The Denver Broncos offseason opened with a cloud hanging over the franchise. Bo Nix fractured his ankle in the late stages of the AFC Divisional Game against the Buffalo Bills, an injury that not only cost him his first AFC Championship Game appearance but also kicked off months of speculation about his long-term recovery.
Every piece of news that followed seemed to deepen the worry. Surgery talk. Rehab updates. Whispers about timelines. By the time minicamp arrived, a portion of the fan base had worked itself into a genuine panic over the franchise quarterback’s future.
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Then, Bo Nix walked onto the practice field. And the panic, as it turns out, had very little ground to stand on.
On a recent edition of “Dover and Cecil” on 104.3 The Fan, Cecil Lammey took a step back and offered some honest perspective on what the entire saga actually amounted to.
“Do we wanna lose our minds and raise our blood pressure over something that didn’t matter? Or, do we wanna go, ‘Hey it was bone spurs. He could’ve played with this the entire year and then had discomfort the entire year, and had another surgery to correct the bone spurs after the 2026 season?’ He just did it now and essentially missed four practices,'” Lammey said.
That framing changes the entire conversation. The procedure wasn’t a desperate intervention to save Nix’s career; it was a routine cleanup that he could have postponed and gritted his teeth through for another full season. Instead, the Broncos and Nix opted to address it now, during a window of the calendar specifically designed to allow players to recover without missing meaningful football.
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The choice wasn’t about urgency. It was about long-term efficiency.
Lammey then pointed out just how minor the actual missed time turned out to be.
“OTAs, not even practice – they’re voluntary. Bo Nix missed four voluntary practices. And yet, people were not only losing their minds, there are people now jumping off the Bo Nix bandwagon,” he said.
That’s the line that captures the absurdity of where the discourse went. Voluntary practices are exactly what their name suggests – optional sessions where veteran players routinely skip or limit their participation for a variety of reasons.
Nix wasn’t sidelined for training camp. He wasn’t going to miss regular-season games. He missed four sessions that, in many cases, he might not have been a full participant in anyway. And that was somehow enough to send portions of the fan base into a spiral.
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The reality on the ground is that Nix is back, healthy and ready for the season. The injury concern that defined the offseason narrative was, in the end, far smaller than the headlines suggested. Lammey’s broader message is one Broncos Country would do well to internalize before the next offseason story rolls in.
Not every piece of news deserves a five-alarm response. Sometimes the smart move is to wait, listen, and see how the situation actually unfolds.
Bo Nix is fine. The bandwagon is welcoming returning passengers. And the only thing left to do is get excited for September.