Technically speaking this is the second time the Raiders and Broncos franchises have met this season. The teams themselves, on the other hand, are quite different.
Of the 44 starters for both teams in their first meeting, 20 have changed since. That’s ten for each team. Clearly the long season has taken a hard toll on both teams. The question will be who has had it worse.
“Totally different teams. Especially us,” Jon Gruden said this week of the Raiders and Broncos. “Marshawn [Lynch] ran good in that game. I think Amari [Cooper] had 10 catches.