Raiders look to continue run of dominance over Broncos

The Raiders person eclipsed the 30-point people 9 times successful their past 22 games. Three of those violative outbursts person travel against the rival Broncos.

All 3 person been Raiders victories.

It’s portion of a little tally of dominance that has seen the Raiders triumph 5 of the past six games successful the series, a agelong they volition look to widen erstwhile they big Denver successful a pivotal AFC West clash with postseason implications astatine 1:25 p.m. Sunday astatine Allegiant Stadium.

It’s hard to pinpoint the crushed for the caller success, though violative coordinator Greg Olson wishes it were possible.

“If you knew what it was, you’d bash it each week,” Olson said. “You’d repetition it each week. But we expect to evidently get their best.”

The Raiders’ occurrence has been the effect of antithetic look each time.

Derek Carr lit up the Broncos for 340 yards and 2 touchdowns successful the archetypal gathering this season, a 34-24 roadworthy win successful the archetypal crippled aft Jon Gruden resigned. The Raiders averaged 11.7 nett yards per attempt, the lone clip this play they person eclipsed double-digits successful that category.

The crushed crippled dominated the gathering astatine Allegiant Stadium past year, racking up 203 yards and 4 touchdowns successful a 37-12 victory connected Nov. 15 that inactive marks their astir lopsided triumph successful Las Vegas.

In betwixt was different large statistical time for Carr successful past year’s play finale.

He threw for 359 yards but besides had 2 interceptions successful a last-minute, 32-31 win successful Denver.

That crippled was won connected a Josh Jacobs touchdown tally with 24 seconds remaining that was followed by a 2-point conversion walk from Carr to Darren Waller.

“When you ticker those games, it sounds truthful cliché and truthful repetitive, but we did the small things each right,” Carr said. “Our technique, our fundamentals, decisions, our eyes are successful the close places. We’re not having atrocious eyes and letting things sneak up connected us.”

That success, however, does not warrant aboriginal success.

“In the NFL, 1 happening I bash know, the past crippled doesn’t dictate the adjacent game. We’ve proven that arsenic a team,” Carr said.

Denver has a large woody of idiosyncratic endowment and Coach Vic Fangio is known arsenic a antiaircraft guru, but it hasn’t each travel unneurotic connected the tract for the Broncos. Football Outsiders has them arsenic the No. 21 defence successful the league by 1 metric, and the portion traded distant prima Von Miller since the past gathering against the Raiders.

“I’ve talked astir Von truthful galore times that you guys cognize however I consciousness astir him,” Carr said. “But the guys down him are besides professionals.

“They got immoderate truly bully shot players connected that broadside of the ball. They ever have. And with that they person a large scheme. Their defence is precise hard to spell against. It’s ever a large situation for us.”

Denver has the crippled circled, arsenic well. While the rivalry ever turns up the strength a bit, the loser of Sunday’s crippled is each but eliminated from immoderate postseason discussion.

Fangio is besides alert the results haven’t gone his mode precocious successful the series.

“They person a balanced violative attack. Anytime you’re balanced, that ever makes it tougher to defend,” Fangio said. “They’re a bully team. They’ve managed to bushed america 4 retired of 5 times.”

Raiders’ antiaircraft tackle Solomon Thomas said those are the kinds of things adjunct coaches volition punctual players of each week erstwhile they are connected the incorrect broadside of a tally similar that.

“You make that spot connected your shoulder,” helium said. “You don’t privation to fto a team, particularly successful your division, bash that to you. You privation to unopen that down. I’m definite it’s been talked about. It’s wherefore we person to bring it adjacent harder each play, each day.”

Contact Adam Hill astatine ahill@reviewjournal.com. Follow @AdamHillLVRJ connected Twitter.