Denver Broncos QB Bo Nix ‘can do it all,’ says Chris Simms | Chris Simms Unbuttoned | NFL on NBC

Denver Broncos QB Bo Nix ‘can do it all,’ says Chris Simms | Chris Simms Unbuttoned | NFL on NBC

Bo Nicks is the example of you don’t have to be a superstar, but what you do when it matters most really stands out. And that’s been the theme of Bo Knicks this season. And Chris, you you said something just fascinating when we were off the air. You said, “Watching Bo after watching JJ, it just shows how much more advanced of a passer Bo is right now.” No question. Bo has anticipation. Bo has every throw you need in the book, right? Every club in the bag, however you want to say it, right? I mean, Bo can do it all. He can touch it. He can sidearm it. He can throw a laser, right? He can Oh, wait. Like, oh, there’s a big hole in the zone right here. I’m about to get pressure. Let me just throw a nice little touch ball into the hole. Oh, boom. My guy ran right into it and caught it. He’s got great anticipation. So, he’s really got all the quarterback stuff. And yeah, when you watch him back to back, like you said, it just really jumped out because you go watching JJ McCarthy and you’re just going and every throw is the same. And you’re like, “Wait, Aaron Jones is four feet from you.” And you’re throwing it like he’s 50 yards away where then you see Bo Nicks and he’s like, “Oh, here you go. Back. Oh, oh, there you go, receiver. Catch it. It’s going to fall right in your lap and do all that.” And that just Yeah, it was very apparent watching that. And this all goes back to one of the biggest combos around scouting right now is guys that have played a lot of football and guys that haven’t. Bick started for multiple years at Auburn and then started multiple years at Oregon. Exactly. And Bon Knicks started as a rookie. JJ McCarthy played two years at Michigan as a starter and did not play his rookie season. I’m not making excuses about JJ McCarthy. I’m not like some JJ McCarthy, you know, fan. No, you’re you’re saying there this is a real evaluation thing here. There is proof in the pudding. Definitely is of this guys that have gotten to play and guys that have gotten to work things out at the speed of the college game and then taking it with him to the NFL. It feels like JJ right now is trying to work on those things while in the NFL. Exactly. And that’s hard. That is very hard. Ridiculous. And then he got hurt this year, too. So that’s stunted the development a little bit. That’s the big thing. I tell this to kids all the time. Like stop worrying about I got to go to Ohio State or I have to go to the number one team in the state in high school and I have to play there. First off, we’re in an era where they’re going to find you anywhere. All right? They’re going to find you. It’s there’s nine million scouting services. There’s people at every game, social media, whatever. So those days are done. I tell young kids in high school all the time like just go somewhere you can play. Don’t worry about being on Bergen Catholic or Don Bosow because they’re the number one team in New Jersey. Playing is the number one thing. Reps play. Play. Don’t worry about when I go to college I have to go to Texas or Ohio State. Yeah, that’s great. But at the same time, make sure you’re going to play because it ain’t going to do you anything any good if you’re sitting on the bench for three years and then you go, I played a senior year at Ohio State. Yeah. Well, you’re not very good. you’re going to be docked from that and you haven’t played enough and the NFL is not going to feel very comfortable about you. And I think a lot of people lose that right now. I try to say this even to my own son. Play, play, play. Don’t worry about I want to be on this school or this team or any of that, right? It’s about the reps. They’re too important. Well, and Bon Knicks has carried those reps specifically into the fourth quarter. There’s some kind of feeling with Bone Knicks, no matter how quarter 1 through three has gone, that in the fourth quarter everything can stay level-headed and calm. career comebacks. season since 1950. What are you seeing in the fourth quarter specifically, Chris, from Bo, that he’s not one of these guys that, forget unraveling, he’s been better in really I I think the the big thing, right, is he just doesn’t he doesn’t he’s not afraid of the big moment. I have no like magical formula I’m going to tell you about. I think the thing that I just look at is not afraid to make the big throw in the big moment. He doesn’t shrink. He gets big and aggressive, right? He’s not like, “Oh gosh, this is big. Let me just be conservative and get the drive going.” He’s like, “Hey, oh, my guy’s one-on-one. He’s got him by a step. All right, that the defense is telling me to throw it there. I’m going to throw it there.” Right. That’s what I love about him that way. Now, is there a little bit of something about, you know, his ability to be better in those moments? Yeah, I think there is, too. I I can’t put my hand or finger around that. But as we’ve seen with other great quarterbacks, sometimes it’s like, wait, he missed that throw three times already today. But man, all of a sudden, the big moment, he