Chiefs vs Broncos: Mahomes' MVP bid, Kelce to play, Payton to bench Russ? | NFL | FIRST THINGS FIRST
it’s hot ouch live from New York it’s the show that got extra anchovies on their salad like some kind of movie villain good it’s first things first today Broncos said Chiefs tonight the last time Denver beat the Chiefs we were 3 weeks away from the release of hotline bling we were living in a hotline bling world can you imagine September 2015 here’s an interesting tidbit from James Palmer Patrick Mahomes has never faced the last ranked scoring defense in his career never he will for the first time he wrote that yesterday tonight Broncos this season last
in everything so not great go he’s currently number one in the MVP race but outside that Bears game I don’t think they even had a defensive coordinator but this is even worse somehow can we just make a promise to all chiefs fans like myself around the world that we will see the real Patrick Mahomes MVP Patrick Mahomes not take the foot off the gas we’re practicing da d d Patrick Mahomes Real Deal this is why momes sits a top Mahomes mountain and this is why the Chiefs sit a top the committee’s tears M because these
are the questions that are asked of them not even can you just guarantee a victory not even can you
him do it on one leg in the playoffs now can well how what more can we see from Patrick Mahomes listen guys this is what you’re going to see tonight you’re going to see the Chiefs offensively make Denver prove they they can stop the run because they’ve given up almost 900 yards rushing in their last four games so any team that 877 in the last four games 150 in their last half of football against the New York Jets so that’s the first thing you’re going to see you are then going to see the Chiefs continue
their midseason wide try outs that’s what they’re going to do Sky Moore didn’t get involved much last week I would expect them to try to get him more involved Justin Ross got his most action of the season last week made the most of it I think they will see more from him and we heard from caderas Tony which will’ll talk more about later what I am most interested in while you guys continue to try to ask Patrick Mahomes to spend multiple plates while on a unicycle I am I am going to actually def be more
but if he but when he’s great against a bad defense you literally come on and be like well here’s his numbers aside from that game so even if he’s great today you will just give this game the Bears treatment and you’ll say it doesn’t count but you saw it against the Bears and you have since said that game didn’t count so as I was as I was saying Brew what I am more interested actually in is the defense the chief’s defense has not allowed more than 20 points all year but they have allowed 20 exactly
in consecutive games I they want to do that so I want to see if the defense totally shuts down the Broncos offense which has had been it’s a top 10 scoring off that’s and I don’t really I that doesn’t fit the eye test but it is true so I want to see that I’m not worried about Mahomes I’m not worried about the long way to say no what was the question I for expect an MVP caliber performance said I’m going be look I’m going to give you the real all right he did say no every
time unlike some people on this panel not you okay but some people every time I see Patrick momes I expect an MVP MVP type performance I expect him to throw for 300 plus yards I expect him to throw for three or four touchdowns or I expect a late rally come back to win I don’t want to see that now it doesn’t happen every time but he’s so great that’s what I expect he hadn’t done it much this year but tonight Nick I think it begins because the defense they are facing is abysmal and that’s an
insult to abysmal what is that even that means they’re worse than a we understand what it all right well didn’t know so I had to explain to it um here are the court look at what the quarterbacks that they faced that first of all just look at the quarterback Jimmy G Jimmy G Sam how Tua okay Tua is legit Justin fields and Zach Wilson not exactly a murderer role of quarterbacks and yet four of them have been way over a 100 in passer rating you see the touchdowns 22 44 and those four have had their
best games of the Season as far as passer rating against Denver Zack Wilson I mean he Zack Wilson his for was his second best I mean this defense is atrocious and so that is what we’re looking at Patrick mahom should go out here and have a field day look he he’s going to get busy tonight right hope so can I tell you something I I expect you know not much of a a shark a whale in the casino it’s not a big betting guy bet literally $2 a game still it’s still something I do have
skin in the game uh but my friend’s at Action Network so I really went there oh yeah Chad milman that’s your buddy shout out to Chad I worked with Chad we all know momes is just 1420 and one against the spread when the spread he’s 1420 and one okay when the spread is more than a tou touchdown so he’s been a touchdown favorite 35 times in his 19 well he’s won 14 he’s 14 20 and one according to my friends at the action not good and here’s why cruise control you got a car you get
cruise control you know what that means you’re not driving fast Chiefs this season first half out here cooking second half they press the button on cruise control exactly and that that’s not that’s what my grandparents did they would drive from Florida Connecticut to see us it not they don’t they’re not paying attention too much yeah ear in games whether it’s 34 nothing on the Bears or 17 nothing on the Jets they get out early or in the Vikings game it took them a second so instead just the very beginning of the second half they get
back toback quick touchdowns go up 14 and then they start coasting then that’s not good why why tell me why I since you made that because you are a cadarius Tony Bobble away from Los losing the game and you’re say show me when it happened and I say it happened week one no no that is wild weird things happen you open up the window for the weird to come in that is not what happened week one week one they didn’t get up big let their foot off the gas even worse they just got beat they
