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OAKLAND Terrance Smith Jersey , Calif. (AP) — Patrick Mahomes and the dynamic Kansas City Chiefs offense got all of the production they needed in a breathtaking second quarter.Mahomes bounced back from the first scoreless opening quarter of his career in the regular season by throwing four touchdown passes in a near-perfect second period that led the Chiefs to a 28-10 victory over the Oakland Raiders on Sunday.The Raiders (1-1) held Mahomes in check for the opening 15 minutes and kept him off the scoreboard in the second half, but it didn’t matter because he carved up an overmatched defense with big play after big play in the second quarter for the Chiefs (2-0).Article continues below ...“We were just hitting on the plays,” Mahomes said. “We stayed with the same game plan, called the same plays. We hit on them in the second quarter and missed them in the other parts of the game. We had a great quarter. But as an offense there was too much sloppiness. We weren’t as efficient as we usually are.”Mahomes didn’t take long to get started in the second quarter, finding Demarcus Robinson open on a blown coverage for a 44-yard touchdown pass on the first play in the second quarter. He didn’t slow down from there.After the Raiders opted to punt on a fourth-and-1 near midfield, Mahomes and the Chiefs marched 95 yards and scored when Mahomes found rookie Mecole Hardman on a 42-yard deep strike for his first career catch to give Kansas City a 14-10 lead.The Chiefs didn’t stop there with Mahomes connecting on two more long TD passes in the final two minutes of the half, a 27-yarder to Travis Kelce and a 39-yarder to Robinson as the absence of injured star Tyreek Hill did little to slow Kansas City.“That’s just what we do,” Robinson said.Mahomes finished 30 for 44 for 443 yards. Robinson had six catches for 172 yards and two scores and Kelce had seven catches for 107 yards and a TD to give the Chiefs their ninth win in the past 10 meetings in this long-time rivalry.The Raiders had broken out to a 10-0 lead with a field goal on the opening drive and a 4-yard TD pass to Tyrell Williams later in the first quarter. But Derek Carr also threw an interception in the end zone on a pass to Williams in the third quarter and the Raiders didn’t score over the final three periods.“They made some plays, a barrage of plays, in about a five-minute period,” Raiders coach Jon Gruden said. “It really turned the game around.”BY THE NUMBERSMahomes’ 278 yards passing in the second quarter were the most for a player in any quarter since Drew Brees had 294 in the fourth period against Atlanta on Nov. 9, 2008. Mahomes ended the quarter with a bang, with his last five pass attempts each going for at least 27 yards, with TDs to Hardman Khalen Saunders Kansas City Chiefs Jerseys , Kelce and Robinson. The streak extended with a 28-yarder to Robinson on the first play of the third quarter before Mahomes finally threw an incompletion.RECORD SETTERCarr became the Raiders’ career passing leader on a 16-yard pass to Darren Waller in the second quarter, breaking the mark of 19,078 set by Hall of Famer Ken Stabler. Carr finished the day 23 for 38 for 198 yards with one TD and two interceptions. He has 19,196 yards in his career.GOODBYE DIRTThis is likely the final NFL game ever played with infield dirt on the field with the Raiders next home game not until after the end of the World Series and the team set to move to Las Vegas next year. The Coliseum is the last stadium that hosts both NFL and baseball games and has special meaning to Mahomes, whose father Patrick Mahomes Sr. pitched here exactly 24 years ago, two days before the younger Mahomes was born.“It was really cool,” Mahomes said of playing on the same dirt his father did.INJURIESChiefs: LT Eric Fisher left on the opening drive after reinjuring his groin that he hurt in practice on Friday. Cam Erving replaced him. … RB Damien Williams (bruised knee) and RB LeSean McCoy (ankle) also got hurt, but those injuries are not believed to be serious.Raiders: Returner Dwayne Harris injured his left ankle covering a punt in the second quarter and didn’t return. … RT Trent Brown left in the fourth quarter with a sore knee.UP NEXTChiefs: host Baltimore in home opener Sunday.Raiders: begin a long stretch away from home at Minnesota on Sept. 22. Oakland won’t return to the Coliseum until Nov. 3, with four road games, a bye and a “home” game against Chicago in London on Oct. 6.Patrick Mahomes Week 2 film review: something smart and something special This is part two of a three-part weekly film analysis on the performance of Patrick Mahomes. Part one here.There have been so many