克林特·库比亚克是拉斯维加斯突袭者队的首年主教练，或许是因为缺乏经验，又或许是因为在中场休息时领先堪萨斯城酋长队而陷入了激动的时刻，周日在带领球队进入中场更衣室前，他预言球队将获胜。
Klint Kubiak is the first-year head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders so maybe it's inexperience or getting lost in the moment of having a halftime lead over the Kansas City Chiefs, but on Sunday before he took his team into the halftime locker room, he predicted a victory.
就在全国电视直播中。"这还不够好，我们必须做得更好，"当CBS边线记者特雷西·沃尔夫森询问球队跑球进攻乏力的问题时，库比亚克说道。"但你知道什么，我们正在领先。"我们将会赢下这场比赛。"
On national television. "It's not good enough, we got to do better," Kubiak told CBS sideline reporter Tracy Wolfson when she asked about the team's rushing game struggles. "But you know what, we're winning. "We're going to win the game."
曾拥抱"法外之徒"形象的突袭者队如今拥有"零废柴"，主教练克林特·库比亚克称 是的，好吧，并没有。酋长队 30 分。突袭者队 27 分。
RAIDERS FRANCHISE THAT ONCE EMBRACED AN OUTLAW IMAGE NOW HAS 'NO TURDS,' COACH KLINT KUBIAK SAYS Yeah, well, no. Chiefs 30. Raiders 27.
抱歉，克林特，你不是乔·纳马特。"那是我当时的感受，"赛后库比亚克说道。"我只是说出了我的感受。" 所以，这不是一时口误。
Sorry, Klint, but Joe Namath you are not. "That's how I felt," Kubiak said after the game. "I just said what I felt." So, it wasn't a slip of the tongue.
但这是性格上的失误，因为自从他在二月份接手这份工作以来，库比亚克一直不愿说出任何可能引起波澜甚至成为新闻的话。这家伙甚至在季前赛最后一周都不愿亲口宣布柯克·库辛斯为首发四分卫，尽管所有人都知道库辛斯就是那个人。
But it was a slip of the personality because Kubiak has been reticent about saying things that would cause any ripples or even be newsworthy since he got this job in February. This guy couldn't bring himself to name Kirk Cousins the starting quarterback the final week of the preseason even though everyone knew Cousins was the guy.
所以，无论这个中场预言是什么，它都让库比亚克不得不思考一个未来的哲学问题：在对阵安迪·里德和堪萨斯城酋长队的比赛中场休息时吹牛（说大话），明智吗？
So whatever the halftime prediction was, it left Kubiak having to ponder this philosophical question going forward: is it wise to to talk (bleep) in the middle of a game against Andy Reid and the Kansas City Chiefs?
必须指出的是，任何认为3胜0负的突袭者队主场迎战3胜0负的酋长队会是酋长队轻松取胜的人，和库比亚克在中场休息时一样大错特错。
It should be said that anyone who looked at the 3-0 Raiders hosting the 3-0 Chiefs as an easy win for the Chiefs was as wrong as Kubiak was at halftime.
突袭者队给酋长队制造了巨大麻烦，比赛悬念一直保留到最后一回合，这要归功于裁判的某种帮助——他们在最后几秒判定拉斯维加斯队一个未完成的传球为完成传球，且懒得请求视频回放。柯克·库辛斯随后传出了比赛结束的拦截。但在那之前？这是一场胶着的比赛。
The Raiders gave the Chiefs all they could handle and it went down to the final play of the game thanks to some help from officials who ruled a completion on a Las Vegas incomplete pass and didn't bother to ask replay in the final seconds. Kirk Cousins followed that with a game-ending interception. But before then? This was a tight game.
这也是一场库比亚克损害了自己球队的比赛。除了那个失败的预言。
And it was also a game in which Kubiak hurt his team. Beyond the failed prediction.
这就是因为在上半场以13-10领先后，踢球手马特·盖伊在第三节命中一记41码射门得分， Raiders 似乎将领先优势扩大到了16-10。
That's because after leading 13-10 at halftime, the Raiders seemingly extended the lead to 16-10 in the third quarter when kicker Matt Gay connected on a 41-yard field goal.
但库比亚克选择取消这3分，因为酋长队被判罚非法站位。于是库比亚克决定在第四档2码时选择进攻。
But Kubiak's elected to take the points off the board because the Chiefs were flagged for illegal formation. So Kubiak decided to go for it on fourth-and-2.
结果第四档传球未果， Raiders 颗粒无收——而他们最终以3分之差输掉了比赛。"我把这3分拿掉了，因为我们赛前就决定要激进打法，"库比亚克说。"我不后悔这个决定。我后悔的是没转化成功。" 只要他能偶尔兑现预测，这种自信和豪言壮语会让 Raiders 球迷对库比亚克青睐有加。
And that was followed by an incomplete pass on fourth down that resulted in zero points for the Raiders – in a game they lost by 3. "I took three points off the board and we were going to be aggressive going into the game," Kubiak said. "I don't regret it. I regret not getting it." All of this swagger and bravado is going to endear Kubiak to Raiders fans as long as he, you know, makes good on a prediction every once in while.
但如果他总是开出球队兑现不了的空头支票，这也会让他显得很难看。库比亚克必须认识到，如今领跑AFC西区的酋长队，是一支会掏空你账户的球队。
But it is also going to make him look bad if he keeps writing verbal checks his team cannot fund. Kubiak must learn that the Chiefs, leading the AFC West now, are an account-draining team.
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尽管 Raiders 赛季前三场比赛第四节零失分，但酋长队在第四节轰出三记达阵。
Even though the Raiders had not allowed any fourth-quarter points in any of their first three games of the season, the Chiefs scored three touchdowns in the fourth quarter.
跑卫肯尼斯·沃克独揽其中两次达阵，单场冲球177码，创职业生涯新高。这说明了一切。这就是酋长队的方式。比赛结束前，他们对结果只字不提。然后让记分牌讲述一切。
Running back Kenneth Walker had two of those scores en route to a 177-yard rushing day. That's a career high and it spoke volumes. That is the way for the Chiefs. They said nothing about the outcome of this game until it was over. Then they allowed the scoreboard to tell the tale.