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Article: Chiefs, Johnson run over Chargers' playoff hopes
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- December 25, 2005
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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 ...