Throughout this Broncos season, I have drawn on my experience as a coach to dissect and analyze every facet of Denver’s scheme, personnel and coaching decisions.

I’ve worked hard to translate high-level football concepts and turn them into digestible information for Broncos Country.

In essence, I’ve been “The People’s Coach” — of the explaining variety.

Now I’m going to “Coach the People.”

My people — you, Broncos Country.

Take a seat in our team auditorium and stow away your devices. Coach Sanford has the floor with a win-one-for-the-Gipper speech for my favorite folks. I intend to ask Broncos Country to do something for a franchise plagued in a postseason drought. I ask you to take a page out of the greatest coach to ever wear a whistle in the pro game — Bill Belichick, who once stated: “We’re on to Cincinnati.”

After losing to the Kansas City Chiefs 41-14 in Week 4 of the 2014 season, Belichick interrupted five questions from New England and national media with that now-famous response. No dwelling, no finger-pointing, no drama, just pure compartmentalization.

Process. On to the next.

In writing this column, I’m not directing this message at the left side of the field-goal unit of the Broncos. I’m not speaking to a Broncos offense that performed brilliantly through the first 28 minutes and final 6 minutes of Sunday’s heartbreaker in Kansas City.

And I’m certainly not preaching to the fourth-ranked defense in the NFL, a group that held Patrick Mahomes and the undefeated Chiefs to 16 points in their own raucous stadium.

I’m speaking to you, Broncos Country.

We’re on to Atlanta.

But what went wrong on that field-goal attem…

We’re on to Atlanta.

Why didn’t the Broncos’ offense score any points in the second ha…

We’re on to Atlanta.

I’ve coached long enough to know that a fanbase, especially one as loyal and boisterous as the one in Denver, can play a massive role in the outcome of season-defining contests.

Sunday’s game against Atlanta, Broncos Country, is the definition of a massive contest for your boys in blue and orange.

Why this matchup?

For starters, the Broncos are 0-4 against teams with a winning record and have been outscored 93-46 in those contests. The Broncos are 0-3 against top-10 quarterbacks, including Justin Herbert, Lamar Jackson and Mahomes.

To truly earn your way into the postseason, you must do two things: beat winning teams and win quarterback duals against top-third quarterbacks in the NFL.

The Broncos have both opportunities Sunday at Empower Field. The Falcons are 6-4 and led by a top-10 quarterback, Kirk Cousins.

Teams that make the playoffs also stop the bleeding. After starting the season with an ugly losing streak at Seattle and at home to Pittsburgh, the Broncos did just that.

They responded by ripping off five wins over their next six games.

The 0-2 road trip to the top two teams in the AFC is reason enough to believe some bleeding is in desperate need of cauterizing. There’s no better scenario than hosting another representative from the worst division in football, the NFC South.

Now what must the Broncos do?

Sean Payton, Vance Joseph, Bo Nix and even the left side of the field-goal unit is already deep into their planning of how to turn the tide once again. Remember this quote?

“Coaches Coach. Players Play. Fans Cheer.”

Broncos Country, you must cheer — and loud, from the first whistle to the final horn. The decibel level on third down must make Cousins wish he was playing couch football with his kids. You must stop the attitudes of “woe is me” and “here we go again” entering a showdown of massive consequences. Those attitudes haven’t been effective over the past nine years.

Broncos Country has the opportunity — even the responsibility! — to help its hometown team with a fun twist: Prove the NFL wrong in Nix’s rookie season. Take what pundits described as a bottom-three roster straight to the postseason.

It starts this Sunday.

We’re on to Atlanta.

Are you with me?