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Broncos QB Bo Nix feels he’s better equipped to handle the challenges of the NFL entering his second season.
“Now I just think I’m in a better place to handle those things, which is good,” Nix said, via Broncos Wire. “I think I was actually talking about this earlier with the quarterbacks. Sometimes we talk about down years, and why do guys have down years. Sometimes I think we’re so focused, in rhythm in college to just work, work, work year-round. Then we get to the first year of the NFL, and you go through the draft, and you get here, and you’re drowning and you work, work, work. Then all of the sudden you get time off. It’s like, ‘How do I handle this time off?’ For me, I think it’s more of the fear of not being ready, not being enough for the team. That’s what continues to drive me and what’s not going to give me an off year. At the same time, it was nice to catch up and kind of get back to where I want to be physically, get back to where I want to be mentally and make strides. I don’t think the challenges will change. I think I’m just different. So I think that’s the good part of this year. I don’t want to take it for granted that I am a year ahead because most guys are a lot of years ahead of me. I know I have a long way to go, but I’m excited to go there.”
Nix added that entering his second season, he’s less worried about learning a new offense and instead mastering his technique, which could lead to another jump.
“[I’ve] been there, done that,” Nix said. “I don’t have to worry about what certain looks are, or — as crazy as it sounds — where we’re going for the locker room, or where we’re going for the stretch. I know it. I can get there and do it, and knock it out and now I can focus on the next level of things and the details and not really the overall picture. A lot of the times as a rookie, you just don’t want to look like an idiot. Now you can go out there and look a lot better than an idiot. So I’m excited for Year 2. I’m excited for this football team. I really like where we’re at right now. I love our teammates. Eventually, we’ll get to play somebody else.”
Chargers’ second-round WR Tre Harris said he’s learning that Justin Herbert is constantly “surveying the field,” which means he always has to give max effort on every route he runs.
“It honestly just tells you to win on every route,” Harris said, via Daniel Popper of The Athletic. *“One thing about him I’ve learned is that he’s constantly surveying the field, and you might think, ‘Oh, I have a run-off route right here, I could ease up.’...
