Josh Jacobs, offensive line spark Raiders during decisive drive

Derek Carr has handed Josh Jacobs the shot connected astir each transportation of his career, and the Raiders backmost can’t callback a clip erstwhile the team’s apical moving backmost has looked amended than helium did Sunday connected the opening thrust of the 3rd quarter.

Jacobs carried the shot 7 times for 57 yards connected a nine-play, 75-yard thrust that proved to beryllium the game-winning possession successful a 17-13 triumph implicit the Denver Broncos astatine Allegiant Stadium.

“I told him the mode his feet were moving aft interaction done immoderate of those holes, I turned astir and didn’t spot thing successful them and helium conscionable punctured a spread successful determination with his strength,” Carr said. “The mode helium was cutting and running, I told him, ‘I deliberation that’s the champion thrust I’ve ever seen you have.’”

The timing couldn’t person been immoderate amended for a Raiders squad that went into the locker country reeling aft 2 precocious first-half turnovers led to 10 Denver points arsenic fans booed the location squad disconnected the field.

Trailing 13-7, Jacobs took a handoff connected the archetypal play of the 3rd 4th and gained 8 yards. He picked up 7 connected the adjacent play, past fought done the mediate for 3 yards earlier Carr recovered wide receiver DeSean Jackson for a 13-yard gain.

It was the lone walk effort of the possession.

Jacobs took the adjacent play for 8 yards, past danced done the defence for 19 connected the adjacent play to get the Raiders into the reddish zone.

He picked up 4 yards and 8 yards connected the adjacent 2 plays earlier yet coming retired of the crippled with the shot astatine the 5 gait line.

Peyton Barber picked up the slack from determination with a touchdown tally connected the adjacent play.

“Any clip you’re capable to get the manager to tally the shot that galore times, arsenic an violative lineman you get excited,” halfway Andre James said. “It’s bully to walk the shot and everything, but the tally crippled is the quality of violative linemen. We were excited to person the violative unit person the spot successful america to beryllium capable to tally the shot similar that. Coming out, we conscionable talked arsenic an violative enactment that we wanted to instrumentality the crippled implicit and get that moving crippled going.”

The 62 rushing yards connected the thrust were much than the Raiders had successful 4 games this play and came aft they managed conscionable 31 yards connected 12 carries successful the archetypal half.

Interim manager Rich Bisaccia credited violative coordinator Greg Olson and violative enactment manager Tom Cable for making a tweak to the tally crippled during halftime.

“It gave america the quality to tally immoderate of the plays we had been moving on,” Bisaccia said. “A mates antithetic runs we had enactment successful for this peculiar crippled to spell downhill a small more. Then a recognition to the violative enactment … they had a small spot of borderline arsenic well. … We had a mindset that we thought we could tally the ball.”

That aforesaid moving crippled that has disappeared astatine times this play besides came done precocious successful the crippled erstwhile the Raiders needed 2 archetypal downs to drain the clock.

Jacobs ran 4 times for 25 yards, which laid the instauration for Carr to tally a play-action fake that got Foster Moreau wide unfastened for a 28-yard completion to fundamentally extremity the game.

“We were huffy (at halftime), but determination was a assurance that we knew we would travel retired beardown due to the fact that we were moving efficiently, we were throwing efficiently, the play-action crippled was awesome for us,” Carr said.

Wide receiver Hunter Renfrow, who had the Raiders’ lone touchdown successful the archetypal half, didn’t understate the value of the third-quarter scoring drive.

“The temper was we dug ourselves a hole,” helium said. “I don’t privation to accidental embarrassed, due to the fact that we did it to ourselves. At first, it was a spot of a shock, but past it was, “All right, are we going to travel retired present and prevention our season?”

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