The Chiefs’ drive would end with Alex Smith hitting Chris Conley for a nine-yard touchdown.
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The day before the Chiefs’ Wild Card playoff game at Houston on Saturday, Texans star receiver DeAndre Hopkins was not shy about how he’d like to be covered. Besides the result, the Texans went to a wildcat formation at some point with J.J. Watt getting the ball.
“Brian wanted to finish the thing out”, said backup quarterback Brandon Weeden, who began warming up toward the end of the third quarter.
The Chiefs extended their NFL-best winning streak to 11 games and will face Denver or New England next weekend.
Knile Davis returned the opening kickoff 106 yards for a touchdown, perhaps the game was over right then.
Hoyer added to his interception total in the second half and it certainly didn’t help, but those four turnovers-three picks and a fumble-are what buried this team so deep they couldn’t dig their way out.
The Chiefs won their first playoff game since January 16, 1994 after losing eight straight postseason games. This followed a 2014 season in which he was only able to play in four games as he tried to work through a lateral meniscus tear he suffered in Week 1. After throwing only seven interceptions all season, Hoyer was miserable against a vaunted Chiefs defense.
The Texans would punt on their next drive and Kansas City would drive down to the Texans 30 before having to kick another field goal.
Kansas City topped off the scoring late in the game with another field goal from Santos.
“It’s all three phases, that’s what Coach (Andy) Reid talked about”, Peters said.
Trailing 13-0, a 49-yard run by Alfred Blue got Houston to the Kansas City 13. Hoyer played well at times, but obviously wasn’t ready for the spotlight. The Chiefs gave up 99 yards on 17 carries to Alfred Blue, a little known running. Chiefs WR Jeremy Maclin was lost to a knee injury in the third quarter….
“That’s not what we expected”, said Watt, who departed with a groin injury in the third quarter and did not return. He was a beast on the offensive end and looked like the Kelce that everyone expected at the start of the season.
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Hoyer had also struggled against the Chiefs in the season opener, being benched in the fourth quarter of a 27-20 loss. Clowney says he was simply frustrated about his foot injury and not angry with the Houston Texans when he was seen visibly upset Clowney did not speak to reporters Saturday after reports surfaced that he stormed out of the stadium.
