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Seahawks-Broncos Week 6 TNF Recap: Do the Broncos have a Bo Nix problem?

Freitag, 16. Oktober 2026 · 30 min

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Gregg Rosenthal and Nick Shook react to the Broncos beating the Seahawks on Thursday Night Football. Gregg and Nick talk about the Broncos' dominant defense, the lackluster QB play from both Bo Nix and Sam Darnold, the tough spot the Seahawks are in in the NFC West six weeks into the season and more!
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Time to get off the field for this Broncos defense.

Singleton, Strenad, standing up.

Again, in the line of scrimmage. Six men there. Neither one rushed.

Four-man rush.

Darnold, throw, left side, ball.

Intercepted! Intercepted and out of bounds.

That is Jaquan McMillan. Second critical interception of the second half by the Broncos.

Jaquan McMillan on a night led by defense on both sides of the ball. Jaquan McMillan started the night with some big-time plays and ended the night with a big-time play in overtime, setting up the game-winning Will Lutz field goal, 17-14. The Broncos keep getting away with it, Nick Shook. Do you want to give them and their defense without Patrick Sertan and Talaneo Hufanga the big-time credit? Or do you want to look at this as a sign that this Seahawks team could have some real issues?

No, I'm happy to give the Broncos defense credit. They created a lot of these results. The... Their average time to pressure in the first half was like two and a half seconds. And that's like on every snap, like they were getting after Sam Darnold and causing every time there was a third and long, they were in his face quickly. You know, that little graphic, if you watch it in prime vision, where it's like a it's they surround the quarterback with these yellow dots. And then as the pocket muddies and then breaks down, it turns red.

There were many.

Instances in which it very quickly turned red. That's all the Broncos defense. They did a great job without their top two defensive backs. McMillan had a fantastic game. I think that this defense finally found some life in the pass rush, which save for what was it last week? Hadn't really seen all that much of that in the first month or so. And yeah, they deserve a lot of credit. We can get to the Seahawks in a minute because the Seahawks do have some problems, but the Broncos deserve credit.

They do. And we're here live on YouTube. Thank you to everyone who's joining us live after these primetime games. This is three straight overtime primetime games, if you include Sunday night. I don't know if that's ever happened in NFL history before. And Broncos fans know I've been doubting this team. Frankly, I think their own coach is doubting his own quarterback. You know, Bo Nix got trusted late in regulation, made a couple mistakes of his own. He ends up with 107 yards passing on 27 dropbacks this was the fewest amount of total yards by a Broncos team despite going to overtime in a win since 1986 that the NFL was much different back then there were not as many yards back then even when you had

John Elway at quarterback 168 yards for the Broncos tonight who were you know, stuffed all night. It's all these short throws to the right, to the right. And yes, the offense just didn't show up in the second half, but I do like starting positive. This was an absolutely brutal stretch in terms of the schedule. I talk about managing the schedule and the Broncos got out of there somehow with four and two, they can improve as they go.

And we've been looking for their defense to not just be good, but to be great. and it was great tonight. You highlighted the secondary, and it was absolutely excellent, but it was set up by that pass rush and the blitz that you talked about in the first half. Nick Benito and Q Robinson had seven quarterback pressures each. Four of them were quick each, so that's under two and a half seconds. Zach Allen, three quick pressures. Alex Singleton on the blitz, a couple quick pressures. Savion Jones, two quick pressures. Savion Jones, if you want to compare it to the Seahawks, And look, Bo Nix is getting rid of the ball quicker. But the Seahawks entire team had one quick pressure on the night, whereas the Broncos, what,

had like 15 of them. And I know the offense are different. But ultimately, I think you look at the matchup, Denver pass rush versus Seattle pass protection was actually a bigger mismatch than anything on the other side of the ball. As good as the Seattle defense was, they gave up a few long drives in a pretty efficient Broncos running game for about half the game. And that was enough with those interceptions late in the game for Denver to get out of here. It was kind of an orange crush game. era type of win that I think a certain kind of Broncos fans will enjoy getting to four and two in this kind of way.

