressed with the Chiefs I was impressed with the Chiefs Brew saying it's just a sloppy game that is going to change did you see how do you see this going out do you see you know what the Chiefs are also going to get better as the Ravens get better is the story headline of this the Ravens played sloppy or the Chiefs played great I don't I don't think the Chiefs played great but I think that's good news for the Chiefs I think the fact that they only averaged three yards a carry and still won the game game like they did and scored 27 points that's good news the fact that Travis Kelce only had three catches and they still scored 27 points that's good news for them the fact that the left tackle who's a rookie was able to hold up pretty well against a formidable front and a front that brings a lot of different things to me that's good news as well however you opening game of the season is a very unique game because of everybody getting adjusted to it and a new defensive coordinator so it's I don't I I would probably put never a doubt on my forearm yet well that was for last year and it's there forever um but well but let me but but there's a lot of encouraging things but here's the other thing and I'll just say quickly last year the biggest problem with the Chiefs and broodo his credit was sounding the alarm about it in week one and I was poo pooing it and it you know oddly we kind of both end up being right I was right that they were going to be fine you were right that it was never going to get fixed with the receiver stuff I man I I don't know how you can't when you watch this game and it's like oh okay Xavier Worthy is going to be an impactful player I'm not saying yet had a perfect game but he touched the ball three times two of them were 20 plus yard touchdowns it's positive and I listen I no one can defend Rashid Rice's off season and if people want to say he should be suspended that is totally valid opinion I think he is going to be suspended it's just going to be next year you can take what is definitively true is I think and the broadcast to me exacerbated it he continues to be one of the more underrated guys in the league the way they talk about Z flowers who was taken in the same draft in the 20 picks ahead of rasid versus Rashid rice we can show you their careers Rashi has been the better player he has more catches more yards more yards per game more yards per catch more touchdowns he is the more reliable player for him Nick is he's going to be greated down because of the quarterback that he playing with the other guys play with the league MVP I think playing with the league MVP but you know know the league MVP wasn't because of his I do think Z is better we were on the Chiefs I think would more just okay so again like I said I think so the point I'm making whether we want to argue Rashid ver is the chief's biggest weakness was their receiving CP they now have to me uh solid if not if we're ranking all number one receivers I think rasid rice would be a below average number one receiver but that's just because the league is so deep at receiver and I think last year was like hopefully maybe he can be a number two you then have Xavier worthy who looks like that's going to work that's going to work and then we'll see what Hollywood does and so it's like oh all of a sudden that's at least a just call it League average receiver the great thing for Kansas City is the number one receiver is Travis Kel correct and so and yeah so like I I didn't think it was a perfect game for the Chiefs oh my goodness you know what that sound means it's time for a segment so hot my grandmother was in line at the airport told the TSA agent why I'm not flying the plane it's up C they try to to take your liquids coach