OAKLAND, Calif. - Peyton Manning came to town Thursday night. He wanted to play some pitch and catch. He did. He wanted to complete the 5,000th pass of his career. He did. He wanted to lead his Denver Broncos team to a victory over the Raiders. He did, 26-13. The Raiders wanted to stop Manning from doing all those things. They didn't. "Against a guy like that, you want to get off the field on third down," said Raider head coach Dennis Allen. "We didn't do that . . . Peyton Manning is a Hall of Famer. He does that to a lot of teams." The Raiders also wanted to at least make a game of what shaped up to be a mismatch. They did for a while. Then they didn't. "Our consistency," Allen said, "is...
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