Older Broncos fans didn’t need a Netflix documentary to remember the Hall of Fame career of John Elway. The new doc that launched a week ago, however, is must-see TV, an emotional and rewarding ride down Memory Lane.
For younger fans, watching “Elway” should be treated like a make-or-break middle school assignment. To fully understand and appreciate the Broncos, having historical knowledge of the franchise’s most significant player should be a prerequisite for cheering on the current squad.
In Broncos Country, Elway is everything.
But, Boomer (and I’m speaking to myself as much as anyone), the past isn’t necessarily better – that’s not the point here. Whether sports, music or pop culture, there are always reasons to celebrate the here and now. And Broncos fans should be appreciating the season at hand every bit as much as the 1984 Denver Broncos. After all, after 16 games in the books, Bo Nix’s Broncos have the exact same record as Elway’s ’84 team. This is Nix’s second year in the league; ’84 was Elway’s second, too.
And we all know what they say: “History repeats itself.”
By golly, let’s hope so.
On that note, the repeat is off to a pretty good start.
Aside from the identical 16-game record of 13-3 (in ’84 they only played 16 regular season games, whereas Nix has one more on the slate), the gift of a documentary that arrived just before Christmas reminded Denver that Elway and Nix are(?) – and could be (fingers crosse) – eerily similar.
Both quarterbacks have fathers that played an unmistakable role in their development as players and people.
While it’s still early in Nix’s career, it appears that he has a similar competitive nature that Elway possessed – both quarterbacks refusing to believe a game is over until the final gun sounds.
In his career, Elway produced 31 fourth-quarter comebacks and 40 game-winning drives in the regular season. In the postseason, he tallied four and six respectively. By his second season, he had already claimed four fourth-quarter wins and two game-winning drives.
Nix, amazingly, already has eight fourth-quarter comebacks and 10 game-winning drives. To be fair, Nix has 32 regular season starts already, while Elway played in 26 games (starting in 24) by the time his second season came to an end. Still, the comparison is worth making.
“Elway” also outlines another interesting, potential similarity that has little to do with the quarterbacks themselves. Are Elway and Nix playing for “the same” coach?
The relationship between Elway and (should be Hall of Fame) head coach Dan Reeves was rocky, as the film spends ample time pointing out. Despite the nature of the relationship however, the Broncos won a ton of games in the Elway-Reeves regime. The documentary definitely makes one wonder what Elways’s stats could have been if he’d played under a different head coach. Then again, perhaps Reeves’ methods were good for a young gunslinger like Elway. It’s a question that will never be answered.
It would be unfair the say that the relationship between Nix and his (should be Hall of Fame) head coach, Sean Payton, is “rocky.” On the flip side, that has been speculated. Correct or incorrect, moments of frustration caught on camera have, at times, made those who follow the Broncos wonder. Statistically, Nix’s numbers often reflect Payton’s sometimes conservative game planning – or at least that’s what some observe and speculate. Still, with Nix going to the postseason as a rookie, and on the verge of acquiring the No. 1 overall seed in the AFC in his second season, it’s virtually impossible to argue with the results – regardless of how Nix and Payton achieved them.
In his rookie season, Elway went 0-1 in the postseason. So did Nix.
In Elway’s second, on the heels of the aforementioned 13-3 regular season campaign, he again lost in the playoffs. It wasn’t until his third season, where he engineered the legendary “Drive,” that Elway broke through to the Super Bowl.
Does a similar path await Nix?
For purposes of the here and now, let’s hope Nix and Payton are ahead of schedule when it comes to the postseason just around the corner.
For purposes of comparing a great history to a promising future, let’s hope that Nix can simply “come close” to compiling a career on par with Elway, a quarterback worthy of a Netflix documentary.
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