Locked On Broncos - Daily Podcast On The Denver Broncos - Denver Broncos Training Camp: Bo Nix READY To Take NEXT STEP In Second Season

Episode Date: July 7, 2025

As Denver Broncos Training Camp approaches, Bo Nix is ready to take a bigger step forward under Sean Payton in his second season. Where can Bo improve going into his second season, how will the additions Payton has made help him, and will the Broncos carry three quarterbacks on the active roster? Cody Roark is a credentialed beat reporter for Mile High Sports and covers the Broncos daily in person. Sayre Bedinger is the site expert for Predominantly Orange. Both bring Broncos Country the most in-depth and objective coverage of the Denver Broncos. WANT MORE DAILY DENVER BRONCOS CONTENT?For all of the latest Denver Broncos news today -- Follow & Subscribe on all Podcast platforms…🎧 https://link.chtbl.com/LOBroncos?sid=YouTube Locked On NFL League-Wide: Every Team, Fantasy, Draft & More🎧 https://linktr.ee/LockedOnNFL Follow on Twitter: @CodyRoarkNFL and @SayreBedingerFollow the show on Twitter: @LockedOnBroncos Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!GametimeDownload the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONNFL for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply. Download Gametime today. What time is it? Gametime. FanDuelRight now, new customers can get $150 in BONUS BETS when your first $5 BET WINS! Download the app or head to FANDUEL.COM to get started. Monarch MoneyTake control of your finances with Monarch Money. Use code LOCKEDONNFL at monarchmoney.com/lockedonnfl for 50% off your first year. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

As training camp approaches, the biggest question for the Denver Broncos at quarterback is how Bo Nix can take the next step in 2025. We'll tell you how we can do that and much more on today's episode, Locked on Broncos. You are Locked on Broncos, your daily Denver Broncos podcast, part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day. Broncos country, what's happening? Welcome into another episode, Lockdown Broncos, your daily Denver Broncos podcast, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network where we know it's your team every day for all

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As always, I'm Cody Rourke. Broncos reporter for Mile High Sports. And I'm Sarah Beninger, site expert at predominantly orange.com. And here's what you're going to get in today's episode of the show. We are beginning our training camp position previews. Yes, Broncos country, we are right around the corner from training camp kicking off. And we're going to look at every position, every position battle and all the key storylines that accompany that. But more importantly, we're going to start things off by taking a look at the Broncos,

adding a new quarterback member to a tight quarterback room from last season, a new face. And he's also welcomed in there with Jared Stidham and Bo Nix. What does his role look like for this team? Plus, we'll go through the major questions at quarterback for the Broncos, really pertaining to how Bo Nix can take that next step here in 2025. And we'll also analyze whether or not the perception has changed on Bo Nix from his rookie season all the way till now. We'll share our thoughts on that much more on today's episode of the show. Sair, let's go through really our overview here to kick off the Broncos training camp position preview quarterback.

Now, luckily for the first time in a long time, we don't have to go into this preview saying, okay, who's going to be the starter? what's the dynamic of this room going to be? I really think when you look at the big picture right now in 2025, the Broncos quarterback room is set with the starter. They're set with the backup, though there is a new addition that just makes us wonder, okay, what's the vision here?

Obviously, with Sam Ellinger being added into the mix this off season. Yeah, last year was a really tight group, wasn't it, with Zach Wilson being in the mix, the former first round pick, and the Broncos had a clear vision for him. They wanted to help him make millions. whether it was in Denver or somewhere else. He leaves for the Miami Dolphins this offseason.

And you've got to feel he's got a pretty decent chance to play there as opposed to in Denver, which is why we were a bit shocked to see Jared Stidham come back because he was pretty miffed last year about not being named the starter and felt like he should be a starter in this league. And now he's taken another deal to come back to Denver as the clear QB2 behind Bo Nix, which it's wild to think that it hasn't even been one year. since Bo was officially named the starter of this team. A lot has happened over the last 12 months for the Denver Broncos,

but it's really nice to be able to enter training camp with that clarity at the quarterback position as opposed to any sort of question marks, any sort of dividing of reps, any sort of this, that, or the other, analyzing every single pass. It just feels like everybody's consuming the Broncos from a completely different seat this year than it was last year. Well, I think when we look at maybe how things will go in training camp for this position specifically with Bo being the starter, Stidham being the backup. You mentioned the divvying up of reps.

