After the Denver Broncos beat the Seattle Seahawks 17-14 in overtime on Thursday night, a former NFL quarterback had some less than polite words for Broncos QB Bo Nix. Okay, so it wasn’t Nix's most stylish game. He recorded 107 yards on 27 pass attempts and was sacked twice.
The defense was the highlight of the night after recovering two fumbles with two interceptions on Seattle’s quarterback Sam Darnold. But remember, the kid is only in his third season. One person who wasn’t thrilled with Nix’s performance was ex-quarterback and now “NFL on Prime Video” commentator, Ryan Fitzpatrick.
And part of it, for me, is Bo Nix is not playing competitively. It’s almost disrespectful to the quarterback position how he’s playing football right now.” “First of all, the guy doesn’t want to throw the ball,” he continued. He’s throwing to the flats, he’s throwing behind, but he has no trust from his coach.
He calls a screen play on third-and-8. Just run up and let the clock keep going. Seattle gets the ball, they have a timeout.
The last one being designed run for him to run, make somebody miss, and get a first down for your football team. Now, they’re in the locker room right now. He’s not playing competitive football right now.” Fitzpatrick went on to say that Nix has “no fire or passion” in his game and that he’s taking being leader of the team for granted.
Former NFL cornerback Aqib Talib took issue with Fitzpatrick’s words and defended Nix on “Gridiron.” He also threw some harsh realities at Fitz himself. We talking about this guy who played for nine different teams in 17 years,” the former Bronco said. Ain’t nobody wants his [expletive].
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