Raiders at Chiefs - Week 7 - Record: 4-3

I learned this was our first shutout since, since... do you know when?

Yeah, it was that 30-0 playoff win against the Texans in January 2016. Remember that amazingly splendid win, the first we had since January 1994? Extraordinarily memorable, but... huh... we've had how many postseason wins in the Mahomes era? Not that any of us mind, mind you.

Anyway, quite a stomping by an extraordinarily good Chiefs team versus a not-the-best Raiders team. Fine with us. 

Just a few notes for tonight. 

One, super nice to see Rashee back out there doing amazing things on the field. Every Chiefs fan was looking forward to seeing this, and we weren't disappointed. He had two terrific touchdown catches on the day (the first Chiefs TD of the day was one of those flip-it jet-sweep jobs), and just having him out there added something to the mojo of the team, no question.

Two, the Patrick Mahomes fake-out over center on a 4th-&-1 was too insane. He bleated he didn't think the play would work, with some especially colorful language added for effect, yet still snapped the ball and handed it to Kareem who got a very nice push from the O-line to get the first. Too sweet.

And three, sorry, but I can't not share this again because it just seems too few people are getting the memo. I won't stop writing about it even if belaboring it mercilessly. Earlier in the day, the European game (I just don't know where because I don't care, London, Munich, wherever) featured the Rams pasting the -- here it is -- Jaguars. The Rams are a very good team this year, but they also got the benefit of having a fairly called game by the officiating.

On both sides of the ball the Chiefs today played so exceptionally well, as they should, in a game that wasn't a prime-time game so there wasn't any intimation that the score should be closer than it would have easily been otherwise -- that there was no real reason for the officials to mess with the outcome. The Raiders helped by contributing a number of obvious and sometimes dangerous penalties, so trying to hose the Chiefs in this one wouldn't have mattered.

If you glance at this post from a couple weeks ago, you'd know what I am talking about.

Here's to the Chiefs continuing this ride in spite of the still simmering NFLer antipathy. Not sure that will abate since next week's game against the Commanders is, yes, a prime-time Monday night affair.

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The photo is by Sam Lutz at the official Chiefs site. Thank you.

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