Visitor:  Kansas City Chiefs

Home:  Cleveland Browns

Date:  September 19, 2010

 

Scoring:

Team               1          2          3          4          Final

KC                  3          7          3          3           16

CLE                0          14        0          0           14

 

Visitor playmakers:

DB Brandon Flowers, DE Wallace Gilberry,

 

Home playmakers:

RB Peyton Hillis, WR Josh Cribbs, LB Marcus Benard, DB Sheldon Brown, NT Ahtyba Rubin

 

Network:  CBS (KCTV Kansas City)

Announcers:  Don Criqui, Steve Beuerlein

 

Pregame:  Yes

Halftime:  Yes

Postgame:  No

Commercials:  No

 

Grade:  9/10

 

Notes:  Brandon Flowers returned an interception for a touchdown, Ryan Succop kicked three field goals and Kansas City running back Thomas Jones vaulted for a late first down on a fourth-down gamble by coach Todd Haley, giving the Chiefs a 16-14 win over the Cleveland Browns.

 

Kansas City learned its lessons from a 41-34 loss to Cleveland last December, when Browns running back Jerome Harrison ran wild for 286 yards -- third most in NFL history -- and Browns return specialist Joshua Cribbs returned two kickoffs for TDs.

 

Harrison was held to 33 yards on 16 carries, and the Chiefs angled kicks away from Cribbs, who did burn them for a 65-yard TD reception from Seneca Wallace.

 

Wallace started in place of Jake Delhomme, who injured his right ankle last week in his debut for the Browns (0-2), a 17-14 loss at Tampa Bay. Wallace finished 16 of 31 for 229 yards, but one of his attempts in the second quarter was run back for a touchdown by Flowers.

 

A feeble four-win squad the previous season, the Chiefs, who also knocked off AFC West champion San Diego on Monday night, advanced to 2-0 for the first time since 2005.

 

Running time:  2:30 (2 DVDs)