KANSAS CITY, Mo. –
The Las Vegas Raiders have been oh-so-close to lastly getting one of the best of the Kansas City Chiefs on Monday night time.
Then the replay confirmed shut wasn’t ok.
Frantically making an attempt to rally his staff in the ultimate minute, Derek Carr threw a reasonably go down the sideline to Davante Adams, who already had hauled in landing catches of 58 and 48 yards. The standout broad receiver made the seize with lower than a minute to go, not solely giving the Raiders a primary down however placing them in field-goal vary place.
But nearly instantly the decision went to a video evaluate, and it clearly confirmed Adams bobbled the ball as he stepped on the white chalk. The ball went again to the Las Vegas aspect of the sphere, and an ensuing fourth-and-1 throw was incomplete.
Final rating: Chiefs 30, Raiders 29.
It was the fourth consecutive loss to the Raiders’ nemesis, and their ninth in their final 10 conferences. They are 1-4 this season.
“It sucks, what our file is. We’ve earned that,” stated Carr, who fell to 1-8 at Arrowhead Stadium. “I simply preserve reinforcing: We have a superb staff. I’ve been on some groups that are not pretty much as good as this one. We’re doing the best issues.”
They did many of the means Monday night time, too.
Josh Jacobs adopted a career-best 144 yards speeding and two touchdowns in final week’s win over Denver by working for 154 and a rating in opposition to the Chiefs. Adams made a mockery of just about everyone who coated him. Maxx Crosby stored harassing Patrick Mahomes, and the remainder of the Raiders protection held the vastly improved Kansas City floor recreation in verify.
Daniel Carlson was as soon as once more excellent on three field-goal tries, working his streak to 38 in a row.
It nonetheless wasn’t sufficient to beat Chiefs coach Andy Reid, who improved to 16-3 in opposition to the Raiders since arriving in Kansas City, or Mahomes, who’s 8-1 in his profession in opposition to them.
“Congratulate the Chiefs. They made just a few extra performs than we did,” Raiders coach Josh McDaniels stated. “I assumed our staff actually battled, performed the best way we needed to play, to get in entrance, play from forward. Give Andy and his staff quite a lot of credit score. They fought again; we knew they might. We thought they might and figured it might be a four-quarter recreation. They have been in a position to make yet another play than we did. So, give them credit score. We’ll be taught lots from this. We competed arduous tonight.”
The frustration was nonetheless evident because the Raiders left the sphere, although. Adams roughly pushed what gave the impression to be a member of the digicam crew to the bottom as he headed up the Arrowhead Stadium tunnel to the locker room.
“He jumped in entrance of me coming off the sphere. I sort of pushed him. He ended up on the bottom,” Adams stated later. “I need to apologize to him for that. That was simply frustration blended with him actually simply working in entrance of me.
“I should not have responded that means, however that is the best way I responded. I need to apologize to him for that.”
The loss stored the Raiders in final place in the AFC West, a recreation behind Denver and effectively behind the Chiefs, who’re aiming for his or her seventh consecutive division title. They have subsequent week off earlier than dealing with the Texans on Oct. 23, the beginning of a four-game stretch in opposition to non-division opponents that might permit them to climb again in the race.
“I assumed our staff battled and gave ourselves a possibility,” McDaniels stated Monday night time. “We did not make one or two performs there on the finish to complete it.”