Sports media might be over the Kansas City Chiefs, but Nick Wright is over people being over the Chiefs.
Wright hasn’t explicitly blamed “Chiefs fatigue” for the predictions he’s seeing, but he can’t ignore the growing number of colleagues picking the Denver Broncos or Los Angeles Chargers to win the AFC West. And to him, the sudden fawning over Bo Nix is getting embarrassing.
Since Kansas City failed to pull off the three-peat, nitpicking has become the sport within the sport. He didn’t single anyone in sports media out, though Wright rarely passes up a chance to take aim at the industry. Going off of Awful Announcing’s archives, his possible targets could include Dan Orlovsky, Stephen A. Smith, or even one of his own FS1 colleagues. After all, Colin Cowherd recently declared the Chiefs’ dynasty dead, and Emmanuel Acho — no longer with the network — suggested they’ve entered a “Super Bowl drought.”
“I find the casual, flippant — in places other than here — disrespect and just moving past the Chiefs dynasty inexplicable,” Wright began on Friday’s episode of First Things First. “Because there was no point in Peyton Manning’s heyday that people were like, ‘You know what? This is the Titans’ year. This is the Texans’ year.’ And there was good reason for that. [The division] is where it’s starting for Kansas City. A lot of people have them as a wild card team this year. Where, the Colts from ’03-2010 — after that, Peyton got hurt — they won the division every year except one. They actually didn’t do it once, but they won 12 games that year. It was just that the Titans had a sick season.
“The Patriots from ’03-’19 won the division literally every year, except the year Brady blew [out] his ACL. And so, the idea that with the Chiefs, we have reason to believe we’re in a different phase of the Chiefs, when all of these active streaks are active.”
Nick Wright, on the flippant disrespect of the #Chiefs‘ dynasty by a lot of sports media.
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Those active streaks include nine consecutive division titles, seven consecutive seasons with 11 or more wins, seven consecutive years with at least one playoff win, and six consecutive seasons with two or more playoff wins.
“We’re amidst literal, unprecedented greatness,” Wright continued. “We’re in the midst for tied for the greatest three-year stretch in the history of football. And people are convinced… ‘Yeah, but have you seen Bo Nix?’ And I find it embarrassing for a lot of sports media.”
It’s been one season since the Chiefs won their last championship and zero since they reached their last Super Bowl. They went 15-2 last year, made it to the big game, and haven’t even gotten past Week 1 of the preseason, yet some are already forecasting the end.
Sure, Kansas City might be vulnerable. Maybe they don’t win another Lombardi in the next few years. But this is still the most dominant AFC West team in modern memory, and until someone actually knocks them off, writing their obituary feels premature.
Especially to Wright, who sees the whole exercise as another one of sports media’s favorite offseason traditions, which is prematurely lowering the curtain on a team still center stage.