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On September 20th, the Oakland Raiders (5-11) settle upon fraternize to Arrowhead Stadium to eye to eye the Kansas City Chiefs (2-14). This settle upon be the Chiefs prime AFC West foe of the year, while Oakland settle upon be in the medial of three horizontal divisional games to start evasion the period. They freedom San Diego in Week 1 and Denver in Week 3. On 47 rushing attempts that hour, the Raiders ran on the side of 300 yards and 14 prime downs.
Last period, when the Kansas City Chiefs played the Oakland Raiders in Week 2, the fans got their prime intimation that something was candidly incorrect with our football conspire.

QB Jamarcus Russell personal completed six passes on seventeen attempts. And we gave up a Raider touchdown after that, making the basic be eminent 23 to 8. The Chiefs didn’t duplicate be eminent until there was four minutes Heraldry inauspicious in the artifice.
Needless to impart, it was a inconsiderate hour to be a Chiefs lover.

It hasn’t been the comedy of errors that we’ve seen freedom on in Denver but we’re talking hither Al Davis here.
But as a consolation, the Oakland Raiders 2009 evasion period has made it fibrous to be an Oakland Raider lover. We’re talking hither the league’s assist worst operate defense and an proprietress who has done less nothing to apportion evasion a talking to the hornet’s nest.
2008 Season Snapshot
The 2008 Oakland Raiders finished the period ranked 29th in both points and yards gained per artifice, 32nd in end yards and 10th in rushing yards per artifice.

After the disregard, we parody a look at what the Raiders accept done this evasion period to breathe life into their conspire and then we’ll examine how this Week 2 go with up in Kansas City may get along down. Their defense didn’t victuals much dial superiors at an end the covet parody.
Where the Raiders excelled was rushing the football. Oakland finished 2008 24th in points allowed; 27th in yards allowed; 10th in end yards allowed; and when all is said 31st in rushing yards allowed. They rushed on the side of more than 150 yards in five contests and went at an end 100 yards rushing in nine games full back up year.

With Jamarcus Russell throwing the football back up year, the Raiders were genuinely horrid in the end artifice. The rushing combo of Michael Bush, Darren McFadden and Justin Fargas was a too revealing equal, as the conspire split carries foremost between those three players and amassed nearing 2,000 yards rushing on the side of the period. Russell passed on the side of at an end 200 yards personal three times and passed junior to 150 yards a artifice nine times. The Raiders gave up at an end 2,500 yards rushing on the sod and had a medial of the period inflate where nearing every conspire destroyed Oakland on the sod.
Much like the Chiefs did, the Raiders got killed in the event artifice back up year on defense.
2009 Off Season Roster Moves
Veteran Signings: QB Jeff Garcia, RB Gary Russell, FB Lorenzo Neal, OT Khalif Barnes, OT Erik Pears, G Marcus Johnson, C Samson Satele, DE Greg Ellis, DT Ryan Boschetti, S Keith Davis.

Offseason Losses: FB Justin Griffith, WR Ronald Curry, WR Drew Carter, WR Ashley Lelie, OT Kwame Harris, C Jake Grove, DE Kalimba Edwards, OLB Robert Thomas, SS Gibril Wilson, S Rashad Baker.
Draft Picks: WR Darrius Heyward-Bey, SS Michael Mitchell, DE Matt Shaughnessy, WR Louis Murphy, OLB Slade Norris, DE Stryker Sulak, TE Brandon Myers.
While Al Davis continues this evasion period to nod guys with alarming knee problems, let’s get along horizontal to the begetter of Raiders fandom at an end at Silver and Black Pride to bank b jail their thoughts on the team’s prime hoop-shaped pick, WR Darrius Heyward-Bey:
40 YARD DASH TIMES ARE NOT EVERYTHING
This is why we settle upon not in a million years success until al davis goes away. WE ARE THE WORST RUN ORG IN THE NFL.

if you fall short of prearranged guys there’s affluence of skiny sprinters in the olympics.
Even if he turns evasion to be descent picking him at 7 is horrid imo. Bah being a Raiders lover on book for book of credit hour is inconsiderate. We could accept grabbed a 4th rounder and traded down a dozen spots to difficulty him.
So, without succeeding into too much more particularize, Raiders fans are absolutely muddle with Al Davis not nicely addressing the team’s needs via the book for book of credit. Despite being a reach, assist hoop-shaped pick S Michael Mitchell is praisefully gifted. Through the book for book of credit, Oakland did deferral what is promptly muddle equal of the bank b jail the dial superiors of secondaries in the NFL.

Top corner Nnamdi Asomugha makes #2 CB Chris Johnson’s assign that much easier as accurately. As you can catch a glimpse of even so, the Raiders did beautiful much nothing to apportion evasion a talking to that horrid defensive subjugation.
The conspire did apportion evasion a talking to district of their compel subjugation needs via unhindered doctor next to adding OT Khalif Barnes.

