"Once the defender gets their hands around him, gets him wrapped up, your job is a defensive guy is to go after the ball," Woodson said.
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The Raiders capitalized this time on a 25-yard touchdown pass from Derek Carr to Michael Crabtree, all thanks to a player who certainly knows how to create turnovers. RELATED: Fourth-quarter turnovers doom Raiders in 34-20 loss to Chiefs #OAKvsKC /RpT0K2HTPb- NFL December 6, 2015 This time, he not only recovered the fumble and returned it 38 yards, but he was also the one to rip the ball out of the hands of Kansas City tight end Travis Kelce.Ĭharles Woodson would like this football. Oakland's offense couldn't convert, but Woodson struck again a few possessions later. Woodson was in the right place at the right time and scooped up the fumble to give the Raiders the ball. On the first play of the second quarter, Chiefs quarterback Alex Smith hit Jeremy Maclin for a 16-yard gain, but that ball was stripped by Oakland linebacker Malcolm Smith. "Felt like the team was building on something and felt like we were going to get this win today."Īnd the Raiders were in position to win largely because of Woodson. You had your chances and everybody understands what's at stake at this point.
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For us, it was that playoff atmosphere, it was a rival, it was the Chiefs. "We were treating this as it was our playoffs," Woodson said of a Raiders team that entered the day with a 5-6 record and a shot at putting itself right back in the middle of the AFC Wild Card race. Then he threw another and finally one more that was returned all the way back for a score.īut letting a win slip away like that was only half the frustration. A few minutes into the quarter, though, Derek Carr threw an interception to set up a Chiefs touchdown. But one of the biggest was the fact the Raiders entered the fourth quarter with a 20-14 lead on their home field. Sunday's loss was tough to swallow for a lot of reasons. "Won a lot of games, lost a lot of games, but that was probably one of the hardest losses that I've been a part of in my career. "I've played a lot of football in my life," Woodson said after the game. And Sunday's 34-20 loss to the Chiefs stung about as bad as any of those lows.
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In all that time, including 11 seasons in Oakland with a stop in Green Bay in between, Woodson has seen the highest highs and the lowest lows. Raiders safety Charles Woodson played in his 250th career game Sunday as he closes in on the end of his 18th NFL season.