Chiefs: Team grades in win over Raiders
By Andrew Jones
Defense: A-
Other than the first drive of the game the defense played very well. Dee Ford had one of his best games as the Chiefs held the Raiders to 286 total yards. The most impressive stat to me is the rushing yards were a season-low 65.
The Raiders could not get anything going all day with running backs Jalen Richard and DeAndre Washington. Derrick Johnson had one of his better tackling games and definitely had the hit of the game. All of the front seven did very well in run defense and containing the Raiders attack.
The only issue continued to lie in pass rushing. Dee Ford, Tamba Hali, and Chris Jones were the only players that graded positively in pass rush according to ProFootballFocus. Justin Houston can start practice this week but I wouldn’t expect him to get into a game until November and then he probably wouldn’t be 100 percent until at Denver on the 27th. He may see time at Indianapolis on obvious passing situations simply because of the Colts terrible offensive line.
The secondary performed fairly well despite still learning the game. DJ White has made strides but the Chiefs cannot continue to put him in one-on-one situations and expect him to shut down receivers. It won’t happen for a while.
Phillip Gaines can’t appear to stay on the field but even when he was he didn’t play well. The Chiefs are going to take more time to become dominant in the secondary but they won’t get much rest this week as they face a very high powered offense in the Saints next week.