The Kansas City Chiefs and the Oakland Raiders will face off on Sunday in Week 13 of the NFL 2015 regular season. Both teams are either side of the .500 mark coming into today's game and this one could hold some Playoff implications for both sides. The game has a scheduled start time of 4.05 p.m. ET and takes place from O.co Coliseum in Oakland, California. The game can be watched on TV on the CBS network or online through live stream via the link below.
Last season the Chiefs were on an excellent run of five straight wins before heading to Oakland and losing. That loss sparked a slump that saw them miss out on the postseason berth.
This season the Chiefs are also coming into this road game on the back of five straight wins, and they know they must get a different result to last season or else they could fall into the same fate.
Kansas City started this season 1-5, but have since come storming back to 6-5 and are now just three games behind the Broncos. The Chiefs are in the first Wild Card spot but have no room for comfort as there are five teams on 6-5. In addition, the Oakland Raiders and the Buffalo Bills are just a game behind that on 5-6.
That means neither of these teams today can afford to lose, and with just a month of the regular season remaining it is increasingly becoming do or die time for the teams bunched together fighting for the Wild Card spots.
Earlier this week, NFL Thursday Night Football saw the Green Bay Packers take on the Detroit Lions, and although it looked like the Lions had the game in the bag, a spectacular comeback in the second half by the Packers saw them take the spoils to move to 8-4.
Green Bay went in at the half way point without a point on the board and were behind by 17. But whatever they drank at halftime seemed to do the trick, as they came back out and piled on the points winning the third quarter 14-3 to pull the score back to 14-20. They then completed their comeback in the final quarter, scoring another 13 points with the Lions offense shut down and only able to score another three to leave the final score at 27-23.
The game winning play came in dramatic style, with Aaron Rodgers throwing a 61 yard touchdown to Richard Rodgers with no time left on the clock.
The result will be a relief for the Packers, who had lost four of their last five, and will be setback for the Lions, who had won three straight games coming into the game. They will be hugely disappointed to have missed out on the chance to sweep the series for the first time since 1991.
Anytime a team loses a 20 point lead it is a huge blow, but the nature of the loss and the opposition will make the defeat that much worse for Detroit.
The Packers left it late to make their charge, only scoring their first points with just 5.44 on the clock in the third quarter. But once they got into their rhythm there was no stopping them.
On the final play, the only reason the Packers had their final chance was because Devin Taylor grabbed Aaron Rodgers facemark. If he had not done that then the game would have been over, but because of that foul, Green Bay were given another chance, and Aaron Rodgers didn't need to be told twice. He launched a massive 61 yard Hail Mary pass, which came off to leave the Detroit fans stunned and the Packers fans in ecstasy.
Rodgers admitted after the game: "I've never had a completed Hail Mary before."
Rodgers finished the game with 26 of 36 for 289 yards and two touchdowns, compared to Matthew Stafford's 23 of 35 for 220 yards and two touchdowns.
Today's big game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Oakland Raiders has a scheduled start time of 4.05 p.m. ET and can be watched on TV on the CBS network or online through live stream by clicking here.