fascinating pieces of information from the early moments of Patrick Mahomes. It’s going to be hard for fans to completely grasp the abnormality of what has happened through two weeks in Kansas City. Not to the fault of anyone—it’s just so much more than we’re capable of consuming. I’m firmly in that boat. Little reminders keep popping up.Fans would probably be over the moon for 75 percent of what’s happened to this point. Mahomes is exceeding expectations that seemed unattainable. He’s been that great. It’s almost felt a little excessive how much fun these first two weeks have been.Today is the day we fawn over the mental and physical capabilities of recently-turned 23-year-old Mahomes. There are reasons he outshined a future Hall of Fame quarterback in Ben Roethlisberger on Sunday.Something smartGoing back to his time in Lubbock at Texas Tech, Mahomes has developed a comfort playing out of empty formations.I wrote this summer that I anticipated them using empty looks a good amount. I didn’t expect it would be this much. Mahomes was fantastic out of empty this week.On this play, the Steelers are playing a two-high safety shell. If a team plays Cover 2 in this 3x2 formation, Travis Kelce is licking his chops. Lined up inside and detached from the line, he is in a prime position to split the two safeties down the middle of the field if they maintain that shell and the safeties split the field in half. It’s likely that he’s reading this play. If he is capped with a safety sitting in the middle of the field Kansas City Chiefs Jerseys 2019 , he would sit down and find space. Instead, he’s got a chance to score.Mahomes knows that if he can hold the safety, he can work back to Kelce for six. On the snap, Mahomes peaks to his right to check blitz/confirm coverage, then stares hard to his left to hold the safety, keeping him from tightening to Kelce. He does a fantastic job of holding as long as he can, giving Kelce as much space to work as possible.As Matt Lane mentioned in his excellent article, the pre-snap shifts seemed to have caused a busted coverage on this look for the underneath defenders as well. Three defenders are in man underneath, the rest in zone with no one over the running back.With Conley getting chased across the formation, no one over the running back and the alignment the Steelers seem to be sorting through late, Mahomes had to know they weren’t sound. The throw wasn’t perfect, it was a little low, but it didn’t matter. Mahomes understood the opportunity based on the coverage and even though he threw it low, Kelce was still able to finish the play for a touchdown.Empty looks can be beneficial to a young quarterback if he can handle it. Mahomes’ background is paying dividends in that regard.Something specialThe Mahomes-to-Kelce connection was providing several moments of promise this week. That duo made up for lost time in a big way.Quarterbacks make their money on third down and in the red zone. Performance in those two areas is usually telling of the abilities of a quarterback. The Steelers are showing a single-high safety look Khalen Saunders Jersey Cheap , but it’s merely a disguise for their Tampa 2 coverage, which is Cover 2 with a middle linebacker running to a deep middle zone. The Chiefs are running a simple four verticals out of a 2x2 look post-Hill’s motion into the boundary.Where this week’s something special required Mahomes to hold a defender with his eyes, here he had to use excellent anticipation, ball placement and rare velocity to exploit sound coverage up the seam.The seam-hook defender, Vince Williams, runs with Kelce all the way to the top of his drop. The deep middle zone defender, Jon Bostic opens up to the strength of the pass play (the boundary with Kelce, Hill and Hunt) to carry the vertical but has no chance to challenge the throw because the ball is out so quick. At the release of the ball, the safety is getting width to maintain leverage on both Kelce and Hill and has no chance to close because of the anticipation, accuracy and velocity on the ball. There wasn’t much any defender could do,You might think that the ball was slightly inaccurate. That ball placement was absolutely intentional. Kelce is in a tight space between three defenders dropping into coverage. He didn’t want to pull Kelce to close to the inside linebacker running vertically so he split the space in half to protect him. Mahomes was drawing Kelce away from as much contact as possible.We’re yet to even talk about the velocity on the ball. That ball appeared to me to be the one with the most zip on it all day. He put something behind that in order to place the ball where he wanted. That’s a remarkable throw. A rare throw.