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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2014
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Kansas City Chiefs shred St. Louis Rams 34-7
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KANSAS CITY Jamaal Charles shredded the Rams on a pair of touchdown runs. Knile Davis returned a kickoff 99 yards for another score. The Chiefs sacked St. Louis quarterback Austin Davis seven times.
If there was a fourth phase to football, Kansas City probably would have dominated that too.
After spotting their crossstate rivals the first touchdown, the Chiefs turned up the pressure in every way Sunday. The result was a 34-7 victory, their sixth straight in the series dating to Sept. 24, 1994, when the Rams were still based in Los Angeles.
"Any time you play good in all three facets, you're going to win a lot of games," said Chiefs quarterback Alex Smith, "and it felt like we did that."
Charles, who last week became the Chiefs' career rushing leader, powered over the left side of the line for a touchdown in the first quarter. He added a 36-yard score early in the fourth, dodging a defender at the line of scrimmage and then accelerating past the Rams' defense.
Cairo Santos added a pair of field goals for Kansas City (4-3), including a careerbest 53-yarder right before halftime. Smith was 24 of 28 for 226 yards, and Davis capped the string of 34 unanswered points with a short touchdown run in the fourth quarter.
By that point, the banged-up Rams (2-5) were just trying to
survive.
“It's disappointing,” said coach Jeff Fisher, whose team was coming off a victory against Seattle. "We had a great week, a short-lived bit of momentum, and we weren't able to put it all together."
ALEX SMITH
Chiefs quarterback
Austin Davis finished 15-of-25 for 160 yards with a touchdown and an interception, three of his sacks coming at the hands of Justin Houston. It didn't help that left tackle Jake Long, right guard Rodger Saffold and center Scott Wells sustained injuries during the game.
"Any time you play good in all three facets, you're going to win a lot of games."
The Rams were also playing with an injury-depleted defensive backfield.
"You looked at the injuries they had today, they had three or four rookies starting for them on the defensive side," Chiefs coach Andy Reid said. "That's tough."
The Rams' running back by committee proved to be a bust, too. Benny Cunningham, Zac Stacy and Tre Mason were bottled up all game, and St. Louis managed just 84 yards on 19 carries.
The Rams jumped to a 7-0 lead on a pass from Davis to tight end Lance Kendricks on the opening series, but everything went the Chiefs' way the rest of the game.
momentum offensively," Davis said, "and we weren't able to do that. But my hat really goes off to them. They did a really good job and made a lot of good plays."
"They took some things away and when that happens you've got to find a way to get some
Special teams had a lot to do with it.
One week after the Rams used two long returns and an audacious punt fake to beat Seattle, they watched as Greg Zuerlein missed a 38-yard field goal in the second quarter to keep the game 7-7.
The Chiefs got the ball back to start the third quarter. Knile Davis fielded the kickoff on a bounce, veered his right and picked up a key block from James-Michael Johnson before going the rest of the way for his second career TD return.
keep the ball in your face
Santos hit his 53-yarder for a
10-7 lead right before halftime.
Santos added his second field-goal and Charles punctuated a big day for the offense when he took a carry up the middle, left a defender grasping for air and outran the entire secondary for his second score of the game.
Davis added a 3-yard touchdown plunge in the final minutes as chants of "Let's Go Royals" filled Arrowhead Stadium.
"We clearly got outplayed in the second half of this game in all three phases," Fisher said. "It wasn't a good effort and we've got our work cut out for us."
OPPRESSION OR PROTECTION? The Militarization of Police in America Monday, Nov. 10, 7:30 PM @ the Dole Institute
Fall 2014 Student Advisory Board program
War zone gear, combat vehicles, assault rifles - Is this equipment, traditionally used by the military, appropriate for operations by American police departments? What are the sociological complexities of communities seeing military gear from the battlefield used in their neighborhoods? Join our panelists as they discuss different perspectives of this timely and nationally debated question.
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Is It Time to Recognize Cuba? scheduled for Wed., Oct. 29 at 7:30 p.m.
The Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas regrets that due to the potential conflict with Game 7 of the 2014 World Series, the Institute will postpone the Cuba recognition program.
Institute leadership, in consultation with co-sponsor, Pan American Association of Kansas City (PANAM-KC), concluded that the potential conflict would make it difficult for interested community members to attend and therefore severely affect the program, depriving the topic, the speakers, and the public who would attend, a full opportunity.
The Dole Institute plans to reschedule the program.
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Kansas City Chiefs running back Knile Davis (34) scores a touchdown against the St. Louis Rams in the second half in Kansas City, Mo., Sunday, Oct. 26.
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