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The Chiefs in Week 5

Posted on July 4, 2010 at 10:09 AM.

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Regular Season - Week 5

KC @ Raiders - Lose 34-28

While we played a decent game, there were several keys to our ultimate defeat. First, the Raiders have an excellent young QB Duncan. He has great ability short, medium and long and simply can get the ball to his receivers. And second, the Raiders scored two 4th quarter field goals of 48 and 53 yards that were the difference.

QB Cassel 23-33 326 yds (1 td & 1 int)
LOLB Darby 2 sacks and LE T.Jackson 1 sack
HB C.Johnson 17-38 and 3 tds
WR S.Johnson caught 1 td pass
WR Mack caught 5-94 yds

Another key factor in this game was giving up a kick-off return for a touchdown. WR S.Smith returned one on us and yet still we were in this game until late in the 4th quarter.

Our record is now 1-3-1 on the year.
We sit last in the AFC West Division.
We sit 27th overall in the NFL.

And while we have the trade deadline upon us now, we have absolutely no cap room to do anything and would only add to our penalty situation for the coming year if we made any significant moves with veteran players. Not to mention, obviously we would have to look at lower-priced players in return so that we don't put ourselves into a deeper cap hole at year end. So we will be very quiet this season at the deadline!

We need to win games! Period!

Once again, and calmly and rationally I might add, Coach Harbaugh and I sat down for a frank and realistic discussion about our quarterback situation again. Here are the facts:

Matt is 3rd in NFL passing yards
Matt is 4th in completion percentage
Matt is 5th in TD passes thrown
Matt is tied for 6th with the longest pass yardage
Matt is way down the sacks given up list (a credit to our O-Line of course)
Matt is also tied for 2nd in INT's, having tossed 7

We simply have a great quarterback on our team and I refuse to pull the trigger on anything that would appear to be a short-term solution to a problem that might only get worse if I make the wrong move.

There is a young QB on the trading block now that has excellent potential (maybe even slightly better ratings in areas when compared to our backup QB Willis Jackson). But he's up for a contract renewal and we would then be forced to make a very difficult decision in the off-season. I simply feel we have to gut this out and see if we can turn things around. "On paper" we should be preforming much better than we are.

Oh, and while the interception number concern me, I should point out that Matt is tied with Drew Brees at second, behind both Aaron Rodgers and Peyton Manning, who have each tossed 8 interceptions so far!

Again, we simply have to win!

And once again the NFL scheduling team have not done us any favours. We have another rivalry in Week 6...a return engagement with the defending Super Bowl Champion Denver Broncos.

The AFC West may be completely decided by the sixth week of the season. And, dare I say, may have already been decided for us?!