They CAN'T keep getting away with this...

They can't keep getting away with it, and yet here we are. The Broncos win against the Seahawks on Thursday Night Football, and I guess what some people would consider an upset, but it did not come in the way that a lot of people expected, especially being down major, major defensive players. But the real story of this game is a tale of two halves, and obviously that's not anything new for Broncos fans, but what's different this time around was the first half was the strong point, and a very encouraging sign and the second half was some of the most abysmal offensive football you will ever watch in your entire life and so the conversation while we all wanted to be like oh man the Broncos they went through that six game gauntlet and came out six and two it no one is celebrating this Broncos team no one is especially the offense and now it's become a discussion of whether the Broncos need to bench their quarterback need to find someone to trade forumbecause it's gotten so bad that even the biggest believers out there including myself are questioning what what can be done i i i found myself extremely upset and angry at Bo watching a team struggle for first downs struggle to do quite simply anything correctly beyond not turning the ball over and just punting the ball away at every opportunity um we're gonna be breaking it all down here guys uh make sure to subscribe join the channel join Broncos Digest hopefully this season you know turns around even though we're only we're four and two and yet it feels like we're two and four and it's funny Sean Payton said that he knows that we could easily be two and four right now and that was like his first acknowledgement of the fact that this team isn't playing up to snuff despite winning games um but yeah honestly like without further ado let's just jump into this because obviously the big story is how putrid this offensive performance was so Adam Schefter this morning uh posted Denver's 168 total yards during Thursday night's win against Seattle represented uh the fewest total yards the Broncos have gained in a win since John Elway's first NFL start in 1983 you can do some math there but uh over 40 over 40 years it's been since uh we put up a putrid offensive that putrid of an offensive performance in a win um again and that requires your defense to be historically great in the game which they were they were this was as good of a defensive performance as you could have asked for against you know the defending Super Bowl champs thankfully we're at home or we were at home and uh that worked out but man you want to talk about an unacceptable performance it's just not even close uh in the second half it was like that this is this put it perfectly uh possession one punt possession two punt possession three punt possession four punt possession five punt possession six punt possession seven kneel for uh uh overtime which you can barely even count as a possession still so and then they get the ball or sorry the the Seahawks get the ball in overtime thankfully sam donald throws a ham sandwich and then you know the Broncos i i we all knew it they weren't going to get a first down um the the design run that bow had third and two and then just easily gave up because he's scared of everything uh ryan Fitzpatrick very clearly goes at him uh after the game and criticizes his lack of effort lack of drive and that is something i do want to get into in just a moment but uh this is definitely a problem that people are starting to notice is that like this as much of like the fact that there's a lot of different facets to why an offense isn't functioning uh this does feel like above all else a Bo Nix problem uh Dan Orlovsky this morning said that Bo Nix right now doesn't want the ball in his hands for the Broncos like he was going in through play by play just complete almost like disillusionment or or just like like a lack of awareness lack of even understanding the play calls he's going through it might even like be like this guy's not studying film this guy doesn't care like he used to uh you know I don't want to like say it's like you know the fact that like he started he's you know he and his wife started a family this this uh past offseason and like you know the two ankle surgeries like some people are starting to wonder if he's like checked out from football in general like it's just like there is it but it's not just that he's also scared of getting hurt again maybe the process of healing wasn't nearly as i don't know good as we were hoping um but this doesn't read to me as a guy who's just injured this is a guy that is frightened of being touched by a defender in his head and just throwing like dirtying the ball on every opportunity running out of bounds just not taking any risks whatsoever um if you if you want to look at one of the most baffling stats that i saw is that uh so Doug Klosterman posted this on twitter said there are 701 qualified quarterback seasons through six games in the past 20 years 2026 Bo Nix ranks 701st out of 701 in average pass length which is you know 4.9 air yards per attempt his average pass was thrown behind the line of scrimmage in the second half on thursday he was not even throwing it past the line of scrimmage we're not talking about the first down line his average pass wasn't even past the line of scrimmage he forgot how to throw the forward pass so it's it he it cannot be understated how poorly he is playing and this it's it's I found it laughable that people were blaming this on play calling people wanted a scapegoat that outside of Bo Nix but if you look at it it's got like the offense has gotten much worse under Sean Payton's play calling than it was under Davis Webb Davis Webb had 280 yards per game Sean Payton threw two games as 196 yards per game you want to tell me that's acceptable it's disgusting and so it's just I I know I I knew it wasn't a Davis Webb problem um some of the sequencing of you know Davis's plays sure could use improvement but man like Sean dude you cannot be okay with this you cannot like and it's fine I know I know we won the game i know we did and we will we will praise the defense in other videos but this is the story because this offense is more anemic than the 2015 offense and i don't say that lightly because that was a rough watch uh but the only reason why we won