Why Courtland Sutton is comparing Bo Nix to a CAGED BEAST

Ryan Koenigsberg (0:00)

DNVR Broncos Podcast, coming to you from the Toyota lounge here at DNVR. And RK here, joined by Zac Stevens and Henry Chisholm.

Fellas, football officially returned last night. The crew is all back together. It feels like everything in the universe is balanced once again.

Zac Stevens (0:21)

Well, and we found out officially last night that Bo Nix is better than Drake Maye. Drake Maye once again on a big stage and once again can't do anything. In fact, the only thing he did was literally throw the game away for the Patriots, against a backup quarterback.

Ryan Koenigsberg (0:44)

Yeah, that was really ugly. And honestly now, we're so far removed from the last time Drake Maye looked good that I forgot what it even looked like.

I'm told he was really good during the regular season last year. I can't remember.

Zac Stevens (1:01)

Well, and the reason you can't remember is Ryan, those games were at 11 a.m. Denver time, 1 p.m. East Coast time, because the games that he did good in were all against bad teams. They were all throwaway games. They were all games that every quarterback that's drafted in the first round should win. He is 0-12 against teams with winning records.

Let's think about that.

Henry Chisholm (1:24)

I don't think that's true.

Ryan Koenigsberg (1:26)

You don't think that's true? I think that was, well, I mean, certainly beat teams in the playoffs with winning records.

Zac Stevens (1:30)

Maybe it was last year. Yeah, maybe regular season.

SPEAKER_4 (1:34)

Okay. I don't know if that's correct.

Zac Stevens (1:35)

He did win in the playoffs.

Ryan Koenigsberg (1:37)

But he has definitely struggled against good teams. He had very favorable matchups last year, but he also did get one win over the Bills in the regular season last year.

Zac Stevens (1:48)

Okay. Well, then that was wrong.

Ryan Koenigsberg (1:49)

So, what I will say is whatever that was last night did not look like it. Actually, it looked just like what we saw from Drake Maye in the playoffs, which was very like, I guess the word I would use is panicky.

Zac Stevens (2:03)

Yep.

Ryan Koenigsberg (2:04)

All three of those interceptions were really bad throws. Just complete panic, not in a rhythm at all. I thought he had one play where I was like, okay, I remember this a little bit from last year where he escaped the pocket. He had a nice little flick to Romeo Dobbs coming across the middle and Romeo dropped it.

Speaking of, I mean, that's a whole lot of money for that guy. Who anytime the ball went his way, it was basically a disaster for the Patriots. Then AJ Brown gets hurt. I mean, it was an out and out disaster for the Patriots last night.

Henry Chisholm (2:42)

Yeah.

Like the Romeo Dobbs, Mac Hollins thing. It's like, how is Romeo Dobbs getting three times what Mac Hollins gets? When Mac Hollins has just been for a decade now, just like a good solid, reliable, plays good special teams, makes big blocks, and he's just sitting out there every year for somebody who wants him. So I, yeah, I mean, Drake Maye is broken. Something happened before the playoffs that I don't know. Like he has no confidence. He looks just scared. He is forcing throws that have no business being made, which is crazy. I mean, one of the most efficient passing seasons we've seen from a quarterback last year. I mean, since 2020, the best passer rating in one season in the NFL was Lamar Jackson in 2024 He had a 119

Drake Maye had 113.5 last year. Like, the lead the NFL in completion percentage, 72%. That's a mark that's been hit by Jared Goff and Tua in that time. Like, ridiculously, ridiculously efficient throughout the entire season. And doing that while throwing for 260 yards per game, too. So it's like high volume stuff as well. But it just, something changed the start of the playoffs because it's awful right now.

Zac Stevens (4:01)

It's awful. Well, my first stat was wrong about that. What changed? Nothing changed with Drake. What changed was the teams he was going up against. In the playoffs, he played four good teams. Then last night, he played a good team as well. By the way, Mike McDonald and the Seahawks are 25 and 4, or no, 24 and 5 in their last 29 games under Mike McDonald. And they've only lost one of those games by more than four points.

So the Seahawks are a very good team, as you saw. Lose your starting quarterback on the first drive, and you still are able to beat a team that was in the Super Bowl last year. But here are the teams that Drake Maye beat last year. The Dolphins, the Panthers, the Saints, the Titans, the Browns, the Falcons, the Bucks, the Jets, the Bengals, the Giants, the Ravens, the Jets, the Dolphins, and the Bills. The Bills are the only team with a winning record that they beat last year, I believe.