Pitying the Raiders? Sacrilegious!!

Manning is living the dream of every NFL Quarterback.

I wonder if any of you Broncos Fans felt the way I did after watching the Raiders game last night. Did the game start to bore you?  Not that winning ever gets boring but Peyton Manning is making it look so easy right now that in the first 3 games the outcome has never really been in doubt.  Don’t misunderstand, I love winning but I almost found myself feeling sorry for the hapless Raiders because they were not going to have a chance. I can’t believe I’d actually say this, it’s sacrilegious but it’s true.

His superlative performances have become so common place and so predictable it’s like watching him beating up defenses like they were nothing but a group of second rate practice squads.

From the opening snap in the 1^st quarter Manning took over the game and the Raiders Defense became nothing but a group of helpless deer in a set of headlights, more like flood lights really. They never had any hope; it was like they were playing against the computer on Madden. The computer was Manning and the Raiders were the poor helpless human beings whose hands were frozen on the joy stick left dumbstruck and in awe in the ruthless mechanical way in which he was slicing and dicing them.

Not once in the whole game did Manning ever huddle up the team to call a play, he called them all from the line of scrimmage.  It was like a track meet with the Raiders never having a chance to get out of the starting blocks. Manning is unmerciful in his pursuit to pour it on even when he has his boot on the collective necks of defenses. It’s one of the qualities I love about him, he never lets up and that’s why he’s won so many games.

It was unbelievable how Chris Clark starting at Left Tackle for the injured Ryan Clady became a non-story except for the one block he missed that caused Manning to fumble but by then it didn’t matter because the game was in garbage time. If you take away that fumble and the one by Montee Ball the Broncos more than likely would have put more points on the board.

The Broncos Defense Line dominated the Raiders and never let Darren McFadden get any momentum. Historically he’s run all over the Broncos but not last night. The score had a lot to do with it but you have to give credit to the DL for being a brick wall at the line of scrimmage. 

Through the first 3 games they’ve had the luxury of playing with big leads which is great that’s what you want in a game but you have to wonder just how good they’ll be when they come up against an offense that can move the chains against them. Regardless they’re doing the job that’s laid out before them and that’s getting the opposing team off the field and letting Manning get on it to work his magic.

It’s unfortunate that Terrelle Pryor is playing in the graveyard of the NFL at Oakland. He’s got a good arm and has confidence in his game. He’s the first Raiders QB in a long time to impress and I think if he survives the meat grinder he’ll go through he may become a good QB. 

Thankfully for us Broncos Fans short of him and McFadden the Raiders is a bunch of no name players that don’t have the talent this season to compete with the awesome juggernaut that is the Denver Broncos. What a great start, it doesn't get any better than this. Next victim, Philadelphia.