put it right on the money. So, he has a little bit of that. He’s got a coach that I think brings that out on him. And, you know, and defending Bon Knicks, too, I just I want everybody to realize this. First off, they’re not that talented on offense. So, like, and maybe you can look this up for me, but it’s certainly felt like Kansas City played manto man. it felt like the majority of the game cuz they were like Denver can’t run by anybody. What are we worried about? So that that’s one thing I think and then you look at Shawn Peyton and the Denver offense. I don’t sit there and go, “Oh my gosh, it’s so creative and awesome and woo man.” Like it it’s not one of the more creative offenses. I I don’t you know, again, I wouldn’t put it in the category of some of the creativity of like the Colts, the Bears, the Lions, right? uh the Rams, the 49ers, uh some of the things they do, right? I I wouldn’t put it in that category. They’re like they are they have all the basics and Shawn Peyton knows when to call it, right? But I don’t sit there and watch them and go, “Oh my gosh, this is so cool and oh, this guy’s wide open. He just served it up for Bo Nicks there.” So that’s where I want everybody just to pump the brakes on the hate of Bow Knicks to go they’re not even though they’re eight and two or nine and two, whatever the hell they are, nine and two, right? Their offense is not like this unbelievable superstar offense, greatest show on turf. And I think everybody’s got to realize that a little bit too because I think they go, “Wait, they’re nine and two. It’s Shawn Peyton, right? They should be awesome, right?” And it’s just no, it’s it’s not quite that way. But um he’s got all the throws. He’s smart as hell and I just is one of those guys that when the go the getting gets tough and the times are tough, he he seems to lock in and make his best throws in that moment. Yeah. And the use of bootlegs. He has an NFL high 66 drop backs rolling left or right. Well, thank you. You saw that in my notes, right? Because I I was like I don’t even know where the hell I wrote that, but I I Oh, yeah. I I wrote like they have to lead the league in bootlegs. Uh yes, they do. So 66 drop backs with bootlegs. That That’s crazy. I mean, you know, and again, that just there’s not a lot here to their offense. It’s play action. They run the ball, okay? They got the basics of drop back, pass, but really they try to run the ball and they are pretty patient with it most weeks to where, yeah, the bootlegs have effect. And of course, he’s a very good runner and he throws the ball really well on the run as well. And they have receivers who can’t get open. So in the bootleg thing, it just gives them a little bit of a chance to get one step in front of somebody and that get open that way. But yeah, it’s again, like I said, they’re not reinventing the wheel or anything crazy there in New Orleans. Yeah, he’s got 312 passing yards off of bootlegs. That’s third in the NFL behind Darnold and Stafford. And I think that’s cuz Darnold and Stafford have a lot of big plays down the field off the boots, right, to JSN and Puka and Devonte. Yeah. Yeah. Right. So where Bo when he rolls out sometimes it’s a little bit more controlled. Yes. It’s not always firing it down the field. No, no. It’s it’s the basic bootlegs where I would go like Sam Darnold and them when they run the bootlegs, they us a lot of times have somebody like making a double move and they’re looking to like get them out there, get set up, and then throw a fire, you know, fire the ball deep down the football field, right? So, that’s where uh you know, yes, it’s it’s the basics from that department. And again, their offense to me is somewhat basic altogether. And how about the big throws? So I think notably the one we want to go through is the the 48 yder to Pat Bryant. This was in the third quarter. Kansas City has just tied the game 13-13. It feels like oh boy here we go. Like is Kansas City got us here? Uh what happened on this big play? Well they come out they’re going to run a little again little bootleg playaction pass here with a heavy formation. With a heavy formation and you could see Patrick Bryant there number 13 on your left. He’s sitting there. Evan uh 17 is Evan Ingram, right? Can’t remember. No, I can’t remember who 17 is, but either way, you got it. Patrick Bryant’s there. All right. And they’re going to run a little play action. You see Patrick Bryant’s going to run like the, you know, going to release inside. Maybe he’s going to run to the post. And then 17 is little Jordan Humphrey. Oh, it’s little wide receiver. Evan Ingram used to be 17 when he was with the Jacksonville Jaguars. Now he wears number one. I’m getting confused there. But okay, let it go, Pete. Let’s see it here. So you see here he’s got the little motion. Boom. There’s your little playaction boot, right? And this is kind of a designed like play action and you have a chance to set up if you got it. And you see this is basic. Everybody does this in football here. But again, instead of going like, let me throw the ball in the flat to Troutman or let me throw the 10 yard crosser to Courtland Sutton, he goes, wait, I came out, they blitzed the corner, they