by David Zizmor

SANTA CLARA–Kansas City Chiefs (2-2) quarterback Alex Smith is going to be like his old Alex Smith self not much of a risk taker and your not going to see anything different from the old Smith. Every now and then they like to take a pass down the field. To be honest that’s not Smith’s strong suit and he doesn’t have the receivers in KC to pull that off anyways.

The Chiefs offense is conservative west coast style offense they like to hand off to their star running back Jammal Charles as much as possible, whether it’s from a hand off or screen passes. Smith is doing what he does the Chiefs were very successful last year and they got out of the gate slowly this season.

The Chiefs are coming off a big win where they blew out the Patriots, part of that was like a great performance by the Chiefs defense and a poor performance by the Patriots offense. You watch that game and Smith didn’t make mistakes he was his normal self he handled the ball well and they didn’t need him to do a whole lot everything kind of took care of itself.

The Chiefs aren’t a team that’s going to be trifle and the Chiefs are going to take care of themselves, I don’t know if I would want to call them one of the elite teams in the league but this was a team that was in the playoffs last year. They certainly are not dangerous but their well coached by Andy Reid. Smith it’s not known how much insight he’s going to give his teammates against the 49ers but but he knows his way around.

Oakland Raiders update: As far as the firing of head coach Dennis Allen is concerned we saw this coming we were a little unsure if the Raiders would fire Dennis Allen so soon or wait until later in the season. It’s pretty rare for a head coach to get fired this early on. It’s four games in there’s no more than 12 games to go usually guys give their coaches a bit more rope.

They let the coach try and prove themselves and try to recover, the problem is the Raiders have been floundering for awhile it’s not like the 0-4 start is a new thing. It’s not like the expectations were super high. Allen is the scapegoat this not to say he wasn’t doing a great job but part of the problem is the hand he’s been dealt.

He can only play the players he has and he doesn’t have very good players so I don’t know what you could possibly expect from Allen or his team. Other than a poor performance, it’s just not a very good team. It’s not known if any other coach could have done much better than 0-4. Obviously in that last game against Miami in London the Raiders were particularly bad.

The Raiders came out to a very early lead and then Miami just dominated the rest of the way and it looked like bad. That’s not unusal for this team they just don’t have a lot of talent and when quarterback Derrick Carr got knocked out and Matt McGloin had to come in your down at quarterback. Your down to your third string guy. When the Raiders started training camp back in July it was Matt Schaub at quarterback now he got dinged up and it went to Carr their early draft pick becoming the starting quarterback.

David Zizmor does NFL commentary each week on http://www.sportsradioservice.com