A message for every fan jumping off the Bo Nix bandwagon after Week 1

One game. One bad, ugly, forgettable game, and apparently that is all it takes for a portion of the Denver Broncos fan base to forget two years of franchise-altering quarterback play. Bo Nix was terrible on Monday night.

Nobody is disputing that. The stat line, 17 of 28 for 131 yards, one touchdown, one interception, and three fumbles, is indefensible. The 31-10 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs was a complete offensive collapse.

But on a recent edition of “Dover and Cecil” on 104.3 The Fan, Cecil Lammey wasn’t interested in relitigating the performance. He was interested in addressing the people who have suddenly decided that Bo Nix isn’t their quarterback anymore.

Lammey opened the door for them, and made clear it only swings one direction.

“If you want to get off the bandwagon, we’re gonna allow you to do that today gracefully,” Lammey said.

That’s a generous offer from a man who clearly has no patience for what he’s been hearing since the final whistle. The social media posts. The text-line messages. The sudden flood of takes from fans who spent the entire offseason praising Nix’s toughness, his competitiveness and his ability to win, only to abandon him after one Monday night in Kansas City.

Lammey then said what needed to be said.

“But I am sick and tired of people that were supposed to be down with Bo, now after one game, bad game, terrible game, they’re jumping off?” Lammey said.

The frustration is earned. This is the same quarterback who led the Broncos to their first playoff appearance in a decade. The same quarterback who played on a broken ankle and still delivered a postseason victory. The same quarterback who has won 24 games in two seasons, leads his entire draft class in every major statistical category, and has done more for this franchise than any signal-caller since Peyton Manning.

One night at Arrowhead doesn’t erase that. Not even close.

Nix has had bad games before. He has also had games where he singlehandedly carried the team to victories nobody thought were possible. The pattern has been consistent, he stumbles, he adjusts, and he comes back better. That’s who he has been since Day 1 in Denver. Expecting that to change because of one September loss is the definition of short-term thinking.

Lammey’s farewell to the bandwagon jumpers was as clean as it gets.

“Go. See ya,” Lammey said.

If one terrible game is enough to undo two years of belief, then the belief was never real in the first place. And when Nix bounces back, because he will bounce back, the people who walked away don’t get to pretend they were there all along.

Bo Nix will be fine. Cecil Lammey knows it. The people still on the bandwagon know it. And the ones who just stepped off are going to regret it sooner than they think.

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