Nobody ever accused Kurt Warner of not being aggressive. He ranks sixth in NFL history with an average of 7.95 yards per pass attempt and threw the ball all over the place when winning two NFL MVP awards.

So when Warner was asked about Broncos quarterback Bo Nix, he said he needs to pick things up in the playoffs.

“I do think Bo’s going to have to do more through the course of their games for them to get (to the Super Bowl) and even have a chance to win it,’’ the Hall of Fame quarterback told The Denver Gazette. “He needs to go in being more aggressive and attacking.”

Overall, Warner does find plenty to like about Nix, who in his second season helped steer Denver to a 14-3 record and the No. 1 seed in the AFC playoffs. After getting a bye, the Broncos will face either Buffalo or the Los Angeles Chargers in a divisional playoff at Empower Field at Mile High, likely on Saturday.

“I thought he had another solid year,’’ Warner said. “I thought he had some really good moments. I thought he was really good late in games. But I feel like Bo is the best version of himself when he settles in the pocket, and he takes some risks going down the field.”

Warner did that while playing in the NFL from 1998-2009. While playing for the St. Louis Rams, he led them to Super Bowl berths in his MVP seasons of 1999 and 2001, with a 23-16 win over Tennessee in his first appearance. At age 37 in the 2008 season, he was still throwing the ball downfield while leading Arizona to the Super Bowl, where the Cardinals lost 27-23 in the final seconds to Pittsburgh.

Warner is now an NFL Network analyst who pays close attention to quarterbacks. He has served as an analyst for Broncos’ games, including their 13-11 win over the New York Jets in London on Oct. 12.

“I think sometimes (Nix is) very risk-averse,’’ Warner said. “I fully think he’s capable of making those throws (downfield). … I think just too often he feels to me more like a point guard as opposed to a shooting guard (in basketball).”

For the season, Nix threw for 3,931 yards with 25 touchdowns and 11 interceptions and had an average gain per pass attempt of 6.43 yards.

Warner liked how Nix looked in Denver’s 34-26 over Green Bay on Dec. 14, when he completed 23 of 34 passes for 302 yards with four touchdowns and averaged a season-high 8.88 yards per attempt. He called it “the best game he played all year.”

Warner was much less enthralled with some of Nix’s showings late in the regular season. In a 20-13 win at Kansas City on Dec. 25, he completed 26 of 38 passes for 182 yards while averaging 4.79 yards per pass attempt. And in Denver’s 19-3 home win over the Los Angeles Chargers on Jan. 4, he completed 14of 23 passes for 141 yards while averaging 6.13 yards per throw.

Head coach Sean Payton said Friday the play against the Chargers and Chiefs “wasn’t really good offensively” and that the Broncos are “going to have to play better” in the postseason. He was asked if Nix needs to be more aggressive.

“A lot of that would be based on who we’re playing,’’ Payton said. “We want to be aggressive. We obviously want to. We will take our shots, but a lot of it, tell me the opponent and then it’s like, ‘All right, tell me how that’s going to be done?'”

Warner is well aware that the Broncos were more conservative in their last two games, with both foes using backup quarterbacks, and that Payton calls the plays. But he said in the playoffs, Denver will face better teams and might not be able to rely as much on a defense that ranked No. 2 in the NFL in the regular season in total defense.

Warner was impressed with Nix’s fourth-quarter comebacks during the regular season, but would like him to have more consistency. Nix was second in the NFL in such quarterback comebacks with five, trailing the six that Chicago’s Caleb Williams had.

Nix’s most dramatic comebacks were leading the Broncos to a 21-17 win at Philadelphia on Oct. 5 after they trailed 17-3 and to a 33-32 home win over the New York Giants on Oct. 19 after they trailed 19-0 and 26-8 with less than six minutes remaining.

“He was great but when you’re down in the fourth quarter, what you have to do is throw caution to the wind and you’ve got to sling it,’’ Warner said. “You’ve to take chances. You got to take risks and you’ve got to push the ball. In those moments, he showed he is capable of doing those things. I want the same sort of guy, maybe not the same exact mentality, but an aggressive sort of mentality to be with him for 60 minutes.”

Former Pro Bowl quarterback turned CBS analyst Tony Romo was on the broadcast for five of the Broncos’ games in the regular season, including two that featured Nix’s fourth-quarter comebacks. He was on hand at Philadelphia and for Denver’s 22-19 home win over Kansas City on Nov. 16 when the Broncos got two field goals after trailing 19-16 with less than five minutes left.

“He has the ability to do things right when the game’s on the line, and his propensity to do that has obviously been showing this year,’’ Romo told The Denver Gazette. “I think you have yourself a guy that you hope can do things outside the structure from time to time when things aren’t perfect. … He has the ability to turn that on and just forget about the past and go win the game. It’s what everybody’s looking for in their quarterback.”

Still, Romo would like to see some more consistency out of Nix, 25.

“It’s always a progression for young quarterbacks,’’ said Romo, who played in the NFL with Dallas from 2003-16. “Every quarterback is trying to get more consistency. .. (Nix has a) great temperament and a great mind and his work stands out. That’s what you want in a franchise quarterback.”

Romo reiterated that he already considers Nix a “franchise quarterback” in his second season. But is it too early to make that declaration?

“Hopefully, if he stays healthy and he continues to grow and be better and better, he certainly can be a franchise quarterback,’’ Joe Theismann, a former All-Pro quarterback and NFL MVP who led Washington to a 27-17 Super Bowl win over Miami in the 1982 season, told The Denver Gazette. “I think he’s matured extremely well, and I really like the way Bo is continuing to grow into the position.”

Theismann, though, stressed that there still needs to be patience involving Nix.

“He’s still young,’’ said Theismann, who played for Washington from 1974-85. “It’s year two and he’s still in a learning process. It’s usually about a three to four year process to really understand the quarterback position.”

Some of Nix’s stats declined from his rookie season. While his yardage total increased from 3,775 to 3,931, his average gain per pass decreased from 6.66 to 6.43 yards while he threw an NFL-most 612 passes. His touchdowns decreased from 29 to 25, and his completion percentage went from 66.3 to 63.4, but he had a positive decrease in interception percentage from 2.1 to 1.8.

Yet the Broncos did go 14-3, a four-game increase from last season’s 10-7.

“They did an incredible job,’’ Warner said. “But do I call (Nix) a franchise quarterback? Not yet. But he is making steps in the right direction. Let’s give him more time to show us exactly who he is.”

In the meantime, though, Warner said there is urgency for Nix to be more aggressive in the playoffs.