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DENVER — An emotional win Sunday for the Las Vegas Raiders ended a painful week for the team.
The Raiders beat the Denver Broncos 34-24 in their first game since Jon Gruden resigned as coach in the aftermath of his email scandal, and their first game with Rich Bisaccia as interim coach.
It was also the first game Bisaccia, a longtime special teams coordinator whose career began in 1983, worked as a head coach at any level.
“The best part for me was to be able to get on the grass,” Bisaccia said. “The worst part for me was figuring out the headset. Once you get on the field and the game goes, a lot of my responsibilities were the same. There was a pretty good dialogue between myself and [offensive coordinator Greg Olson], and myself and Gus [Bradley, defensive coordinator]. … It was really a collective effort going through the game.
“Certainly, it’s emotional for everybody, right? So, I think they did a good job. It’s a bunch of grown men, handling their emotions throughout the week, putting them in perspective when it was time to go play the game. It’s a job for all of us. They seemed to do a really good job with it. We’ll see what goes on.”
The offense responded to Olson taking over playcalling duties from Gruden as Derek Carr authored his fourth 300-plus passing yard game of the season (the only Raiders quarterback with more such games in the first six games of a season was Rich Gannon, who had five in his 2002 MVP season). Henry Ruggs III caught three passes for 97 yards — including a 48-yard touchdown — Josh Jacobs rushed for 53 yards and a TD on 16 carries, and the oft-forgotten Kenyan Drake scored twice, once by air and once by ground.
Carr credited the team’s leadership with not letting the emotions swallow them up this week.
“More now than ever, we had to step up and be a voice,” said Carr, who threw for 341 yards and two touchdowns in completing 18 of 27 passes for a 134.4 passer rating, his highest rating in almost three years. “There will be a…
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