Raiders vs Chiefs

[exist]

wtf, like 3 raiders fumbles in the first 10 minutes. i hate liking the raiders.

[craig r]

Shouldn't the raiders have kicked the field goal with three timeouts left and then tried to force the punt? I could be wrong, but intuitively, that seems like the smarter move. They don't even have to get a touchdown if that happens.

craig

[West]

I don't know how confident they could be about holding the Chiefs to three and out, so I like going for it, but I thought wasting a time out could have been critical. I understand that it can be worth it to spend a timeout to talk over the play for a critical 4th down, but the thing to me was, they had just come out of the 2 min warning prior to 3rd and 6, if I'm not mistaken. So if they had come out of that timeout prepared to call a play on 4th down, they could have had all 3 timeouts, instead of two, which could have been very significant. Course they couldn't hold KC anyway after missing their 4th down..