As Denver prepared to play the Buffalo Bills in the first round of the AFC playoffs, Broncos quarterback Bo Nix posted a video on his Instagram account this week featuring images from his NFL team’s season set to the music of Aerosmith’s “Dream On,” prominently the lyric “Dream until your dreams come true.”

“We got to watch a team video, and it was with that same song,” Nix said. “Kind of dream on it. Just it was kind of like you’ve dreamed for these moments and you go through life wanting these things. But I also don’t want to leave out the fact that, you know, not just being complacent with just making the playoffs. I think it’s important for everybody, and especially those in our organization and kind of directed towards our team, is, like, we can go further than just the playoffs. And I don’t want to be handcuffed by just making it just because we haven’t done it in so long. But, you know, if we’re going to make it, we might as well go win some games.”

When the Broncos take on the Bills in a first-round game at noon CST Sunday at Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, New York, Denver will be making its first postseason appearance since the Broncos defeated the Carolina Panthers 24-10 in Super Bowl 50 on Feb. 7, 2016.

Buffalo had a 13-4 regular-season record and clinched a playoff spot on Dec. 1. Denver went 10-7 and got the final spot in the AFC postseason field on the final day of the regular season.

“It’s cliche and it sounds cheesy, but most people, they literally didn’t expect us to be here,” Nix said, “so we might as well continue to not worry about those things and do what we can do and just worry about ourselves. And when we’ve done that this year, we’ve had good success. But it’s definitely not going to be easy.”

A former Pinson Valley High School and Auburn standout, Nix reached the playoffs as a rookie. In the NFC, Jayden Daniels with the Washington Commanders did the same. They brought to nine the number of rookie quarterbacks who have started every regular-season game for a team that made the NFL playoffs.

“This is where I want to be,” Nix said. “This is the moments that matter. These are the moments that people remember you by, so you just got to go out there and cut it loose and go out there and play and trust your teammates, trust what you’ve prepared for throughout this entire year, and, quite frankly, my career, my life. So this is just what we’re, you know, all that work finally gets to — come in to play. And it’s going to be fun.”

Buffalo won all eight of its home games during the regular season. But the Bills lost a home game in last season’s playoffs, falling to the Kansas City Chiefs 27-24 in a second-round contest. Denver went 4-5 on the road during the regular season.

“We have a really close team. and we’ve been working really hard at this,” Nix said. “We’ve been in pretty much — most of our recent away games, we’ve been in all of them. And we, a few of them, we just haven’t been able to close out, so I’m excited to, you know, eventually one’s going to go our way. So I’m excited to just get in this environment and compete.

“And I know these guys, we have each other’s back and no matter what — offense, defense, special team — somebody is going to make a play. Somebody’s going to put us in a situation to go out there and win it. And then I believe that it’s time that we can show and prove and somebody can go out there and take the game over and go out there and win it. And so I think we’ve just been kind of building up for this moment. All the obstacles and the highs and lows we’ve been through this year, it’s just kind of set us up right where we are.”

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on X at @AMarkG1.