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The first week of the 2018 NFL season is in the books. It saw two AFC West teams begin the season with a win and two with a loss. Leading the way was the Chiefs who took out the Chargers. Then the Broncos beat the Seahawks and finally the Raiders fell to the Rams on Monday Night.Standings:Kansas City Chiefs 1-0 (1-0 Div)Denver Broncos 1-0 (0-0 Div)Oakland Raiders 0-1 (0-0 Div)Los Angeles Chargers 0-1 (0-1 Div)How we got here:Chiefs beat Chargers 38-28The Chiefs went into LA and painted the town red. Check out this shot of the game and try to spot some Chargers blue in there (it isn’t easy).I mean Oakland Raiders Hats , the Raiders have long blacked out Chargers games, even in San Diego and especially in Los Angeles. But this is absurd.It was a shootout in LA. Philip Rivers completed 34 passes for 424 yards and three touchdowns and STILL managed to lose. That’s because Chiefs new gunslinger Patrick Mahomes threw FOUR touchdowns. And he did it on just 15 completions.More impressive might be Tyreek Hill who ‘reeked’ havoc on the Chargers. The first time he touched the ball was on the Chargers punt after their opening series. And Hill returned it 91 yards for the score. He would add to it later in the first quarter with a 58-yard touchdown catch.The Chargers would get to within two point down 14-12 in the second quarter. But two touchdowns in the third quarter had the Chiefs pull away. And, of course, the dagger was delivered by Hill from Mahomes from one yard out to go up 38-20 midway through the fourth quarter. Chiefs look tough and Mahomes looks like the real deal. But it’s one game so let’s not get ahead of ourselves.Next up (Chiefs): Pittsburgh Steelers (0-0-1)Next up (Chargers): Buffalo Bills (0-1)Broncos outlast Seahawks to win 27-24In a game that featured 7 lead changes, the Broncos scored last score to eek out the victory.The Broncos will take the win, but barely beating a bad Seahawks team at home is not a rousing success. Especially when it took essentially two missed field goals by Sebastian Janikowski to do it.Late in the second quarter, Janikowski lined up for a 51-yard field goal and missed it wide left. But he would get another chance because the Broncos were flagged for being offsides. He lined up for another try from 46-yards and...missed it again wide left. This sent the teams into the half time locker room with the Broncos up 17-10.The Seahawks were able to tie it up in the third following back-to-back turnovers by each team. First a fumble by the Seahawks and then Case Keenum throwing an interception on the first play of the Broncos series to give the Seahawks the ball at the Denver 41.Five plays later, the Seahawks were in the end zone on a 20-yard touchdown pass from Russell Wilson to Brandon Marshall to tie it up at 17-17. Early in the fourth quarter, the Seahawks added another touchdown to go up 24-20.Keenum was able to lead the Broncos down the field on the following drive, including a 25-yard pass to rookie Courtland Sutton and a 22-yard pas to tight end Jake Butt (no pun intended) to put the Broncos in first and goal. Keenum put it in the end zone on one play to DeAnthony Thomas to give the Broncos the final lead of the day.Keenum had an up and down day. He threw for 329 yards and 3 touchdowns but he also threw three picks. This is important to note, because the Raiders head to Denver this week to face Keenum and the Broncos.Next up: Oakland Raiders (0-1)Raiders dumped by Rams 33-13Like Keenum, Derek Carr also had three interceptions in week one for the Raiders. But he didn’t offset it with three touchdown passes. He had zero touchdown passes. But he did throw a pick six and was intercepted in the end zone. That’s the opposite of throwing a touchdown pass.An opening touchdown drive was followed up by a couple field goal drives in the first half and an utterly incompetent second half that saw the Rams literally run away with the game. First it was Todd Gurley doing the running (20 carries for 108 yards) and then it was Marcus Peters picking off a Carr pass and returning it the other way to nail the coffin.The one big bright spot was Jared Cook because he was working against the Rams only glaring weak area (the linebackers) most of the time. The times he was thrown to with a defensive back covering him both resulted in interceptions.Another potential bright spot was the play of the corners, though Brandin Cooks and Cooper were still able to catch 5 passes each. Cooks had 87 yards and Cupp had a touchdown.Next up: Denver Broncos (1-0)Follow @LeviDamienRaiderdamus’ Friday Foretelling: Raiders vs. Browns We are required to inform you that these Foretellings are works of satire and are not for the faint of heart. Due to their content they should not be read by anyone. Please enjoy at your own risk. -The EditorGreetings, Raider Nation! It is I, the Sultan of Sages, the Poobah of Prognostication, the father of foresight and the Prince of Prophets, Raiderdamus the Great and Powerful. I come to you today fresh off a successful and correct prediction of a Raiders loss, and though I am upset by this development, I am also exultant and reveling in the fact that I am King Shit of Fuck Mountain.This week, the Raiders host the Browns, who are fresh off a victory over the hapless Jets. The Browns are a fascinating team, in that they appear to have talent but are coached by Hue Jackson, who has made a career of wasting the careers of men far more worthy than he. What will win out, the Browns’ ability to play, or Hue’s ability to grasp defeat from the jaws of glory?Anyway Oakland Raiders Hoodie , enough of what I have to say, None of you are here to listen to me. You are all here to hear what the Great Beyond has for us all this week. Prostrate yourselves, mortals, and hearken to his words:“You’re back! i see the Raiders lost again, and I also know there were many who disagreed with me. They have the luxury of being wrong without damaging their reputation. But crow must be eaten eventually. Who do you got this week? The Browns? Shit, we do this every year. Do you know how tiresome it is to talk shit about Ohio every year? There are only so many diabetes