Bo Nix couldn\u2019t sit still after one of the worst games of his NFL career on Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cLiterally right after the game, or the day after the game,\u201d Broncos QB3 Sam Ehlinger remembered, \u201che\u2019s like, \u2018Gosh, why do I have to wait six days to play again? Can\u2019t we just play again?’\u201d<\/p>\n
The man \u201cchallenges himself to be perfect,\u201d as receiver Courtland Sutton told reporters this week, and perfectionism can come spilling out of Nix in frazzled bursts of frustration. There was a yell as the quarterback took a seat after one interception against the Titans. There were flung hands after running back Tyler Badie didn\u2019t look for a third-down pass. There was a quite-visible point for tight end Lucas Krull to sit\u00a0against an early zone look on an incompletion.<\/p>\n
And yet, after a three-turnover 2025 debut in which Nix looked off-kilter, his locker room hasn\u2019t seen him flinch this week.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe message this week was obviously, \u2018We gotta take care of the ball,’\u201d receiver Trent Sherfield told The Denver Post on Thursday. \u201cBut you don\u2019t see him going out in practice and not making the same throws that he normally makes.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd every single day, just day in, day out \u2014 you can tell he has a process, and he sticks to it no matter what happens. And he believes in that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nix still made a number of eye-popping throws Sunday, and thrived early in chaos. When the pocket collapsed from the Titans\u2019 rush, though, the second-year quarterback faltered: 2 of 7 against pressure for 8 yards and two picks.<\/p>\n
The Colts held Miami to eight points, and feature an interior defensive-line weapon similar to Tennessee\u2019s Jeffery Simmons in All-Pro defensive tackle DeForest Buckner. Where Nix went wrong last weekend when drifting from the pocket, offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi believes, was his footwork.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s always a challenge with a quarterback like him, because you don\u2019t want him to just be a statue in there,\u201d Lombardi said. \u201cWhen he moves, good things happen. And sometimes, he moves and throws with his feet not perfectly set.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd most of the times, he\u2019s very accurate like that. But I think if he misses, it\u2019s usually just his lower body.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nix, for his part, has made clear he has to play slightly more calculated given the strength of Denver\u2019s defense. And he\u2019ll have a prime chance to play more on platform Sunday and push Week 1 far in the rearview mirror.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s\u00a0probably the toughest part of our position, in my opinion, is bouncing back from the negative,\u201d Nix said this week. \u201cBecause you work really hard, you get one shot at it, and every once in a while when you miss it.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s tough because that\u2019s what you just want to think about,\u201d he continued. \u201cYou just want to fix it so bad, that that\u2019s what you\u2019re thinking about. The real advantage, the real edge, is when guys can just go to the next play, move on.\u201d<\/p>\n