Visitor:  Kansas City Chiefs

Home:  Indianapolis Colts

Date:  October 10, 2010

 

Scoring:

Team               1          2          3          4          Final

KC                  0          3          6          0             9

IND                 3          3          3          10          19

 

Visitor playmakers:

RB Mike Hart

 

Home playmakers:

DE Tamba Hali, S Jon McGraw

 

Network:  CBS (KCTV Kansas City)

Announcers:  Spero Dedes, Dan Dierdorf

 

Pregame:  Yes

Halftime:  Yes

Postgame:  Yes

Commercials:  Yes

 

Grade:  9/10

 

Notes:  With Manning missing receivers all day, Hart found an inside crease in the Chiefs defense, crashed through three players for 11 yards and the game's only touchdown with 4:02 left to give the Colts a 19-9 victory Sunday.  The result left the NFL without an undefeated team just five weeks into the season.

 

Indy (3-2) needed a victory to get back into a first-place tie in the AFC South and was facing the hottest team in football.  Kansas City (3-1), with four straight wins dating to last season, was the NFL's last unbeaten team and brought a defense that hadn't allowed more than 14 points in a game all season -- until Hart's run.

 

The Chiefs thought they had done enough defensively to thwart Manning & Co. with an assortment of nickel and dime packages that had the quarterback out of sync and flustered.  On a normal day, that might have been good enough to beat the Colts.  But Kansas City didn't get into the end zone, and for the first time since 1970, the NFL has no 4-0 teams. Denver, Detroit and the Los Angeles Rams all went 3-0 in '70 before losing.

 

Jamaal Charles carried 16 times for 87 yards. Matt Cassel was 16-of-29 for 156 yards, and the Chiefs had to settle for three field goals, losing their chance at a miracle comeback when Ryan Succop missed a 51-yard attempt with 1:17 to go.  Indy has now won 10 of the last 11 games in this series, dating to 1990.

 

The Chiefs have given up zero points off turnovers this season.

 

Running time:  3:16 (3 DVDs)