The Broncos offense still wasn’t clicking and the Raiders were driving into field goal range when Chris Harris Jr. picked off Carr and returned it 74 yards for a touchdown with 6:53 to play to give the Broncos a 16-7 lead. We’ve been seeing much more of the put together team as the season has progressed, but at times against the Bears, the Raiders certainly made a few very bad mistakes. The unit is first in the league with 275.5 yards allowed per game while ranking second with 17.3 points given up. Dalton has completed 67.2 percent of his passes through four games for 1,187 yards, with nine touchdowns and only a single interception.
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The Denver Broncos are trying to escape an upset in Oakland, but Malik Jackson is making that hard. “Everybody wants to do a better job and that starts with me”.
Carr threw for 249 yards and a 3-yard TD pass to Marcel Reece, but the Raiders lost their eighth straight to the Broncos.
Play of the quarter: Raiders offensive tackle Donald Penn, a 32-year-old, 315-pound mass of humanity, took a batted pass out of the air and rumbled to a 3-yard gain.
“We’ve got two of the best at the guard positions, so anything we can do to get their legs back underneath them as quickly as possible and just have them be as fresh as they can is going to help all of us out”, Garcia said.
Chancellor’s impact could not have been more apparent than it was at the end of Monday’s game against the Lions, when he forced Calvin Johnson to fumble the ball just before he could cross the goal line for what would have nearly certainly been a decisive touchdown.
“Those things are the shiny things, the shiny toys that you like, but it’s about wins and losses”, Woodson said.
“He practiced yesterday on a limited basis and today he was a little sore, so we just held him”, Kubiak said.
The battle for the AFC West gets underway Sunday afternoon as the Denver Broncos take on the Oakland Raiders. That includes kicker Sebastian Janikowski, who will play in his franchise record 241st game Sunday, breaking his tie with Tim Brown.
The Broncos secondary clamped down in the second half, preventing the Raiders passing game from establishing a good rhythm. His low kick was blocked by Sylvester Williams.
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The Broncos went ahead with two more field goals from Brandon McManus in the third quarter. Raiders coach Jack Del Rio called him “one of the all-time greats” and a “tough matchup” for his team. But Oakland is off to a 2-2 start, and Woodson has two interceptions despite playing through a shoulder injury he suffered in the opener.