The 17 quick pressures by the team.

That's crazy. That's not, you don't see those numbers. Uh, yeah, they've been, they were fantastic tonight. Uh, they, what was great about them too, is that they kind of adopted a bit of a Seahawks. I mean, Vic, Vic, uh, Vance Joseph has always been this type of aggressive coordinator, but it felt more like I was watching a little bit of a Flores defense, a little bit of a McDonald defense, and just the blitz looks that they showed and how they were dropping guys back.

And Darnold could not process through it.

But I cannot compliment the Broncos defense entirely without also criticizing the Seahawks offensive approach. Yes. And it comes down to one simple thing to me. We know that their running game is pretty much non-existent, although it wasn't the worst tonight. they run too much of their offense through Jackson Smith and Jigba. And I don't mean that you shouldn't target him. It's that they're dependent on him and he's a great player and he caught 12 of his 16 targets. But when he's not open, when he's doubled, which is what the Broncos did a good amount tonight, same Donald has no idea where to go with the football.

And when the pocket collapses and he can't go to Jackson Smith and Jigba, you get what you got tonight, which is an interception thrown to Torrey Horton, where he's, rolling to his left. And it's just not really rolling to his left. He's stepping up through pressure, through a collapsing pocket. Doesn't need to make that throw and makes that throw. And then obviously the throw that was never there down the sideline. This offense had a really bad first half against San Francisco last week. And we gave the 49ers a ton of credit defensively for what they did.

And that's fine.

And the Broncos deserve a lot of credit tonight too. But now I'm seeing this too often. And it all comes back to the fact that their passing game has nowhere to go if JSN's not open.

Yes, and Darnold just seems a little confused. His numbers against pressure this year haven't been terrible until tonight. He went six for 19 for 47 yards and took those, I believe, five sacks we got to in the end. There wasn't one in overtime, I don't think. And two interceptions. So he averaged two and a half yards when he actually got to throw the ball. If you look at the net yards when he was pressured, they basically had...

you know, two turnovers, no gains on all those plays. And yet I went into this second half saying, man, Darnold has struggled all season. The Seahawks could really use kind of a 2025 where it wasn't all pretty comeback, like Darnold plays his best at the end type of game. And we did get that in the fourth quarter. It's 14 to three. The Broncos only have two first downs for the entire second half. So they keep turning it over.

They keep turning it over. Bo Nix, I mean, not turning it over literally, but just, you know, three and out, four and out, five and out punt, you know, just one first down, three and out. Right. It was absolutely awful. And so Darnold actually gets a long drive going, which included a fourth down. where the Broncos didn't blitz, and I believe he hit JSN on that play, or was it Horton, on a slant, keeps that drive going. JSN starts making incredible passes. Helani runs a couple nice broken tackle runs at the end, and they get it to 14-9, and then they set up one of the more ridiculous Rashid Shaheed performances of the year. He gives you some drops, and he also gives you some great plays like this

two-point conversion.

Helani stays in the backfield.

Darnold from the shotgun takes the snap, rolls right, looks, pump fakes, throws to the back of the end zone, ball tipped up, balls caught, back of the end zone, Shahid, he does, two-point conversion, keeps his feet in, Sam Darnold never gave up on it, threw to the back of the end zone and there was Shahid, and all of a sudden, the Seahawks are within three.

You know where I've seen that before?

Where?

The New Orleans Superdome, 1999.

Kevin Johnson catching a Hail Mary from Tim couch in the back corner of the end zone over Gerard cherry to win the Browns.

Our first game since they returned.

What a great call. This is, this is why a shook makes the big bucks now. That's why we moved him out to LA. Cause he comes up with stuff like that.

Yeah.

