KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Las Vegas Raiders have been oh-so-close to lastly getting the very best of the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs on Monday evening.
Then the replay confirmed shut wasn’t adequate.
Frantically attempting to rally his workforce within the remaining minute, Derek Carr threw a fairly move down the sideline to Davante Adams, who already had hauled in landing catches of 58 and 48 yards. The standout huge 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.
However 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.
Last rating: Chiefs 30, Raiders 29.
It was the fourth consecutive loss to the Raiders’ nemesis, and their ninth of their final 10 conferences. They're 1-4 this season.
“It sucks, what our file is. We’ve earned that,” mentioned Carr, who fell to 1-8 at Arrowhead Stadium. “I simply hold reinforcing: We now have a very good workforce. I’ve been on some groups that aren’t pretty much as good as this one. We’re doing the precise issues.”
They did many of the manner Monday evening, too.
Josh Jacobs adopted a career-best 144 yards dashing and two touchdowns in final week’s win over Denver by working for 154 and a rating towards the Chiefs. Adams made a mockery of virtually everyone who lined him. Maxx Crosby saved harassing Patrick Mahomes, and the remainder of the Raiders protection held the vastly improved Kansas Metropolis floor sport in examine.
Daniel Carlson was as soon as once more good 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 towards the Raiders since arriving in Kansas Metropolis, or Mahomes, who's 8-1 in his profession towards them.
“Congratulate the Chiefs. They made just a few extra performs than we did,” Raiders coach Josh McDaniels mentioned. “I assumed our workforce actually battled, performed the best way we needed to play, to get in entrance, play from forward. Give Andy and his workforce loads of credit score. They fought again; we knew they might. We thought they might and figured it might be a four-quarter sport. They have been capable of make another play than we did. So, give them credit score. We’ll study lots from this. We competed laborious tonight.”
The frustration was nonetheless evident because the Raiders left the sphere, although. Adams roughly pushed what seemed 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 mentioned later. “I need to apologize to him for that. That was simply frustration blended with him actually simply working in entrance of me.
“I shouldn’t have responded that manner, however that’s the best way I responded. I need to apologize to him for that.”
The loss saved the Raiders in final place within the AFC West, a sport behind Denver and nicely behind the Chiefs, who're aiming for his or her seventh consecutive division title. They've subsequent week off earlier than going through the Texans on Oct. 23, the beginning of a four-game stretch towards non-division opponents that might enable them to climb again within the race.
“I assumed our workforce battled and gave ourselves a possibility,” McDaniels mentioned Monday evening. “We didn’t make one or two performs there on the finish to complete it.”
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