The Denver Broncos used all three phases to defeat the Oakland Raiders Sunday at the O.co Coliseum 38-24.
Quarterback Tim Tebow had two touchdown passes and 118 rushing yards. But he wasn’t the highest rusher on the day for Denver, as running back Willis McGahee ran for 163 yards and two touchdowns of his own. Overall, the Broncos put up 299 yards on the ground against the Raiders.
Denver also got it done on defense. Cornerback Champ Bailey picked off Oakland quarterback Carson Palmer twice — the second of which sealed the game for Denver. Cornerback Chris Harris also had an interception, which led directly to a 60-yard touchdown run by McGahee to tie the game 24-24 at the end of the third quarter.
Not to be outdone, the Broncos special teams got into the mix. With 5:53 left in the game, Eddie Royal received a punt and ran 85 yards for the go-ahead touchdown.
Check back soon for more reaction from the game on DenverBroncos.com.
-Kenny Legan
Tags: final score, Oakland Raiders, Week 9
I hope though that no one has mistaken my banter of needing to trade tebow, as a fox conspiracy against tebow. I just still don’t think our coaching staff is capable of coaching him to his full potential. that is no conspiracy just an observation. and I don’t think tebow can be the qb fox&co can be successful with long term.
Well well well, sorry bronco brothers and sisters, I called out for work immediately after the game and did not give my game evaluation. Not to much to talk about now, as most the points I had, have pretty much already been covered. Really the only thing I would like to say, is THANK YOU to the whole Denver bronco team. I dislike the raiders more than most any other team and while every loss is hard to take, I think you for fighting for the win and never letting up. Please keep up the hard work boys and continue to find your groove. Tebow saw improvement from you and last week I pointed out that you stated “if you want it to be different then go out there and make it different”. I am glad you didn’t just feed us a load of smack and actually stepped up in a sense. I will say that I expect you to continue to get better and if you go backwards in your development I will be the first to voice my displeasure with your play. Defense well congratulations champ on #50, no current bronco player is more deserving, well done (mile high salute). Love the win, enjoy it and relish it while it lasts. Tomorrow we start getting ready for next week, let’s get boys.
4Eva out be safe everyone and have fun.
TT will continue to work hard and improve weekly. It’s just the kind of guy he is and what makes us love him so much. His passing still needs work but with the win in sight, get in his way, and you are going to get run over. McGahee is a beast! Our running game definitely won the game (first time both our QB and RB had 100 yd. running games since 1976). That and Raider mistakes. Penalties and turnovers will kill any team. Champ’s a champ. Hats off to Decker and Royal for sure. I still think what we need more than anything is some receivers and a new HC. Thomas is a bust and I would REALLY like to see us get rid of Knowshow. He sucks any way you slice it. All in all, it was a fantastic TEAM win and I think we’ll pull out the win against KC if everyone stays healthy. Timmy has a way with rallying everyone around him. Thank you TT for no turnovers! It’s hard for anyone to say that a guy with 2 TD’s , no turnovers, 117 yds. rushing, a 98.1 passer rating, and the WIN IN OAKLAND, can’t play QB in the NFL. Yesterday, the Broncos joined in the brutality of the Occupy Oakland movement and it was a beautiful thing. I only wish I could have watched it instead of having to follow it on ESPN.com’s gamecast.
Finally starting to feel a little better this morning and even so I saw my beloved Broncos spank the Raiders yesterday I still felt like crap and it was painful just to sit there at the sports bar from the 3rd quarter on when I should of been high slapping Bronco buddies all the way through but I couldn’t do any of that, once I raised my voice on one of the many great plays and it felt as if my scar about popped, so I went quite again and enjoyed it in a silent resigned type of inner celebration tortured by the pains that wouldn’t let me fully enjoy it.
But like I said today I feel better, and even so I’m sure you guys have covered everything about this game and its implications a thousand times over back and forth, here is what I will simply leave you before I go figure the score predictions results:
FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER TEBOW HAS GIVEN ELWAY SOMETHING TO TO THINK ABOUT HIS PLANS FOR THE 2012 DRAFT.
And by the way Coop, this was no baby step.
Very happy for you Tim.
