by David Zizmor

ALAMEDA–It was great that the Oakland Raiders (1-10) finally got a win under their belts there was always a possibility of the team going winless but let’s be reasonable here in the history of professional football there have been only two teams who failed to win a game all season and that was the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the 2008 Detroit Lions.

Its not easy to go winless, it’s not easy to win every game (hence the 1972 Miami Dolphins) and it’s not easy to lose every game it’s just difficult. I’m in fantasy football leagues and its hard to lose every game. In all the leagues I played fantasy football in and believe me I played a lot there has been one person whose gone winless.

That person has never lived it down we call him Goose for Goose Egg but never the less it’s not easy to do it wasn’t highly likely that the Raiders were going to pull it off. If you watched the Raiders the last few weeks they haven’t won but they’ve been in those games against San Diego and in Seattle.

The Raiders had their chances, it’s a little surprising against the Kansas City Chiefs (7-4), the Chiefs have been playing well they had won five straight before going into Oakland last Thursday night with some very impressive victories. The Chiefs have a very solid team and they have one of the best running backs in the league in Jamal Charles.

But you have to keep in mind that the Raiders always get up for he Chiefs with a long time rivalry the two teams really know each other really well. They don’t take each other lightly they play hard against each other and to contradict that a little bit the Chiefs might have been looking past the Raiders.

The Chiefs have a big game coming up against the Broncos in about a week and that means a lot for the division and the Chiefs were kind of expecting to come in and reel off a pretty easy victory. That wasn’t the case and they did make a game of it and the Chiefs were winning this game late until Raiders quarterback Derrick Carr got a winning pass off for a winning touchdown.

The Chiefs at the end of the game got halfway down the field with less than two minutes on the game clock before the Raiders were able to stop them on that final drive. This wasn’t exactly the Raiders dominating the Chiefs. It was a good win and some of the things you got to like as Carr came through when it counted.

Carr led the Raiders on some pretty good drives early on, they kind of stalled in the second half but towards the end when they needed that touchdown to get that winning margin he put them into scoring position and threw that big touchdown pass to James Jones. The defense held on and he obviously loved Latavius Murray who carried four times only because he got knocked out with a concussion. But boy those were four great carries for Murray.

David Zizmor covers the NFL for http://www.sportsradioservice.com