Silver And Black Pride
Andy Reid trolling the Silver & Black is nothing new.
The Kansas City Chiefs head coach and primary offensive play caller makes no bones about making a mockery of the Las Vegas Raiders defense during his tenure. Remember the “Ring Around the Rosie” play Reid deployed just two seasons ago?
Kansas City had a spinning huddle on that particular play, then broke out of it to run a touchdown-scoring trick play. A holding call wiped out the score, however, on the very next play, Reid dialed up a traditional end around that resulted in a touchdown anyway.
Would Reid’s trolling extend to his Chiefs losing on purpose to cost the Raiders the No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft?
I don’t think so. And it’s tomfoolery to even suggest it.
First and foremost — and this revelation likely arrived after Hondo Carpenter’s notion above — the lowest the Raiders can drop in the draft is the No. 2 overall selection.
Second, this Sunday’s matchup in Allegiant Stadium may likely be tight end Travis Kelce’s final game.
And third, despite being eliminated from the postseason and having 10-straight playoff appearances and nine-straight division champions streaks snapped, Reid is still a prideful coach and nothing would be more pleasing than his depleted team defeating the haphazard Raiders — emphatically.
“I’d like to have fun playing football, practice with a lot of energy, get ready for a game. We’re playing Kansas City. They won the freaking division for 10 years straight or whatever it is. It’ll be fun to play them. Fun to go against Andy , to me. And so, there’s no reason for us to think about anything other than playing ball,” Raiders head coach Pete Carroll said during his media availability on Monday when asked on what he wants to see from his football team this last week. “And so, from the locker room, that’s what I said to them afterward, that we got one week to do something special. Let’s make sure that we do everything we can to create that, and we’ll see what happens.”
The Atlanta Falcons’ 27-24 upset victory over the Los Angeles Rams this past Monday night, triggered a shift in the strength of schedule that the NFL uses as tiebreakers when it comes to draft positioning. Thanks to Atlanta’s win, the Raiders cannot drop any lower than the No. 2 overall selection. This is due to the fact that the New York Jets cannot earn a tiebreaker over the Raiders or New York Giants if the trio of teams all finished 3-14 overall.
The presumed course of action this offseason for Las Vegas is to use it’s Top 2 selection on a quarterback prospect. While both Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza and Oregon’s Dante Moore are the early favorites to be the top signal callers from the collegiate landscape, neither have officially declared for the draft. Prospects have until mid-January to declare.
With that in mind, it’s difficult to...