You may have bought yourself a lot more than just one more week, keep it up to where they won’t be able to say no.
A man amongst men.
A player in the midst of a battle for his life.
The split lip and everything.
38-14 at the Raiders.
Now that’s Bronco football the way I remember it.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, even so it was most likely the most in pain I ever was watching a game.
The Good (the Broncos yesterday), the Bad (the pain) and the Ugly (a silent hunched over sorry looking Bronco fan watching his team destroy the hated Raiders).
My Bronco buddy Chris kept asking me are you ok man? Well I can truthfully tell him now I am indeed gonna be ok, and maybe the Broncos too, wouldn’t that be funny if the Bronco turnaround is forever linked to my health turnaround, that would be pretty easy for me to never forget when that happened, wouldn’t it? I hope I’m onto something here.
Wow, what a weird life! And you would think at my age I would have seen it all….
Bay. I guess I don’t read enough on here to know what your affliction is. Have you had surgery or something? Glad to hear you are healing up. The Bronco win must have helped for sure.
I think it showed yesterday that the Broncos staff has been in the film room with TT. It appears at this point that they are coaching him up. Much better in the pocket and the ball came out much quicker this week. This was a great team win. I think we all saw the improvement but it’s also obvious that there’s room for improvement.
raidrhadr,
bay went under the knife I think Thursday and is really feeling it. After yesterday, I feel his healing will progress more rapidly.
Dusty Saunders: Broncos’ victory wasn’t just a Tim Tebow show
By Dusty Saunders
The Denver Post
Posted: 11/07/2011 01:00:00 AM MST
Sunday produced another chapter in “Tim Tebow TV Time,” the ongoing Denver Broncos drama.
But this chapter won’t be followed this week by Tebow trauma, created by national and local TV analysts.
Look for many sports talk-show hosts and callers to hop on the Tebow bandwagon, which was stalled after the Lions ravaged the Broncos a week ago Sunday.
Tebow’s solid — some will say inspiring — play was a major factor in Sunday’s win.
But as Greg Gumbel and Dan Dierdorf, CBS Sports’ No. 2 broadcasting team, noted late in the game, Tebow shared stardom with Willis McGahee, Eddie Royal and, to some degree, the Broncos’ defense.
KOA Radio analyst David Treadwell noted, “This was a team victory.”
After McGahee’s second touchdown run, the always-savvy Dierdorf said, “The Broncos were helped by the unbelievable failure of the Raiders’ run defense.”
While acknowledging that Tebow had by far his best performance of the season, neither Gumbel nor Dierdorf hoisted him into a Hall of Fame position.
One interesting CBS shot: John Fox providing Tebow a mini-hug as the happy quarterback jogged down the sideline.
The one thing that I did appreciate about the CBS announcers is this. They gave props to who deserved props and they did an actual analysis of the game as it was going on that was actually correct as it was seen. At least to me that is how I took it. If someone made a poor play, they said it was a poor play. Comment was made of TT progression this week as well as comment on what he needs to continue working on. No one put him or anyone else on a pedestal and started worshiping them.
Something else I noticed after the game yesterday evening was that on ESPN when it was time for the analyst Dilfer to do his analysis of the days games, on the left side of the screen on the roll down menu it had “Broncos-Raiders” as one of the games for his analysis. When they went to commercial and came back the “Broncos-Raiders” was gone from the menu not to return. I wonder if Dilfer knew he would have to chew on some crow and refused to do that.
Great team win yesterday. I loved seeing our guys come together on all sides of the ball. When’s the last time you saw that? I literally can’t remember off the top of my head. Von Miller was an animal out there. I think he was in Carson’s lap on nearly every passing play. The pressure made the difference. Glad to see Doom making some plays. Maybe he’s healthy again, or at least getting there. I hope Moore is ok. I was worried about a broken collarbone or something, but thankfully it was only a concussion. I really some some leaps and bounds out of Tebow. He looked like a legit starting NFL QB yesterday. I’ll take his inaccurate passes for 119 rushing yards and all the intangibles he brings. Our line did well and gives me hope for their future. Decker is really turning some heads and should be. Royal got out of his funk. Hopefully that maintains. Great team win.
