**TNF on Prime - Raiders at Broncos**(-8.5, 43) 8:15 (25 Viewers)

[Faust]

@Ministry of Pain - a good summary of what we witnessed in the game last night

Raiders-Broncos on 'Thursday Night Football': What We Learned from Denver's 10-7 win

 

[Faust]

History was made last night:

@OptaSTATS
Only 2 times in last 40 years has an NFL team had a game with:

10+ penalties
more penalties than points
more penalties than 1st downs
an entire quarter w/o a 1st down
under 100 rush yd
under 150 net pass yd
a missed FG

Both happened Thursday - by opposing teams in the same game

https://x.com/optastats/status/1986815319718130067?s=61

 

[heckmanm]

I clicked the "Highlights" link on nfl.com and got a 404

 

[Ministry of Pain]

@Ministry of Pain - a good summary of what we witnessed in the game last night

Raiders-Broncos on 'Thursday Night Football': What We Learned from Denver's 10-7 win

Well written, his article might be better than the actual game

 

[travdogg]

At this point the shark move is to never start anyone on a thursday night game

Believe it or not, statistically, the opposite has been true most of this season.

Week 9 had: Lamar 4 TD's, Andrews 2 TDs, Henry over 100 yards,
Week 8 had: 25+ from Herbert, 127-1 from Vidal, 5-77-1 from Gadsden
Week 7 had: good games from all your Bengals, and Warren had 150+ yards. Plus 4 Rodgers TDs.
Week 6 had: 3 TD Skattebo, great games from Dart and Goedert.
Week 5 had: 10 catches from Puka and Kendrick Bourne. Solid CMC/Kyren games, and 25+ from Stafford.
Week 4 wasn't the best, but useful games from Walker/Harrison/McBride
Week 3 had: no blowups, but solid games from Allen/Cook/Kincaid and Achane/Hill/Waddle
Week 2 had: decent Deebo/Jacobs games, and huge Love/Kraft games
Week 1 had: solid Lamb/Barkley/Hurts games, and the Javonte breakout game

This game was the outlier.

 

[Ghost Rider]

I have to think Denver is gonna be a home underdog against KC next week. Like Chiefs -2.5 or something like that.

It’ll be interesting. If KC Oline looks like they did against BUF, it could be just as ugly a game as this one.

As much as I don't like Sean Payton, the Broncos defense has been excellent vs the Chiefs since he came to Denver.

There has been four Chiefs/Broncos game since:

KC 19-8 win
Denver 24-9 win
KC 16-14 win
Denver 38-0 win

We can throw out the last one since it was the last game of the season and the Chiefs were resting their starters. In the other three games, Denver held KC to 15 point per game, which is pretty damn good. Denver seems to play up and down to their level of competition (eking out wins over bottom feeders like both NY teams and the Raiders, and then winning at Philly and coming thisclose to winning at Indy), so I would expect them to be a lot better next week overall.

I agree 100%. I like Denver a lot. And I think, even for all the hype their D gets, they’re still kinda underrated.

They do play schizophrenically, playing down to lesser opponents and stepping up against too teams. A lot of that seems like Payton’s playcalling going more conservative, to me.

KC, after struggling early with all the injuries on O, are rounding into form. Patty Mahomes looks as good as ever, and now with Rice back and Worthy and Brown healthy, I’m looking forward to seeing how they look against DEN D.

Add in the fact that KC can’t get any pressure right now with a 4-man rush, this could be one of those Bo Nix “whoooo!” games.

I am not in the predictions business, but if I were, I wouldn't necessarily pick Denver to win next week, but I think it will be a close fight to the finish. I don't see either team "handing it" to the other.

 

[Statorama]

Two things I saw in this game: Engram can't catch and Nix can't throw

 

[joey]

Can we please unpin and set this thread on fire?

Signed,
raiders fan

 

[DocHolliday]

Can we please unpin and set this thread on fire?

Signed,
raiders fan

That is funny.

 

[fatness]

I got a kick out of this rant about how bad this game was:

While the man inarguably does his research, we must assume that Al Michaels did not read this story when it ran two and a half weeks ago. If he had, he would have called in sick for Thursday night's Raiders-Broncos game, and so might have spared himself having to call one of the worst events ever presented by upright mammals. And when we say "events," we mean "things watched by other people"—sporting contests, sure, but also television, movies, films, concerts, art exhibits, circuses, operas, mime, busking on the boardwalk, all the way down to battlefield operating theaters. Think of the worst karaoke rendition you have ever heard, only with some helium-huffing involved. Think of Civil War-era trauma medicine. It was worse than that.