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"First off, hats off to Jack [Del Rio] and the Raiders. They played extremely well tonight. They're a really good football team. For us personally, across the board, we weren't good enough. We lost the field position battle all night long. Special teams, offensive, got a horrible start, four three-and-outs. Then we made some big plays defensively. We played really good early in the game and then we gave up 220 plus yards rushing. That's the team not playing good enough to win and that's what I just told the players."

He shared that the Raiders are a good team across the board and are a tough opponent to face.

"There's a lot of football left to play, but we have to play a hell of a lot better when we play. That team's really, really good and we knew that coming in. We didn't find out tonight. We knew that coming in. They got a really good football team and we've got to improve ourselves."

Kubiak talked about the Raiders defense and how their pass rushers can present problems.

"Well, they're very athletic and like I said, their edges are what give you a lot of problems from an offensive standpoint and we needed to protect those edges and handle it. If you look at it from a pass protection standpoint our guys probably battled as good as they could battle going against those guys."

Cornerback Bradley Roby

Roby made it clear that the Broncos defense can't give up over 200 rushing yards and be successful.

"Like I said, they run the ball well anytime you can run the ball for over 200 yards, you control the game that's basically what they did and when they passed, we didn't do a great job tackling so we just have to get better at that."

Safety T.J. Ward