Bo-lieve

“Bo Nix makes Broncos history in blowout win over Cowboys” (MSN Sports) 

The Broncos are at the top of AFC West as of Oct 24, 2025 after 10 years of not leading the division. This season they beat the Philadelphia Eagles who were the 2024 Super Bowl winners and barely beat the New York Giants with 33 points in the fourth quarter alone, which was the most any team in history has scored in the fourth quarter starting the fourth quarter with 0 points scored. What could this mean for the Bronco’s future after their above-average gameplay? After what feels like forever as a Broncos fan, do the Broncos finally have a chance to be a playoff or even a Super Bowl Contender? As a fan, all you can do is believe in Bo Nix’s ability to take us as far as possible, “Bo-lieve”.

After Peyton Manning's retirement, the Denver Broncos have had inconsistency all around with their gameplay, strategy, and overall execution of plays being made. Manning is arguably one of the best quarterbacks of all time alongside Tom Brady, Joe Montana, and Johnny Unitas (stats based). Peyton Manning led the Broncos to the Superbowl in 2007 against the North Carolina Panthers and won. Since then, the Broncos have had extreme offensive instability gameplay wise (due to quarterbacks) and with coaching. Now Bo Nix is likely one of the best rookie quarterbacks of his time with the combination of Sean Payton's development of shaping a new offense.

This wonderful year for the Broncos as of week 8, many fans found out that even Patrick Surtain II (arguably best cornerback in the NFL) was injured during the Broncos v. Dallas Cowboys game and they still fared perfectly fine against one of the best offensive teams in the NFL; though having a chance at a devastating setback defensively with a cornerstone player in the Bronco’s Defense injured during the game. Bo Nix’s development over the years has completely changed the Bronco’s standing in player ability during game time. After week 8, Bo nix has a 62.5% pass completion rate in 2025. Compared to his previous performance in 2024 of 66.3% pass completion rate for the whole season. This gives him complete and long margins to increase this rate for another 10 whole weeks, including making the playoffs with a 1 round bye week. Thus allowing top tier receivers like Courtland Sutton (WR) to have their full potential offensively with more practice and experience from Bo Nix.  

Though many fans see the Broncos wins and performances as temporary. “They are a very messy team, wait til we face better teams than what we’ve already played against” says East student, Jahel Escobedo. Many speculate that the Broncos’ are simply getting lucky and really won’t get far into the playoffs (if they make it). Many AFC challengers like the Chargers and the Chiefs have super notable players such as, widely known Patrick Mahomes in the Kansas Chiefs quarterback in the Kansas Chiefs, Justin Herbert; quarterback in the LA Chargers, and Keenan Allen in the LA Chargers who is one of the best wide receivers in the league. Many fans also think that the performance the Broncos put up each game doesn’t matter because the teams they were facing are “bad teams” and teams that haven’t made the playoffs in a certain amount of time, such as the Titans and the Giants, with the Titans going 1-8 as of week 9 and 8 with both games as losing games and a four game losing streak. Giants going 2-7 with a lighter 3 game losing streak as of week 9. Finally going 10-7 against the Las Vegas Raiders in week 10 with likely the worst gameplay we’ve seen from the Broncos this season.

Only time will tell the Broncos’ placement this football season. But, what time will not tell is the overall question of whether or not the Broncos are on an easy schedule or they just have a mid-season high, but the flames Bo Nix and Sean Payton have lit under the Broncos and may have set them off to win in the long term and maybe win the Super Bowl sooner than expected. What matters more at this time is the fans, which are likely even stronger than when the Broncos have played at their peak. Hundreds of thousands rally up at Mile High Stadium to cheer on their favorite teams and even get to see them win! For a fan this is the best thing you could ever see out of a team and the best team to do it is the Denver Broncos being led by Bo Nix.