Raiders’ Game Plans Come Off Unbalanced : Pro football: Opponents able to key on Brown and Williams, while speedsters get little use.

Tim Brown had a thought-provoking conversation with Kansas City’s Derrick Thomas when he left the field after the Raiders’ 13-3 loss to the Chiefs on Sunday night.

It went something like this:

Brown: “I can’t believe that we didn’t score a touchdown.”

Thomas: “Why not? All we had to do was key on you and Harvey Williams because that’s your offense.”

It is a point that is painfully true to Brown and the Raiders.

Against the Chiefs, Brown and Williams combined for 215 of the Raiders’ 248 yards in offense. Throw in Brown’s 88 yards for five punt returns and you have an extremely limited one-two attack.

Quarterback Jeff Hostetler said Wednesday it is important to spread the Raider offense around.

“It’s something we’re all conscious of,” he said. “We need to continue to work at it and try to get some things done. I think that we do a good job in practice, but come game time, we’re not getting it done like we should.”

In the Raiders’ last three games combined, Hostetler has completed 53 passes, 37 to either Brown or Williams. Also, Williams has carried 80 of the Raiders’ 89 rushes. Hostetler carried the other nine.

So what has happened to the Raiders’ other weapons, such as fullback Tom Rathman and receivers Alexander Wright, Rocket Ismail, James Jett and even Daryl Hobbs?

“I’ve been answering that question for two weeks now,” Raider Coach Art Shell said. “Everybody has to work to get open, and if you work to get open the quarterback will find you. That’s the way it is.”

Or is it?

On Wednesday, Wright and Jett did not want to discuss their roles in the offense as the Raiders limp into Sunday’s game against the Rams.

“I can’t speak for (Hostetler) and Rocket and Jett and all those guys,” Brown said. “All I can speak for is myself. When the route is called, I try to get open. And I try to do what I can do to get (Hostetler’s attention).”

One reason for the Raiders’ lack of variety has been pass-protection problems with the offensive line.

Three weeks ago, the Raiders turned to a ball-control running game with Williams when left tackle Gerald Perry suffered an ankle injury. To spark this type of offense, Shell inserted veteran Robert Jenkins at left tackle and replaced Bruce Wilkerson with Greg Skrepenak at right tackle.

Against Atlanta and Houston, both weaker opponents, the Raiders were able to get away with the strategy, but not against Kansas City.

The Chiefs took advantage by keying to stop the run and using a variety of basic zone defenses to double-cover Brown.

“We ran bracket coverage on Tim the whole game,” Kansas City safety Charles Mincy said. “When you have a go-to guy like him, it’s easy to concentrate on him wherever he goes.”

Normally such a plan leaves other receivers open, but the Raiders were limited because they used tight end Anthony Glover and Rathman in the backfield to block.

“We’re keeping a lot of guys in to protect,” Hostetler said. “A lot of cases, we had three receivers out with seven guys covering. That puts you in a tough situation sometimes. We just need to find the right mix between protecting and getting people out in patterns, and then getting the ball to the right people.”

Hostetler has been criticized for ignoring receivers other than Brown, and for holding on to the ball too long in the pocket.

“I think what’s been happening over the last three or four weeks is simply, if there’s a ball that’s been thrown, I’ve been put in position to go get the ball,” Brown said.

“I think that’s going to change. It’s going to have to change. In order for this team to go anywhere, we have to have productivity from everybody. I don’t mind catching eight, nine, 10 balls a game. We’ve been doing it the last couple of weeks and won. But when you lose, all of a sudden it becomes a big deal to everybody.”

In the exhibition season, the Raiders were so deep at wide receiver they sent Charles Jordan to Green Bay.

But the receivers have not done much since:

--Wright has seven catches for 103 yards and no touchdowns after catching 27 for 462 yards and four touchdowns last season.

--Jett, an Olympic gold medal-winning sprinter, has five catches for 80 yards and no touchdowns after catching 33 for 382 yards and four touchdowns a year ago.

--Ismail has 16 catches for 248 yards and one touchdown after catching 26 for 353 yards and one touchdown in limited action last season.

--Hobbs, the team’s top receiver in exhibitions, has not played the last two weeks after catching five passes for 52 yards in five of the first six games of the season.

“For whatever reason, we’re just not getting it done in the passing game the way it should be,” Shell said, “but there’s some things that we’re working on to try to make that better.

“Hopefully, this week we’ll be able to snap out and get more people involved in what we’re doing and be more productive in our passing game than we have in recent weeks.”

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