the Oakland Raiders Womens Carlos Hyde Jersey , 35-3, on Sunday to clinch the AFC West division and the No. 1 seed in the AFC playoffs. Here are the game’s winner and losers:WinnersDenny Medley-USA TODAY SportsThis is normally an article in which I will pick and choose from names of coaches and players, and I will get to that—I assure you. But I find that a night like Sunday is first and foremost for Chiefs fans. The Chiefs have been in Kansas City since 1963, and in that span, they have one Super Bowl to show for it. The NFL has been working with six-seeded brackets since 1990, and in that span, the Chiefs have been the top seed only two other times. The last time was 1997. That means clinching the No. 1 seed was more than two decades in the making. And the main reason for the clinch? The quarterback. Nothing against Alex Smith, who did a fine job in Kansas City from 2013-17, but Patrick Mahomes is the reason Kansas City is part of the national conversation again. Mahomes had 281 yards, two touchdowns and one interception on Sunday night, finishing the season with 5,097 yards, 50 touchdowns and 12 interceptions. Only two other players—Tom Brady and Peyton Manning—have thrown for 50 touchdowns, and only Manning has done it while throwing for more than 5,000 yards. Mahomes also set the franchise record for most completions in a season with 383. Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY SportsMahomes’ partner in crime, Travis Kelce, owned the NFL’s all-time single-season receiving record among tight ends with 1,336 yards for about a half hour before 49ers rookie George Kittle passed him by finishing the season with 1,377. Kittle and Kelce are now one and two in the history books for receiving yards in a season by a tight end. Kelce, already the single-season record holder in receiving yards among tight ends in Chiefs franchise history, also set the franchise record for pass receptions in a season by finishing with 103. Kelce had five catches for 62 yards on Sunday.Tyreek Hill showed no signs of what had been a lingering foot injury when he was highly productive for the Chiefs on Sunday. Hill finished with five catches for 101 yards, including a 67-yard touchdown to break the Chiefs’ single-season franchise receiving record. Hill passed Derrick Alexander (2000), who was in attendance to capture the moment. Hill added another touchdown on a 15-yard rush attempt to seal the Chiefs’ 35-3 victory. And there was also this: Mahomes gets all the love, but Hill is having an early historical start to his career in his own right.Anthony Sherman deserves a tip of the cap for keeping the Chiefs’ opening drive going. I know by the end of the game, it was a dominant Chiefs performance Demarcus Robinson Jersey , but AFC West games are tricky, and you never know what could have happened if the Chiefs had to punt on their first drive. Instead, on third-and-10, Sherman willed his way to a 12-yard gain and the Chiefs ultimately went up 7-0 on Hill’s 67-yarder. Rounding out the running back room, with Spencer Ware sidelined again, Damien and Darrel Williams combined for 22 rushes and 82 yards. Damien had a touchdown.Demarcus Robinson had just one catch, but he made the most of it, breaking away from cornerback Rashaan Melvin and backpedaling 15 yards into the end zone. Robinson took a taunting penalty on the play, which wasn’t great, but the silver lining is that the Chiefs as a team only took four penalties on the night. That’s something to build on.Photo by Peter Aiken/Getty ImagesOn the defensive side of the football, let’s start with cornerback Kendall Fuller, who couldn’t play last week when he was on the wrong side of a game-time decision after having a procedure on a fractured thumb/hand. Fuller played on Sunday and led the Chiefs in tackles with 12. As we continue to wonder why others have trouble finding the field, remember that Fuller is doing whatever it takes to be out there.With the Raiders being somewhat inexperienced along their offensive line, especially on the right side, I thought Justin Houston could be in line for a big night. He followed through, tallying 1.5 sacks on the night, including a strip sack of Derek Carr and a fumble recovery. Houston finished with 9.0 sacks on the season, forcing a single-season career-high five fumbles on the season. Xavier Williams shared one of Houston’s sacks.Dee Ford also got involved by sacking Carr and forcing a fumble, which was recovered by Oakland. Ford set a single-season career-high in sacks this season with 13.0. It remains to be seen how the Chiefs handle Ford, who is due to become an unrestricted free agent, this offseason. Ford forced seven fumbles this season. Early in the game, defensive lineman Allen Bailey forced a fumble on Raiders running back Doug Martin and recovered. There has seemed to have been a clear emphasis placed on attacking the ball this year for the Chiefs.Photo by David Eulitt/Getty ImagesChiefs safety Daniel Sorensen recorded a pick-six on one of the worst miscommunications I have ever seen between Carr and Jared Cook. The 54-yard touchdown made the score 14-0 Chiefs, and the team never really looked back after that. Linebacker Reggie Ragland also had an interception, his at the Kansas City 29-yard line, and he nearly returned it for a touchdown before being stopped at the Oakland 4-yard line. Ragland injured his hip on the play but eventually returned to the game.In his second game of real playing time http://www.chiefslockerroom.com/authentic-mitch-morse-jersey , rookie cornerback Charvarius Ward led the team with two passes defensed, adding nine tackles (all solo). The Chiefs may have made the right decision when it comes to Ward. Denny Medley-USA TODAY SportsBackup quarterback Chad Henne (!) saw his first action of the season on Sunday night. He finishes the season 2 for 3 for 29 yards, only 5,068 yards shy of Mahomes.LosersDenny Medley-USA TODAY SportsJon Gruden reportedly signed a 10-year, $100 million contract to coach the Raiders, then traded Khalil Mack, Amari Cooper and drove out his entire personnel department. He went 4-11, then talked about beating the Chiefs all week: The Chiefs won 35-3, and the Raiders finished 4-12 on the season. Defensive lineman Jared Allen retired from the NFL in 2015 and wasn’t ready to give up on the competition he’d come to enjoy as a five-time All-Pro.His solution: The Olympics.The problem: He didn’t compete in any Olympic sports.Less than a year later, Allen and three other former NFL stars — none with any prior experience — are attempting to qualify for the U.S. national curling championships against players who have been throwing stones for most of their lives.It would be the first step toward competing in the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing.