The 10-2 Oakland Raiders, led by quarterback Derek Carr, and far-reaching receivers Amari Cooper and Michael Crabtree, attempted to supplement to their AFC West Division lead when they visited a Kansas City Chiefs during Arrowhead Stadium in a Thursday Night Football clash. The Chiefs were led by quarterback Alex Smith, using behind Spencer Ware and parsimonious finish Travis Kelce.
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Here’s a AP Recap:
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Charcandrick West was personification for Joe McKnight. Tyreek Hill was personification for a fans chanting his name. The Chiefs defense was personification for a harmed leader.
Everybody on a Kansas City sideline was personification for control of a AFC West.
“This was a large game,” Chiefs cornerback Steven Nelson said, stripping off his uniform after a 21-13 attainment over a Oakland Raiders on Thursday night. “It means a lot of things down a road.”
The ramifications start with a multiplication race, where the Chiefs (10-3) fake a tie with Oakland (10-3) during a top. But they also reason a tiebreaker by trait of their dual head-to-head wins and are positioned for a first-round playoff bye with 3 unchanging deteriorate games left.
“It’s huge,” Chiefs linebacker Dee Ford said. “It substantially won’t strike until following and we are unwinding. We have 10 days to indeed suffer it and applaud it.”
There were copiousness of story lines during cold, wind-swept Arrowhead Stadium.
West scored in a initial half as Kansas City raced to a 21-3 lead, and afterwards pulled adult his jersey to exhibit a white shirt that pronounced “Long Live Joe” — a reverence to McKnight, his associate Louisiana local and a former Chiefs running behind who was shot to genocide final week.
“He was out there with me tonight,” West said.
Hill scored twice, once on a prolonged touchdown accepting and after on a punt return. The energetic measure on special teams came after Hill had fumbled a punt progressing in a game, and as thousands of fans who had bundled adult opposite a cold had a begun to contend his name in unison.
“It was crazy, man. we didn’t know what to do,” Hill said.
After the Raiders got within 21-13 in a second half, the Chiefs defense kept creation a stand, even yet Derrick Johnson was no longer there to assistance them. The maestro linebacker’s deteriorate came to a remarkable and frustrating finish when he ruptured his Achilles tendon late in a initial half.
“It was one of those next-man-up things,” Nelson said. “Fill your role.”
The Chiefs did that ideally in violence Oakland for a seventh time in 8 meetings. They hold Derek Carr to 17 of 41 for 117 yards passing, prevented Amari Cooper and Michael Crabtree from carrying any impact on a game, and hold Latavius Murray in check many of a night.
He finished with 103 yards and a touchdown.
“We had no doubt in a mind we were going to get behind in a game. But again, we didn’t make adequate plays to do that,” Murray said. “Like manager said, ‘What we wish in a goals and what we’re after, they’re still there for us.’ We won’t let this establish who we are and what we wish to accomplish.”
Here are some of a other takeaways from the Chiefs’ essential victory:
CATCHING KELCE: Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce had 5 catches for 101 yards, his fourth true diversion with during slightest 100 yards. That matches a authorization record set by Tony Gonzalez, and allows him to join a organisation of parsimonious ends that also includes Jimmy Graham who have achieved that feat.
OSEMELE OUT: Raiders offensive lineman Kelechi Osemele woke adult Thursday ill adequate that he went to a sanatorium for treatment. Coach Jack Del Rio declined to contend what was wrong, yet did contend that Osemele was going to be means to lapse to Oakland with a team. “Not perplexing to get into specifics,” Del Rio said, “but it was poignant adequate we wanted to make certain we got him to a correct care.”
MACK TRUCKING: Khalil Mack had a strip-sack for a third uninterrupted game, yet for a initial time he didn’t redeem his possess fumble. The pouch also gave him one in 8 true games, relating Lance Johnstone for a longest strain in authorization story given sacks became central in 1982.
TRY SOME STICKUM: The Raiders were tormented by forsaken passes, including one by Seth Roberts that would have resulted in a touchdown. Roberts usually hauled in dual catches on 9 targets, while Cooper had 5 catches on 10 targets and Crabtree had 4 catches on 7 targets. “We only didn’t govern how we routinely could,” Cooper said. “We only have to find a approach to govern and pierce a ball.”
NO EXCUSES: Even yet a breeze chill approached singular digits by a finish of a game, the Raiders were reluctant to use a continue as an excuse. “That’s football weather,” descent tackle Donald Penn said. “Weather didn’t have anything to do with it. I’ve played in a cold. Everybody’s played in a cold once. Weather had zero to do with it.”
Here is what we need to know about a game:
Who: Oakland Raiders (10-2) during Kansas City Chiefs (9-3)
When: Thursday, Dec 8, 2016
Where: Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, Missouri
Kickoff: 8:25 p.m. Eastern
TV: NBC
Announcers: Al Michaels, Cris Collinsworth, Heather Cox (field reporter)
Livestream: Twitter
Line: Chiefs -3.5
Eagles, Giants, Jets sliding
More to know:
RAIDERS: Aim for 7th win in row…QB DEREK CARR has 95+ rating in 4 of past 5. Has 11 pass TDs vs. 2 INTs in past 5…RB LATAVIUS MURRAY ties for 3rd in NFL with 11 rush TDs, incl. 2 final week. Has 3 rush TDs in past 4 vs. KC… WR AMARI COOPER had 10 catches for 129 yards in final meeting. Has 100+ rec. yards in 2 of past 3 vs. division. Since 2015, is 1 of 6 in NFL with 140+ catches (140) 14.0+ yards per locate avg. (14.7). WR MICHAEL CRABTREE has rec. TD in 2 of past 3 meetings. Has 5 rec. TD in past 8 vs. division. WR ANDRE HOLMES had TD locate in final meeting…DE KHALIL MACK has 5 TFL 3 sacks in past 3 meetings. Aims for 8th in quarrel with sack. Has 10 sacks, 11 TFL, 4 FFs, 3 FR INT-TD in past 9. Since 2015, leads NFL with 25 sacks. LB BRUCE IRVIN aims for 4th in quarrel with sack. CB DAVID AMERSON had INT-TD in final assembly during KC…
CHIEFS: Aim for 9th win in quarrel vs. division…QB ALEX SMITH has 18 pass TDs vs. 3 INTs for 107.0 rating in 9 career starts vs. Oak…RB SPENCER WARE had 163 struggle yards (131 rush, 32 rec.) rush TD in final meeting. Aims for 4th in quarrel with rush TD vs. Oak…WR JEREMY MACLIN has 3 TD catches in past 3 meetings. TE TRAVIS KELCE aims for 4th in quarrel with 100+ rec. yards. WR TYREEK HILL ties for 2nd among rookies with 7 sum TDs (5 rec., 1 rush, 1 KR-TD)…LB JUSTIN HOUSTON aims for 4th in quarrel vs. Oak with sack. Has 4 sacks in past 2. S ERIC BERRY had INT-TD INT for 2-pt acclimatisation final week. LB DEE FORD had 2 sacks FF in final meeting. Ties for 3rd in NFL with 10 sacks. NT DONTARI POE had rush TD in final meeting. — NFL Communications
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