Article: Chiefs, Johnson run over Chargers' playoff hopes

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Drawing dirty looks in the San Diego locker room was easy after Larry Johnson and the Kansas City Chiefs snuffed out the Chargers' playoff hopes with a 20-7 victory Saturday.

Just asking the mistake-prone visitors if they were flat in the wake of their huge victory at Indianapolis did the trick.

"We weren't," Coach Marty Schottenheimer said in a level voice. "We were outplayed."

Indeed. The Chiefs ran their December home winning streak to 18 and kept their faint playoff hopes alive with a dominating victory a week after they lost to the New York Giants in one of their poorest games of the year.

Johnson kept up his amazing run with his eighth straight 100-yard rushing ...

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