Nick Wright enraged over Adam Schefter’s ‘terrible journalism’ on Kansas City Chiefs penalties

Adam Schefter gave credence to conspiracy theories surrounding the NFL fixing games for the Kansas City Chiefs, and Nick Wright is now questioning his journalistic standards.

On the latest episode of What’s Wright? With Nick Wright, the FS1 host went off on Schefter for his scoop about the NFL’s reaction to a couple of controversial calls that benefited Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs during their divisional round win over the Houston Texans. According to Schefter, the NFL plans on expanding replay assist into plays that include the quarterback slide, which is one play where Houston was controversially flagged for a hit on Mahomes.

“I was enraged by this for a number of reasons,” Wright (a Chiefs fan) said after reading Schefter’s social media post and article. “But here’s the primary one. That’s terrible, terrible journalism to write that article and not include the two following facts.”

The two following facts were regarding the NFL response to the controversial penalties that Mahomes and the Chiefs benefited from. The first penalty was reviewed by replay assist and upheld. The second penalty was not reviewed, but NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero later reported the league stated it would have also been upheld.

Schefter failed to mention the fact that the NFL already upheld both controversial calls. Because of that omission, Schefter fueled conspiracy theories by not explaining those conspiracies are essentially without merit, per the NFL.

“’Relief is on the way’, which lends real credibility to the ‘It’s rigged’ stuff. Real credibility,” Wright ranted about Schefter’s post. “The morning of conference championship games from the single biggest microphone in all of sports social media – Adam Schefter’s Twitter account.”

Wright then shared Schefter’s second post, which presented stats that similarly appeared to give credibility to claims that NFL referees are fixing games to get the Chiefs to their fifth Super Bowl in six years.