Dever Broncos quarterback Bo Nix has sensationally called out his head coach Sean Payton for revealing too much detail about his injury past.
Nix broke his ankle in final minutes of his team’s playoff win over Buffalo Bills on January 17, ruling him out of the rest of the postseason and requiring surgery.
It meant Jarrett Stidham replaced him for the AFC Championship loss to New England Patriots on Sunday, the Broncos falling agonizingly short in a 10-7 loss in the snow.
In the aftermath, Payton said that Nix’s history of ankle injuries meant an injury of this calibre was ‘a matter of if, it was a matter of when’.
The quarterback had a fractured ankle in high school and needed ankle surgery before in his rookie year with the Broncos and Payton added surgery ‘found a condition that was predisposed – they always find a little more when they go in.’
But Payton’s comments irked Nix, who moved to defiantly set the record straight.
Bo Nix was not happy about his head coach Sean Payton’s comments about his ankle injury
Denver Broncos coach Payton said Nix’s past meant a bad ankle injury was inevitable
‘I don’t think he really should share how many surgeries I’ve had in the past, to be honest with you, he doesn’t even really know that,’ the quarterback said, as per ESPN.
He explained of his surgery, carried out in Birmingham, Alabama: ‘Nothing predisposed, nothing that was there originally.
‘That might have gotten confused. (The injury was) just a simple step with my foot up in the air, my body weight came down on it, sort of got twisted up.
‘It could have been a worse landing, but I think all that force went into the only place it could.’
Nix said he should be able to start training again in 4-6 weeks.
As for missing the Patriots showdown, Nix added: ‘It was a bummer. It was a tough week. It was not necessarily the most fun I’ve ever had playing football. But life teaches you lessons.
‘For me it’s just going to make playing in one of these games all that much more special. I can’t go back and play in that one, but, man, I can do something to see how many I can play in in the future. That drives me.’
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