A slew of injuries and miscues continue to plague a Las Vegas Raiders team desperately trying to get out of trouble, sending Sunday’s game, 29-19, to the Denver Broncos.

Despite being behind several starters on offense and defense in Week 12, the Silver and Black found a way to make things competitive. They racked up more than 350 yards of offense for the first time this season and held a halftime lead for the first time since Week 1. Their 13 points scored in the first half were also a season high.

Defensively, the team held the Broncos to three field goals in the first half. Rookie quarterback Bo Nix had a 59.5 completion percentage, which earned him an AFC Offensive Player of the Week in Week 11, while the Broncos’ offense was just 6 of 15 on third down.

“Bo Nix is ​​a pretty good football player. We got to him early,” Antonio Pierce said after the game. “I thought we did a good job of disrupting him. The mentality was to be aggressive and I thought we did that, but when they had to make plays, he made plays for them.”

Things took a turn for the worse in the second half as the Raiders lost the turnover margin by -2 and went 1 of 5 in the red zone. Things went from bad to worse when quarterback Gardner Minshew II reportedly suffered a broken collarbone late in the fourth quarter with the team trailing 26-19.

“We’ll know more, but it doesn’t look good,” Pierce said of Minshew’s injury.

“We’ll see what happens tomorrow,” Pierce added. “It looks like (Aidan O’Connell) is getting better. … Obviously we have a short week, playing Friday and traveling Thursday, so we have to make that decision very quickly.”