If Broncos beat Patriots, how much of a QB controversy will Denver have?

Let me be clear, we all know that Nix is a better TALENT than Stidham. But QB is about 20% physical and 80% mental. And on the mental side, if Stidham beats New England, Bo Nix will suffer a huge blow to his ego/confidence. No way around it.

There’s two weeks in between the conf champ and SB, media beats the Super Bowl talk to death. There will be so many of these takes out there: “Super Bowl Stiddy!” “Stidham has more AFC title game wins than Nix” “This proves that Nix is a system QB” “I don’t know man, something about this Stidham guy, he’s just clutch, I don’t think Nix would have won that game.” Just like how they did with Golding/Kiffin after the Sugar Bowl.

We saw it with Carson Wentz and Nick Foles. Yes Wentz won the job back when healthy, but he was never the same player mentally. Foles was basically a God in Philly after the SB win, Big Dick Nick, etc, while Wentz was completely tossed aside and forgotten. Wentz was pressing too hard, too much of a chip on his shoulder, like he was trying to say, “Hey fans, forget about Foles already, I could’ve won that Super Bowl too.”

I’m sure Nix will still be their long-term plan for QB no matter what happens with Stidham in the AFC title game/Super Bowl, but you just know that if Denver wins this week and Nix starts to play poorly in September, the boo birds will come out and say “Put Super Bowl Stiddy in!”

Is Nix secretly rooting against his guys this week for this reason? So the narrative will be “they would’ve won with Nix?”