The Broncos’ squad the Raiders face Sunday will have both a different quarterback and offensive coordinator from what it did in the teams’ Week 4 meeting in Denver.
One is unfamiliar to Oakland and most of the league. The other the Raiders know very well.
Paxton Lynch, Denver’s first-round pick in 2016, will make his first start of the season (and third of his career) at the Coliseum. Denver head coach Vance Joseph, whose team has lost six games in a row and will be trying its third starting quarterback of the season (Trevor Siemian made seven starts and Brock Osweiler three), said on a conference call Wednesday that it seemed a “perfect” time for to start Lynch with the team also firing coordinator Mike McCoy and replacing him with Bill Musgrave.