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The Kansas City Chiefs have been walking a tightrope all season, and on Black Friday, they pulled another rabbit out of the hat with a wild, wacky win over the division rival Las Vegas Raiders.
Kansas City needed not one, not two, but three missed field goals from Raiders kicker Daniel Carlson, plus yet another preposterous end-of-game sequence in order to come away with the victory. Up by two with south of two minutes remaining on the game clock, the Chiefs allowed Aidan O’Connell to drive the Raiders into Kansas City territory, eventually reaching the 32-yard line.
On third-and-3 with 15 seconds left, Jackson Powers-Johnson snapped the ball before O’Connell was ready for it. It fell to the ground and was recovered by Chiefs linebacker Nick Bolton. But the play was also seemingly blown dead for a false start, only for the penalty call to then be changed to an illegal shift, which the Chiefs declined because doing so gave them the ball and the ability to kneel out the clock.
Here’s the sequence:
It was just the latest one-score victory for the Chiefs in a season that has been full of them — and with many of those wins coming either on the final possession or with some controversy along the way.
In Week 1, Ravens tight end Isaiah Likely’s foot came down mere inches out of bounds on what would have been a game-tying touchdown pass on Baltimore’s final drive. In Week 2, Kansas City converted a fourth-and-16 opportunity against the Bengals with a pass interference call, and eventually finished that drive with the game-winning field goal as time expired.
In Week 3, the Chiefs allowed the Falcons to drive all the way down to their 13-yard line with less than a minute left and trailing by five points, only to fail on a fourth-and-1 try. Kansas City yielded a game-tying drive to the Buccaneers with just 27 seconds left in Week 9. The Bucs elected not to go for two and instead kick the…
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Author : Jared Dubin
Publish date : 2024-11-30 00:12:00
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