jokes in the world.When we talk about the futility of the Browns, we must begin with their coach, Hue Jackson. This is a man who has turned falling up into performance art, and suffered more crushing losses along the way than Napoleon in Russia in 1812. But the Browns aren’t even the best team in Ohio who refuses to fire their coach.The difference is, the last time Jim Brown committed domestic abuse, he wasn’t actually employed by the Browns, so nobody had to cover for him. It took a Watergate-level cover up for Zach Smith to remain employed at Ohio State. Fuck you, Buckeyes, I hope Penn State beats your shitheel asses by 50 points tomorrow and every year until the end of time, you’re no better than they are and you fucks never get to take the high road on anything ever again. Eat shit. This offseason, the Browns added an assload of talent to their roster. They upgraded multiple position groups and the coaching staff. But their best move was addition by subtraction, as they finally got rid of longtime Brown, Owen Sixteen.Indeed, the Browns failed to win a game last year. When you take all the Ws away from the Browns, they become the Brons. Now that there are no more Brons in Cleveland, the team can finally get its W back.The winningest quarterback in the Browns’ stadium is Ben Roethlisberger, who plays for the Steelers. Longtime Brown cornerback Joe Haden finally got a playoff win last year, for the Steelers.Many teams in the NFL have cool and iconic logos. The Raiders have the shield. The Cowboys have the star. The Jaguars have a cat head drawn by someone who has clearly never seen a jaguar. But the Browns are the only team whose logo is their own helmet, because they are the one team which must constantly remind fans that they are a football team and not just an extended practical joke on the people of Ohio.Photo by Mitchell Leff/Getty ImagesPlaying the Browns in September is weird, Usually, the only time they’re relevant is from February to May and then they see their shadow and there’s six more weeks of winter. But this year Customized Oakland Raiders Jerseys , they have the distinction of getting a win in Week 3. Winning two weeks in a row is highly unlikely for the Browns, as the last time they won in consecutive weeks was November of 2014. Normally, the Browns make their fans extremely excited about only one thing- alcohol. But this time, they made their fans excited about Bud Light, and that should be a federal offense, When the city of Cleveland lost their team in the mid-90s, they had a golden opportunity to finally rid themselves of the Browns stench for all time. They could perhaps have not sought a new football team at all. Instead, being the stubborn nihilistic syphilitics that they are, they brought back the Browns, which was the least appropriate name for the new team. They should have named them the Cleveland Bye Weeks, because that’s what every team who played them got.The Browns’ most dangerous offensive player of the last decade was Josh Gordon, who is just like any other Ohioan- drug-addled and battling serious mental illness until he finally gets out of Ohio altogether and becomes a productive member of society. Godspeed, Josh.So pathetic are the Browns that their very name is a reference to shit. “Taking the Browns to the Super Bowl” is a euphemism for emptying one’s bowels, which is similar to the product the team puts on the field. They should give up their team website, for their inability to string three Ws together.The reason the Browns still have so many dedicated fans is because there are no distractions in Ohio from football, abject failure, or some combination thereof. In Los Angeles or Miami, you can go to the beach and see many beautiful women, or enjoy the local nightlife. In Ohio, night means wolf attacks, and the women have a thick layer of blubber and facial hair to survive the harsh Ohio winter, marked by lake effect winds and heavy snow. Ohio is a disgusting, vile place with a distinct smell that sets it apart from the surrounding areas, full of people who want nothing more to leave or die but cannot. It is the Bakersfield of America. It is where all the sins of mankind have come to fester, and the Browns are Ohio’s punishment for their continued existence.You deserved this, Ohio. You are an affront to God www.raidersfootballauthentics.com , and the worst that humanity has to offer. You make Missouri look like Hawaii. You mock good sense and statistics. You used analytics and went 0-16, worse than the year where you based your draft strategy on the advice of a crazy homeless person. The one championship you have is in basketball, which is not a real sport as it can be played by shifty South Americans and spineless Europeans, and you will never, ever win one again in anything. Cleveland, you cannot even win “Worst City”, because Gary, Indiana is right there, closer to Chicago than you will ever be, and it kills you to know that,Enjoy your brief moment of glory right now, right this fucking instant, Cleveland, because this is as good as it gets. You all know how this story ends. The most Browns thing imaginable would be for the Browns to offer you the slightest glimmer of hope and then rattle off ten straight losses, like the pretty girl in Safeway who smiled at you and you never saw her again, even though you built elaborate fantasies in your mind about how it would go if you asked her out but were too chickenshit to do so. You will watch this game in your underwear and weep for what might have been, because you do not deserve any hope. You are wretched enough to remain Browns fans after what they have done to you. There is no shelter for battered NFL fans, there is only selling out and putting on a Steelers jersey, and suffering through a second-round playoff loss to the Patriots. You call this pride and loyalty; I call it the folly of a town whose identity is Stockholm Syndrome.Despite all this, the Browns are actually playing well at this time. It clearly won’t last, but the Raiders look so lost in the second half at this point that the Browns may actually pull this one off. They may have so much talent that even a hack like Hue Jackson can’t ruin it.Browns win, 29-27.”