NFL: Oakland Raiders vs Denver Broncos recap and analysis

The ninth Sunday Night of the season saw the hosts of the Oakland Raiders at the defending champions of the Denver Broncos, a prize of the leadership of the AFC West. After a quick three and out the Broncos have allowed the Raiders a good starting position in midfield, a position not fully exploited because after a drive balanced between races, and passes the result was a field goal by Janikowski, same thing happened in the following drive, a quick three and out of Denver, a balanced drive of Oakland and a good defense redzone for guests to limit the damage by giving three points with his second field goal of the night Janikowski. The third time this happened the Broncos have paid dearly because Carr quarterback the Raiders marched up all'endzone with short, precise passes not giving the time in Miller and Ware to get on him, once close to 'endzone they used a "heavy formation" to run the ball with Murray and the third down have scored the first touchdown of the game with just Latavius ​​Murray with a central run. The Denver attack reaction came midway through the second quarter when in 3:31 have completed a drive from 84 yards finalized with a touchdown from the 36 yards received from Norwood running a corner route. The Oakland offense came back to score points towards the end of the second quarter, this time moving the ball thanks to in particular ran a race over 30 yards of Murray on third down and one that I led the Raiders in the redzone where Carr looking for his receiver Amari Cooper forced a penalty of pass interference by the Cornerback Roby who has placed the ball on a yard where Murray was able chasing after the great blocks of his line of attack. Denver below 20-7 and with less than two minutes left in the first half of the game has arrived in field goal range with a series of medium-range launches where Siemian was accurate so as to give the possibility to its kicker McManus sweetly and subsequently create a difficult field goal from 55 yards. After a third quarter dominated by the defenses, Denver beginning of the last period of play has managed to kick another field goal with McManus that momentarily brought the deficit from Oakland to 7 points, and then return to share 10 in the following drive when the Raiders alternating races of its 3 running backs and short throws to Crabtree and Roberts they managed to arrive in the territory of the Broncos where a left tackle Penn penalty holding precluded the first down forcing Janikowski to kick and make a field goal from 35 yards. The Raiders have launched the KO punch to Broncos when the left outside linebacker Bruce Irvin plating Siemian made him lose the ball that was later recovered from his teammates by giving the opportunity to the attack led by Carr to close permanently game and that is what happened through 3 consecutive pass interference penalty against cornerback Chris Harris Jr. resulted in a first and goal on a yard, readily converted into 7 points from Murray that jumping over the line scored his second touchdown the game of running and from extra point that Janikowski gave the Raiders a key victory.

Final Score: Raiders 30, Broncos 20

MVP: Murray