Tonight the Chiefs played their best first half of the season on both sides of the ball…
Tight end Travis Kelce became an NFL superstar with four straight 100 plus yards in receiving (only done by two other tight ends, one being Tony Gonzalez).
However no question, THE MAN for KC’s offense was Tyreek Hill.
Hill caught a mini bomb from Alex Smith for a TD in the second quarter. He followed the with a punt return for his second TD of the game. Where would we be without Hill? He now has nine TD’s to lead the Chiefs with more to come.
Alex Smith had his best first half of the year with 200 yards passing, but second half issues slowed the offense and Smith.
Alex suffered a rare INT early in the third quarter, then fumbled on the next series. Though Oakland had the ball deep in Chiefs territory and we lost our middle linebacker Derrick Johnson for the season, the defense held Oakland to a field goal.
The Chiefs turned the ball over to Oakland three times and had zero turnovers come their way. However they held tight on pass defense the entire game.
An injured Raiders QB Derek Carr was way off his game.
With only 100 yards passing and under 50% completed passes, this game was Carr’s worst game ever. The Chiefs had issues with stopping the run or running the ball themselves. For KC to be a Super Bowl team the running game has to come up a few notches.
Most unusual was the Chiefs ability to put third and fourth string players in on defense and still play very well.
The team is clearly well coached and has great football IQ.
With three games remaining we may have to win all of them to stay in 1st and they’re all tough ones (Titans, Broncos at home and Chargers on the road).
Losing DJ is a big issue.
We need to get Tyreek Hill the ball even more than we have thus far. He simply rattles the other team, and that helps everything else the Chiefs do on offense.
This town was waiting on this big game and has to be very happy with the 21-13 win!
Before K comes and tells us what really happened, let’s just say this about the Kansas City Chiefs.
They can’t do nuttin’ but win football games. Posers, right K?
Big Red continues to play Chess while his counterparts play checkers. Del Rio is just the latest HC to be punked by the Chiefs coaching staff.
On a brutally cold night at Arrowhead, KC was ready to play. Oakland and Carr were not. Even handing them the football 3 times on turnovers wasn’t enough for the Raiders to muster enough “want-to” to come away with a win.
It’s possible KC could run the table and end up 13-3. Who-da thunk it?
I hope the last game in San Diego is meaningless and they can rest some starters. But knowing these Chiefs and the AFC West, it’s probably going to mean something.
Go Chiefs! You gloriously flawed bastards!
Yeah, You got THAT RIGHT! Andy plays Chess while the rest play checkers! HA! LOVE THAT line and gonna use it!
Some observations from last night’s game
– Carr’s hand has got to be worse off than advertised. His accuracy was flat out atrocious
– Marcus Peters still half sucks. He got torched multiple times and only Carr’s inaccuracy saved him. He’s going to cost the Chiefs big time in the playoffs.
– Feel bad for Johnson. This latest Achilles injury may end his career.
– Stunned at the Raiders’ stupidity at kicking to Hill. Kick. It. Out. Of. Bounds. Idiots.
– Speaking of Hill, I’ve seen this movie before. He’s Dante Hall part 2.
– The Chiefs have no need for Jamal Charles. In fact, they play better without him.
– KC is good enough to get to the Divisional round of the playoffs, but will lose that game.
Can you imagine what that dislocated pinkie felt like on a 15 degree night, Guy? Yikes.
I don’t really disagree with any of your observations with the exception of Hill. His upside in regards to running and receiving the ball from scrimmage far exceeds anything that Hall did. He’s already proven to be a sure-handed route runner. Something Hall never was. The kid sure is fun to watch.
I can’t even imagine how bad that pinkie hurt. He couldn’t throw worth a damn. He couldve had at least two more TD passes that Peters got torched on, but he horribly overthrew them.
I’ve never thought much of the Raiders. Any team that gets that many penalties is too undisciplined to win it all. That being said, they are a good young team with lots of talent. They are going to be tough going forward.
“– Speaking of Hill, I’ve seen this movie before. He’s Dante Hall part 2.”
Nope. Hall was never the complete player that Hill is quickly becoming.
Have to disagree about Peters….he may get torched a time or two but he will pick a few as well….gotta go for it to get it!
To paraphrase Kerouac, “there’s a team called Chiefs ahead of the “Faders”, all alone in first place.
Hill is running in third place for NFL rookie of the year behind Cowboys qb and running back…or he would win it…Chiefs MVP is Tyreek Hill. He has 9 td’s already nearly half our total td’s of the year…likely it will go to Eric Berry or Marcus Cooper if one of them has another big game due to the ‘Hill’ past problem…due to his age and how he is behaving these days, I hope folks can one day put that behind him…as long as the baby and lady are fine then maybe we can move on soon. Again details of the assalt are somewhat vague…so I really don’t know what the entire story is or isn’t. But he pleaded guilty soooo..we have that. Again I have never seen the Chiefs with a weapon like Hill. NEVER.
I knew Dante Hall pretty well back in the day, great return man no question but not a threat running the ball from scrimage or as a receiver like Hill, not close.
Dante Hall was not as versatile as Hill. Coach Andy has built a very complete, multi layered team. I think we will get to AFC championship game and lose. Thats a good year.
Saw Nick Lowery today at NBC 41, I was there with Michael Winslow doing promos so was he..doing his 101 Chiefs dinner stuff…I have to say I hadn’t seen Nick in a few years, the guy looks great, I mean great…we used to hang out back in the day in Westport, we did charity shows together as well. Man he hasn’t aged much…good job and I give credit where its due…he now lives in Arizona doing a charity and I think sports radio.
Losing Nick cost us the Super Bowl in 1995 with the Lin Elliot misses, Lowery would have hit any of those and we’d have advanced…all cause Carl didn’t like him personally..oh well.
Craig I agree with you on Nick vs Lin. Nick would have made them. (Thanks Carl) Lin crapped his pants out there. My question is how did you get past the ego of Nick Lowery in the same room?? You know he wanted to be picked up on a National Sunday Morning show
Tommy yeah Nick could be a pill, thats true…we all have egos. The guy was a great place kicker and had the smarts and looks to be a national sports media star, I don’t know what happened there or why. Had Nick been in todays NFL things may have gone better for him at careers end…just more ex jocks on the air today then in the 90’s…you had to be a quarterback or bigtime player, not a kicker..today it might have worked.