00:00It's a football Friday and a pizza Friday. I want to get you a talk of the tables early.
00:04Joe Kelly, I sent you the clip of Ryan Fitzpatrick taking apart Bo Nix.
00:10Talk of the tables brought to you by Treasure Cave, the official cheese of the Buffalo Bills.
00:14So, Amazon, one of the reasons Amazon has the best broadcast is they have the best.
00:20The way I heard Ryan Fitzpatrick just absolutely demolish Bo Nix after a win.
00:26So, first I want to give you a fits on Bo Nix last night.
00:30The Broncos won, and they are total posers. They are bad.
00:34They're not a good team. And yet, what are they, 4-2?
00:38Offensively, at least.
00:39Offensively, they're a disaster.
00:41They have three very impressive wins. Seattle, Jacksonville, and the Rams.
00:47That's insane to have beaten those three teams and still people think you are a joke.
00:50And yet, I feel like in Denver, they're arguing about, is this a winning way of football?
00:57Is this, right? Is the Bills model sustainable? Is the Denver model sustainable?
01:01Here's Fitz on Bo Nix after a win.
01:04I mean, I'm glad they scored the two touchdowns in the first half, but they were in four-minute mode
01:09when the second half started.
01:10It was really frustrating to watch.
01:12And part of it for me is Bo Nix is not playing competitively.
01:17It's almost disrespectful to the quarterback position, how he's playing football.
01:21What do you mean? What do you mean when you see? How is he playing?
01:24I mean, first of all, the guy doesn't want to throw the ball. That's fine.
01:27He's throwing to the flats. He's throwing behind.
01:28But he has no trust from his coach.
01:30He calls a screenplay on third and eight.
01:33Just run up and let the clock keep going.
01:36What does he do? He throws it away.
01:37Seattle gets the ball. They have a timeout.
01:39And then in overtime, he's got two chances to be competitive.
01:42The last one being a designed run for him to run, make somebody miss, and get a first down for
01:48your football team.
01:49Now, they're in the locker room right now.
01:52They're excited. They won.
01:53He's not playing competitive football right now.
01:57Man.
01:58When's the last time an analyst went that far after a player?
02:01Never.
02:03Not in a long time.
02:04Long time.
02:05And not after a win.
02:08I don't care that they won the game.
02:10We're evaluating how this player played.
02:12Yep.
02:14Don't give me the win is a win BS.
02:16That is awesome. I love that from Fitz.
02:19To follow that up.
02:19And it's totally accurate.
02:20Right.
02:21Doug Clawson, who is a researcher and writer at CBS Sports.
02:24You might see him sometimes on Twitter, Doug Clawson.
02:26He likes to tweet out some stats here and there.
02:29He found out of 701 qualified quarterback seasons through six games in the last 20 years.
02:36That's a fancy way to say the last 20 years quarterbacks in their first six games.
02:41Out of 701, Bo Nix ranks 701 in average pass length.
02:48But the Denver offense is on the leash of leashes.
02:52And his average pass was thrown behind the line of scrimmage in the second half yesterday.
02:58They traded for Jalen Waddell and their quarterback is, I mean, he's a mess.
03:03He can't play.
03:04That guy almost went to a Super Bowl.
03:06Right.
03:07Did you see the other stat Doug Clawson had on him?
03:09That in games where you average less than six yards per attempt,
03:17his record as an NFL quarterback averaging less than six yards an attempt is 13-3.
03:24Wow.
03:25And the rest of the league active quarterbacks right now has a 283 win percentage in those games.
03:33They win 28% of the time.
03:36He's 13-3.
03:37Matt Stafford, 15-39.
03:39Rodgers, 17-32.
03:41Goff, 7-23.
03:42Allen, 16-18.
03:44Allen's close to 500 probably just because he can run.
03:46Right.
03:46Right?
03:47Which Knicks used to be able to do.
03:49Right.
03:49But 13-3 when you're average.
03:51Like, six yards is bad, by the way.
03:52Like, that's a pretty good mark for, like, you didn't play well that day.
03:55Right.
03:56Seven is an average number.
03:57Right.
03:57So, basically, when he's not good, they are a 13-3 football team,
04:01which I think is just you're being lifted up by your defense.
04:04Yep.
04:04He's the anti-Allen.
04:07How different is he than, like, Tebow?
04:10It's got to be a little different.
04:11It's pretty bad.
04:12It's just bad.
04:13It's bad.
