Seahawks vs. Broncos: Bo Nix Faces a Must-Win Test

Both these football teams really are at a crossroads tonight. I mean, Seahawks coming off a really tough loss to the 49ers. They're at home. And you also, on the other side, you have Denver that is going through a coaching change when it comes to the coordinator. So it's a pretty big football game tonight to find out if these football teams are going to be those teams at the end of the year that are going to be true contenders. Bo Nix, he's been up and down. No question about it. Maybe it is because of the coordinator, but, hey, look, man, he's got to have a mindset and stop the turnovers. Well, that's the biggest, honestly, really and truly, the biggest battle right now is, like, you want to be aggressive, want to be aggressive, want to be aggressive, and then you see stats, and you're like, well, this team is causing the most turnovers in the league. And then you're like, okay, well, I can't put my team in a situation where I'm turning the football over and putting our defense in a bad spot, giving them a short field. And at the end of the day, it's like, who cares? you know like why would I go out there worried about throwing an interception why would I go out there trying to throw every football 50 yards down the field just play the play if the play's there hit it if it's not there check it down run throw it away punt who cares that's the play that I was dealt and I have to do um just remind myself not to play hero ball it's just one play at a time do exactly what I'm supposed to do and who cares if if the play causes me to throw an interception and I forced it and that was there and I liked what I saw, it may happen. You know, it's going to happen. It's happened before. It may happen again. If it's not there, I'm not going to throw it into a team meeting. I'm going to check the ball down and we're going to move on. And that's just the play that's given to me, and I have to continue to just do that. Okay, what was the question? I lost it. I mean, hey, you guys writing a soliloquy for me here. Holy cow, man. I mean, dude, I forgot. What was the question here? All right, so Cortland Sutton, too. You know, listen, it's a big game for these dudes, man. And he knows the pressure is on Bo Nix. But they got to right the ship, man. A lot of flack for, you know, just being the starting quarterback. And, you know, we all have certain things that come with our, you know, our job description. And, you know, for him, he has a lot of weight on his shoulders. And so if it's not even just myself, you know, I think if you ask all the guys in that locker room, the offensive guys, defensive guys, special teams, you know, everyone has his back you know we all know that um for us to have success we need to to be able to have that success and we're going to always have his back no matter what good bad or in different and because you know it would be the same way vice versa if if we're at practice he knows how he knows how a lot of us are our temperaments and he knows how i am i'm being very similar in terms of being you know high competitors and we want things to be perfect and when things aren't perfect we get frustrated and so he sees me when i have like something it may happen in practice and he comes over he's like wipe it let it go like on to the next one and you know for us to be able to have that relationship to be able to both be able to go back and forth and say hey look you know wipe it let it go I got your back you got my back let's go to the next play and I think like I said you ask any of the guys in my group everyone has that same mentality of wanting to have each other's back and especially when it comes to him I think that we all have that mentality of wanting to make sure that he feels comfortable confident Again, I mean, guys, go play a game. I mean, stop over-explaining. Anytime players or coaches have to over-explain something, that means something's really wrong in the room. You never hear things like that going on in Kansas City or with Matthew Stafford. These guys are going on some epic rant about why a guy is not playing consistent football. Hey, go out and play, dude. You know, this is the same guy I saw when he was at Auburn and also when he was up at Oregon. I'm talking Bo Nix. Dude, this guy here, look at his percentage. 64-2. I mean, without a doubt, we got an issue here right here. And you know what it is? Just go play some football here, man. All right, on the other side, Sam Darnold and that Seahawks team, man, they take it on the chin against that 49ers team this past week. And they know tonight this is a big game and there is a sense of urgency in Seattle. For us, there's a sense of urgency. I think that term, that phrase, like sense of urgency, it's been thrown around a lot the last couple days, and it's true. There needs to be a sense of urgency to get better and have ball security. For me personally, I'm going to continue to try to be as decisive as I can be and go through my reads and trust what I see, trust my feet, all those things. But, yeah, can't have turnovers. You've got to protect the football in this league, And if you don't, you'll pay. Man, I think the analytics departments, I think they're infecting some of these players. That guy's Sam Darnold there, man. I mean, how about Cooper Kupp? Yeah, is that the ghost that we saw in New York? Put Sam Darnold. Cooper Cup, though, at least has some common sense, and this guy speaks his mind. Just putting it all together, we have flashes and moments of efficiency, moments of explosiveness. and most of us were playing really good football and then we also have moments where it's just not good enough there's mistakes and there's going backwards and there's you know self-inflicted wounds and um it's finding ways to eliminate those and keep things moving forward keep the ball moving forward um you know it's our own stuff our own stuff right now we believe man i like that dude and i i really do i like that dude i like that football team and i do like seattle tonight here