I still think that the Broncos and Sean Payton, you'll see it where Bo gets seven reps, Stidham gets seven reps. Ellinger gets seven reps. But we're not worried about who's getting the first reps of the day. It's going to be Bo Nix every day, getting the first reps. Whereas last year it was, okay, Zach Wilson is getting reps with the first team on this day. Stidham the next day, the next day. of that circus and hoopla, push it out the window, get rid of it, goodbye. We don't have to worry about that. It's nice. Bo Nix, that first team offense, they're going to get a lot of work. You're going to

see a lot of rotations from some of the running backs, receivers, tight ends, maybe some offensive linemen from time to time rotating in. But for the most part, your first team offense is set at the most important position. So no more training camp battles at this position here. For me, I think we have to look at this position now and really ask the question, okay, what Jared Stedom signing on as the backup with Davis Webb, kind of really be in that brain trust in the middle of that quarterback room alongside Sean Payton. Will they keep three quarterbacks on the 53-man roster this upcoming season?

I personally don't believe that they will. Where do you stand on this development as a possibility? Could they keep three here once again with that emergency designation? Is that as important now as maybe as it could have been last year? Where do you stand on this? I think they might try to keep a third on the practice squad, right? and that's ultimately going to be dependent upon how. You had me in the first half on that.

Yeah. Yeah. I thought you were going to say they're going to keep a third on the 53. I was like, what? Hey, he's disagree. No, I actually love the idea of allocating that roster spot elsewhere and keeping a guy on the practice squad. But that's going to depend largely on how good of a preseason I think you see from QB3, right? For Sam Ellinger, it's going to be that, well, if he plays well in the preseason, teams aren't going to let him slide through waivers, right?

And teams are always looking for us. upgrades in their backup quarterback situation, even teams that are, you know, they have injury prone guys at quarterback. They might be looking for a third player. So to me, that's where you're going to find that, okay,

do we have to keep him on the active roster? Or can we sneak him onto the practice squad? Because there's an intangible element to this that, yeah, people talked quite often last year about the quarterbacks and their wives all hanging out. And we've already seen this offseason like Bo Nix and Sam Ellinger, they went on the trip together or he was on whatever trip they were on.

And it's just you see the bond being forged and you can't help but wonder how important that is to a guy's overall success. These guys are professionals. It's not like they have to have their best buddies in the building in order to succeed at what they're doing. But at the same time, you want that extra set of eyes. Those players that can see things that they can't necessarily go out there and do the same things that you can do at the highest level, but they can see things.

They can point things out in the film room. They can be an asset in so many ways that fans don't get to see. That's where I think that this determination might be made for Sean Payton and his staff. Well, and my biggest question, too, is, okay, if you have to worry about, you know, some other teams in the preseason, maybe looking to get Ellinger, because I think, I think more importantly, you and I are in the agreements on this, Ellinger will probably be waived when roster cut down happens and then brought back onto the practice squad where I think he'll be on the practice squad all year. You may see a couple of elevations, you know, and then designated as the emergency guy just in case here. But we haven't seen that situation really pop up in the NFL since that happened to the 49ers in Brock Purdy.

But who you play in the preseason usually could be a good indicator of, hey, they may keep an eye on that, especially at a backup quarterback situation. San Francisco, they just locked up Brock Perry to a long-term deal. Could Ellinger maybe be on their radar if he's impressive in joint practices or in that preseason game? Could they be like, hey, we'd like maybe this guy to be a system fit for us, Arizona Cardinals? knows obviously if Kyler Murray was a backup situation to look like there. I'm not privy to that right now at the top of my head. And then the Northern Saints,

we all know that quarterback room right there is just interesting there in that third and final preseason game. So he could be potentially on their radar. But overall, no really big developments with this quarterback room because of the fact that you finally have that position solidified for the first time in a long time. That's exciting to me. I know we've been covering this team for a long, long time. And almost every year we've had the conversation of.

