[Quesadilla Joe]

Klis on when Payton knew Nix was the guy:

Spoiler!

The Nix Era came from a pivotal private workout the Broncos held March 18 with Nix in Eugene, Ore. Paton and head coach Sean Payton were there. So was (Troy) Franklin, by the way.

And it was there that Nix became Payton’s choice, even if most if not all of the so-called QB experts had him ranked behind Maye and McCarthy, and even Penix.

Paton offered a little more detail to that famed private workout to 9NEWS.

“I’d watched all the quarterbacks, seen them live (during the regular season on scouting trips),’’ Paton said. “And then the season’s over, I get with Sean and we watched the quarterbacks (on tape). And Sean liked a lot of these quarterbacks.

“And when we got to Bo it was pretty instant. Sean was like, ‘man.’ You know, Sean.

“He really liked him and then we went to the private workout and spent three hours with Bo in the meeting setting and he was outstanding. And we go out to the field and he made 10, 15 throws and Sean came up to me and said, ‘This is the guy.’

“And I said, ‘Hey, we’ve got a whole process to go through. But he was really the target from then on.”

https://www.9news.com/article/sports...1-d8405de695ac