The Raiders trailed 14-0 after one quarter. The rest of the league’s owners will meet to review their findings the following week, and could decide whether one or two teams will move to Los Angeles for the 2016 season. Two big penalties on Ron Parker for taunting and pass inerference, put the Raiders in scoring position where Derek Carr hit Michael Crabtree for a 31-yard touchdown pass. Defensively, the Chiefs yield 266.0 yards in passing and 99.3 yards in rushing.
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But while most teams need to rebuild the product on the field, the Dolphins must rebuild their team off of it. The early name to watch in the looming Dolphins G.M. search is director of college scouting Chris Grier.
Yet the Raiders improved their record by four games over 2014, and considering they were 11-37 in the previous three seasons, winning seven games in the first season under Jack Del Rio is progress.
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If the Vikings win, they will be the No. 3 seed, the Packers will be the No. 5 seed, and the Seahawks would be the No. 6 seed. Teams will be fighting on Sunday to make the playoffs and figure out final seeding for Wild Card weekend.
By the way, the last playoff game the Chiefs won was on Jan 16, 1994 against Houston. Then, after Carr was picked off in the end zone by the Chiefs’ Ron Parker a few minutes later, Smith tossed another pass that was caught by Amerson and returned 24 yards for a touchdown that got Oakland within 14-10.
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The hosts did not register a shot on target until the 33rd minute and only two more weak efforts followed before the break. Jamie Carragher does not believe Wayne Rooney can still be playing at the very top level in five years’ time.
The first was picked by TJ Carrie late in the second quarter.
The team chairman, Clark Hunt, was fielding questions about the future of his coach and general manager, and fans were debating the merits of drafting a quarterback in the first round.
That gave the Chiefs a 23-10 lead, and it seemed like that was all they needed, because while their rushing attack was churning time off the clock – Smith, Spencer Ware and Charcandrick West combined to rush 38 times for 171 yards – the defense was in the midst of throttling the Raiders’ offense.
The Kansas City Chiefs host the Oakland Raiders in one of the NFL Games on Sunday, January 3 start time at 4:25 PM ET, at Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, Mo. The Raiders had 440 yards and 35 points in that game; they topped 400 yards and 20 points only once more in the remaining eight games. He was sacked again to begin the fourth quarter. With no timeouts, Carr completed three short passes where receivers couldn’t get out of bounds – including the final one to Rivera – and also took a time-consuming sack in which he fumbled and Oakland recovered. The offensive continued its late-season swoon, with just a field goal to show for first-half efforts.
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Kansas City got the ball back on the free kick and got back in synch on offense.