blitzed McDuffy on the left side here. Patrick Bryant got down the field with a pretty clean release release and he’s one-on-one with a safety named Brian Cook and they’re in trouble, right? And he throws a ball right on the money and there it is 1313 where you just go, wait, the Chiefs have answered back, man, can the Broncos keep answering the bell like this? I don’t know if they can handle this pressure. And it’s the second time when Mahomes threw the interception at six to six when they were going to score. the first play of that drive he threw a big pass down the left sideline I believe to Troy Frank Franklin if I remember right so that was the first answer of the day where you’re like whoa okay damn they’re just they’re they’re fearless and then here it is 1313 you go here’s another big can they get the momentum back on their side and they take it back right away like right away and I think that’s kind of what they’ve done all year from that department and that’s where he’s damn you know cool in the clutch when he needs to be that way what I love about that look that you pulled out there is they’re it’s a heavy set and all their big wide receivers are on their field. The two speedsters weren’t. Troy Franklin and Marvin Mims are not on the field. It’s little Jordan Humphrey who’s big, Courtland Sutton who’s big and Pat Bryant his whole game coming out of college was blocking and possession playso and they run play action. So it’s like this is a run, this is a run or it’s a short pass and it’s like no it’s it’s a shot down the field even though it’s not the formation you’d think. This is when you use the phrase creatively simplistic, right? because it’s a simple play, but the psychology is we’ve brought these receivers in a lot this year and we really run the ball and he’s like Spags is gonna expect that. He’s going to scout us and he’s going to go, man, when they’re in these personnel sets with these guys, they don’t really want to throw the ball down the field, right? So, that’s where I think he plays that angle there with that one alto together. And that’s where that is uh, you know, damn big throw and a big moment. And of course, wasn’t his last big throw in a big moment uh in in the football game. No, he had um of course he had the throw to Troy Franklin at the end that was just insane. He’s been so good, I feel like, Chris, at identifying, okay, this looks like some variation of man or the defender’s back is turned and I’m just going to put the ball up there for my guy in the right spot. You know, I should have told Pete this is one we wanted to show in the pictures, too, right? Because again, this this I think encapsulates everything we’re talking about here. They run a max protect very basic concept here. You know, they’re trying to get just get themselves in field goal position a little bit more. I think they thought right, oh, it’s a big moment. Kansas City will play like protect the sidelines or take away and he’s Kansas City play manto man, which it seemed like they did for the majority of the football game. It seemed like a lot of twoman concept. Two twoman or regular man. It just but but either way they were going to play that. And again, that speaks to the the I I think where Kansas City’s at too right now. Kansas City is just not that like we’ve talked about Monday and whatever. They’re not that special. Their team is just there’s not a lot of special players. So, Spags, I think, is like, I got to load the box. I can’t ever get to the quarterback with four. I got to do something creative with the front. So, with all that, he’s having to play man because he’s trying to go, hey, you guys play man, and then I’ll try to do something creative with these other guys inside of here. That’s just it’s a hard formula to win by against really good football teams. But the play you’re talking about that sets up the game-winning field goal. I mean, yes, there it’s it’s there there’s nothing there’s nothing there, right? I mean, nothing there. He doesn’t panic. He’s got a guy that’s running a hitch route on the outside. The slot receivers’s running a corner route. They’re plastered. They’re all covered like like glue. He’s got a little time. He realizes the re the DB covering uh Bryant, right? I think that was Bryant on that last one. Troy. Troy Franklin. Sorry. Right. Who he played with in college. Exactly. So, he’s got a good feel for him. And within that, the DB’s not looking right. His back’s turned and he goes, “Okay.” Nice and calmly, unlike JJ McCarthy. Throws a nice ball to go to give him some room to adjust. He basically threw a back shoulder corner ball, right? So, I’m running to the corner, the guy’s trailing me, and then I look back to see Bo Nicks, and he throws me a ball like over here, and I just boom, do it that way. And that was all set up also by a clutch third and 15 to start the drive where he scrambled and made a move to get it all going. So yes, he’s got a little magic that way. And he’s he’s definitely cool under pressure. Plays his best in those moments. And uh I think that’s a lot because of his coach who who probably gives him the guts to to be that way too. Yo yo yo. 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