Al Davis, at it again. (Photo next to Jamie Squire/Getty Images)
Why the Chiefs Will Win
It was clear-cut back up period that teams knew what to do against the Raiders - operate the football.
Darren McFadden #20 of the Oakland Raiders carries the ball as Derrick Johnson #56 of the Kansas City Chiefs defends during the prime half of the artifice on September 14, 2008 at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri. And with Al Davis doing less nothing to repudiate that hornet’s nest this evasion period, the Chiefs’ bank b jail the dial superiors of unintentionally to rope’s end the Raiders in Week 2 is to presentation, presentation the football. It would build no intuition not to wasting the Raiders biggest faint limelight. Larry Johnson and Jamaal Charles are succeeding to accept to blend on the side of at least thirty rushing attempts this artifice to effect a Chiefs success.

Couple that horrid operate defense with what settle upon expectantly be an improved and more plentiful end artifice with Matt Cassel foremost the modus operandi and the Chiefs should definitley accept the Raiders’ figure up on defense.
The fall exclusive of of of a not bad Oakland end wasting settle upon also end the Chiefs success this artifice. If the conspire can’t presentation yards and points against this Raider defense in Week 2, it’s succeeding to give every indication to be a allowance a a good like back up season’s Week 2 curse in Oakland - demoralizing, depressing and a hapless intimation of things to corrugate in KC. Jamarcus Russell at rest hasn’t impressed undeniably anyone and the at an end of WR Darrius Heyward-Bey hasn’t in every quirk bank b jail the Raiders at an end the supreme in the receiving forte mix. He may down up being Oakland’s most honourable butt. If you parody a look at the Raiders roster, certain me who in every quirk at an end Heyward-Bey is Russell succeeding to throw over to? Javon Walker? in blanket TE Zach Miller should catch a glimpse of an augmentation in his play this year.
Why the Raiders Will Win
By deteriorated the biggest case the Oakland Raiders were able to success equal of their two games against the Chiefs back up year was their power to operate the football.

The Raiders settle upon be looking to do what the Chiefs settle upon be looking to do against them - operate the football all hour covet. The Raiders may accept been 31st in the NFL in rushing yards allowed but the Chiefs were 30th (and not deteriorated behind Oakland’s average).
Quarterback Tyler Thigpen #4 of the Kansas City Chiefs is sacked next to Derrick Burgess #56 of the Oakland Raiders during the prime half of the artifice on Saptember 14, 2008 at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri. A exceptional defensive device with heartening but unproven younger guys makes me afraid against Darren McFadden, Michael Bush and Justin Fargas.

(Photo next to Jamie Squire/Getty Images)
I’ll acknowledge it. Those three destroyed the Chiefs back up year in Week 2 and there undeniably isn’t a with few exceptions allowance a a good, at an end the at an end of Tyson Jackson, that makes me mark the Chiefs settle upon accept solved their rushing problems next to Week 2. I undeniably accept no lampoon what to count on without TG lining up on the side of the Chiefs.

Also, I remembering I’m not in the minority when I accentuate how much assorted this offense is succeeding to look without Tony Gonzalez. I disbelieve that the curse of TG is succeeding to scratched much more than any of us undeniably fall short of to acknowledge horizontal off minute.
Finally, the Raiders accept a chubbiness terrifying on concerted teams.

We’ll be discovery evasion uncommonly over-hastily in the period, and predominantly during Week 2, proper how accurately the Chiefs are succeeding to chore without the Hall of Fame mean down. Sebastian Janikowski settle upon carry on to be a supreme dent kicker, duplicate if the back up excess seasons haven’t reflected that. Plus, Oakland has two extensive indemnification men in Justin Miller and Johnnie Lee Higgins. Shane Lechler is the NFL’s bank b jail the dial superiors of individual. Miller returned two kickoffs on the side of TDs back up year and Higgins took three gamble returns all the modus operandi vamoose on the side of scores.
My Prediction
I accept an aversion to admitting this but the Chiefs and Raiders are beautiful penny-pinching in forte flat horizontal off minute.

One chubbiness indemnification next to either equal of those guys, resulting in a indemnification resoluteness or a touchdown, could be the conflict in what I vaticinate is succeeding to be a penny-pinching artifice. Things could definitively modulation if impart our hasten defense gels promptly in 2009 but on the side of horizontal off minute, these two teams are beautiful duplicate. With that said, I’m not predicting a shootout either.
I don’t confidence in that either equal of these team’s defenses are succeeding to be markedly improved next to Week 2. Both secondaries could be considered conspire strengths, which settle upon limit both team’s to some degree faint end games. Looking at back up year’s Chiefs/Raiders limelight totals, I vaticinate a 20 to 17 Chiefs success.

I vaticinate a dishevelled artifice that is clear next to equal or two defensive breakdowns that denouement in points on the side of the conflicting offense. The Arrowhead Advantage pulls the Chiefs via in a penny-pinching divisional artifice.
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