04:13I can't believe it.
04:14I can't believe the Bills lost to that guy and that team.
04:16Maybe that was part of their math.
04:18But that guy and that team got the one seed.
04:21They got the one seed last year.
04:22The defense was amazing.
04:23Well, I remember leading into that playoff game last year,
04:27looking up numbers and, like, seeing, like, what he did statistically
04:30and how it really wasn't impressive.
04:32No, there were doubts.
04:33They threw it.
04:33They were a volume passing game.
04:34They threw it a million times.
04:36For a guy, he led the NFL in pass attempts last year with 612.
04:39And if you look back in, like, the last 30 years of quarterbacks that attempted
04:43600 attempts in a year, he had, like, the lowest passing yards.
04:46Like, he didn't get to 4,000 yards passing with 600 attempts.
04:51Like, that was wildly inefficient last season.
04:54He just had big numbers.
04:55It looked like it because they threw the ball a million times.
04:58And how did they throw the ball?
04:59Look, right, you said last night.
05:01It's all at the line of scrimmage.
05:03A lot of it's at the line of scrimmage.
05:05There's not a lot of down-the-field stuff.
05:07And he got help.
05:09Yeah, I'm – it's, one, frustrating the Bills lost to them.
05:13And, two, I definitely don't want to believe in that team.
05:15No.
05:15Would have no fear of them.
05:16I mean, their defense, of course, could still be good and is still good.
05:20But, man, tough one.
05:22What do I mean?
05:23Would they score on the Bills, though?
05:25There's got to be some offenses that aren't going to score on this team.
05:28We know one.
05:29The Chargers.
05:29Chargers, right, Chargers.
05:30But is Denver's offense as bad as the Chargers' offense?
05:34I mean, if they're – yeah.
05:36It might be.
05:37It shouldn't be.
05:39I mean, they've got the pieces.
05:41What don't they have?
05:43I mean, they don't have the quarterback.
05:44But what else don't they have?
05:46Don't they kind of have everything else?
05:47I guess maybe they don't have a great run game.
05:50But, like, it's – you've got separators.
05:52You've got a big contested catch guy in Sutton.
05:56You've got, you know, a tight end who's pretty good.
05:58Like, I just don't really understand why he can't make that work.
06:02803-0550.
06:03Bills and Raiders.
06:05Joe Brady talking about James Cook.
06:07Feels like there's a little bit of what's the coach supposed to do here?
06:14Is the coach not allowed to say that he will take carries away from his star running back
06:20if his running back continues to fumble?
06:21Isn't that, like, a baseline thing?
06:23It feels like there was a mini-controversy this week started over Brady saying fumbling is bad.
06:29And if he continues to fumble, we have a problem.
06:33Yeah.
06:33What was he supposed to say?
06:35He's so good I don't care?
06:37Like, what was he really supposed to say?
06:39Anyway, craft the statement for those of you out there that thought he made a mistake.
06:44Maybe people around here didn't think it, but –
06:47Yeah, I didn't think anything of it.
06:49I thought it made total sense.
06:51Did you see takes everywhere that he made a big mistake?
06:54I did.
06:54Like, he called out James Cook or –
06:56Yeah.
06:57Like, he's not even saying I'm benching him.
06:58He's just saying, like, you just can't continue and continue and continue to fumble.
07:02Or – because I think the opposite would be worse.
07:06The opposite would be – we don't care how much he fumbles, no consequences.
07:10Right, that's no accountability.
07:11That's a worse message, I think.
07:13Yeah.
07:15So, it's very – it's strange to me, too.
07:18Is it, you know –
07:20He's figuring out what he wants to do with the media and, like, maybe it just doesn't come off the
07:26right way, the way he says it?
07:28Because I don't understand either why it got kind of fed as a controversy.
07:35Yeah.
07:35Yeah.
07:36Maybe it's also the Josh Allen derangement syndrome that some out there have.
07:41Maybe.
07:41Like, how could you say that about James Cook?
07:43Your quarterback turns it over more than anybody.
07:45I guess that could be it.
07:47It's a side effect of that.
07:49Just a weird attitude towards James Cook this year from outside of Buffalo.
07:53Like, how could you do that to James Cook?
07:55You don't give him any touchdowns at the one-yard line.
07:57How could you say that about James Cook?
08:00You're going to bench him if he keeps fumbling.
08:02He's a great player, but he's not immune to being benched if he fumbles every game.
08:08Right.
