Chiefs dominate over Seahawks

Today's performance was just what the Chiefs needed to take another step to becoming a great football team.

Kansas City dominated the game today both offensively and defensively.  A couple of stats really popped out to me after the game.  The Chiefs had 270 yards rushing with 173 yards coming from Jamaal Charles. Seattle had only 20 yards rushing during the game. This made the Seahawks become 1 dimensional and had to rely on the passing game all day long.

Another stat that I found to be a key reason why the Chiefs looked so good was converting on third down.  Kansas City converted 11 of the 15 third downs and Seattle converted only 3 of their 12 third downs. 

There was one surprise during the game that I would have never seen coming. It was when Matt Cassel handed the ball off to DT Shaun Smith for a 1 yd run.  Later in the game when Smith got a sack, he became the first player since William "The Refrigerator" Perry to have a touchdown and a sack in the same game.

The next two weeks are going to be very important for the Chiefs with the Broncos coming to Arrowhead Stadium and the an away game to San Diego.  Hopefully the best of the Chiefs is still yet to come.