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[RaidersOftheCellar]

Originally Posted by RealSNR

That second one can go **** itself. It's completely irrelevant.

The Donks were complete trash in the early days, and that's on their record. They have to live with it.

It takes some serious mental gymnastics to spin the Broncos as the better all-time franchise at this point.

But they sure try.

[crispystl]

Originally Posted by RunKC

Great article. Nix is the same guy doing the same shit against backup players.

Let’s start with the completion rate. It’s a nice big number, which looks great. Any completion percentage that starts with a seven will draw some eyes. Nix completed eight of nine passes (88.9 percent) in the preseason game against the Packers, which is even cooler.

But let’s dive into those. To start, while Nix played with Broncos starters, it was against a Packers defense that did not play most of its starters and sat back in a passive version of Cover-3 for much of the game (eight of Nix’s 12 dropbacks).

Against Green Bay, Nix had an average depth of target of just 3.8 yards, per TruMedia. His average depth of completion was 4.5 yards past the line of scrimmage. Among 74 quarterbacks who threw at least five passes in preseason Week 2, his aDOT ranked 68th (Wilson was 67th and Stidham was 69th).

This carried over from the first preseason game. Nix had a higher aDOT against the Colts (7.1) but still only had a 4.9-yard average depth of completion. Both his aDOT and average depth of completion are near the lower end of rookie quarterbacks this preseason, while Nix has the second-most dropbacks of the group.

https://www.the33rdteam.com/buy-or-s...on-hype-train/

The Broncos run the same offense I run on Madden when I've smashed too many beers and I'm just trying to avoid throwing picks.

[TEX]

Originally Posted by RaidersOftheCellar

It takes some serious mental gymnastics to spin the Broncos as the better all-time franchise at this point.

But they sure try.

Bronco Fan - "AFL History does NOT count! DAMMIT!!!"
(Even though the same amount of games were played against the same opponents.)

[Mile High Mania]

Originally Posted by Mile High Mania

I don't think too many actually buy into the notion he is QB3 on the depth chart. Barring something crazy happening, Nix starts week 1 at this point, he's earned the job and neither of the other 2 has done anything to say otherwise.

And, I was correct.

[RunKC]

Just named Bo Nix the starter for week 1. Let’s see what he does playing ont he road the first 3/4 against 3 defenses ranked top 10 in points allowed last year and the other adding Mike McDonald (road opener).

[Mile High Mania]

Originally Posted by RunKC

Just named Bo Nix the starter for week 1. Let’s see what he does playing ont he road the first 3/4 against 3 defenses ranked top 10 in points allowed last year and the other adding Mike McDonald (road opener).

Opening @ SEA will definitely be a nice 'welcome to the NFL' for Nix. I'm sure the record for rookie QBs getting their first start in a season road opener isn't great, but I'll take whatever happens.

[MagicHef]

Originally Posted by Mile High Mania

Opening @ SEA will definitely be a nice 'welcome to the NFL' for Nix. I'm sure the record for rookie QBs getting their first start in a season road opener isn't great, but I'll take whatever happens.

Should I go to the SEA game?

[Mile High Mania]

Originally Posted by MagicHef

Should I go to the SEA game?

If you can make it happen, why not?