They, they get that two point conversion. They force, you know, the Broncos to, to give the ball back. Like the whole sequence in the, fourth quarter where they're getting fourth down conversions and third down conversions are really impressive and then like you're thinking okay it's it's gonna happen and yes if you're watching us on youtube give us a like there that was the tory horton play darnold actually gets out and scrambles a couple times which i've been i've been waiting to see him use his legs And Holani, you know, gets those, you know, running plays. And you're thinking if they get this thing to overtime, they are going to win this game. Unfortunately, Darnold gets the ball back after a short drive again by the Broncos. They

give it right back. And at this point in the night, you know. The Dodgers are on. This is not a great night here for Los Angeles sports. Our great producer, Eric Roberts, is just looking for a highlight. Can you give us a freaking highlight to use to start the show? And we think it's going to be the first of the Darnold interceptions in the fourth quarter that ends the game.

Let's listen.

Under center quickly on third and one Broncos expect quarterback sneak.

Let's see what they get here. They don't get it.

Play fake journal in the pocket looks down throws a ball that is.

Intercepted intercepted as chris abrams grain chris abrams grain his first interception.

Of the season so i thought For as critical as we are of the prime broadcast, I thought Kirk Herbstreit made a couple of really nice points in tightening situations tonight. One of them was how Darnold, when he's under pressure, he gets frantic feet, scary feet. Like they get chopping because he's uncomfortable, uncomfortable, uncomfortable. You kind of start to see him get the scary feet and then he lets it out. You know, it throws it over there out of desperation and he gets picked off. Now, Herbstreet tried to blame some of that on Torrey Horton for running the route. He was blaming everything but the quarterbacks.

Oh, Bo Nix is managing the game by like throwing for 80 yards.

That's Sam's mistake. Now, this is the problem about this entire game. And this is why I posted on social media that these two teams are begging for overtime and a tie. Because that should have ended the game. The Broncos should have gotten the ball back and gotten a first down or two and put it away. And yet they didn't because their offense is abysmal. And the Seahawks got another opportunity to tie it and go to overtime and then set up for another Sam Darnold interception in overtime.

And you're thinking, as you said, oh, well, they're going to come back and win this. No, I never thought they were because... Sam Darnold has gone back to the Sam Darnold he was before Minnesota.

Yeah, but they were moving the ball. They were moving the ball.

And I just thought they were going to find a way to move it in overtime.

Until he threw it into a hole shot that was never there.

Yes, you were right. And yet, they did get the ball back, as you mentioned. And I'm glad you mentioned how Bo Nix messed that up. Because I've never been more convinced that a quarterback-coach pairing is headed for divorce. in the middle of the amount of winning that the Broncos and Bo Nix have been doing. Maybe Bo Nix will...

start playing better. But this is the worst football he's ever played as a pro. And they tried to get him out running a little more tonight. It did not work. He just had bad instincts multiple times when they tried to have him run. And I think Sean Payton is sick of him right now. It's all screen passes. It's all these short right passes. I do want to keep going through the chronology of how this game ended, though, because, you know, Darnold gets the ball back again. He throws the interception and you're thinking, okay, can he possibly set it up? And he's got a second and 10 where he's got all day to throw, but he waits, you know, and he delivers like as he's getting hit. Nice job there.

JSN gets involved in this drive. It's a third and six where Darnold moves pretty well in the pocket. And then he goes to the sideline like Shahid, who had a drop in this game and a fumble ends up making a bunch of big plays and And then it's Cooper Cup, like putting them into field goal range. It was a really good. sequence there and they got to use the timeout. It finishes with JSN going to the sideline because Bo Nix, you know, allowed them to get to that final drive with that one timeout in hand because they tried to have faith in Bo Nix by letting him throw on third down. It's a very safe screenplay.

And they probably said, well, just take the sack if it's not there. Just make sure you don't throw an incompletion. And what does he do? He just throws it like right into to the hands of the Seattle defender. Just the instincts for Bo Nix. I know they won the game, but the reason why I thought the Seahawks were going to win, because I was like, there's no chance Denver's making any scoring drive anymore. I just didn't really think about, like, they didn't need to. They just intercepted the.

