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Kiszla: Russell Wilson and Vance Joseph have gone from zeros to heroes during Broncos’ five-game winning streak

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Hey, Broncos Country: Now that your favorite NFL team has won five games in a row, are you ready to issue an apology to Russell Wilson and Vance Joseph?

Let me make it easy for you. I will go first.

When this football team was 1-5, I was ready to run Wilson and Joseph out of this dusty old cowtown. My reasons were strong. But I was wrong.

After giving Cleveland a 29-12 beatdown in their most complete performance of this NFL season, the Broncos have established a winning identity that can carry them all the way to the playoffs.

The quarterback and defensive coordinator who many (me included) wanted to run out of Denver are now leading an improbable run to the playoffs. During a turnaround nobody saw coming, Wilson and Joseph have gone from zeros to heroes.

“I’ve never doubted,” Wilson said Sunday. “I’ve never doubted our football team and where we could go.”

That identity has been established by the two people who not long ago were designated Persona Non Grata No. 1 and No. 1A in Broncos Country.

Joseph has reshaped a defense that was the hapless victim of 70 points in Miami by establishing a persona as nasty as pro rasslin’ villain Ric Flair: Hit hard, flex and let the penalty flags fall where they may.

With evangelical belief not seen around here since the height of Tebowmania, Wilson has rescued a lost season by becoming such a throwback of an option quarterback that I might have to give serious consideration to putting him on my Heisman Trophy ballot.

“The best thing about us … is it’s about us,” Wilson said. “It’s about us being together.”

That might sound corny, but it doesn’t make it any less true. When the team could’ve folded, Wilson held it together.

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