Broncos 38 Raiders 24
Official score prediction contest week 9 results:
The most unusual thing happened this Sunday which I can honestly say never ever happens in the sort of high scoring blowout we just had, a blogger nailed the score dead on, DEAD ON! Wow, and it’s like a first time blogger, he must be thinking this contest is easy, LOL, beginner’s luck buddy, beginner’s luck. Anyhow to amplify how unbelievable his guess was, the second place blogger is double digits back!
So here we go:
1st place:
Denver15 38-24!!!!!, wow and 7 points to crown that king of the week no doubt, heck he can be the emperor, ruler and dictator of the planet as far as I’m concerned. Flabbergasted I was and still am!
2nd place:
Orange_Crusher 29-25, 10 total points off and earning 4 points to add up to your 3 in the first week to bring your total up to 7, well done mate, couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
3rd place:
Orangemnm 27-20, 15 total points off and earning his first 3 points of the competition, also a newbie stealing the points, LOL.
4th place:
millerqbkiller 24-21, 17 total points off earning 2 points, also his firsts in the competition, enough with the newbies already, haha.
Three way tie for 5th place:
1nOnlyTRB 25-19, 18 total points off netting him his first point of the competition, and I’m glad I see I relieved him of his jinx in one of the previous blog, lol.
Londonbronco30 24-20, also 18 points off and making all Bronco fans across the pond proud, one point for you too.
Orange27CRUSHER 24-20, same exact thing as London, congrats to all the winners!
Wall of Shame, wow three guys escaped that dubious achievement by only a single point even so they predicted a 21 point Raider win; since1972, BroncosLAX and buck484, and only because one blogger really went out on a limb and had the Raiders beat us by 22 points, arch4662 13-35!!!! And for that my friend you are now immortalized on the 2011 WOS forever, LOL, and the worse part of it all is you earn minus 5 points in the process, your first points in the competition, or negative points, OUCH! LOL.
Score predictions for the game at KC are now being taken and I will do so through Saturday midnight blog time, no picks on game day ever, no exceptions.
GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!
By Mike Klis
The Denver Post
Run, Timmy, run
On Sunday, Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow became the 16th NFL quarterback since 1950 to rush for 100 yards in a game. His 118 yards rushing on 12 carries marked the second-most by a quarterback in team history. Tebow has had three of the top four single-game rushing performances by a quarterback in team history:
Player Opp. Date Att. Yds Avg. TD
Norris Weese at Chicago Dec. 12, 1976 12 120 10.0 0
Tim Tebow at Oakland Nov. 6, 2011 12 118 9.8 0
Tim Tebow vs. San Diego Jan. 2, 2011 13 94 7.2 1
Tim Tebow at Oakland Dec. 19, 2010 8 78 9.8 1
John Elway at Oakland Nov. 4, 1996 9 70 7.8 0
The Broncos rushed for nearly eight times as many yards at Oakland on Sunday than they did in their season-opening 23-20 loss to the Raiders. Denver also held the Raiders to a little more than half the rushing yards they had in the opener:
SEPT. 12 AT DENVER
Broncos Raiders
Total rushing yards 38 190
Total rushing plays 13 39
Average per play 2.9 4.9
SUNDAY AT OAKLAND
Broncos Raiders
Total rushing yards 299 100
Total rushing plays 38 26
Average per play 7.9 3.8
I will start the discussion about next week’s game. One thing about it is this. KC lost yesterday to Miami, and they lost at home. We are going to have to bring our Raider game to KC because they are not going to want that to happen to them twice in a row.
Bay I got away with that, felt for sure I was taking a 5 point hit. So much for my monday predictions helping me be more realistic.
Well I will stick to Monday. Prediction for this week is Broncos 24- Chiefs 17 feel we have them well matched. Also I think Cassell who is a slow mover will be tortured by Doom and Miller.
