Five Reasons the Chiefs Offense Found Success Against the Raiders

The Chiefs ran four plays in the first quarter of Sunday’s game against the Las Vegas Raiders. Four passes, no first downs.

Things were rough early, but even before things started heating up for the offense, you could see some things changed for the offense. The Chiefs rolled out 12 personnel with Isiah Pacheco, Travis Kelce, Noah Gray, Justin Watson, and Rashee Rice.

“This is their best personnel grouping,” I said to myself watching it live.

The Chiefs tried a screen play to open the game with that grouping. Naturally, it lost eleven yards. Regardless, you could see things were different from the jump after another loss got put on the ledger just six days prior at home again the Philadelphia Eagles.

After two early punts, the offense found footing, momentum, and perhaps the building blocks of an identity. They went back to some basics, and started lighting up the scoreboard again after a brutal first quarter that saw them trailing 14-0.

It brought reason for optimism that the offense will start figuring things out, and the good news is that what they did is largely repeatable. Here are five things the Chiefs did to help break out of an offensive slump.