Denver Broncos vs Las Vegas Raiders | Week 14 Game Preview

Denver Broncos vs Las Vegas Raiders | Week 14 Game Preview

Las Vegas Raiders at home this week, sitting in the cleanup spot of the 2026 draft. Only a loss behind Tennessee still for the number one and on a six-game losing streak, taking on an arch rival who happens to be on a 9-ame win streak. Denver Broncos with aspirations to be the number one seed when it’s all over. Washington for the win. Mariota has it rejected by Bonito. Win number nine. A little uncharacteristic from a Denver defensive perspective, but it was their D in the end that sealed it and kept their win streak alive. And they’re the ones we start this convo with. Nick Bonito batting the last pass away. Also picking up his team leading 10th and a half sack. One of two they added to their league leading total. Mariota got rid of it. That was backwards and a loss of eight. The number one pass rush going after Gino Smith. You need a sack, he can get you a sack. He took five last week. Gino in trouble and he’s sacked. Mac in the back field again. Believe me, there are ways, dude. You don’t want to know about it. Believe me, only one team has given up more sacks this year. Smith has been dropped four plus times in four straight games. Took 10 in a single game in there. Hell, he can get you sacked by 3:00 this afternoon with nail polish. Smith in trouble and he’s sacked. And a big play on third down. Offense only garnered 14 points versus LA. That’s their average for 2025. Only Tennessee is averaging fewer points. Broncos are holding teams to 18 a game. Only three teams holding teams to fewer. And they already held Vegas to seven back in week 10. Denver beat the Raiders, but man was it close. 10 to7. Bo Nicks threw two INTs, one touchdown. Gino, no TDs, picked off once, sacked six times. What a shock. Smith looking in trouble. Eats it. But Denver did just surrender 26 points to Washington. Wasn’t that they got dominated by Marcus Mariota held him under six yds per attempt to a 78 rating. Picked him off. That all fits their season play versus the pass. Jump pass. Marota intercepted down the sideline. Green laws got it. Did give up 294 yards to him even if it was 50 pass attempts. two touchdowns allowed. Gave up 55 rush yards to him. A touchdown and 96 yards to Terry McLaren. 106 yards to Zack Z. Should have been more, but he dropped a couple of biggies. Now they have to cover an even better tight end. And Brock Bowers didn’t drop the biggies he saw last week, even though he had no business hauling that one in. Blitz coming. Gino gets rid of it. Incomplete. Oh, wait a minute. Bowers calling it. You got to be kidding me. Bowowers hauled in both Gino touchdowns and Smith for all the sack taking put up a 107 rate by completing 18 of 23 passes. Gino endzone wide open touchdown. That’s Bowers. Only 165 yards though and his league leading 14th INT didn’t want Tua to feel bad. No other Raiders pass catchers aside from Bowowers with more than 31 yards. Ashton Genty was second with 30 receiving yards, 31 rush yards, 2.1 a carry. He’s looking at his line with the same question that Bob’s had for Spicowski. What is it that you say you do here? Genty and he’s hit hard by Denzel Pam. Raiders defense is in just as much a shambles as their offense right now. Gave up 31 points to the Chargers. Have given up 24 plus in five of their last six. gave up 126 yards to Kamani Vidal. Five yards per carry and a touchdown. 54 yards allowed to Jared Patterson. 4.9 a pop plus a TD. Patterson the running back. And Patterson is in for a touchdown. Broncos offense not built around running though. RJ Harvey led them with 35 yards on 2.7 per carry. But he did finish two drives off in the paint. Denver put up 27 points. First game over 22 points since week eight. He’s got it. Left side and into the end zone for the touchdown. Bo Nicks 321 yds a touchdown over 7 yardds per attempt. 295 plus yards backto-back games. Nick’s looking that way. Not open. Trying to take off. Got it away for the touchdown. He’s put up a lot of yards the last two games because he’s throwing a lot. Sub 90 for the fourth straight game. Threw a pick last week. He just hasn’t put together a lot of four quarters type of games. When he’s on, he looks like the man though. Only took one sack, so 12 games in now. Hasn’t been sacked three times in a game yet. Has to avoid Mad Max next. Crosby got to Justin Herbert twice. Gives him eight for the year now. Herbert standing in there in trouble again. And down he goes. Crosby on third down. Knicks spread his week 13 balls to 10 different guys. A lot of them to his tight ends. Evan Ingram led the way with a season high 79 yards. He’s got Evan Ingram inside the 20 to the 10 yd line. Has anyone tried Pete’s shreddy balls? Those Christmas pastries. Tight end Adam Troutman also with a season high 47 yds, three catches. Got it to the tight end. Good move by Troutman. Stays on his feet. Courtland Sutton 62 yds right around his season average. Hauled in his fifth TD. Has some time. Going to take a shot. He’s got an opening and it’s caught for the first down. And rookie Pat Bryant keeps showing up. 42 yds last week. So 40 plus in four of his last five games. Good catch. Now the rookie off to the racers. Bryant inside the five. Raiders secondary held every Chargers pass catcher they faced to less than 40 yardds. Mcloven held to 39, Keenan Allen to 30, Quentyn Johnston to 23. He and Manki scored on them. Vegas gave up a 100 plus rate to Herbert as a result. 15 of 20 passing, but they picked him off and held him to 151 yards. So, they don’t come in shook as it were. Throwing left and it is picked off by Kelly. We just hit on the Broncos win over the Raiders to make their first Super Bowl back in the 70s. So, now let’s check out the highest scoring game between the two rivals, a 1986 shootout. The 1986 season began in Mile High Stadium against the arch rival Los Angeles Raiders. Elway in the count, takes the snap as a little protection, runs up in the pocket, throwing it toward the end zone for Watson, and he’s open. Touchdown. But the Raiders shot right back and gained the upper hand. Los Angeles built several sizable leads, but couldn’t extinguish the confidence of the Bronco maniacs. Ken Woodard stripped Marcus Allen of the football and raced 12 yds for a touchdown. In the shotgun, third and goal at the seventh. Elway’s drop and the pass and it is caught. Jean Lang at the goal line. Touchdown Broncos lead. The Broncos had demonstrated tremendous character while coming from behind to post their first win of 1986. I’m plucking.

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