a super bowl that year because 2015 denver broncos was one of the greatest defenses of all time so far it's been a great start for the denver defense outside of week one obviously um but man i just and it doesn't help that the broncos don't have a run game they don't you know it's uh so uh jeffrey uh irisay or sorry um asari uh said that or showed the stats of the broncos rushing yards in the first half of 2025 versus the 2026 much better running game in the first half of 2025 and i was with you know a Dobbins who looked a lot seem to have a lot more juice before his season ending injury uh RJ Harvey not rushing nearly as well but at least just was able to pick up the slack when JK Dobbins went off the field we had McLaughlin also uh doing some good stuff there um obviously not having Jonah Coleman hurts because of his injury being on IR right now but uh yeah we we are having trouble barely eclipsing 100 yards in just two games of the season so far one of them being against the Chargers and the other one being against Jacksonville but again it's just an unacceptable performance from our running game and obviously that limits what the Broncos offense can do but I don't even know if it matters because Bo is just not not only is he not seeing the field it seems like when he gets the ball his first concern is how to not like like Dan Orlovsky was saying how to not have the ball in his hands how to have a play if it's on his responsibility if a play is on like on him to run the ball or do something designed for him how to get it over as soon as possible and it's clear it's it's clear at this point it's a mental block it's a physical block it is an everything block and i am i mean so here we go i just want to jump right into the Ryan Fitzpatrick quote and this was this is going to be everywhere rightfully so but i remember watching it last night and being stunned that a guy who's really a nice guy and was a really fun quarterback to watch for a long time in the NFL, this is what he had to say about Bo Nix. He said, I'm glad that they scored the two touchdowns in the first half, but they were in four-minute mode when the second half started. It was really frustrating to watch, and part of it for me is that Bo Nix is not playing competitively. it's almost disrespectful to the quarterback position how he's playing football right now in overtime he's got two chances to be competitive uh the last one being a design run for him to run make somebody miss and get a first down for your football team now uh they're in the locker room right now they're excited they won but he's not playing competitive football right now scathing scathing review um and and shocking to say the least uh that I mean but not entirely untrue and this comes into the conversation of the Bo Nix his head is somewhere else right now it's not in football I don't believe he's doing nearly enough like review of tape I think that the the winning has disguised the fact that Sean and Davis is like they're worried about benching Bo also because they don't think that Stidham or Ellinger can run this this office much better but it's funny because I'm feeling it's like deja vu from last year where it's like in the middle of the season Bo was looking really rough and you start to put into question do you trade for a quarterback by the trade deadline which is a it would be a shocking move um but this is a season you can't afford to waste on a quarterback who might be disinterested in playing football and i and again i i have a Bo Nix jersey i i do not say this lightly but my the the eye test doesn't deceive you the stats don't deceive you it is just everything does not deceive you he's not reviewing plays on his iPad like on on the sideline he doesn't seem to be talking to people like the fire the fire of Bo when he's like remember when he was like yelling at Sean Payton his rookie year where like he seemed to really you know like care about like what was going on on the field you don't see that this year he just seems like resigned to the fact that his defense is going to carry the team as long as he doesn't throw like a game-ending pick and I'm seeing some people defend Bo on Twitter being like hey like why is everyone getting mad at Bo when Sam Darnold's the one who threw like back-to-back interceptions um you know at the end of the game sure that's fine at least you are putting the ball downfield so i just i i really it's weird that like you know some people are saying like i'd rather my my quarterback lose trying than win not trying at all because like the lack of effort the lack of competitiveness is really starting to rub the wrong way off of fans like you know it's awesome to watch a great defensive performance but it's not fair to the fans to put that you know this is an entertainment league in the end and you're it's like you don't care and you're losing yourself a big time contract but i don't care what people say about whether you need to extend him or not um you can't play the way that like you know he he does for a good chunk of games get bailed out by your defense and then get paid to 55 60 million he's not worth much of anything right now to be honest and he needs to get that turned around so i'm hoping i'm hoping he sees the fitzpatrick quote and uses that as motivation i want to believe as much as possible because winning is still great but to compete for a super bowl there has to be more there has to be more fire someone needs to get in his ear something has to change a mile high report trying to go on a little bit of the pile positive side said broncos are four and two after a brutal start to the season against some of the better teams in the nfl right now their only two losses are to two undefeated teams being the chiefs and niners they have their issues but uh i'm happy with four and two the schedule does get easier on paper from here on out and joy will win those 10 years after super bowl 50 told us that they don't always come often so i'll end on that positive note we won we have a victory friday right now that's great but man there are things to be concerned about so uh what do you guys think shout out in the comments down below what you guys think about all this and uh until next video we'll probably be doing some more uh fun defensive uh analysis and uh you know reactions so go broncos and and i'll see you in the next video