“Every team in the NFL — whether you’re hot garbage or the defending Super Bowl champions — every coach come August says the same thing: ‘We’re trying to win the Super Bowl,'” Allen said. “We come from that mentality, where we set lofty goals.“Our short term goals are continually to get better: Fundamentals, strategy, sweeping. We know if we master these little things, it will take us a long way.”A 12-year NFL veteran who spent most of his career with the Chiefs and Vikings, Allen was lamenting the end of his playing days when a friend dared him to try an Olympic sport. Allen toyed with the idea of badminton but rejected it as too taxing.“We thought about curling. It was chill, and the winners have to buy the losers beer,” he said. “We thought it was a win-win.”He rounded up former Rams quarterback Marc Bulger and Titans linebacker Keith Bulluck and tackle Michael Roos to form a team; all were Pro Bowl selections during their NFL career, and living near Nashville, Tennessee.Adopting the name All-Pro Curling Team, they started from scratch in March and kept their plans under wraps until they felt like they had made enough progress.“We wanted the reaction when we got on the ice to be ‘Oh, how long have you guys been doing this?” Allen said in a telephone interview after practicing on a converted hockey rink in Nashville. “We were serious. We didn’t want it to seem like it was just some media hype, or just trying to stay relevant.”The first test was in November, when Allen and Bulger — with two “regular” curlers — competed in the Curl Mesabi Classic in Northern Minnesota. Their first opponent: The gold medal-winning team from Pyeongchang led by four-time Olympian John Shuster.They lost 11-3, giving up five points in the sixth end.“Honestly Womens Xavier Williams Jersey , they were a little better than I had expected,” said Matt Hamilton, the second on that team. “All in all, Jared was technically pretty sound. But at the end of the day, I’ve seen thousands of curling shots and situations and that is ultimately going to win us more games.”Although curling matches are often conceded when they are out of reach, the Olympians kept playing through the eighth (of 10) ends, to help the football players gain the experience they’ll need if they are going to be more competitive. (If it’s any consolation for Allen’s crew, Shuster’s rink also scored a five-ender against Sweden in the gold-medal match.)“We had one bad end, and we just kept playing with them. We just wanted to be a sponge,” Bulger said. “The key was they knew we were taking it seriously. It wasn’t just us saying ‘We’re going to take over curling,’ kind of as a gimmick.“We hope to play them again,” he said, “when we’re better.”The All-Pros are back at it at the USA Men’s Challenge Round this weekend in Blaine, Minnesota, where they are competing for one of four remaining spots in next month’s national championships. (Top teams like Shuster’s have already qualified.)They got off to a rough start in their first match, falling 10-1 to Steve Birklid’s Seattle-based rink on Thursday night. But, by hopping into the sport early in the Olympic cycle, they have almost three more years before the team for the 2022 Games is chosen.Hamilton confessed he was put off at first about newcomers thinking they could reach the Olympics in a sport he’d worked a lifetime to master. But he also realized the publicity will be good for curling, which has struggled to break out of its niche as an every-four-years curiosity.“If I really think I’m that good, I should be like ‘Bring it on!'” Hamilton said in an email to The Associated Press from a competition in Japan. “How much they respected the game, though, is what made me realize they aren’t making a mockery. We just have some extremely athletic individuals who respect sport but have a need to compete in their blood. Can’t disrespect that!”All four football players agreed the reception they’ve received from lifetime curlers is decidedly different from a curler trying to break into the hyper-competitive NFL.“Oh, he’d get smashed,” Allen said. “We’d go out of our way to test his mettle, for sure.”Instead Tyrann Mathieu Jersey , they found the tight-knit but friendly community of curlers was eager to accept them. In their match against the Olympians, there was trash-talking — or banter, depending on whom you ask — and Hamilton even gave them some of his old curling gear.“I looked at their broom heads and I was disgusted. I was wondering why these former pro football players couldn’t afford new broom heads,” he said. “So I went into my curling bag and gave them some gently used ones before the game. That really surprised Jared, claiming nothing like that would ever fly in football.”Like many of those who only experience curling every four years on TV, the football players saw the sweeping and the shouting and underestimated how hard it is. “We played football, but it’s a lot of muscles we didn’t use,” Bulger said.Sliding on the ice was also an adjustment, but the biggest challenge has been the strategy.When he first started watching, Bulger said, he would see curlers setting up protective stones called guards and thought they were missing their shots.“We just assumed that you throw to the button every time, and we learned that is not the game,” he said. “It’s like a novice chess player going against” a grandmaster.But their NFL experience did help in other ways, priming them with not just physical fitness but also good practice habits, making decisions on the fly and improving through film study and coaching.“Like any other sport, you have to learn, try to figure out how to get better,” Bulluck said. “Playing football at a very high level, being one of the best at the position once upon a time, to get to that level in anything you do you have to be able to take coaching.”And, of course, they’re competitive.“The message is: We want to bring attention to it. We want to have fun with it,” Allen said. “But we’re dead serious about what we’re trying to accomplish.”