{"id":148781,"date":"2025-06-22T01:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T01:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/148781\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T01:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T01:07:11","slug":"bromance-with-bo-nix-just-getting-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/148781\/","title":{"rendered":"Bromance with Bo Nix just getting started"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOVELAND \u2014 Angry? Silly Bills.<\/a> You didn\u2019t make Marvin Mims Jr.<\/a> angry.<\/p>\n

You made him hungry.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe go to Buffalo. We go up 7-0, we\u2019re feeling good. And then at the end of the game, we get our butts whooped and the season\u2019s over,\u201d Mims, the Broncos\u2019 third-year wide receiver, told me Saturday afternoon after hosting the first of two weekend youth football camps along the Front Range at Ray Patterson Field.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to say it\u2019s a terrible feeling. But you\u2019re kind of sitting there (and) part of me is like, because I\u2019m young, and I\u2019m going to be here next year, it\u2019s like, \u2018Dang, we\u2019ve really got something.\u2019 And then part of the other part of me is like, \u2018Dang, we really missed out on an opportunity.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cBut just knowing what you\u2019ve got, the type of program you have, the type of culture you have, you just kind of have that feeling like, \u2018Yeah, I\u2019m going to be back. And we\u2019re going to do some special things here.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Mims is coming off two Pro Bowls, 23 going on 35, with a head so level you could set a shelf with it.<\/a> Bring up Bo Nix, though, and the kid comes out.<\/p>\n

He talks about his quarterback the way baseball scouts talk about a young Ken Griffey Jr. or Shohei Ohtani. A smile opens up across his face like an umbrella in Paris. A gleam dances from eye to eye.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s funny, because towards that (middle) of (2024), Bo was obviously getting more comfortable in the offense,\u201d Mims continued. \u201cHe\u2019s like, \u2018Hey, if we get this, if we get that, if you get this, let\u2019s go eyes early, eyes late. Be ready.\u2019 And it showed. It was out there. I\u2019m talking about, I turn around, the ball\u2019s probably like \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

With that, Mims snapped his hands up to eye level, simulating a quick catching grasp.<\/p>\n

\u201d \u2026 boom, let\u2019s go. And it worked. Now it\u2019s more of, I don\u2019t want to say him progressing \u2026 he\u2019s seeing it differently now. And us kind of going from those routes we did last year to making it more broad to other routes, too. And just understanding what he\u2019s seeing and what I\u2019m seeing, what I\u2019m feeling, what he wants.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the connection was definitely there last year. And we\u2019re just going to keep trying to grow and spread across the room. Because I think, especially with Bo, he knows what he wants. He knows what he sees. The quarterback coach is the pass game coordinator (Davis Webb), so they\u2019re talking all the time. And it\u2019s going to be a lot better this year. I\u2019m looking forward to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

That goes double for Broncos Country. Nix to Courtland Sutton was fun. Nix to Mims was electric. Denver went 5-2 last fall whenever No. 19 touched the ball five times or more in a game. The Broncos went 3-1 in the four games in which Mims scored.<\/p>\n

\u201cSean (Payton) is going to have a competitive team regardless,\u201d said Mims, who racked up 503 yards receiving, 42 yards rushing, 194 yards on kick returns and another 408 on punt returns.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said it last year a bunch of times: \u2018Young and hungry is dangerous.\u2019 That\u2019s something we were last year, and we felt it. We could feel the energy. So we\u2019re excited to go. I\u2019m excited to go. I\u2019m excited to see what this team can do, even in the preseason, because, I mean, it\u2019s a culture thing \u2026 I\u2019m really excited.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the Bills\u2019 tire tracks still burning his backside, all Mims could think about this past January was getting back to work. Here\u2019s what was different at Dove Valley: Almost everybody else in that locker room wanted to get right back at it, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cEver since we played Buffalo, a lot of guys stayed around this offseason, and we\u2019ve been in and out of the facility,\u201d Mims said. \u201cA lot of guys working out together, traveling together, going on vacations together. I mean, we\u2019re closest we\u2019ve ever been since I\u2019ve been here. And we\u2019re ready to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

So were the kids in Loveland, now that you mention it. After catching pass after pass from the Broncos star in the stifling June heat, campers sat along either hashmark at the end of the session to watch some of their peers run more routes.<\/p>\n

The peanut gallery was already in training camp form.<\/p>\n

\u201cIN-COM-PLETE!\u201d the grade-schoolers chanted whenever a ball got dropped.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese kids,\u201d a parent quipped, \u201care for real.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mims proved to be the real deal, too, signing autographs, posing for pictures and fielding questions from the young\u2019uns.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho\u2019s the toughest cornerback you\u2019ve ever faced?\u201d one asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cPat Surtain Jr.,\u201d Mims replied.<\/p>\n

What do you know? Turns out Payton\u2019s joker was here the whole time.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou see how our team was kind of built up last year and built up this year,\u201d Mims said of his coach. \u201cWe have a lot of gritty players \u2014 like, why don\u2019t you (go) out there and play like you want it? Not guys that are doing all this extra stuff in the offseason.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, think about it. You don\u2019t see any guys kind of getting reported on, any type of stuff like that. Guys are doing the right thing. And when it\u2019s time to go, for the most part, we had all our guys in OTAs, workouts, all that stuff. And that\u2019s the stuff (Payton) likes to see.\u201d<\/p>\n

You know what else he likes? Whenever a talking head tells Mims the Broncos have \u201cmade it,\u201d No. 19\u2019s mind goes to a long, cold day in Orchard Park. All those feelings come rushing back.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt starts at the helm. It really starts with Bo,\u201d Mims said. \u201cBo is the most confident (guy) \u2026 we can have a good time too, but he\u2019s so serious. Like when it\u2019s time to do football, it\u2019s time to do football. And everybody feels that. Everybody learns off of him. And he\u2019s always the one speaking. It\u2019s not like he\u2019s just there, quiet, with a serious look on his face. He\u2019s up there speaking. So we see that off of him.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Saturday\u2019s camp broke up, a fan passed Mims by and gently tapped the receiver on the shoulder.<\/p>\n

\u201cLove watching you and Bo,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mims smiled. Last fall was the appetizer. The young are still here. Still dangerous. Still hungry.<\/p>\n

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