08:09And I feel like that's how the position works.
08:12The quarterback – if you bench the quarterback, they're out for the rest of the game or maybe lose their
08:17job.
08:18In running backs, you could just take a guy out for the game.
08:21Like, you know, I didn't give him any more carries for the game.
08:23I was mad at him.
08:24Right.
08:24And he'll be back next week.
08:26You don't exactly do that to quarterbacks unless it's a blowout of a game.
08:29You're down 40 points.
08:30And the Raiders did do that with Kirk Cousins.
08:33Vegas.
08:34This game will be interesting.
08:35Like, if Cook – as Brady says that, what – if Cook fumbles in the first half, is that just
08:41it?
08:41Is he one away from getting – and getting what?
08:45He's not – he's not getting fully benched.
08:47No.
08:47Right?
08:47Like, it's a split if he fumbles again, right?
08:50We're not going straight Ray Davis if James Cook fumbles one more time.
08:54Well, let me tell you this.
08:55I don't think.
08:56If Joe Brady wanted to show the world that Ray Davis and or Ty Johnson could do the job, this
09:04is the week to do it.
09:05And I'll explain why.
09:06I was talking with Joe Marino about this yesterday.
09:08How the matchups of the Bills' offensive line against the Raiders' defensive line is a wild mismatch.
09:15The Bills should be able to run all over Vegas.
09:19And after Joe made that point, I saw Scott Barrett of – Scott Barrett is Fantasy Football Daily Podcast.
09:25He pointed out that Buffalo's O-line versus Vegas' D-line.
09:30Here's some stats for you.
09:31The best run-blocking offensive line by yards before contact per attempt since 2021 is the Bills this year.
09:40This year.
09:41And it's a big gap to No. 2.
09:42No. 2 is actually the 2025 Ravens, which is the Derrick Henry Ravens.
09:47This Bills team has 3.65 yards before contact for James Cook.
09:53No. 1 in the last five years.
09:55Worst run-defending defensive lines by running back yards per contact per attempt in the last five years.
10:02This year's Raiders.
10:03Mm-hmm.
10:04You have the best run-blocking offensive line in the last five years against the worst run-stopping defensive line
10:10in the last five years.
10:12Cook and whoever they hand the ball to should have a field day.
10:16And we had a Raiders guest on yesterday who said that the one player that probably will not play for
10:21them this week is –
10:23not a name I was familiar with before yesterday, but he said he's their best defensive tackle.
10:27Tonka Hemingway.
10:28And he's not playing on Sunday.
10:30A great defensive tackle.
10:31How did we not know about Tonka Hemingway?
10:33I'm so – I'm devastated the Bills do not have Tonka on this team.
10:36Tonka Hemingway.
10:37It's great.
10:37Right.
10:38Amazing.
10:38Tonka Hemingway.
10:39But he's their best defensive tackle, apparently, and he is not expected to play on Sunday.
10:43So that helps, too.
10:44Now it's the NFL, which means the thing you think is going to happen won't.
10:47But everything lines up for James Cook to run for 150 and two touchdowns.
10:52Right.
10:52And to quiet all the criticism because they might not – whatever, I'm speaking a little hyperbolic.
10:59They might not even touch him, never mind have time to peanut punch the ball.
11:02Right.
11:02I mean, with all that being said and after the week that's happened, do we not just think he's going
11:07to get –
11:07the first ten plays of the game are just going to be all James Cook runs?
11:10It might just be like the Pittsburgh game.
11:12It's a redemption game for him.
11:14Change the narrative on him and his fumbles.
11:16Yeah.
11:17And run all over the Raiders.
11:20People are going to get mad at me.
11:21I expected the Bills to win big against the Chargers and the Patriots, and neither one of those games went
11:25like that.
11:25And here I am thinking that Cook's going to run all over the Raiders.
11:28I think they could score a million points and not win by a million points.
11:31Because just their defense now is going to keep them in closer games than in the past.
11:37803-0550.
11:38We're going to break in.
11:39Jeremy and Joe, it's a football Friday.
11:40It's pizza Friday.
11:41You can join us and chat with us about Bills, Raiders.
11:44Are you already there?
11:45Are you in the airport?
11:46Give us some check-ins from the airports around America, from Vegas itself.
11:52Oh, it's 3.47 in the morning.
11:53Maybe you're out from last night still.
11:56Very possible.
11:57Going to be a fun trip for the Mafia here on WTR.
