"We want to beat him bad": Broncos not holding back on Osweiler

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When Houston Texans quarterback Brock Osweiler led his team to an overtime victory against the Indianapolis Colts this past Sunday night, the team and their fans finally caught a glimpse of what they deemed him capable of when they agreed to pay him $72 million.

But while Houston fans continue to look for an upswing in production from their quarterback going into this week’s battle, there are some, especially those dawning Orange & Blue on defense for the Denver Broncos, who will seek to provide a very different result come Monday night.

“It is what it is. We know that he left us,” said cornerback Chris Harris Jr., “It’s going to be great. I’m pretty sure that he wants to win, we want to beat him bad and get a lot of interceptions. It’s going to be great competition. We’re definitely looking forward to playing against him.”

It is no secret that Osweiler stunned Broncos Country when he decided to depart from the Super Bowl champions for a more financially lucrative deal in Houston. There was certainly no hiding the distaste and distrust Denver fans felt among themselves after his deal was inked.

With Osweiler preparing to roll into Denver Monday night to face the team that drafted him, his unexpected exit is not being ignored, and his former teammates aren’t shying away from poking fun at the tendencies the noticed when he was here.

“We know that Brock likes to hold the ball so I feel that we can get a lot of good pressure on him,” linebacker Brandon Marshall remarked when characterizing the Texans’ gunslinger. “Just watching their offense, I think this can be a great week for us; I can say that.”

Nose tackle Sylvester Williams believes Osweiler will approach this game like any other while echoing the eagerness to get after his former teammate.

“I know he’s going to come in here ready to play. He is going to try to leave his emotions in the locker room and try to just play poised football and try to get a win for them, and our job is to go out there and stop him. We’re looking forward to doing that.”

It won’t be easy for Osweiler to put those emotions aside, he wants to beat the team that benched him late in the season just as badly as they want to beat him. In most cases, though, these emotional meetings favor the defense who can use added aggression to their favor.