quarterback battle, who's QB1, who's QB2. That question, hopefully doesn't have to be even brought to the forefront for another 20 years or 15 years from now. We'll see how long Bo Nix decides to play. But hopefully things go as the Broncos hope so with Bo Nix and the pairing here with Sean Payton. Well, Broncos, country, want to know your thoughts on the quarterback position. Do you think that they'll carry three on the 53-man roster this upcoming season? Or do you think that Ellinger is best delegated right now to the practice squad and what that can mean for the roster construction and other positions? here. But Broncos, coach, we're not done here as we continue our training camp position preview

on QB. Major questions at quarterback. Well, they're not surrounding who the quarterback's going to be. They're more so surrounding. How can Bow Nix take the next step in 2025? We'll tell you that on today's episode, Lockdown Broncos. Today's Lockdown Broncos podcast is brought to you about friends over there at the game time app. And we've all been there logging on early and waiting forever for concert tickets to go on sale only to lose your spot for a show that you've been dying to see. Live music should be about making memories, not dealing with the stress of ticket shopping. And that's where game time comes in because game time, they make getting concert tickets faster

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Terms apply. Again, create an account and redeem code L-O-C-E-D-O-N-N-FL for $20 off. Download the GameTime app today. Last minute tickets, lowest price guaranteed. Development is not always linear in the NFL. We know this. We see this every single year. We saw last year, C.J. Stroud kind of struggled in his second season with the Houston Texans and quarterbacks oftentimes find themselves in that area of struggling. The more teams get film on them. So how does Bo Nicks prevent himself from any sort of sophomore slump? We're going to break that down on today's episode, Lockdown Broncos. And Broncos Country, you all so much for making us part of your day every single day here. Cody, I think that it's

exciting to think about the progression of Bo Nix. Based on last year, we saw some clear areas that he can clean up, ways that his teammates can help him be better. The running game was non-existent for the most part. And if that takes a step forward, then you figure Bo stands to benefit greatly from that. There's many different ways that I think he can take a huge step forward in 2025. but what do you think is the most crucial one? Like to prevent that sophomore slump, what is the thing that Bo Nix needs to do or that his teammates around him need to do better?

I think maybe more so not allowing like his obviously grown comfort level. He like this offseason program, he looked more comfortable inside the system. He's got a higher operating knowledge of it. I think it's working on that mastery aspect of, hey, these are the key foundational aspects of Sean's offense. Here's where I can go through and be better. I don't I don't think you want to become too comfortable in censors.

It's like, all right, I'm so comfortable now. I'm going to try things. I'm going to play around and see what I can get away with. I don't think that's in Bow's game, right? That's that Ferris Bueller aspect that Sean Payton was talking about a little bit. It doesn't strike me as Boe. But I do think that in order to avoid a slump, it's do the things that got you to the success point in which where you're at last season,

being in the offensive rookie of the year conversation, you know, being a, you know, the quarterback who surpassed Baker Mayfield for second all time by most passing touchdowns by a rookie quarterback. Do those things that had the Broncos offense humming really was because of Bo Nix. Continue to do those things, but continue to work on mastering the offense, mastering those things that you did well as a rookie. Because we talk about it like evolution, progression, you talk about like a video game standpoint here. How can you continue to level up? I think it's not getting too comfortable and continue to work on those. things that got you in the position you're at now, I think you're going to be very big for

Bo in terms of avoiding a sophomore slump here. But also, to kind of go along with that, we've talked about this off season, new additions inside that room, offensively, a wide receiver at running back at tight end. How important is that, in your opinion, as well, for Bo being able to avoid a potential sophomore slump? Because I think anytime you can talk about a quarterback going to a year two, everybody is saying, oh, no, you've got to watch out for the sophomore slump. I think the pieces around you matter the moment.

most. I think that Bo, when you look at some other QBs, maybe Caleb Williams, right? I think Bo's probably got a little bit more of a stable situation than some players. I think Drake Mays got some good pieces around him. We'll know about the volatility of Stefan Diggs. We'll see if that impacts things. Caleb Williams, I think has some good pieces around him. But I think Boe's got a little bit more stability around him than compared to C.J. Stroud had an obviously year two.

None of those guys had the offensive line that Bo Nex has, right? I think that's one of the biggest factors in this equation. that is underrated oftentimes. I mean, you see the weapons that a guy like Caleb Williams has in Chicago, and you think, man, I wish Bo Nix could have receivers and tight ends and running backs that are that impressive or maybe the same is true with Houston and their approach to building the weaponry around C.J. Stroud by trading for Joe Mix and trading for Stefan Diggs last year and going after guys in the draft this year.

