Williams Jared Veldheer Jersey , aka “Big Al,” joined Ryan Edwards and Benjamin Allbright for their regular Monday night stint at Buffalo Wild Wings, and it’s...entertaining to say the least.Big Al, who recently left 104.3 The Fan and joined KOA with his own show, opened with a debate about what the Broncos are doing at quarterback, arguing first that he didn’t understand why John Elway and Vic Fangio didn’t bring Drew Lock off IR in Week 6 to begin practicing - but ended up arguing that there’s no need to see Lock this season since the original plan was always to let him sit a year.It’s a bit of a confusing exchange until Edwards and Allbright do their best to explain exactly how the Broncos got to this QB conundrum once again (and for the record, I argued this same point on the Something Something Broncos podcast last week with Jess Place and Tim Lynch who were as confused as Big Al - lol) - but it’s honestly quite simple to explain/justify, even if you don’t agree with it:No matter how you have felt about this plan, everyone in Broncos Country can relax now that Lock is returning to practice this week. Whether Broncos Country sees him this season will depend a lot on how new starter Brandon Allen does the next two games.Ironically, Big Al now doesn’t like the idea of Lock coming in at all because he believes it would be an unfair assessment of the rookie before an offseason in which Elway will likely need to evaluate QBs in the 2020 Draft. It’s a confusing argument, but entertaining nonetheless.However, the former CU Buffs standout and two-time Super Bowl-winning defender with the Broncos totally redeems himself when discussing an area he definitely knows well - the defense.And he had three reasons for why this defense is so successful right now - Nos. 98, 45 and 22.“Mike Purcell. The man in the middle,” he said, noting that Purcell - far more than Shelby Harris - is made for the nose tackle position. “Purcell dominates at the point of attack; he headbutt presses, discards the center as easy as anybody I’ve seen. Plus he has this nastiness that fits the Broncos’ profile well.”Williams noted that it’s a head-scratcher that Harris was playing nose at all, but he’s just happy the coaches have figured out the right combo for that defensive line.“If you want to be a great defense you have to have is strength down the middle from defensive line to your linebacker corps, where A.J. Johnson is - and of course your safeties have to be a big part of how you tackle and make things happen, and Kareem Jackson has been awesome there.”Taking those three out makes this Top 5 defense just mediocre, Big Al says, pointing specifically to the Jaguars game in which “bad things happened to the defense.”“But soon as all three of those pieces started working together, things seemed to magically change here in Denver,” he noted. “We started seeing outside linebackers and safeties get tackles for losses; linebackers all of a sudden look like supermen running around making tackles because Mike Purcell is the man in the middle. And I’m telling you, it’s beautiful.”Asked about whether DeMarcus Walker is being under-utilized, Williams clarified the situation well - Walker is looking good and athletic this season, but he’s still not big enough to stay out there full-time and handle the double-teams.“He looks athletic. But you can’t give him more than those 20 or so snaps because he still doesn’t have enough lead in his pants to handle big-time double-teams and eat up 600 pounds of weight on him,” Big Al noted. “That’s still not his forté. He’s a move guy. He reminds me of a young Malik Jackson Shannon Sharpe Jersey , a guy who can move, can get in/out of bad situations with his quickness and a knack for getting to the ball. So you have to get him on the field when you’re guessing there’s going to be a pass.”Big Al also correctly diagnosed how important it will be for the offense to be able to sustain drives in order to allow this Broncos defense be the best it can be. “We are a top five defense where the offense hasn’t given us any help,” he said. “How you become a No. 1 defense in the NFL is by taking possessions away from the offense. And the way you do that is run the ball, sustain drives and don’t give them a chance to have 12 drives in a game.” Big Al argues that if an offense can stay on the field and limit the other team’s offense to only nine or 10 drives instead of 12, that’s easily 150-200 yards of offense they’re taking away from the opponent.“You can only do that if you sustain drives,” Williams said. “You need a good offense and solid defense to get in that top five area.”And then he got real.“We’ve move the ball pretty good...but we ain’t scored no points!” he said. “We moved the ball good, which is good for the defense, but when we add the points to it, we’re talking top five defense and the ability to be a winning franchise as well.”Preach, Big Al, preach! The Denver Broncos coached themselves out of a few wins last year and two of those biggest screw ups were against teams on the schedule again in 2019." NFL Revenge WeekDenver Broncos PodcastsDenver Broncos ScheduleBroncos have a chance to redo a few games in 2019New,29commentsThe Denver Broncos coached themselves out of a few wins last year and two of those biggest screw ups were against teams on the schedule again in 2019. MDTShare this storyShare this on FacebookShare this on TwitterShareAll sharing optionsShareAll sharing options for:Broncos have a chance to redo a few games in 2019TwitterFacebookRedditPocketFlipboardEmailIt’s revenge week on SB Nation, so when that theme came to my desk I could think of exactly two non-division rival games last season that I needed to write about. Both of them needed to be losses if we were to see the Vance Joseph era come to an end in Denver, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it.In the Something Something Broncos podcast, I noted both the Houston Texans game in Week 9 and the Cleveland Browns game in Week 15 as the two revenge games I felt Vic Fangio could flip to wins in 2019. Against the Texans last season, the Denver Broncos were clearly the better team on the football field. However, they were coached right into the defeat. It all started late in the first half when the Broncos were down 13-10. Instead of punting the ball with 22 seconds left, Joseph opted for a 62 yard field goal that Brandon McManus would miss.Much to the glee of Texans head coach Bill O’Brien.The Texans would kick a field goal of their own to go up 16-10. Then with the score 19-17 late in the game, Joseph once again made a questionable decision that would then cost the Broncos the game. With 13 seconds left in the game, the Broncos chose to hand the ball off to Phillip Lindsay up the gut for a one-yard loss to setup a 51-yard field goal that McManus pushed wide right. As frustrating as that loss was, it got even worse against the Browns in Week 15. Down by four in the fourth quarter in a game that Case Keenum wasn’t having his best day and Lindsay averaged just 1.7 yards per carry, the Joseph finally saw his offense put together an impressive drive. On fourth and 1 from the Cleveland six yard line, the Broncos lined up for the field goal. After a delay of game penalty, the field goal was good to make the score 17-16. That’s the score the game would finish with.These two games were maddening for me as a fan, so that’s why I’ve got them both down as my top two non-division rival revenge games on the Broncos 2019 regular season schedule. They’ll face the Browns at home in Week 9 and the Texans on the road in Week 14. Make us proud, Vic.