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翱础碍尝础狈顿听— lay on the ground, keeled over in pain as Broncos trainers rushed the field. As he slowly turned on his back and then stood up, Harris summoned the referee and told him Oakland receiver sucker punched him in his gut.

“He just came out wanting to fight,” Harris said. “He didn’t want to play football.”

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Denver cornerback got into it with Crabtree on the next play, spurring a full-on brawl along the Broncos鈥� sideline with punches thrown, a helmet tossed and another chain snatched by Talib. Harris returned to the game soon after, but Talib, Crabtree and Raiders guard Gabe Jackson were all ejected after the brawl and left the field to a chorus of boos.

Soft, these Broncos weren鈥檛 Sunday.

But in a road game in which they desperately needed a win, the Broncos instead lost for a seventh consecutive time, 21-14, notching another embarrassing mark on their troubled season. And, they were forced to switch quarterbacks yet again.

Quarterback , who made his third career start, left with an ankle injury in the third quarter and was replaced by , who kept the Broncos in it late with two touchdown passes. One more defensive stop in the final minutes and the Broncos had a chance to tie it up.

But the debacle of the first three quarters did them in. The Broncos left California with three of their defensive starters either ejected or hurt, and Lynch in a walking boot.

If there was one sequence to fully encapsulate the Broncos’ season it happened at the start of the second quarter. Lynch — the Broncos鈥� third starting quarterback this season — guided them to the 1-yard line.聽 But on a second-and-1, he rolled left, and threw across his body to tight end , who was blanketed. The ball bounced off the hands of Green, and after another tip ended up in the arms of Oakland linebacker NaVorro Bowman.

The interception was the first for the Raiders this season, and they made good use of it. On their ensuring drive, quarterback spotted for a 9-yard touchdown against rookie cornerback Brendan Langley — who was in the game because Talib was ejected.

“Obviously losing one of our best players and using a young guy, it hurt us. We can’t have it,” Broncos coach said.聽“I don’t like it. It’s unacceptable. We can’t lose our best players because of a personal battle. That’s a personal battle. This is about the Broncos.”

These are the Broncos of 2017, without a true starting quarterback, without a win in nearly two months, with tempers building and without a clear plan to fix the mess.

Amid the madness of the opening quarter, Broncos defensive end was carted off with a neck injury and ruled out the remainder of the game.

And amid the rough play the Raiders lost two of their top receiving targets. Cooper was crushed on a hit by safety in the second quarter. Stewart was flagged for unnecessary roughness. Cooper was later ruled out with a concussion, but his 12-yard catch wasn鈥檛 for naught. trotted into the end zone less than two minutes later to give Oakland a 14-0 lead.聽 Then, in the third quarter, running back Jalen Richard expanded Oakland’s lead to 21-0 with a 6-yard touchdown catch.

The snowball effect that has plagued the Broncos all season was in full force. One early issue led to another and another until the game spun out of their control — along with their season.

The Broncos鈥� first half was a scripted nightmare as they were shut out, lost two defensive starters and watched Paxton Lynch complete only half of his passes for a 16.7 passing rating.

But the horrors would continue, and get worse before they could get better. Nose tackle Domata Peko was lost to a knee injury, and a teary-eyed Lynch later hobbled to the sideline in pain.

Lynch entered with only two NFL starts to his name, so perfect wasn鈥檛 expected. But efficiency certainly was, and the Broncos got anything but.聽In less than three quarters of play, Lynch took four sacks and went 9-of-14 passing for 41 yards, an interception and a 38.4 passer rating before leaving with an ankle injury. He came up lame after a pass play on third down and was immediately ruled out and replaced by Siemian, the team鈥檚 starter to open the season.

“I thought I played pretty well. There were some plays I had an opportunity to make and I made,” Lynch said. “There were also some plays that I just missed. But this was the first that I had played with all these guys in a while, so it felt good to get out there and play with them. But obviously, this isn’t the result that we all wanted.”

His coach came away with a similar assessment.

“I thought Paxton was doing OK,” Joseph said. “We had a couple plays that we missed with Paxton. Obviously our first seven out of 10 drives were three-and-outs. So it wasn’t good enough. But I was proud of how the guys finished.”

Siemian took over in the fourth quarter and promptly engineered a 10-play, 93-yard drive in only three minutes, 48 seconds. Siemian launched a 25-yard strike to in the corner of the end zone, sparing Denver another shutout loss and injecting some life into the offense.

Although he nearly picked off twice on his next drive, Siemian took the Broncos 60 yards in only 3:07, finding for a 25-yard strike in the end zone.

Suddenly the Broncos were within one score. But the Raiders quickly quashed any remaining hope Denver may have had as Carr found receiver for a long completion, then ate up the rest of the clock.

“That was the dagger. But wasn’t the only play,” outside linebacker said. “We had opportunities to get off the field and change the game. … It’s just little situations and little moments. We’ve been feeling that all season. It’s just been that. All season long. Every game. It’s just a tough deal.”

In his short time on the field, Siemian went 11-of-21 for 149 yards, two touchdowns and 107 passer rating. But it may not be his last time under center. The Broncos鈥� season is cooked but聽their quarterback carousel continues to spin, round and round. Siemian may be back in front.

“Trevor was totally locked in and engaged this week,” Joseph said. “And it’s been a hard time on Trevor. He’s had a couple weeks where he had to watch and even not dress last week. I was very proud of Trevor, how he handled the week and how he played tonight. That speaks to Trevor as a person.

“We’ll see about who plays quarterback next week. We got a full week of work.”