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Broncos QB Bo Nix ‘not even really thinking about’ win streak ahead of Raiders matchup

ENGLEWOOD — The Broncos are riding high with six consecutive victories heading into their second AFC West game of the season.

Quarterback Bo Nix won’t listen to that hype or overlook the struggling Raiders.

“We’ve heard a lot about the win streak, but we’re not even really thinking about that because we have so many things that we want to correct,” Nix said Tuesday after practice at Broncos Park. “We feel like we haven’t even played a complete game offensively — much less as a team. I think once we start doing that, then we have to be careful about being too lax. Until then, we’re all in a growth mindset.”

It’s true the division-leading Broncos (7-2) have struggled to establish consistency despite not losing a game in over a month. They’ve scored the eighth-most points in the NFL this season (225) despite 36.2% of their total drives ending in an offensive score, which ranks No. 26 in the league.

“We always want to score every drive. Point, blank, period — that’s our goal,” Nix said. “Sometimes, we’ve fallen short of that goal, and we have to rely on the next drive and go score the next drive. I think at times we execute better than others, and then we just have to find a way to execute all of them like they’re the most important thing ever. We’re always really close, so that’s the good thing.”

Denver Broncos quarterback Bo Nix (10) runs against the Houston Texans during an NFL game in Houston, Sunday. (The Associated Press)

Yet the Broncos discovered a big-play scoring offense in an 18-15 road win over Houston. Nix threw a 30-yard touchdown to wide receiver Courtland Sutton and a 27-yard touchdown to running back RJ Harvey.

On Tuesday, Nix joked: “We thought we would save all our red-zone plays for the next couple of weeks and didn’t want to show any of them.”

The Raiders (2-6) rank near the middle of the NFL in red-zone defense allowing touchdowns on 61% of those opponent scoring chances. Las Vegas has the league’s No. 23 scoring defense allowing 26.3 points per game. Nix remains focused.

“We’re going to have to play really well,” Nix said. “It will be a fun ‘Thursday Night Football’ environment.”

Nix has been pressured on only 25.3% of dropbacks this season, according to Next Gen Stats, the second-lowest rate in the league. He’s allowed only 10.2% of those pressures to be converted into sacks, leading the NFL.

There are still plenty of things to correct against the Raiders.

“We’re worried about the things that we can fix because there are several of them from each position that we’re trying to focus on,” Nix said. “Until we’re hitting all of the ones we need to hit, I don’t think we’re going to be able to be relaxed. We have a lot of guys who are competitive. We don’t have a bunch of front-runners. We just have a locker room full of guys that are trying to race to improve and improve faster than everyone else in the league.”


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