Visitor:  Carolina Panthers

Home:  Kansas City Chiefs

Date:  September 19, 2004

 

Scoring:

Team                1          2          3          4          Final

CAR                7          0          7          14          28

KC                  3          7          7          0            17

 

Visitor playmakers:

TE Kris Mangum, WR Keary Colbert, TE Mike Seidman, RB DeShaun Foster, LB Dan Morgan, DB Chris Gamble, DE Mike Rucker

 

 

Home playmakers:

RB Priest Holmes, CB Eric Warfield, DT John Browning

 

Network:  FOX (WCCB Charlotte)

Announcers:  Sam Rosen, Bill Maas

 

Pregame:  No

Halftime:  No

Postgame:  No

Commercials:  Yes

 

Grade:  Good.  **MISSING LAST 1:10 – no scoring**

 

Notes:  Kansas City uses the passing game to move the ball well on their opening drive, but once they are inside the red zone the switch to a rushing attack and the Panthers stop them, forcing a field goal.  Two possessions later, QB Jake Delhomme answers with a 2-yard touchdown pass while being spun around in the pocket by LB Monty Beisel, and Carolina takes a 7-3 lead.  RB Priest Holmes puts KC back on top with a 1-yard leap, his fourth TD of the season.  KC then shuts down Carolina’s next drive when CB Eric Warfield intercepts Delhomme’s 51-yard pass, but neither team can get anything going for the remainder of the half.  K Lawrence Tynes’ field goal attempt with 47 seconds to go sails just to the right, and the Chiefs go to the locker room leading 10-7.

 

Carolina adjusts to Kansas City’s defense and on their opening drive of the second half they expertly complete a 16-play, 80-yard drive for the go-ahead touchdown.  The Chiefs retake the lead when Warfield picks off Delhomme for the second time, this time returning it 43 yards for a touchdown.

 

Carolina moves in front for good in the fourth quarter when Delhomme hits TE Mike Seidman on a play fake from the 1-yard line.  After a quick series frustrated by two very questionable calls on the KC offense, the Chiefs punt the ball away.  RB DeShaun Foster then rips off a 71-yard run, the longest in Carolina Panthers history, that puts the ball on the KC 3.  On the next play Foster carries it the rest of the way for a touchdown.  Dropped passes and missed tackles, a problem throughout the game, make the difference in this one.

 

Thanks Craig!

 

Running time:  2:59 (2 discs)