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Originally Posted by RunKC
If you’d keep up you’d realize that it’s been common knowledge and discussion that Bo Nix struggled when his first read was taken away. Half of the plays in the 2nd video were prime examples...
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...of his sophomore season in college. Since those games, he has thrown almost 1500 more passes and almost 100 more TD passes. Oh, and in that same three-year period, his teams won almost twice the number of games Mahomes' teams won in his three-year- college career.
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And proceeded to show high potential in the bowl game against LSU with 370 yards, 4 TD’s, 1 INT with a team of only 2 drafted players from his offense against an LSU defense full of 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th rd draft picks. We never saw anything in the same galaxy like that from Nix.
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This is just silly. Bo Nix played 17 career games against ranked opponents, if I am counting correctly. Those teams would have been loaded with NFL talent. And he finished his career with ridiculous numbers.
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Which is why you guys are constantly comparing them to make yourselves feel better right?
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Again, no. Comparing draft gurus comments in similar windows after Mahomes and Nix were drafted is a lot different than comparing the players themselves. It simply illustrates the point that those grades and opinions and a few bucks will buy you a cup of coffee.
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And no they weren’t similar. Mahomes wasn’t benched in college. Mahomes had a very high ceiling and people thought he could be Brett Favre. Mahomes wasn’t the 6th QB drafted in his own draft class.
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Do you know who was generally graded as a MUCH BETTER quarterback than Mahomes when they were drafted? That would be one Mitchell Trubisky. Nothing illustrates the point better than that. Mahomes was considered to be the 3rd or 4th best QB prospect in an historically weak QB class. Nix was generally ranked as the 5th or 6th best QB prospect in a draft that was historically top-heavy with QBs. It's apples and oranges.
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Nix is a high floor QB prospect while Mahomes was a high ceiling QB prospect. Comparing them is stupid. You want to compare Mahomes to any Broncos QB draft pick? The best one is Jay Cutler.
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This is all simply what you do in almost every argument. You take a result, and then reverse engineer opinions or cherry pick results to slap yourself on the back for being a genius.
Nix's ceiling is a more athletic version of Drew Brees. Do I think he is going to end up throwing for 80K yards and almost 600 TDs? No, I think that is unlikely. What I am saying is that none of the predictions right now make any more difference than the ones made seven years ago about Patrick Mahomes. The Chiefs took a giant risk back then that most considered unwise.
The average Broncos fan is being cautiously optimistic about the QB situation. No one is boldly stating that we just drafted a guy who seven years from now will have won multiple Super Bowls and MVPs.