Broncos-Raiders report card: Yet again, Vance Joseph and Denver’s pass-rush save the day in ugly win

It was Let s Glow Back night at Empower Field at Mile High for Broncos-Raiders as a halftime show of spinning dancers in LED suits lit up the skies Thursday night It was a show that dwarfed anything Denver or Las Vegas put on turf as the Broncos eked out a sloppy - win to improve to a still-gleaming - Here s The Denver Post s assessment card OFFENSE D- This unit s altogether bipolar No game-to-game consistency whatsoever The Raiders defense came in ranked rd in the NFL in points allowed per competition and the Broncos made them look like the Chicago Bears for the better part of four quarters Denver went three-and-out on eight of drives in perhaps their ugliest offensive performance of the season Bo Nix struggled mightily with indecision accuracy and footwork for a second straight match finishing of for yards a touchdown and two picks Troy Franklin looked plain disgruntled after a couple of missed deep-ball connections which is now a common theme between the two former Oregon teammates The Broncos put up negative net yardage on a whopping four drives and only ascertained a shred of fourth-quarter magic in Nix s right arm on a late third-down rollout to Franklin to help put the contest away Broncos grind out ugly win vs Raiders for seventh straight triumph This file is auto-generated function d l use strict l querySelector d addEventListener undefined typeof URL d wp d wp d wp receiveEmbedMessage d wp receiveEmbedMessage function e var t e details if t t secret t message t value a-zA-Z - test t secret for var s r n a l querySelectorAll 'iframe data-secret ' t secret ' ' o l querySelectorAll 'blockquote data-secret ' t secret ' ' c new RegExp https i i i