bookpower Chapter 657: 656 Withdraw completely intact
Chapter 657: 656 Withdraw completely intact
Chapter 657: 656 Withdraw completely intact
Trials, one after another.
Challenges, one match after another.
The pace of professional events never halted, not even when the Los Angeles Rams and the Kansas City Chiefs had just together concluded a brilliantly thrilling peak showdown; the regular season’s progress would not slow down.
Fortunately, when scheduling the matches, the League took into consideration that this game was in Mexico City, including factors such as travel distance and time zone changes. In order to ensure that teams wouldn’t lose their regular season preparation rhythm due to the international match, they also prepared in advance—
A bye week.
The Los Angeles Rams and the Kansas City Chiefs won a brief respite during the last week of November.
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Accidentally, the two teams that had just completed the most exciting, thrilling, and beautiful match of the season could use the following week to make adjustments.
This was good news.
However, this was only a temporary respite. After a short week of adjustment, the battle would reignite, and the challenges would still be there.
The Kansas City Chiefs were about to travel to an away game to challenge their divisional arch-rivals, the Oakland Raiders.
No one would forget that last season, the Oakland Raiders had unexpectedly defeated the Kansas City Chiefs, ending the latter’s season-starting six-game winning streak, and subsequently led to a series of six consecutive losses; however, the Kansas City Chiefs turned things around by defeating the Oakland Raiders to end their losing streak and get back on track.
Divisional arch-rivals, indeed fitting of the title, every clash was filled with highlights.@@@@
This season, the Kansas City Chiefs and the Oakland Raiders were on completely different trajectories. The Kansas City Chiefs led the American League with nine wins and two losses, still occupying the top seed spot; the Oakland Raiders, however, were caught in a desperate vortex of two wins and nine losses, becoming strong contenders for the top draft pick.
One paradise, one hell.
And there was a very important matter—
Earlier this year, the League held the team owners’ conference, officially voted, and passed the proposal for the Oakland Raiders to relocate to Las Vegas; the team would officially complete the relocation in the 2020 season.
This meant that the football team that had been in Oakland since 1995 was about to leave.
However, in the second half, the spotlight turned to Li Wei’s show.
Just in the third quarter alone, Li Wei single-handedly advanced 101 yards on the ground and caught 32 yards, scoring two rushing touchdowns and one receiving touchdown, utterly demolishing the defensive group of the Oakland Raiders.
Li Wei, who had underperformed in his last match, had swiftly recuperated during the bye week and returned to form with a dominant performance that controlled the game.
The Oakland Raiders fell apart.
Despite quarterback Derek Carr’s attempts to keep a firm grip on the game, after throwing two interceptions, even Carr was plunged into despair.
Heroic, devastating, sorrowful.
The Oakland Raiders ultimately could not replicate last season’s miracle.
“49:33”.
The Kansas City Chiefs left the field intact, carrying away an important victory from the away game.
The score suggested a clean victory for the Kansas City Chiefs; however, the game had been exceedingly close, only widening the gap in the latter half of the third quarter. Indeed, the Oakland Raiders had truly put the reigning champions to a severe test.
But the Kansas City Chiefs ultimately stood firm. This season, for the second time after a fierce battle and a loss, they swiftly adjusted and got back on track, avoiding a losing streak, while gradually showing the mature side of a strong team.
At the same time, this victory also afforded the Kansas City Chiefs some breathing room—
The New England Patriots were doggedly pursuing them, keeping alive the suspense over who would hold the top seed in the American League.
Now, as the Kansas City Chiefs returned to the win column by defeating the Oakland Raiders, and the New England Patriots unexpectedly lost to the Tennessee Titans led by Derrick Henry, facing their third defeat of the season and momentarily slowing their chase, the number one and two seeds in the American League remained unchanged.
However, with four weeks still left in the regular season, there remained countless possibilities.
For the Kansas City Chiefs, home-field advantage in the playoffs was particularly crucial since the team had maintained an unbeaten record at home this season, with their only losses occurring away. Home-field advantage would play an even more critical role in the playoffs.
The Kansas City Chiefs needed to maintain their edge, and the New England Patriots were not about to give up the chase.
Then, in week fourteen of the regular season, the Kansas City Chiefs would face the toughest challenge at home this season. Whether they could maintain their unbeaten home record would depend on this:
The traditional powerhouse of the American League, the Baltimore Ravens.