Team Grades: Broncos Survive Stoic Raiders Defense, Improve To Perfect 5-0
Broncos escape Black Hole with a 16-10 win over the Raiders, improving their 2015 NFL season record to 5-0, despite a stoic effort by Oakland's defense.
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Broncos escape Black Hole with a 16-10 win over the Raiders, improving their 2015 NFL season record to 5-0, despite a stoic effort by Oakland's defense.
The San Francisco 49ers did not get blown out in New York by the Giants on Sunday Night Football in Week 5. In fact, the 49ers played so well, they had the lead very late in the 4th quarter. However, a two-time Super Bowl champion QB delivered in the clutch for the Giants, throwing the winning touchdown pass with just 21 seconds left. Overall, though, this was a moral victory for the 49ers even as they dropped to 1-4 on the season.
Larry Donnell's spectacular catch over two 49ers with 21 seconds remaining lifted the New York Giants past San Francisco 30-27 on Sunday night, capping Eli Manning's sensational clutch performance.
After spending most of his career carrying his team to wins, Peyton Manning is just along for the ride this year with Denver.
Oakland defensive back TJ Carrie missed his third consecutive practice with a chest injury and will not play this week, leaving the Raiders without the most versatile member of their secondary for Sunday's game against Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos.
After having a few too many injuries in recent weeks, the San Francisco 49ers are much healthier heading into their Sunday Night Football matchup with the New York Giants on the road. Only five players have reported football injuries, although each is deemed questionable for the Week 5 game.
Given how weak the Raiders' secondary appears, Broncos QB Peyton Manning might be poised for a break-out game Sunday afternoon in the Black Hole.
The Bengals want the kind of playoff success the Seahawks have enjoyed lately. This weekend's matchup will be a good test.
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San Francisco 49ers linebacker Ahmad Brooks left the team this week after his sister, Krsunthia Brooks, died of lupus, according to the player's agent Greg Williams.
Are the Raiders poised for an upset when the undefeated Broncos invade the East Bay for a Week 5 intra-divisional showdown?
There were some dark years for the San Francisco 49ers before Jim Harbaugh showed up in 2011 and turned things around.
Missed field goals were killers on Sunday afternoon but viewers got their fair share of football with two games needing overtime with five others being decided by three points or less.
NFL owners will look west (Los Angeles), east (Europe) and south (Mexico) at their fall meetings Wednesday.
Trying to avoid falling under .500 since the season opener, the Raiders will have their hands full when Peyton Manning and the Broncos invade the East Bay for an AFC West showdown in Week 5.
The second of four straight Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks awaits the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday Night Football in New Jersey, as they prepare to face Eli Manning and the New York Giants on primetime television.
When an NFL team owner has trouble giving tickets away on social media, you know things are getting rough for the franchise.
For coach Jack Del Rio, the latest loss for the Oakland Raiders really boiled down to two plays.
San Francisco 49ers receiver Torrey Smith doesn't believe things are as bad as they seem, despite his team's 1-3 record and possessing the league's lowest-scoring offense.
Is a loss a loss, regardless of how it transpires? Judging from yesterday's outcomes for both the Raiders and 49ers, I think a loss can have completely opposite effects on a football team.
Mike McCarthy's Green Bay Packers circled this game among the tough challenges of the first quarter of the season, facing the familiar San Francisco 49ers in the unfamiliar confines of new Levi's Stadium for the first time.
The San Francisco 49ers embarrassed themselves in Weeks 2 and 3 on the road, but back home for Week 4, they played much better against the best quarterback in the NFL.
Riding a two-game win streak, the Raiders went into the Windy City feeling a little too comfortable against a winless Bears team and paid the price with a heartbreaking 20-22 defeat.
The Jets are learning how to win, and the Giants already know. Both teams seem to have legitimate playoff shots.
