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After going 10-7 as a rookie and reaching the NFL playoffs with a wild-card bid, Denver Broncos quarterback Bo Nix was promptly sent home in the first round with a 31-7 loss to the Buffalo Bills on the road.
The game started well for Nix as he opened the scoring with a 43-yard touchdown pass to Troy Franklin to take an early lead, but the Broncos did not return to the end zone after that.
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This year, Denver secured the No. 1 seed in the AFC with a 14-3 record, and they will host a to-be-determined opponent at Empower Field at Mile High in the divisional round. After the team's regular season finale, Nix was asked what he learned from last year's playoff experience.
“Playoffs is one thing," Nix said. "Going on the road to a tough Buffalo team, you can take a lot of experiences from that [with] everything you learned. You get there and you start playing, you’re like, ‘This is just the same competitive football that we’ve been playing, now there’s just a little bit more at stake.’ I think it was better… [I’d] much rather have played a game last year in the playoffs than not, and this time being my first one. I think playing at home, it’ll be my first home one. That’ll be a little bit different, but I think it’ll do nothing but help. The away experience from last year, just understanding how nothing really changes and it’s the next week, next opponent.
"The good thing is that you can’t look forward, so you don’t even have a choice. There’s no opponent next. You have to wait for that weekend to finish out. For me, it’s just the next game and the next game and the next game. Fortunately for us, we have two weeks and we can rest a little bit this week and then prepare and have a good week next week. It’s like winning a playoff game this week, so it’s huge having that bye and also you get an extra playoff check.”
As the AFC's top seed, the Broncos have a bye for the wild-card round, and they will wait to learn their opponent this weekend. Denver will host the lowest advancing seed from the conference, either the Los Angeles Chargers (No. 7), Buffalo Bills (No. 6), Houston Texans (No. 5) or Pittsburgh Steelers (No. 4). The NFL has yet to announce the date and time for the Broncos' game, but it will be played on either Saturday, Jan. 17, or Sunday, Jan. 18.
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This article originally appeared on Broncos Wire: NFL: Bo Nix returns to playoffs after learning 'a lot' as a rookie
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