Ball and kicked the field goal.

There's a layered discussion that you can have regarding Bo Nix, because if you're an optimist, you can look at him over the last few weeks and say, well, he's just doing his job. He's playing within himself. He's not killing them with turnovers, which is largely accurate. He's also lowered their ceiling so dramatically that when they need to put a game away, they can't even get a fresh set of downs. And they've had a running game that has struggled to get going. The only time that they generated some offense is when they popped a few runs by bouncing them outside in the first half tonight, which I was like, oh, okay, there's the running game. There's little Dobbins making some moves. Harvey finished off offensively. drive all

right this will balance out the offense that'll open up the play action no it goes away they're still running play action seattle's not biting at all because they know that the run is no longer a threat again and then nix is out on the perimeter and and there's defenders basically almost in his face and instinctively he's he screwed up a number of times there was a period early in the fourth quarter when they're still hanging on to a 14 to 3 lead and it feels like the seahawks are never going to put any more points on the board because sam donald can't stop taking sacks on third down and knock him out of field goal range and nix rolls out to his right All he has to do is stay in bounds and let the

clock bleed for 30 seconds. He goes out of bounds. Then the ensuing sequence follows that you described. And the worst possible part of all is it's third down and I'm watching in prime vision and I got Eamon Worry mugged up in the A-gap. He drops back and you can tell he's clearly spying. Nix has nowhere to go, nowhere to go. He fades left and Eamon Worry just closes and sacks him like it was a walkthrough. It was the easiest spy assignment I've ever seen in my life.

And it just paints the whole picture of Bo Nix, which is that He doesn't take shots downfield. At one point in this game, I thought, is this just a battle of who wants to go vertical less? Because neither team was taking a shot. At one point, the Seahawks' longest play from scrimmage was 14 yards. It was on a drive in the third quarter. That was a JSN catch and run. It was like a four-yard completion that he turned into a 14-yard gain.

Then they hit a long one to Shahid for 42. Prior to that, there was nothing.

Denver, same thing for the large part, save for a hospital ball to Cortland Sutton that got broken up.

And as you looked at.

Knicks in these key situations, all you saw was a guy trying to play it safe and also breaking his own brain in the process and having no idea really what to do anymore. So I totally think you're right in that Sean Payton's frustrated with him. The screens aren't there. The running game isn't consistent. Knicks doesn't push the ball down the field at all. I don't really know where they go from here. It got a little bit better in the first half than it was in previous weeks, but a lot of it is, even though he's not killing them with turnovers, his low ceiling is hurting this offense and making them one of the least productive units in football.

Well, here's where they go to Arizona. Finally, an easy game after Chiefs jacked. Look, other than the Chargers last week, who I think outgained them, 237 to 224. This is not new, the lack of yardage. I mean, they have a combined... I think of under 400 yards in the last two weeks. That's unbelievable. But they played the Chiefs, the Jags, the Rams, and the 49ers before that, and the Seahawks. So they go to Arizona. You've got Kansas City coming up. But the schedule gets much, much easier down the stretch. And they do have a chance to improve.

And they have this defense, which is obviously awesome. I love that we're bringing out the feisty Shook. You sound like a man, Shook, that suffered through too much Bo Nix tape for QB Index.

Well, yeah, because like I see the potential and I see when he's at his best as a playmaker and he just hasn't been the playmaker really at all this year.

The scrambling threat is not there. They get him out on the perimeter and play action.

They try it and it doesn't work because the running game isn't there to actually give it some legitimacy. And what you end up seeing is a billion checkdowns like the game against the Niners, just captain check down all day. And it just continues to be a short pass to the right. That game was short pass to the left.

