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Atwater impressed by bounce-back win; now Broncos need to do it again

Sometimes an embarrassing loss can be the kick-in-the-pants a team needs.

Steve Atwater certainly knows that from his playing days, and the Hall-of-Fame safety definitely believes the poor performance against the Raiders a week ago influenced a motivated Broncos team on Sunday.

“Sometimes that can happen especially when you look at film and say, ‘I know I can give more effort than that. I can do better; I’m not that weak,’” Atwater told Ryan Edwards and Benjamin Allbright on Broncos Country Tonight. “These guys know they can play better than [against the Raiders] and they came out and proved it.