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Fewest offensive yards in a win.
The question came up in the first half of the excellent game on Sunday, so I did a little research. Here are the 10 Chiefs wins with the fewest offensive yards. The figure on the right is the Chiefs' offensive yards.
1971 @ DEN W 16-3 159 1985 SEA W 28-7 165 1990 RAI W 9-7 169 1986 DEN W 37-10 169 1986 @ PIT W 24-19 171 1974 @ HOU W 17-7 172 1997 NOR W 25-13 176 1995 HOU W 20-13 181 1991 @ SDG W 14-13 182 1992 @ SDG W 24-10 188 It's an interesting mix of the mid-80s teams with Art Still and the great defensive backs, and Marty's teams in generally his best years. What's interesting is that they scored 20+ points in half of these games, which implies that defense and special teams probably came through. The Chiefs had 273 yards in Sunday night's game (albeit in 5 quarters). If it was a four-quarter game it would be the equivalent of 218 yards, though that's irrelevant. This is the 85th-lowest offensive yardage total in a Chiefs win, but only the third lowest this year in a Chiefs win. They had fewer in the wins against Jacksonville and Carolina. If you want a positive thing to take away, here are the ten Chiefs wins with the most offensive yards. You see a lot of Priest Holmes and gang here. If you're curious about the 2009 game, that was Matt Cassel going off for 207 yards passing, aided by Jamaal Charles adding another 259 yards on the ground. 1966 @ DEN W 56-10 614 2004 IND W 45-35 590 1990 DET W 43-24 566 1962 BUF W 41-21 551 2001 @ WAS W 45-13 546 2004 ATL W 56-10 540 2005 CIN W 37-3 537 1961 HOU W 26-21 528 2009 @ DEN W 44-24 524 2003 DET W 45-17 521 The interesting thing here is that they scored 40+ points 8 times in 10. It's almost like there's a big correlation between getting lots of yards and scoring lots of points. Last edited by Rain Man; 11-29-2016 at 10:04 PM.. |
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More evidence why Foles should start this week. Pathetic. How could he be worse?
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Perhaps my thread title is inadvertently misleading.
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The Chiefs only TD in that game was a defensive TD by Aaron Brown after a Bobby Bell sack. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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ELVIS GRBAC 504 yards, Nov. 5, 2000 Grbac completed 39 of 53 passes for 504 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions but was outdueled by his former backup Rich Gannon (20-31, 242 yards, four TDs, no INTs) as the Kansas City Chiefs fell to Gannon's Raiders, 49-31. |
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Most yards in a loss. And #5 can go to heck.
The Greg Robinson years are prominent, but there are some odd losses in 2012 and 2013 to the Colts. Screw the Colts. In the 2012 game, Brady Quinn was our quarterback and had 162 yards passing. Jamaal had 226 on the ground and Peyton Hillis had 101. 2002 @ SEA L 32-39 552 1965 @ HOU L 36-38 542 1983 @ SDG L 38-41 537 2000 @ OAK L 31-49 513 2013 @ IND L 44-45 513 2012 IND L 13-20 507 1976 @ BUF L 17-50 502 2004 @ NOR L 20-27 497 2002 @ DEN L 24-31 494 2005 @ DAL L 28-31 493
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I was at the 2012 Indy game, where the Chiefs were the first team to have 300 + rushing and still lose in a really long time. Was late arriving and first play I saw was a Brady Quinn pick 6. There was also a play where Quinn hit Jonathon Baldwin on a really big gain. It seems like a miracle now. I really like that the Andy Reid and Alex Smith Chiefs teams can win games without big offensive stats. And the Chiefs have some real All-Pro defenders. And this team plays like a team that is fit and well coached and has good spirit.
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So if you look at the best 10 offensive games in Chiefs history, they're 7-3? That's weird. It kind of points to a phenomenon where teams feed off each other's energy or something.
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Probably just the flow of the game. If your opponent is chucking the ball around for 500 yards you'll be more likely to do the same I would say.
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