Can we get something? Like, you didn't get Jalen Waddell for no reason. Can you push the ball down? I don't even care if you throw a pick. You're already bad offensively for three quarters. Tonight was the reverse. They were actually kind of good in the second quarter.

I mean, they had two touchdown drives. Outside of those two touchdown drives, I think they had two or three first downs total.

Take a risk. Just take a risk.

Okay. That's... Yeah, it's more about an instinct thing, I think. I think you're right. I think his calibration of what to do, when to do, it's not right right now. Now, it is because, partly, he's playing an awesome Seahawks defense. And I don't know what to do with this Seahawks team because I think their defense is... everything they were last year. And Seahawks fans were getting mad during the game.

You know, they gave up those two touchdowns, but in the end, they gave up 170 yards in this game. This is the second of their three losses where they've drastically outgained the other team against Washington, against Denver. They more than doubled the Broncos in total yards. They do get up to three 53. So I know Sam Darnold had his struggles, but they've, they've looked like just the sort of the opposite of the Broncos, which is like, they look like a real offense at times. but they make so many mistakes and they're inconsistent. Nick, they have now matched their total for losses of last season. They went 14 and three last season. And I'm trying to calibrate like how much trouble I think they're in, because

I think you're starting at the point where I think their defense is going to be a top, three defense all season, and they look like everything I expected them to be. That's such an amazing high floor. But the offensive issues are real, and the standings is a real problem. They're now three games behind San Francisco, and they lost to them already, just like the Rams. Spotting three games, including the head-to-head loss, is a lot. And this is a team that wants to win the Super Bowl. Obviously, you could do it as a wild card, but it's going to be tough to do. And I want you to talk about or get into what you think kind of is where their offense gives you long-term issues where maybe they're not going to be able to solve everything

in the way that they did last year.

A few things.

Number one, you mentioned a couple of games in which they outgained their opponents significantly and lost. What's the common theme in those games? Their Sam Darnold turnovers, their interceptions, their fumbles, their Sam Darnold turnovers. The other issue is the fact that the big bet that they made on Jadarian Price, letting Kenneth Walker walk, Hate that I had to say.

That, but that's how I said it.

And then putting so much into a rookie running back in Judarian Price, who has not lived up to their expectation and is not currently available, has left them with a void at running back. George Helani, you know, you got to give him credit for what he's doing, but like they're rusher right now is Emmanuel Wilson. He's averaging three and a half yards per carry. That's not going to get it done. That's putting too much on a quarterback who has now suddenly become turnover prone again. Not to mention your offensive line did not hold up well against a really good Denver Broncos pass rush. And that is crucial in these types of matchups. Grace Abel got cooked tonight. That's not good. He's supposed to be one

of your better offensive linemen. There are multiple issues throughout this offense. And again, like I said at the top of the show, they run too much of their offense through JSN. It's not that I don't want him to get targets. It's that I don't want them to overly rely on him as their only option. They're in a position where they kind of have to, but they got to start looking in other areas.

Get A.J.

Barner involved more. go to Torrey Horton, more Cooper Cup. Like when he made that catch, I felt like that was the first time he saw a ball all night. And that was in the final, you know, 15 seconds of regulation. It's got to be more diverse. You got to get out of your usual routine because you're going to waste a really good defense, a really good defense that gives you every opportunity in every game to win a game. and you're putting them behind the eight ball like in the Washington game by turning the ball over too many times.

I think that they can fix these things.

It's going to take time, and you've just got to hope that Sam Darnold's issues don't snowball to the point of no return and complete disrepair because then you're just going to be stuck relying heavily on your defense, which is kind of what the Broncos are right now.

Well, you never know. Maybe they have to just turn to a former Broncos quarterback. You know who's with Sam Darnold, 29th out of 30 quarterbacks at QBR? You know who, if he qualified, would be right up near the top? Drew Locke, let's go. No, I'm just kidding. I'm just saying he looked pretty good out there. I mean, he played well. Against the Cardinals. Yeah, against the Cardinals. No, you're right. Cooper Cup coming into this game at 129 yards on the season. Barners got 122. You're absolutely right.

