Bo Nix and the ‘divine discontent’ that will fuel the Broncos QB’s offseason work
By Nick Kosmider, The Athletic
“That first year is just so long for those guys,” David Morris, Nix’s personal quarterbacks coach and founder of the QB Country training program, said during a recent phone interview. “They never get a breather. You’ve got to decompress and recover. There are a lot of hits and a lot of shots. There was no real break, basically from July of the previous year to the end of January. So there’s rest days built into (offseason work) that are important.”
What Morris knows well, though, is that the rest for Nix won’t last long. After undergoing a minor medical scope on his ankle at the end of January, the quarterback who turned 25 on Tuesday has already been back working out at the Broncos’ facility, general manager George Paton said this week. Much of the upcoming work with Nix and Morris will take place in Alabama and will start where much of Nix’s work with the Broncos coaching and training staffs left off.
Morris, who backed up Eli Manning for three seasons when both were college quarterbacks at Ole Miss, said the Broncos have a similar throwing program for quarterbacks to the one he and the other coaches at QB Country employ with their players. One of its aims is to improve the generation and transfer of power in the torso while focusing on the movements that help the shoulder move more efficiently during the throwing process.
“So it’s going to be rotational strength. It’s going to be trying to get faster and trying to get stronger, better change of direction,” Morris said of the focus the program will have with Nix this offseason. “They do a great job up in Denver of the overhead athlete (one whose arm and shoulder move in an arc above their head) or rotational athlete (one who has to rotate their body a lot) training program, and that’s what we do here, too. He loves all that. I’d say Bo is kind of a junkie for really getting into quarterback-specific training. So I think in general it’s going to be a holistic approach.”