So you see those sort of processes and you see the Broncos take a bit more of a, I don't know, if you want to call it a, I guess you can call it a little bit more of a relaxed approach to building around Bo. They're taking a patient approach. They're taking a conservative approach with player development, believing in their guys. So I do think that the factor of the players around him is massive. And Bo has to do his part by not turning the ball over. You have to continue to make good decisions with the ball. But when you look at players like, I know this is a high bar to set, but obviously they stand out.

Guys like Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes, they found ways to continually limit mistakes, although we've seen them be reckless with the ball at times. And when they do make mistakes, it's like being comfortable in your own skin. They don't necessarily care. They don't care what people are saying about, oh, they threw an interception here or they threw three interceptions this game or two interceptions. I'm not saying to be reckless with the ball. But what I am saying is that Bo Nix has that elite trait intangible quality that he doesn't care what anyone thinks. He doesn't care if, like against the Colts last year, how many times do we reference that game as a game

where both through three interceptions? We don't really ever talk about it because he went out there and made plays in order to help the team win the game through also three touchdowns, I believe. So you have a game like that where, shoot, you make a mistake, you're able to bounce back from that mistake

and you don't care what anyone thinks. Being comfortable in your own skin, I feel like is an underrated quality that Bo Nex has that will help him progress in year two. When I think when it goes to the aspects of turnovers, once again, go back to the university or go back to his two years and, you know, his final two years of college, he didn't turn the ball over much, right? There's an emphasis on protecting the football, which as Sean Payton viewed in the pre-draft process, hey, this is so valuable when you talk about quarterback play. Can you do it at the NFL level? Boe obviously mitigated the amount of turnover there.

Look, he had, what, take three interceptions against the Seahawks in week one? How many did he have? He had two? Was it one or two against Pittsburgh in that week two game? there. It's like, all right, like, Bo was getting used to the NFL speed, right? And a lot of people were riding Bo off after those first two weeks of the NFL regular season as a rookie. And then you saw him start to say like, all right, I'm getting more comfortable and slowing down. Here we go. Like, he could have very well looked at those first two weeks of the regular season. And for a

young guy for a rookie, could have hung his head and been like, I'm going to play scared. Like, I'm scared to make a mistake. Like, I'm playing too scared at the point. We didn't see Bo change that up. Like, Bo continued to play aggressive. Bo just understood like, all right, this is what I can do here at the NFL level. This is what I cannot get away with that maybe I got away with at college. And that's just understanding your own limitations and your own strengths and kind of going forward from there. But at the same time, when you talk about player development, specifically a quarterback, it's going into year number two and saying, all right, I know what I can do now.

And here's how maybe defenses are going to change the way that they play me. I think that's the next step here for Bo Nix when it comes to self-scouting here is understanding this is what a defense thinks that is a deficiency or a weakness of mind. Here's how I'm going to counter and here's how I'm going to make this a strength. That to me, I think is one of the more excited things to watch about the player going from his rookie season to year number two. And then I think being able to sustain that over the course of his careers, we've seen other guys do that are franchise quarterbacks.

Yeah. And just imagine the players around him building that confidence as he continues to build that. Like if Bo is out there making throws that, man, even the receivers that he's throwing the ball to are impressed by. I just imagine that that sort of side by side parallel, you know, growth that these guys are experiencing together. It's really reminiscent of some of the best teams in franchise history. These guys that they felt like they were building something together.

I think that's really important when you have these other guys that are building their own individual confidence as well. And Bo is helping them do that. It's going to take everybody to the next level. And working together with these coaches again, it's just that continuity at the Broncos have. I know Sean Payton talks about how you got to wipe the game board clean every single season. And that is important.

You do have to make sure that you're not trying to, hey, let's just keep it rolling from where we were last year. You're starting over. Everybody's seeing you differently. There's a different level of respect around the league for what you're able to do. How do you make those adjustments? I think that's going to be key in year two for Bo Nix. One another key is this thing called perception, Sarah.

And obviously, when you look back at Bo Nix as a rookie, the perception of him before he even played it down to how the perception changed throughout the course of his career. Has the perception of Bo Nix changed here and year two? We'll tell you what's him to complete 360 on today's episode, Lockdown Broncos. Perception is a funny thing. You can change the way that you view a player, view a team, and more importantly, view the way you analyze and break things down. And for Bo Nix, before his rookie season he began, there was a change of perception of him in the pre-draft process after he was drafted by the Broncos. at the very early part of his Broncos career in the regular season.

