Nix’s reason for making the call seems clear: he wanted to set the record straight.
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Following the QB’s season-ending ankle surgery, ESPN’s Adam Schefter (and others) reported that Nix would be sidelined for approximately 12 weeks. Nix began his conference call by debunking that.
“It was a very quick procedure, a very simple operation,” Nix said. “Just a simple bone fracture, they fixed it. Great surgeon, excellent care, I’m just back on my road to recovery. So, a typical bone fracture: four to six weeks, back to training, ready to roll.
“I had a lot of differences – you hear a lot of different weeks and speculation when something like this happens and unfortunately, you can’t hear from me for a while, but there won’t be any problems this offseason. In fact, I’ll be able to start training at the same time I was going to start training, so don’t miss a moment.”
Nix reiterated several times that it was a “clean breakup” with a “simple operation” and a “simple recovery” with no lingering problems.
Nix also contradicted coach Sean Payton, who apparently was wrong when he told reporters Tuesday that Nix was “predisposed” to the injury that it was just a matter of time.Advertisement
“Yeah, nothing predisposed, nothing that was there originally,” Nix said. “That could have been confused… I didn’t have any predisposed problems.”
It seems to have been mostly a confusion in word choice. Doctors discovered “pre-existing stress” in the bone that eventually broke, according to the Denver PostIt’s Luca Evans. That’s what Payton meant by his “predisposition” comment, but Nix clarified that it’s not a chronic problem that makes him injury-prone.
“Nothing that really worries me, nothing that scares me in the future, like I’m injury prone or anything like that,” Nix said. “This is one of those football plays that is just awkward.”
So a much shorter recovery period than initially reported, and after surgery, Nix’s ankle is not a lingering concern (at least not for him). Consider the corrected narrative.
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This article originally appeared on Broncos Wire: NFL News: Bo Nix Contradicts Sean Payton, Offers Good Injury News