Fox Sports host believes Chiefs may be set to dominate NFL as Warriors did in NBA
So much for the talk of Sammy Watkins being a salary-cap casualty for the Chiefs.
Watkins and the Chiefs agreed on an incentive-laden deal Friday, meaning the top four wide receivers from the Super Bowl-championship season will be back for 2020: Tyreek Hill, Watkins, Demarcus Robinson and Mecole Hardman.
Chiefs fan/”First Things FIrst” co-host Nick Wright didn’t try to hide his excitement Friday while on FS1. Wright, who grew in Kansas City, gave co-host Kevin Wildes a hard time and asked if the NFL might just cede the 2020 season to the Chiefs.
Wright likened the Chiefs to the Warriors after Kevin Durant signed with Golden State, and people around the NBA knew which team would dominate.
ESPN’s Field Yates shared this on Twitter and it may have been one reason Wright was so excited:
“That sound you just heard was 31 other teams waking up this morning, cursing, stomping their feet and saying, ‘what the hell we gonna do now?’ Everybody’s back!” Wright said on FS1.
“Chris Jones? Thought we might lose him. Franchise tagged him. Sammy Watkins, I was sure we were going to lose him. Let’s restructure the deal and bring him back. Playoff-elite performer Sammy Watkins, by the way. Five playoff games with the Chiefs, nearly 500 yards. The touchdown that sealed the AFC Championship Game and burning Richard Sherman on the deep route that set up the game-winning touchdown in the Super Bowl.
“Wildes, do you remember after the Warriors got Durant there was talk around the NBA: will teams just punt on the next couple years and look to the following few seasons because they know they can’t win? I feel like we might be entering that era in the NFL. Are teams going to say, ‘Well, we know what’s happening in 2020. They did it to us last year, they’re going to do it again. They brought everyone back.’”
The Ravens, Patriots and 49ers are among the teams that will disagree with that line of thinking, but Wright was pretty excited.
Here is the clip of the show:
