Kiz: During the happiest Sunday of this Broncos’ season, rookie quarterback Drew Lock looked like some super-hero combination of Patrick Mahomes and Buzz Lightyear. If only he took over as the starting QB earlier, Denver might still be in the playoff hunt. So at the risk of irking coach Vic Fangio and all the apologists for those big thinkers down at the team’s Dove Valley headquarters: What took the Broncos so dang long to figure this out?
O’Halloran: Two factors played into the Broncos’ slow-play decision on Lock even practicing — 1.