Rashid Shahid didn't crack 100 yards receiving until tonight. They actually did make strides tonight in getting Shahid involved and Cup involved. Shahid is such a weapon. I know he made the mistake. He was one of the three turnovers tonight. But his two returns on the night set them up to... They were massive. Yeah, they changed the game. They set them up to score on shorter fields. Jason Myers did have a missed field goal, which contributed to them going to overtime in this game. But they need to be more diverse. And I couldn't help but think a couple nights, a couple times in this game, Emmanuel Wilson had a few huge holes there. And I'm just thinking, well, what does Kenneth Walker do with that? You know what I mean?

There was like literally just two runs, maybe three, but where Emmanuel Wilson had like 10 feet of space around him. And he had a nice 12-yard hard-charging run. And I'm thinking... What does Kenneth Walker do with that?

Yeah, but this is the battle that you face in the salary cap world, which is that you have to pick and choose who you pay, who you let go, and you have to nail your draft picks.

But who do you rather have? Let me cut you off, Shahid or Kenneth Walker, because they got paid the same, just about. Kenneth Walker got paid less.

See, that's unfair because we're at the benefit of hindsight now, but I would have said Walker. But the problem with that is they still would have tried to turn Walker into a committee back.

Like, that was the big issue. That's why he left.

Sure.

I think money wasn't even going to keep him there.

It was the fact that he wanted to be a bell cow and he was never going to be a bell cow in Seattle, even though they desperately need one of those right now.

I think they're going to make a trade. I think they know they are. I don't know. I got to come up with some ideas for a show that we're going to do. We have three weeks to go before the trade deadline. It's not till the second week of November. It might be even four weeks. the three and a half weeks from when we're taping this, they are smack dab in the middle of a Super Bowl window. They know from experience, John Schneider, that defenses like this aren't going to last forever. And Saquon is suggested in the chat as a running back. I think it could be a receiver. I think it could be an offensive lineman.

I don't know. I just think they're a team that we'll think about improving because it's the offensive line has been pretty rough in terms of run blocking before tonight. And then tonight it was the pass blocking. I think a real deal weapon would matter for this team.

I think the real deal weapon's got to be a running back. You can totally get by with this receiving core.

It should be Jadarian Price, who I think looks good, but keeps getting hurt and fumble issues too.

Yeah. And you can lose a job very quickly by fumbling too much, especially when you're young. It's something, you know, he's got to go Tiki Barber, hold it high, that sort of thing. Fix the fumbling issue. I think they got, they got to go running back. This is all due respect to George Lonnie and Emmanuel Wilson.

Congrats. Like you're pro players.

You play hard, but you gotta be, you gotta have something better in that backfield. with the current state of the team like offensive line you can kind of round into form for the most part because they one of their great strengths was all the continuity they had going into this year um so i would instead of shaking that up i think i would add a running back more than anything.

Else i mean they gave abe lucas a long-term contract and seahawks twitter tonight is out for blood for two men abe lucas who they believe have struggled each and every week this season, just having a brutal season at right tackle, got a long-term contract, has not been good. And can you guess the other gentleman associated with the offense that has drawn the ire of Seahawks fans?

Other than Sam Darnold? Are you talking about offensive linemen specifically?

No, it's just offense-related. Not necessarily a player. Now I'm just putting on a silver platter for you.

Oh, no, Brian Flory.

You know, Brian Flory. We missed Clint Kubiak there in Seattle. That happens. That's why he got a head coaching job.

He's a good coordinator. He's a good play caller. They don't grow on trees, guys.

At one point in the game, they were 2 for 16 on play action. It is just not working. That is a hard thing to even believe. We also have a question in the chat, which I like. Does any trade make less sense... right now than the Jalen Waddell trade. Yeah. I'm going to give you a number, okay? And you tell me if Jalen Waddell, who went four for 24 tonight, is over or under this on the season. 215 yards.

