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October 25, 2010
Raiders Lay Historic Hurting on Broncos: The Oakland Raiders edged the Denver Broncos 59-14 Sunday, scoring the most points in franchise history -- and doing it on the road in the Mile High city no less. Darren McFadden scored four touchdowns on 165 yards rushing. Backup quarterback Jason Campbell threw for two touchdowns and 206 yards. "During the past 50 years, has there ever been a darker football Sunday in Denver?" asks Denver Post columnist Mark Kiszla. "Only Tebow can save McDaniels now."
If Cutler was still in Denver it wouldn't be worse. If Cutler was still around maybe they wouldn't have frittered away all those high draft picks they got for him on reaches like Tebow, Ayers, Smith, Quinn and Moreno.
McDaniels has been horrible at anything that doesn't involve a forward pass. He inherits a top 10 offense with a historically bad defense and proceeds to retool the offense - yup, that must have been the problem. He alienated a number of his coaching staff, notably Nolan and Dennison. Player management isn't exactly his strong suit.
Bleh.
posted by deflated at 08:22 PM on October 25, 2010
Apropos of nothing, is it harder or easier to play football at 5,000 feet?
posted by lil_brown_bat at 08:26 PM on October 25, 2010
For the Raiders, easier.
posted by roberts at 09:15 PM on October 25, 2010
Niners-Broncos looked like a more appetising option for Wembley when the game was first announced. Now you have both teams under a cloud, with SF looking to match Denver on 2-6.
posted by etagloh at 11:35 PM on October 25, 2010
Don't think Tebow's going to save anybody on a football field.
I wasn't sure that McDaniels was even a bona fide amply seasoned OC before the Broncos hired him as their head guy.
They must have wanted to snag him before anyone else realized what a genius he was. Like the Red Sox did with Butch Hobson. What would we do without a brilliant coaching coup now and then?
It could be worse. The cocky, often misguided McDaniels could be coaching the cocky, often misguided Jay Cutler.