I have to do this because I stick to my guns and believe in what I believe…Tim Tebow is not the quarterback this team needs. He still played poorly….10/21 for 100+ is not good for a qb…missed waaaay too many passes…and was horrible on 3rd down when we NEEDED to throw. That is not going to be a formula for success against many teams. The Raiders simply blew this game. Point blank blew it. I am glad they did…but the euphoria of this win is that it was done on the ground. It amazes me that the same people who DOGGED Royal during the game, and said FOX can’t win and that MCCOY is an idiot, just wantonly give praises to Tebow as though he was the sole or main factor of the win. 60 yard run by McGahee, 85 yard return by Royal, another 30 yarder by McGahee, two picks by Champ. I believe this win is going to be HORRIBLE for us down the road. People are now going to clamor for the 2-1 Orton to keep playing. We will probably now almost eb forced to not look at one of the franchise caliber qb’s available because people see a “glimmer of hope” in Tebow. I am not a believer. Though I am happy we won…I said before we needed McGahee and he came through big time…the coaches again coached the TEAM to a victory (and Tebow is inclued in the team) in spite of the limitations at the QB position. We are riding high now, ubt I am still not convinced. I have seen things fall apart and tend to shatter very quickly around these parts.
What a win!!
Oh, one horrible thing happened yesterday.
I took my Bronco bible to the sports bar to show it to Chris and a Raider fan came over and actually touched it before I could stop him, he litterally defiled the good book, I may just have to buy another one, LOL.
BTW, there was 5 of us Bronco fans and 6 Raider fans at the bar, all them Raider fans real loud in the first half only to fade away quietly in the second, priceless, and Chris was in great form to pick up the slack for me and let them have it, here in lies the pleasure of watching games in public rather than at home on your Directv. The public embarrassment is definitely greater during big losses but nothing can match the pleasure experienced during big wins, and no matter how bad I felt I could feel all of that.
I’m definitely starting to feel a little better and it’s obvious the weatherman knows what he is talking about, wishing you well se.
Yea bay, that was good yesterday when the announcers made comment on the opening drive of the 2nd half about how quiet the stadium had become.
new blog
Yes, Carnage, you are right. Two touchdowns, no turnovers, the highest average rushing yds. on the team, and a 98.1 passer rating and Tebow played poorly. Just wait until he actually gets the hang of the NFL and has a full season of starts and a full offseason under his belt. Hopefully, he’ll also get some guys, down the road, that can catch. SMH.
And to Carnage I’ll only say this:
I lived in Pensacola for 16 years during the height of a hurricane period, and even so we prepared for dozens of them over the years expecting the worse each time, more often than not they would just change course and go destroy some place else, in short even so I am aware of the complexity of this QQ of ours, I in now way shape or form will say right now that it’s looking like we will be smack in the middle of yet another hurricane just because Tebow may be the starter longer than first thought, rather I will remain hopeful that the storm can steer to the left and go destroy the Raiders instead, LOL. That was definitely as empty a half glass look as I’ve ever heard it, even from you, just saying.
I think TT played a really good game, their was a couple floating passes to wide open receivers but all in all he compisated with his ability to run. Next wks game should be just alittle harder to when with the tape they have now but we will see. I think that this was the most complete game that we have played all yr in every aspect, which really felt good, the raiders are such a dirty team and I couldnt beleive the fans spitting and throwing beers and straight cursing our players out when we gave them the MILE HIGH SALUTE LMAO that was sooooooo cool. Just to see the raiders squirm like that and start showing their thug ways was auwsome good job to the hole team, way to go tebow keep growing rt on
Gator quit bringing up stats! You said some smart things but then you say dumb ones. We have good young recievers who need recievers they dont need to learn to catch Tebow needs to learn to throw. I alreadtsaid Tebow playe a good game showed me improvement but every time you say something smart you say something else to counter it.
Tebow played great in the second half when they opened up the offense. Heck the whole team offense, defense & ST played great yesterday. Royal had a great punt return. When they let Tebow speed up the game the whole offense plays better. It was a great win for us, but we have to start thinking of KC. KC didn’t play well yesterday so we have to think that they are going to come out & play hard, so we better be read. The coaches better make sure we are ready.
Great Job Broncos!!
Go Tebow Go!!
Go Royal Go!!!
Go McGahee Go!!
These boys have got what it takes to keep up the plays that they
performed Sunday!
Save a prayer for these guys next game! God helped them become
their best!! With God victory every time!!
Tebow knows that as well.