got beat week they catch no I mean that is correct against a good team I think they were ready and the receivers betrayed momes on like in a way the field I should say and they lost but that isn’t you I refuse to engage in this oh the Chiefs taking the foot off the gas is a bad thing until and you’ve had 24 hours since I last asked for it to you show me the time it bit him you show me the time now the last time they had a big lead and they lost the
game Chiefs F yeah I’m an objective Chiefs and I and I’ll answer it for you actually to a degree but it wasn’t taking their foot off the gas the last time they had a huge lead and then blew it was the AFC title game against the Bengals but that was not an instance of them taking their foot off the gas that was an instance of Mahomes having the worst half of football of his life In fairness to W I don’t think he means they should get out to a big lead and then they’ll blow it
he just means they should blow this team out period to a style well no matter how it looks you better blow him the Dophin yeah the do cu the Dolphins dropped 70 on mess thinking of dropping BCS rankings what is I don’t this is why our version not in our version isar know they never drop it they might lose and not judged by a different standard as I’ve told you by the way wild another beautiful flower today I’m sorry it took me 10 minutes to notice it but I love it Go Ahad too cadarius Tony
best of times worst of times got a touch that in the Super Bowl then had a brutal drop game one against the Lions that cost him the game since then four games 13 catches 82 yards yeah I told Coach I told Pat I told all the guys that’s on me at the end of the day you all count on me and rely on me to make certain plays and I’ve got to be there to do that there isn’t really an excuse so solid accountability answer for a guy who hasn’t always given the best answers that’s
fantastic at the same time nothing’s happening on the field so are you worried about the chief’s lack of a number one pass catcher outside of Kelsey number one no I’m not worried about their lack of a number one receiver I’m worried about their lack of a number two receiver they don’t have a number one or number two receiver all right Nick it’s a problem why because they lead the league in drop passes with 14 right cadarius Tony as much as his fingers are made of butter he is hadn’t even lead the team in drops it’s
rasheid rice with four and Tony’s got three like these guys look your best receiver your best receiver Justin Watson is that he went to pen pinn’s a great school my daughter’s there but my daughter went there she graduated from there she’s a psychologist not a wide receiver not pen is not known for creating great wide receivers and that’s what you’re banking on and Kelsey we know how great he is but at 34 34 he missed the first game he had only missed two in his previous n season and now a few games later he’s banged
up he’s bang at 34 are you going to be able to rely on Kelsea to that’s interesting work everything out because your other receivers can’t catch all right so a few things or get open they had six drops in week one they have eight drops in the four weeks since then so that’s to a game that’s a little more than you’d like but you can deal with that the the league leading drops is a product of the awful week one that we discussed mhm that’s first point second point is why do they need something they
didn’t have last year they had it last year okay let’s show you the numbers here are the numbers last year through five weeks Wilds I’ll ask you to be the neutral Arbiter on that do those look shockingly similar you know why that’s deceptive no I brew you keep I told you last week and Ru and you were wrong then you’re wrong now he he’s not good now but he was good last year the year before he got to can City at 129 yard the year before that he had 800 yards the year before that he
had 5 129 yards he was injured he played five games this year is he healthy so you you take it so you actually you didn’t think I’d go there and say you think I’d let that slide oh 16 17 gam 129 Juju I Juju Smith Sho just been had one year that he mattered one year before he came to the he’s been a legitimate he’s been injured brw no Brew that’s wrong he had 1300 yard or, 1400 yards in 28 in 2018 but with a great quarterback the next year he was able to produce the
next year he was healthy he had 550 the next year he was healthy he had 830 the next year he played five games he had 129 my point is though and then this year he year with mahes he had 933 yards any of these other guys to and rice and Watson and they they going to do that yes really yes because that’s why I showed you the first graphic the first graphic Brew that’s a total though that’s not one guy I understand which one of them is on Pace to get 900 nobody right now is
on Pace but Juju threw five weeks last year was not on Pace he had to distinguish himself last year they were doing the same rotation with MBS with ju guu they then brought in caderas Tony we watched it and those guys that you said they so desperately Miss I don’t know if we can show their numbers again ju gu and Hardman this year have 90 yards for their teams well they well this year no or 92 pardon me that’s unfair fine they’re not doing it this year they don’t have great quarterbacks but when they have
a great quarterback they can produce the other guys with the Chiefs now I don’t even know if they can produce with a great quarterback all right well let’s go on to this topic that Brew made us throw in the show which I don’t understand I did not listed as questionable but is expected to play tonight obviously short rest from the injury on Sunday yeah he was so injured he only caught one touchdown yeah and he missed one whole series is this a good or a bad idea bro for Kelsey to play even though he’s not
