Mack leads Raiders to 15-12 win over Broncos

Raiders edge rusher Khalil Mack typically talks in front of his locker after games and during the practice week. In the first half of Sunday’s game between these longtime AFC West rivals, the Oakland Raiders were down by a dozen while their team managed a mystifying minus-12 yards of total offense.

On plays when Manning has been sacked, the Broncos have lost 28.23 NEP and on plays when Osweiler has been sacked the Broncos have lost 23.90 NEP.

“We don’t feel like any team is better than us in that sense”, Moats said. “We have to play better around him”.

Peyton Manning: The Broncos quarterback sat out for a fourth straight week due to a torn plantar fascia in his left foot.

The Broncos fell to 3-1 under Osweiler when they blew a 12-0 lead and squandered another outstanding effort by the league’s No. 1 defense, one that held Oakland to minus-12 yards in the first half. If Vernon catches this ball, the Broncos have a 1st and 10 near the Raiders 40.

NOTES: Raiders OL Austin Howard suffered a knee injury in the third quarter. “I wasn’t making the right reads”. This would be such a great victory for me to be able to throw back at them for years of torment during the dark ages of the Raiders. “We had a couple turnovers”, Broncos star wide receiver Demaryius Thomas said after the loss. We were 16 carries for 21 [25] yards in the first half.

“A big-time mood swing”, Sanders called it. “I’ll put this entire game on my back”.

“We all need to execute – especially me”.

When the Oakland Raiders went for a 2-point conversion following a touchdown that put them ahead by three against the Broncos, it initially looked like one of the strangest coaching decisions of the year. Carr threw incomplete, and instead of needing a touchdown, the Broncos only needed a field goal to tie. The backup snapper, Lee Smith, had an injured wrist and Del Rio said Smith had a cast on his snap hand.

“You make a snap judgment, and that was our choice”, Del Rio explained. But Sunday’s win in Denver was also when head coach Jack Del Rio reached into his bag of tricks and pulled out some finesse.

“He knew we could make that push in the second half, ” Mack said.

“We were really poor in the red zone”, Kubiak said after the loss Sunday. Anderson out, the line failed to generate any running room for Ronnie Hillman.

“What you see statistically, it doesn’t really determine whether you think is better or not, but at the same time, I’m going to keep working to get better”.

The week-to-week process of picking a quarterback in Denver finally has evolved into a day-to-day proposition.

Denver went three-and-out on two series that began inside its own 20.

Manning watched the game from the sideline Sunday, the first time he’s done that.

“No reason to point any fingers”, said Osweiler, who completed 35 of 51 passes for 308 yards.

“I think it’s one of those things that kind of snowballs on you as a team and you don’t see it coming”, safety Charles Woodson told Sirius XM radio. “I don’t mind frustrations at all as a coach because we work hard at what we do”. I remember playing Derrick Thomas my first game in the National Football League against the Chiefs and he had six sacks against us.