Is he over or under? He's under. I tricked you. He's just over that. Is he?

That's unfair, 215. What is this? Price is right? Get out of here.

I think he's at 228 now. He's up to 228.

Okay, so he's at that spot, but he's had one big game, and it was weeks ago.

It's crazy. And yet, you know, they do have a good offensive line. They do have a good defensive line. I think the coaching staff is there. Is this possibly... An unsalvageable quarterback in Bo Nix. I don't want to think that because of the way that he played at his best last year, although I think he's had more limitations shown throughout his NFL career than he has consistently high play. But you do have this defense. Let's end this thing on a high note because, look, the Broncos are 4-2. It was a short week for Seattle, on the road in Santa Clara, then on the road in Denver.

It was a tough spot. But Nick Benito and these guys were incredible. I think let's just listen to at least one of those sacks to give them their due.

Shotgun, two by two, the set, Darnold lifts the knee, lifts it again, four-man rush, Darnold in the pocket, flush, grabs, spins away, and he's shot back into 32! Benito was there and help from Zach Allen, the fourth sack of Sam Darnold.

Benito had two last week.

That's a loss of 15 yards.

So Jonathan Cooper is currently on the NFL's commissioner's exempt list. We believe that'll wind up being time served for a suspension, although it's unclear if and when he'll be back. Adding him to the mix with that defensive line, if they get him back, will be helpful for this team. Because Zach Allen and Benito are back to playing great ball.

And they didn't even have Sertan out there or Mfunga tonight. And they're going to be in the mix. I know there are two losses behind the Chiefs right now. But they have positioned themselves by managing... the schedule through the tough part of the schedule.

Yeah.

Like at this point, and I, this was a huge swing game for me. I'd be kind of stunned if the Broncos don't make the playoffs now, whereas I, I would have bought into all the problems, but now I look at the schedule and the way that they've gotten to this point at four and two. And I kind of think, okay, I think they're at least going to be in the playoffs. We'll see if they can possibly win.

See that that's going to put me in a tough spot because I'm going to end up really respecting and commending their defensive efforts because this defense is good enough to get them there. And at the same time, I'm going to have a hard time not acknowledging the offensive issues. So hopefully they figure some of them out because I think that you're absolutely right where they are and with managing the schedule right now. They should be in not quite the driver's seat, but in a good position to make the playoffs. I just need that offense to be better.

By the way, Nick Benito, I think we talked about this maybe a week or two ago where we felt like that pass rush hadn't quite gotten the juice that it had last year.

And it was just kind of only Benito.

Well, I don't know what he did, but his night tonight, like that, that play that we just showed how quick he got to Sam Darnold.

It was indicative of his entire performance over the full game.

That get off on that play, 0.61 seconds. That's like outrageously fast. His average get off for the night off the line of scrimmage, 0.68 seconds. Four quick pressures.

He's back.

I don't know what he did, but he's back.

That is nuts. Yeah, he's been great the last couple of weeks. Again, yeah, making up for... His passing game and Bo Nix, who I did check right at the end, did not complete a pass over 10 air yards. I was wondering.

Again, again.

0 for 3. He only attempted like 3 or 4.

Yeah, I think they're one of the lowest deep passing attempting teams in the NFL.

I was like, I had to go back and check that stat that I wrote down. over three. He only attempted three. It's insane. Uh, let's get out of here. This was the Thursday night slop between two actual good teams. It was good defense. When you say like, Oh, I want football like the eighties. Uh, this is what it looked like sometime between good defenses is a lot of sacks, a lot of turnovers. And, uh, it's time. It's beyond time to get out of here. We've had three straight overtime games. Uh, Eric Roberts, my friend, um, The baseball season is not dead yet for Nick Shook, and that's why he's got a big smile and a big C on his hat. This recap's over, though. We'll be back in the feed on Friday with our picks. Check you

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