From my knowledge - no. The reason airpods "worsen" on calls is that it switches Bluetooth profile with 8khz audio. A "possible" workaround is setting airpods

From my knowledge - no. The reason airpods "worsen" on calls is that it switches Bluetooth profile with 8khz audio. A "possible" workaround is setting airpods as output and your mac's internal microphone. It'll have other drawbacks for latency/echo cancelation