{"id":185824,"date":"2025-07-06T12:32:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T12:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/185824\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T12:32:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T12:32:26","slug":"chiefs-defeat-raiders-19-17-to-clinch-a-playoff-berth-for-the-10th-straight-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/185824\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs Defeat Raiders, 19-17, to Clinch a Playoff Berth for the 10th Straight Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The touchdown was the Chiefs&#8217; lone trip to the end zone across five red zone drives, however, and the Raiders refused to go away. Las Vegas rattled off 14 unanswered points on back-to-back possessions early in the fourth quarter, pushing the Raiders in front for the first time all day.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City then quickly responded with a 32-yard field goal on its ensuing possession to reclaim the lead, but Las Vegas continued to make things interesting over the game&#8217;s final two minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders missed a 58-yard field goal on their penultimate drive that would have taken the lead had it gone through the uprights, and following a Chiefs&#8217; punt on the following possession, Las Vegas had one final opportunity to take the lead with one minute and 56 seconds remaining in regulation.<\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas quickly marched into realistic field goal range, but the snap slipped through O&#8217;Connell&#8217;s grasp before the Raiders could set up for another potential game-winning field goal attempt, and as they have so many times this season, the Chiefs escaped with another thrilling win.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t see it, but obviously, [it was] a big stop and a big moment,&#8221; Mahomes said. &#8220;They got us the win there, but we have to execute better in the fourth quarter so it doesn&#8217;t come down to that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In terms of injuries, Nick Bolton was the only player Coach Reid mentioned following the game, although Bolton \u2013 who recovered the fumble in the game&#8217;s final seconds \u2013 returned to the field soon after suffering his injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs will now enjoy an extended break before taking on the Los Angeles Chargers at GEHA Field at Arrowhead next Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The touchdown was the Chiefs&#8217; lone trip to the end zone across five red zone drives, however, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2065],"tags":[501,346,7,497,118,110,1744,393,2455,2454,6,498,499,525,505,503,502,504,500],"class_list":{"0":"post-185824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-las-vegas-raiders","8":"tag-andy-reid","9":"tag-chiefs","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-geha-field-at-arrowhead-stadium","12":"tag-kansas-city","13":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","14":"tag-las-vegas","15":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","16":"tag-lasvegas","17":"tag-lasvegasraiders","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-nfl-football","20":"tag-patrick-mahomes","21":"tag-raiders","22":"tag-super-bowl","23":"tag-super-bowl-iv","24":"tag-super-bowl-liv","25":"tag-super-bowl-lvii","26":"tag-travis-kelce"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114806309028941676","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}