Denver Broncos will face a former failed head coach on Sunday

The Denver Broncos face off against the Arizona Cardinals in week 15 and will duel with one of their failed former head coaches, Vance Joseph.  In the 2017 and 2018 seasons, the Broncos had the misfortune of Vance Joseph as head coach.

The team won five games in 2017 and six games in 2018 before Joseph got the boot.  It was a miserable two years and was a questionable hire from the beginning.  After being relieved of his duties in Denver, he landed with the Arizona Cardinals as the defensive coordinator.

He’s been in that role since 2019 and will get to gameplan against his former team when the Cardinals come to Denver to face the Broncos in week 15.  Joseph has had an up and down tenure as the DC in Arizona.

In his first year in 2019, the Cardinals had a 5-10-1 record and fielded the 28th best scoring defense.  In 2020, the team improved a bit, finished 8-8 and had the 12th best scoring defense.  In 2021, the team fielded the 11th ranked scoring defense, but the wheels have fallen off this year in Arizona.

Vance Joseph’s defense is ranked 32nd in the NFL in scoring.  Remember, a team can fill up a stat sheet on defense with interceptions, sacks, and everything in between, but the stat that really matters is how many points the unit gives up.

In his four years as the DC in Arizona, the Cardinals rank out an average of the 20.75th ranked scoring defense.  His tenure in Arizona is a lot like his tenure in Denver as the head coach, a failure.  However, the Denver Broncos have been perhaps more of a disaster this season.

The game on Sunday isn’t exactly going to be nationally televised, but there will probably be a winner, and perhaps some motivation to take down a former head coach.  Russell Wilson is not playing in this game, so it has the makings of yet another ugly, low scoring affair.