Kansas City Chiefs Rewatch: 2010 week 8 vs Bills
The Kansas City Chiefs were back in the win column after blowing out the Jaguars the previous week. Week eight seemed easy on paper, but there’s a reason teams play the game.
As we continue to stay home and flatten the curve, I’ll tackle an old Kansas City Chiefs game and write about it. We’re about halfway through the 2010 season and the latest game takes us to week eight – held on Halloween – against the winless Buffalo Bills.
The Chiefs were 4-2 at this point in time, already having matched their entire win total from the 2009 season. They also had matched their home win numbers from the previous two seasons combined.
How would this week eight campaign go against the winless Bills?
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WEEK 8 VS BUFFALO BILLS: OCTOBER 31ST, 2010
I’m not going to lie to you guys – This game was brutal to watch. Neither offense could really get going, which was frustrating for Chiefs fans because we’d see the offense fire on all cylinders (like the week prior when they put up 42 points on Jacksonville) and other games – like this one – where they couldn’t put up many points at all.
Perhaps the Chiefs offense was missing Dexter McCluster, who was out due to injury. The offense moved the ball decently at times, but Todd Haley opted to go for it on fourth down early on rather than settling for a field goal and that proved to be a big decision.
The announcer made a comment that “Some of [Chiefs fans] like Todd Haley’s abilities to go for it on fourth down, others don’t.” Oh really? Is that how that works? I will say that the second time the Chiefs decided to go for it, they did convert, but it’s easy to sit here and gripe when you know how close the game ended up being.
The Chiefs should have had a touchdown on their first drive, but Dwayne Bowe couldn’t hold onto the football. That was a frustrating way to start, but Chiefs fans were used to it by this point.
It took until the final minute and a half of the first half for a team to get on the board and it was the Chiefs. Bowe didn’t drop this touchdown pass and KC went up 7-0 right before half time.
Buffalo’s first drive of the second half consisted of them totaling more yards on that drive alone than they had in the entire first half. It ended with a field goal, making it 7-3 KC.
From there, we were in for an excruciating rest of the half. The Chiefs added a field goal to make it 10-3, but the Bills made the plays when it mattered most. They drove down the field and scored a touchdown before the two minute warning.
That made it a 10-10 game and the two squads were heading to overtime. It took until LITERALLY the final seconds for a victor to be crowned and was the Kansas City Chiefs, as Ryan Succop knocked through the game winning field goal as the clock moved to 0:00. The Chiefs narrowly avoided having a tie on their 2010 record, but the fact that the winless Bills took them to the wire was concerning for sure.
REMEMBER THAT GUY?
- C.J. Spiller was the Bills running back in this game. Remember when the Chiefs signed and cut him what felt like 50 times one year?
- George Wilson dropped an easy Cassel interception.
- Javier Arenas took a SHOT on a punt return. Yikes.
- Steve Johnson had the lone Bills touchdown.
- Kyle Williams had two sacks on Matt Cassel.
This was a frustrating game to watch, both back in 2010 and now. Jamaal Charles rushed for 177 yards and Thomas Jones added another 77 yards on the ground and that wasn’t enough for Kansas City to blow the doors off of Buffalo.
For whatever reason, the Bills have had Kansas City’s number for what seems like forever. A winless Buffalo team shouldn’t have come into Arrowhead Stadium and forced the Chiefs into overtime. Nor should they have been able to almost make this a tie game, but they were able to do just that.
Fortunately, the Chiefs were able to get something going and knock through a field goal in the final seconds of overtime to move to 5-2. It was a huge win because the Chiefs had to hit the road for two straight games against division rivals. How would they fare in those games?
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