Wow! It couldn't have gotten any worse for the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday. After a huge win for the franchise and the city last weekend, the Chiefs came out with what looked like a great game plan, but could not execute anything properly. I really did feel like I was watching a different Chiefs team from the start, but as the game went on, it was mistake after mistake, that turned this game into a blowout for the Chargers.
It was a pass that hit the side of a lineman's helmet and bounced into Quentin Jammers arms, that started the unbelievable streak of blunders for the Chiefs. After that was a Jamal Charles fumble, when he was stood up by two defenders and had it stripped by another. That followed by a ball slipping out of Matt Cassel's hand during his throwing motion, that turned into a touchdown. To top it all off, Rudy Niswanger launched a snap about 5 feet over Matt Cassel's head which lead to another score for the Chargers. If you throw in the safety, in which Cassel received an intentional grounding penalty in the end zone, that's a total of 30 points off of Chiefs mistakes. 30 points!
I'm gonna put this one into the "fluke" category and try to forget about it. I'm not sure if I have ever seen this many costly mistakes by the Chiefs in one game and I'm not sure I ever will again.
After the Chiefs went 91 yards in the Second Quarter to tie the game 7-7, I was sure that KC was going to give San Diego all that they could handle. They looked fresh, they looked motivated, they looked like a team with an identity. If this game would have been played close at all, Jamal looked like he would have had the biggest game of his career.
Well, it wasn't. The Chiefs players collectively threw this game down the toilet and now we have another 7 days, to see if we really have changed as a team or if we are just the same ol' Chiefs that we have been for the past 3 years.
Heres your box score:
Kansas City Chiefs
| Passing | CP/AT | YDS | TD | INT |
| M. Cassel | 19/31 | 178 | 1 | 1 |
| B. Croyle | 1/2 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Rushing | ATT | YDS | TD | LG |
| J. Charles | 14 | 93 | 1 | 31 |
| M. Cassel | 6 | 22 | 0 | 9 |
| Ko. Smith | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| T. Castille | 2 | -2 | 0 | 0 |
Receiving | REC | YDS | TD | LG |
| C. Chambers | 7 | 70 | 1 | 14 |
| J. Charles | 3 | 54 | 0 | 49 |
| B. Wade | 2 | 20 | 0 | 12 |
| L. Long | 2 | 15 | 0 | 9 |
| M. Cox | 2 | 11 | 0 | 8 |
| T. Castille | 2 | 9 | 0 | 6 |
| Ko. Smith | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| L. Pope | 1 | -3 | 0 | -3 |
| Defense | T-A | SCK | INT | FF |
| D. Williams | 7-2 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| M. Brown | 5-0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| B. Flowers | 5-0 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 |
| C. Mays | 5-2 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| J. McGraw | 5-0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| G. Dorsey | 4-3 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| T. Hali | 4-1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| A. Studebaker | 4-2 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| R. Edwards | 3-0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| D. Johnson | 3-0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| J. Belcher | 2-0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| B. Carr | 2-1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
San Diego Chargers
| Passing | CP/AT | YDS | TD | INT |
| P. Rivers | 21/28 | 317 | 2 | 0 |
| B. Volek | 1/1 | 15 | 0 | 0 |
Rushing | ATT | YDS | TD | LG |
| L. Tomlinson | 13 | 39 | 2 | 8 |
| M. Tolbert | 4 | 19 | 0 | 11 |
| D. Sproles | 9 | 17 | 0 | 6 |
| V. Jackson | 1 | 12 | 0 | 12 |
| P. Rivers | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| J. Hester | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| Receiving | REC | YDS | TD | LG |
| A. Gates | 7 | 118 | 2 | 22 |
| M. Floyd | 3 | 85 | 0 | 53 |
| D. Sproles | 5 | 66 | 0 | 20 |
| V. Jackson | 2 | 27 | 0 | 16 |
| M. Tolbert | 2 | 17 | 0 | 15 |
| B. Manumaleuna | 1 | 11 | 0 | 11 |
| L. Tomlinson | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| J. Hester | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Defense | T-A | SCK | INT | FF |
| B. Siler | 7-2 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| A. Cromartie | 5-1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| S. Gregory | 5-1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Q. Jammer | 4-1 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 |
| K. Burnett | 3-1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| L. English | 2-2 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| P. Oliver | 2-1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| S. Phillips | 2-1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| E. Weddle | 2-0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| A. Boone | 1-1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| A. Cason | 1-0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| S. Cooper | 1-2 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
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