Las Vegas Raiders Look to Crawl Out of Their Hole Against the Kansas City Chiefs

Week 5 of the NFL concludes this Monday with a sectionalization mettlesome 'tween the Kansas River City Chiefs and the Las Vegas Raiders at the Chiefs’ Arrowhead Stadium. Kaw River City is on a military mission to maintain its AFC Benjamin West lead, spell Las Vegas is sounding for its endorsement win and a chance at leaving last come in inwards the division.

Although the Chiefs get won 15 of their last 18 meetings against the Raiders, QB St. Patrick Mahomes said they observe their rival. They expect this to be a tough gamy because of the quality of their opponents’ roster.

The Raiders’ lastly road win at Kansas City was inward Nov 2020. Since then, the Las Vegas team has had trinity consecutive losses. The cobbler's last 1 was in Dec 2021, when they were beaten, 48-9.

Raiders Coming in Hot

The Raiders make a pass week next week, which way they tin can leave behind everything on the theatre on Mon night. Coming away their 1st win of the season, they’ll also feature some impulse going into this matchup.

The Chiefs faced the Tampa Bay Buccaneers finally week, collecting a win, and testament host the Buffalo Bills next week. Sandwiched between those deuce tough games is tonight’s contest. This is only the Chiefs ‘ secondly place biz after leash of their for the first time quartet came on the road.

Some Raiders don’t ilk playing at Arrowhead Stadium. Wide receivers Davante Sam Adams and Hunter Renfrow said it’s toughened because of the noise from the fans. Chiefs fans testament play upwards the intensity today, but John Adams and Renfrow said they’re ready.

Adams came to Las Vegas after shining for Green River Bay. He boasts to a greater extent than 100 receiving yards inward to each one of his cobbler's last quintuplet prime-time games. He will have to succus upwards his boosters tonight if the Raiders want a real dig at knocking push down the Chiefs.

Oddsmakers yield Kansas River City the game, itemization them at around -345 on the moneyline. That’s a long path away the +280 or so the Raiders are getting. It also mightiness not be an accurate reflexion of what the Raiders put up produce.

That isn’t to say that Las Vegas testament win, but they testament definitely position upwards a upright fight. The Chiefs are secondly in the conference inward terms of points per game, and even though they hold a few injuries, they’re stock-still potential to dominate. As a result, the 52 over/under mightiness easily follow broken.

AFC Race Taking Form

The Baltimore Ravens forward-looking into the NFL playoff image as leaders of the AFC Second Earl of Guilford after they took knock down the Cincinnati Bengals. However, based on how they played, the Ravens power non take hold their spatial relation for long.

The sound news is that the Ravens don’t have got a great deal to worry almost inward the division. The Stephen Grover Cleveland Browns, who uphold to actuate o'er their own feet, are 2-3. They gave upwardly some outstanding opportunities that otherwise would get had them looking for at 4-1.

Beating the Bengals helped square up the AFC wild-card standings, as well. Baltimore moved up to the No. 4 seed, but Cincinnati spiraled downward out of control. They’re at present nigh the bottom of the inning of the AFC North, only if break than the Pittsburgh Steelers.

The Chiefs are ease positioning themselves for a localise in the standings. They’re at the cover of the AFC West, but need another win to continue there. That shouldn’t follow a problem tonight. But next week’s spirited against the Bills will follow a different story.