3 quick takeaways from Raiders-Chiefs

Three takeaways from the Raiders’ 48-9 nonaccomplishment to the Chiefs connected Sunday successful Kansas City, Missouri:

1. The code was acceptable early

Yannick Ngakoue tried to occurrence up his teammates by calling them to the Chiefs’ logo astatine midfield.

Then connected the archetypal play from scrimmage, Josh Jacobs was stripped of the ball, the fumble picked up by the Chiefs and returned for a touchdown.

Tyron Johnson past muffed the ensuing kickoff, with the shot rolling retired of bounds astatine the 11. The Raiders picked up a archetypal down earlier the thrust stalled.

The crippled was acold from implicit astatine that point, but the Chiefs established power quickly. They ne'er fto it go.

2. Beaten each way 

The Raiders couldn’t get overmuch going offensively, totaling 290 yards. Derek Carr was sacked 4 times. There was nary moving crippled to talk of, gaining conscionable 44 yards.

On defense, the Raiders were picked isolated by Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes, who successful the archetypal fractional completed 12 of 15 passes for 176 yards and 2 touchdowns. He finished with 258 passing yards.

The Raiders besides were their ain worst enemies, committing 3 turnovers successful the archetypal fractional unsocial that were converted into 3 touchdowns. They finished with 5 giveaways.

The Raiders besides committed 9 penalties for 85 yards.

3. It’s present astir the future

This nonaccomplishment each but decided that the Raiders, present 6-7, won’t beryllium going to the playoffs, which means astir each attraction volition crook to the future.

The players volition walk the remainder of the play auditioning for whoever is the adjacent Raiders manager and, depending connected each situation, the NFL’s different 31 teams.

Major changes are coming. Everyone knows it.

Contact newsman Mark Anderson astatine manderson@reviewjournal.com. Follow @markanderson65 connected Twitter.