Bo Nix has never been the kind of quarterback who lives on the prettiest throws or the cleanest stat lines. That much was clear again on a recent edition of “Stokley and Evans, with Mark Schlereth” on 104.3 The Fan, where the conversation centered on a simple truth: Nix is about winning, not aesthetics.
Schlereth made that point plainly when the hosts dug into the way Nix has handled his first two NFL seasons.
“I don’t believe that Bo is concerned with style points. He’s concerned with wins,” Schlereth said.
That fits the profile Nix has built so far. He has 24 victories in two years, and last season he added 11 one-score wins. The Broncos have also come out of a decade of irrelevance, but the way those victories have come has kept the criticism alive.
Schlereth didn’t sound interested in that debate.
“So even if he wins, and it’s like what we’ve had the last few years. Where it’s been not very good early, really good late, but whatever. He’s just concerned about wins, not the style of the wins,” Schlereth said.
That’s the tension around Nix: plenty of people judge the quarterback by how the game looks, while he seems to judge it by what the scoreboard says. The slow starts, the conservative stretches, the occasional three-and-out - those are part of the package. So are the late surges when the game tightens and Nix finds a way to finish.
Schlereth pointed the finger at the source of the outside chatter.
“A lot of the people out there that discredit the Broncos are concerned with style points from their quarterback,” Schlereth said.
Mike Evans then raised the obvious follow-up about whether Nix hears all of it.
“But do you think he hears it? You think he’s heard it all summer long?” Evans asked.
Schlereth didn’t leave much room for doubt.
“I’m sure that he’s heard it. And I’m 100% sure that he does not care,” Schlereth said.
That’s the message here. Nix has dealt with questions since before he was drafted.
He’s heard the talk about whether he was really a first-round talent. He’s heard the criticism when the offense started slowly.
He’s heard where the national rankings put him compared with other quarterbacks.
None of it has changed the results. Twenty-four wins in two seasons is the number that matters, and Schlereth’s view is that Nix understands that better than anyone. The Broncos may not be getting the flashy version of quarterback play some people prefer, but they are getting the version Nix is wired to deliver: wins.
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