Alright so welcome to the full recap where it's a bitter end to the 6 game winning streak at Arrowhead for the Raiders as they fall to the undefeated Kansas City Chiefs, who remain undefeated at 6-0 to keep pace with the Broncos in the AFC West.
Like I said, this is a game to forget about. I mean we drew first blood and I thought that the Pryor drive to Denarius Moore for a 39 yard TD would be a key to upset this team. The Chiefs' offense was not great, but the defense couldn't give our offense any room to breathe.
Which brings me to my first point. The defense is not to blame for this game. There are two parts of the offense that are to blame, the O-line and Pryor himself. Terrelle Pryor outplayed Alex Smith for a majority of the game finishing 18 of 34 for 216 yards and 1 TD, but in the second half 3 INTs. That's right 3 INTs, two that gave the Chiefs good field position and 1 for a pick 6 to pretty much put the game away. This game shows that Pryor still has a long ways to go, I was impressed with his poise last week, but this week, reverted back to form, lack of awareness on the play clock and some of his throws were wobbly that just were really low percentage throws and this game showed that Pryor is still a young QB making rookie mistakes and poor decisions and reads.
The 2nd half of my point, the offensive line. Personally I'm sick and tired of talking about the growing pains of our O-line, but these stats summarizes how pathetic this O-line is: 10 sacks allowed and 5 pre snap penalites. The pocket just keeps collapsing and guys like Tamba Hali, Derrick Johnson, and Justin Houston were just having a field day with our O-line. This is pretty much where we miss Veldheer and Wisniewski a lot. Veldheer has done a helluva job shutting down Hali and we missed that because Khalif Barnes, embarrassingly was getting beat by the pass rush and it was frustrating to watch that.
Luckily we have the bye week up ahead and likely it's best to forget about this game and move on and take the bye week to adjust, take a little R&R from football.
Miscellaneous Announcements: With the bye week up ahead, I will be doing my preview for the 2013-2014 Los Angeles Lakers season. So Laker Nation stay tuned.
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