ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- As the Denver Broncos adjourned for their summer break, linebacker Alex Singleton rolled out a goal for a defense that lived in the extremes of good and bad last season.
"We don't want to suck," Singleton said earlier this month. "I think that's most teams' goal."
While the ongoing quarterback competition and rookie passer Bo Nix's arrival as the team's first-round pick has overwhelmed the public discourse around the team, the Broncos -- behind that camouflage -- spent much of their limited salary-cap capital on their defense. It's a defense that lived the good life for two months last season after a historically bad month-long stretch to kick off the campaign.