And then as the season went on, the perception is changing. Now, going into his second year, there's an entirely different perception here on Bo Nix. I think that's important as we analyze the Broncos quarterback position here going into 2025. Sayre, let's go through this timeline of progression on perception here of Bo Nix, because I remember in the pre-draft process as you and I were doing mock drafts, there were, I'd say most of our mock drafts, we had Denver taking Bow Nix in round number one. and the commentary about us doing that. And ultimately the commentary about if the Broncos do this in the first round

of the draft of pick number 12, then certainly they're reaching. I find that to be a very interesting part as to where we're going to start. Yeah. What was the phrase that was used at the Broncos panic drafted Bo Nix at 12th overall? He was a second to third round player at best that the Broncos just, they had to have a quarterback at 12th overall. And they felt like they were going to miss out.

So they took Bo Nix. And I just, I think it's so funny to look back, Cody, but you know what's interesting is that we're talking about the change of perception. I don't feel like I've had to go on my Twitter rampages these days and kind of call people out for their overwhelming negativity toward Bo Nix. It's one thing to it's one thing to be critical of a player and be accurate about your criticisms. And, and all the while, like,

I don't understand this aspect of NFL analysis, Cody, which I know that you get, you get this because you hear it and you see it all the time too. Why do we have to kill a guy's career? Why do we have to use our platform to try and bring a guy down to the point to say, to declare him a bust before his first NFL season is already over? I wish people wouldn't do that. And I wish that people who kind of resonate with more of that wouldn't see that what we're doing

as like, well, you guys are drinking the Kool-Aid or you're towing along the company line. You guys never say anything negative about the Broncos. we are always critical of what the Broncos are doing. The fact that we're positive, especially about a quarterback, a young quarterback who has not able to play his first season in the league. I don't understand why you wouldn't take a positive mindset towards that. And it feels like finally everybody's coming around to kind of where you and I were at about a year ago at this time.

Well, I think when you look at the history of the Broncos quarterback carousel and all the training camp stuff, you know, even before Bow's rookie year, like all of that, that was a traumatic time, I think, for the Broncos country fan base. And certainly I think it's easy for, you know, these people who are aspiring to be analysts, right? And they do nothing but clickbait and hot takes, but everything's aimed with a negative curve to it. That's what was so popular. I'd say, going back to 2016 all the way through maybe even before last year's training camp preview. It's like we can be critical of the team without being overly negative or like making our analysis personal. And I think that's the fine line that doesn't exist on social media,

on Twitter. Like there are a lot of detractors who want to be national analysts that we're saying a lot of things about bonnicks. We're not going to give them the time of day on our platform. I refuse to do that. But you can be critical of a player's performance without making it personal. You can be critical of a process without making things seem like it's an overly, you know, negative absolute. I don't deal in absolutes. I don't believe in that. So when we talk about the team, you know, yeah, like we have a positive angle and everything. We like to look at things from a 30,000 foot view where it's like, we're going to be in the middle. We're not going to be too positive, but we're not going to be too negative.

We're going to look at things and say, all right, hey, this is where things went wrong. This is where they can prove. We're going to provide solutions to that analysis. But as it pertains to the perception of Bo Nix, I remember after that week one game against Seattle. I remember after week two against Pittsburgh, the comments were, ridiculous to deal with on Twitter. They were ridiculous to deal with here on obviously the podcast because everyone's like, yep, see, he was a bust. Like, we already knew it.

He's a bus. He's never going to do anything. What did Bow will go up and do? He ended up being in the offensive rookie of the year conversation. The man went on to throw 29 touchdowns. He ran for four. He caught one touchdown. He had 34 overall touchdowns throughout his rookie season in the NFL.

And it was all after week four where he got off to really that slow start. And then he went on a little bit of a tear. He showed growth on a week to week. basis. And yeah, there were a couple setbacks. I think that Colts game is a great example because I remember some of those same takes. The moment Bo had a bad game like that where he threw three interceptions, you saw the commentary start to trickle back in as to like it's very much a conditional transactional relationship. And when we talk about discourse on players is, all right, well, this guy had a bad game. Okay, now he's back to being a bus. He's back to being terrible. To me, it's one of the

more frustrating aspects about doing what we do, Sarah, because we have to counter and combat some of that. while everyone has their opinion, like sometimes those opinions can be so loaded emotionally that it interferes with the ability for us to have a logical conversation with that. And that's where I get frustrated because I'm not patient with that type of stuff. But that's the discourse. That's the game that we play. And unfortunately, that's where we have to kind of go into this whole aspect here. But in terms of that perception, I thought you brought it up there. But let's take a look now maybe how the national perception of Bonix has changed after his rookie season.

