here are all the ways this game hurts

1. It's the Raiders. You never want to lose to the Raiders. Prior to me moving to Denver, they were the team I wanted to beat the most.

2. It's embarrassing. The Raiders are a laughingstock. You don't want to be the team that loses to an 0-10 team. Plus, now they can't go 0-16.

3. Next week's game vs the Broncos is not for first place, unless the Broncos lose to Miami.

4. It blew the Chiefs divisional record, which is used as a tiebreaker if the Chiefs beat the Broncos. So it would appear unlikely that the Chiefs would own any tiebreakers, greatly reducing their chances of winning the division.

5. In ESPN's Playoff Machine, if the Chiefs had won tonight, and then you set the rest of the games to home field wins, the Chiefs would have been the #1 seed. Now a wild-card seems like their best case scenario.

6. There's even a chance that they slip out of the playoffs. You can never take anything for granted. They could lose down the stretch like they did last year and miss in entirely.

7. This essentially erases last week's win over the champs.

8. It erases a valiant comeback effort.

9. I hate blaming shit on the refs when the Chiefs blew it so many times, but I thought that was a terrible PI call against Parker on a 3rd down on the Raiders last drive. I thought it was going to be offensive interference and push it back to a 57-yard field goal attempt to tie...instead it gave them a fresh set of downs.

10. It ends a five-game winning streak and now the rest of the season is in jeopardy.

The only silver lining is we have 10 days to prepare for the Broncos. Win that one and I'll forgive (but won't forget) this one.