100% where am I from you’re from Ohio we think but where’s Kelsey from he’s from Ohio but aren’t you what do where’s burrow from Ohio from Ohio what do Ohio cats do seems like they they tough it out they fight through the pain and they play all right so why mad about this can you run can you Trot young man then get out there and play all right why are you I know the audience knows my feelings and my answer on this I want to know what our two resident softies think about it all right
that that think a guy has to be 150% to go out there and play what do y’all think should he play I am totally fine with Travis Kelce really yes and now you’re going that’s going against your track record of no that’s the thing is that a nick no is that a SC who are the two guys sit out this weekend who are the in’s way that I’ve said I thought should sit Baker Mayfield right who was he smiling no he he was able to play every game his job that didn’t cost him his job
they thought desan Watson would be better who had been much better and now Baker’s on the road to recover as we years later I have you for because I was of the belief that Baker Joe Burrow’s the other one you asked I understand what I how burrow looked last week and how did he look every week before that that he was getting better okay you keep proven by last week okay Brew not believe it is in Conflict to say that quarterbacks who previously had been good to ver well good in baker’s case excellent in Burrow’s
case who suffered injuries in baker’s case to their throwing arm in Burrow’s case to his plant leg who then come back or don’t even miss time and look nothing like themselves are a different standard than a player who turns his ankle these are not in one of those big you know bruisers from the other team could step on his ankle and hurt him I understand Brew the football players play through pain all the time that is different yes correct and if Kelsey I’ll tell you this much if Kelsey for the next month comes out and
looks like the worst tight end in the NFL then you know what I’ll think he probably should sit no you work through the just cuz you can’t be excellent every night doesn’t mean you sit I bet he has limited snaps of course he’ll have limited snaps he limited snaps when he came back he had limited snaps a little bit in the middle a little bit in the middle finally Broncos trying to avoid the worst start in franchise history pton and Russ also trying to break that streak of 15 consecutive losses to the Chiefs if the
Broncos lose tonight this is the worst start through six games goes all the way back through 1964 I was only 5 years old uh so what happens if the Broncos lose tonight we’ll start with you Nick I I’m going to have to do something I’ve never done in my whole life I’m going to have to start rooting for the Broncos certain weeks oh they lose tonight they’re on Caleb Williams watch and I’m very I will start to get nervous about that so they they have right now the fifth best odds to have the worst record
in football the New England Patriots by the way have the sixth best odds the other four teams are NFC teams uh the other thing that we will have to discuss after they lose tonight is who Russell Wilson’s going to play for next year cuz there’re Brew let me ask you this you keep squinting at they not benching Russ brw I didn’t say they’re benching him I I I I I know you disagree with me on that I’m asking you if they fall to one and five if the season is dead on arriv Ral are they
going to then sign up for newly guaranteed $37 million for Russell Wilson which they will have to do the fifth day of this off season of course not how much will they have to pay to let him go well here’s the problem the it’s 85 million to let him go this off season but the problem is if you keep him another year it’s still then it’s then actually 86 million because that new money guarantees he has new guarantees kick in so you’re going to the Broncos going just to but it’s going but bre it’s going
to be or it’s going to be 86 if they’re not getting Kay Williams who they getting that’s going to be better than there it’s it’s not necessarily about the player immediately next year being better than Russ it’s about being able to turn the page and start a new do you think there’s a real chance Russell Wilson is the quarterback for the Broncos next year I think it should be up in the air Russell Wilson is not their problem I’m not saying he’s playing like Josh Allen or an MVP candidate but he’s playing good Sol football
you’re scoring 24 points a game that’s 10th in the league if the the if the defense had not degenerated from top 10 to worst in the league they would be in the playoff hunt right now so I think if it would HP what would happen is a coaching change at def it’s not Jared Judy’s fault they’re like this yet he’s on the trade block it’s not go ahead wild sorry yeah Jared Judy’s on the trade block that was reported earlier today who do where didd he go to school Alabama did he who was his quarterback
M Jon oh look at this bro y’all set this up no I didn’t actually know he was going to do Jerry Judy and M Jones reminds me of national champions oh Jamar Chase and Joe Barrow I don’t know the the Patriots aren’t buyers they’re sellers but brw do you understand what I’m saying there which is it wasn’t Randy Gregory’s fault they’re terrible it’s not Jerry Judy’s fault they’re terrible and like they they are going to strip it down to the studs and what that means for Russ maybe he won’t be benched I think he could
be benched during this game if it is a blowout I think we’ll see stum during the game and if that happens then the question then then Shawn pyton will be non-committal after the game about who they starter is going to be in 10 days when it’s that bad everybody’s everybody’s in flux especially a quarterback that you’re moving on from after this season uh Brock pie next thanks for watching subscribe here to get more from the show and to check out clips from other shows on FS1
