[EssentiallySports] Champ Bailey Says Team Has a Championship Defense, Now It’s on Bo Nix to Finish the Job
November 10, 2025
“I love the old cliche defense wins championships,” Bailey told EssentiallySports.
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Not clicking on that, but I generally agree.
This is a classic case of “You don’t need to win *BECAUSE* of him, but you need to be able to win *WITH* him.”
Which is to say Bo doesn’t need to be a world beater, he just needs to be a net positive and the team might have enough to be special.
No pressure, bro.
There is a lot of recency bias because of the last game to want to pile on NIx/the playcalling which is understandable but the guy has had some bright spots, too! There is nothing he is doing that doesn’t look correctable, and last year this is when he really started to put it all together. I have a feeling the KC game will be night and day from that Thursday night nonsense. Also I hate Thursday night games, I bet we see more stinkers going forward.
yeah thats a fair statement. also its on the offense to stop getting stupid penalties and stop dropping the ball. but as QB its definitely gonna be on bo to get his footwork straight and make the right throws.
Lot of pressure for a guy a year and a half into his career and I think we can kinda see it. he was a lot more free flowing and relaxed in the second half of last year where he basically was playing well above what anyone expected from him or the team.
5 comments
Not clicking on that, but I generally agree.
This is a classic case of “You don’t need to win *BECAUSE* of him, but you need to be able to win *WITH* him.”
Which is to say Bo doesn’t need to be a world beater, he just needs to be a net positive and the team might have enough to be special.
No pressure, bro.
There is a lot of recency bias because of the last game to want to pile on NIx/the playcalling which is understandable but the guy has had some bright spots, too! There is nothing he is doing that doesn’t look correctable, and last year this is when he really started to put it all together. I have a feeling the KC game will be night and day from that Thursday night nonsense. Also I hate Thursday night games, I bet we see more stinkers going forward.
yeah thats a fair statement. also its on the offense to stop getting stupid penalties and stop dropping the ball. but as QB its definitely gonna be on bo to get his footwork straight and make the right throws.
Lot of pressure for a guy a year and a half into his career and I think we can kinda see it. he was a lot more free flowing and relaxed in the second half of last year where he basically was playing well above what anyone expected from him or the team.
Good news: this is already occurring.