Late-game struggles send Broncos to overtime loss vs. Raiders - DenverBroncos.com

Despite the change in play-caller, the Broncos finished 3-of-12 on third down and could not score multiple touchdowns.

The Broncos, though, held the Raiders to just a field goal in the quarter. They then jumped ahead, 13-10, early in the fourth quarter.

Denver, unfortunately, could not put any breathing room between itself and Las Vegas. After a Raiders three-and-out, the Broncos went three-and-out themselves, failing to build on a three-point lead.

And after the Broncos took the lead again with 3:34 to play and cornerback Damarri Mathis' pass breakup ended a Raiders scoring opportunity, the Broncos could not run out the clock. On third-and-10 at the two-minute warning, Russell Wilson threw an incompletion and the clock stopped.

"We were discussing whether or not we wanted to run the ball," Hackett said. "We wanted to give ourselves a chance to be able to close the game out and win it. So we called a pass and — you have to keep the clock running one way or the other, whether you take a shot down the field and you try to go up, maybe get a [pass interference] opportunity because if you do catch it, you have a chance to win the game, and it's great. If it doesn't, the one thing we just want to be sure [of is] that the clock is running if we can. It lets us have a chance at a shot to win the game."

The Raiders, armed with plenty of time, quickly hit Josh Jacobs on a wheel route that tested the Broncos' ability to even send the game to overtime. Jacobs was a consistent issue for Denver, as he finished with 160 all-purpose yards.

"Jacobs is very good running back," Hackett said. "He ran hard. There was a lot of contact, guys were hitting him, and he was moving them. We knew they were going to run the ball, and he did a nice job, again."

Denver held strong on three consecutive passing plays to force a field-goal attempt, but the Broncos' defense would fail to do the same in overtime.

Following a 33-yard pass to Foster Moreau on the second play of the extra frame, Derek Carr ended the game with a 35-yard touchdown pass to a wide-open Adams. The All-Pro receiver beat Surtain on the play with a double move.

"It's not his fault," safety Justin Simmons said of Surtain. "This game is not on one guy, ever. There are 11 guys out there on the field, and we all have a responsibility, especially in overtime, to make a play, get off the field, and give our offense a chance to win the game."

The Broncos were left with another division loss, their 12th in their last 13 attempts. Denver has now dropped all three games in which it has built a 10-point lead, and the Broncos have lost six of their last seven games.

A team that entered the season with playoff and championship aspirations has instead battled through weekly struggles.

"I think that we're on the learning end of the experience of how to get back to winning," Wilson said. "Sometimes it's a journey; sometimes it's an ugly one; sometimes it's a tough one. What hurts probably more than anything else is that these games were close, one-score games. We have to be able to find ways to win them.

"… We're in a process of understanding that the journey of winning and the journey of learning how to be our best throughout the whole entire game, learning how to continue to grow, learning how to stay together. We have one of the best defenses in the world. We have a really good potential on offense. Potential doesn't mean anything. It just means that we haven't done it yet. We're going to keep working for it, that's for sure."

Now, all that can salvage Denver's season is near perfection.

"We can't lose any more games," Wilson said. "… That has to be our mentality."

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