I think you're starting to see a lot more people say, you know what? I was wrong about Bow Nix. Bo Nix proved me wrong. He did a lot of things that, you know, I didn't think he was going to be able to do. And now the Broncos is offseason. Oh, they had R.J. Harvey Harvey, Martin, they've got Cortland Sutton still on the roster. Oh, Marvin Mims took a massive step forward last year. Okay, Troy Franklin could be a player who maybe surprises people.

Devon Bailey is looking good in the offseason program. To me, you've had all these new changes in these additions. And you're investing in player development organization has certainly done. and you're bringing back the same offensive line that is very impactful to both success, the perception is like the Broncos, some people are even saying the Broncos could be some dark horse Super Bowl contenders. It's crazy to think how the perception was rookie year, 360 to all the way right now. They used to be considered the worst roster in the league.

They used to be considered the worst quarterback room in the league. They used to be considered the worst coaching, the most overrated coaching staff, right? I mean, you can pick any one of these sort of situations so where every aspect of this roster, other than Pat Sertan, it was basically like Pat Sertan was the only legitimate NFL player on the team as of a year ago at this time. And we've seen the Broncos growth. And it has a lot to do, if not everything to do with Bo Nix. He's ignited something in this franchise.

And yes, it's a team. Yes, it's a group effort. Sean Payton, the new ownership group deserves so much credit for the way that they've helped change this culture as well. But if you don't have a quarterback, you can be the most well-run organization in the NFL. You can have the most financial assets in the world. You can have the nicest stadium. You can have a great head coach.

If you don't have a quarterback who's worth a you know what, you're not going to do anything. You're not going to do squat. Nobody's going to say anything nice about you. And now it's kind of like, you know, like you've ever seen the movie, she's all that with Freddie Prince Jr. And it's like, you know, this girl in the movie. that he's like, oh, Janie, she's got overalls and glasses and she likes to paint. She's such a weirdo.

You know, I can never make her prom queen while all the time. It's the same person this whole time, right? You just take the glasses off and all of a sudden, oh, prom queen, you know? So that's what Bo Nix is like to me. It's like everybody's pointing out all these things. It's like you can see that this is like what you're saying is completely off base. It's like a caricature of this person that you've created. in your mind.

And you're seeing something that's not based in reality. It's based in a pre-draft take. It's based in all Oregon quarterbacks stink in the NFL. Guys who throw a lot of screens at the college level, they don't excel in the NFL. I think Patrick Mahomes would disagree with that personally. But look, Cody, it's just a funny situation to where you and I get to kind of sit back and sip on our coffees and be like, man,

it's funny to see everybody kind of coming back around and having to backtrack on the things they said last year. I think the worst characterization of Bow Nix I saw last year, somebody called him Mack Jones. Somebody said he's Mac Jones, which you look at how Bo plays, you look at Mac, not even comparable.

And also you had some people saying, Bo was an athletic. Bo was one of the more athletic guys. Like we saw Bo Nix reach top speeds, evade Sacks. Like his legs were a true weapon here for Sean Payton's offense. Like nothing even remotely comparable, in my opinion,

to anything that Max Jones, I mean, Mac Jones ever did as a quarterback. So that was, you know, you compare Bow Nix to Mac Jones. You immediately lose all credibility in this field, in my opinion. But, you know, you got people saying what he's cosplaying in the pocket or something like that. That was the funniest. I know that was Solac from ESPN who said that. That was one of the funniest things I think I saw all year that he was cosplaying as a pocket quarterback.

Absolutely hysterical way to put it. And totally wrong. Prudal, man. But we've come a long way, Broncos country. Those perceptions have seemingly changed and we'll hope that Bo Nix can continue to grow as he progresses in the year two inside Sean Payton system. Well, that'll wrap up our quarterback preview here for Training Camp on today's episode, Lockdown Broncos.

But Broncos country, our training camp position previews, they continue tomorrow. As we take a look at cornerback, we'll take a look at that room and why we think the Broncos' defensive backfill, that corner is deep right now going into Training Camp. We'll highlight the key position battles and much more on tomorrow's episode of the show. Broncos country, we'll see you then.