It was the same score as last year\u2019s season-opening loss, but overall there weren\u2019t nearly enough differences, even with a new Super Bowl-winning coach on board, for Broncos fans Sunday\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Denver lost 17 to 16 again, this time at home to its hated rivals, the Las Vegas Raiders, to start the 2023 NFL campaign. It was also the Broncos\u2019 7th<\/sup> straight loss to the silver and black. A bit of good news for Denver was that quarterback Russell Wilson actually looked pretty good, completing 79% of his passes for 177 yards and 2 touchdowns, but unfortunately that wasn\u2019t enough. The Broncos couldn\u2019t stop Raiders quarterback Jimmy Garappolo (guh-RAHP-uh-low) from sliding to a first down in the closing seconds, so Denver never got the ball back to try for another score. New Coach Sean Payton tried to make things different, but it just didn\u2019t quite go their way\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n 230911 S Payton- could\u2019ve been better\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 :09\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Q:\u2026was average\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n Again the same score as Denver losing to the Seahawks in the opener a year ago, with the Broncos under 20 points, and they racked up 10 penalties Sunday, after running second in penalties in the entire NFL last season. Next weekend, the orange looks for its first win, hosting the Washington Commanders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was the same score as last year\u2019s season-opening loss, but overall there weren\u2019t nearly enough differences, even with a new Super Bowl-winning coach on board, for Broncos fans Sunday\u2026 Denver lost 17 to 16 again, this time at home to its hated rivals, the Las Vegas Raiders, to start the 2023 NFL campaign. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rnrnews","category-rnrsports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions\/1418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}