ALAMEDA, Calif. -- The second-quarter explosion by Patrick Mahomes was less than 24 hours old when a boisterous Johnathan Abram, his surgically repaired left shoulder in a sling, was holding court in a corner of the locker room at Oakland Raiders' team facility.
The rookie safety's booming drawl was bouncing off the walls as he and other members of the Raiders' secondary, still singed from the torching administered by the reigning NFL MVP and the Kansas City Chiefs, tried to make sense of what had gone down. That is, Mahomes making like Doug Williams in the second quarter of Super Bowl XXII in passing for 278 yards and four long touchdowns in one quarter of play, and how the Raiders' in-flux secondary can avoid a repeat this weekend against Kirk Cousins and the Minnesota Vikings.