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Final score: Chiefs even record with 42-30 win over Eagles

Kansas City now stands 2-2 after a 12-point road victory.

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Neither the Philadelphia Eagles or Kansas City Chiefs punted during Sunday’s game — and the Chiefs didn’t stop an Eagles drive for no points until there was 4:26 left in the game. Leading 35-23, all they had to do was hold onto the ball to win the game. Instead, head coach Andy Reid elected to call a time out, dialing up a home run shot to Tyreek Hill that went 44 yards for a touchdown. Philadelphia managed another touchdown after the two-minute warning, but the Chiefs left Philadelphia with a 42-30 victory.

The Eagles received the opening kickoff. After a touchback, Philidelphia quarterback Jalen Hurts came out aggressively, pushing the ball downfield — highlighted by a 22-yard completion down the seam to rookie wide receiver DeVonta Smith. In the end, the Chiefs’ defense managed to firm up and hold the Eagles to a 29-yard field goal, putting the Eagles ahead 0-3.

On the ensuing drive, Kansas City focused on getting running back Clyde-Edward-Helaire going early, which freed up Tyreek Hill on a 37-yard slant across the middle that was initially called a touchdown. After reviewing the play, it was ruled that Hill was down at the 1-yard line. Kansas City finished off the drive, going back to Edwards-Helaire on a 1-yard shovel pass for a touchdown — giving the Chiefs a 7-3 lead

Philidelphia converted four consecutive first downs on their next drive. After back-to-back incomplete passes, the Eagles decided to go for it on fourth-and-2 — converting to Kenneth Gainwell for a 12-yard gain. Two plays later Jalen Hurts went back to Gainwell for a 15-yard gain — a play where it initially appeared that he had fumbled the ball. Ben Neimann jumped on the ball, but the referee ruled that Gainwell was down by contact. Kansas City neglected to challenge the ruling on the field. The replay showed that Gainwell did, in fact, fumble the ball. On the very next play, Hurts found Dallas Goedert for a three-yard touchdown pass.

Down 7-10, Byron Pringle put the ball on the ground on the following kickoff. But luckily, Jerick McKinnon was there to jump on it. After back-to-back penalties for illegal formation and delay of game, Patrick Mahomes scrambled for 13 yards on third-and-12 to pick up the first down. Spreading the ball around to five different receivers, Mahomes drove the Chiefs down the field, cashing in with a six-yard touchdown pass to Tyreek Hill.

Down 14-10, the Eagles began finding success behind the legs of quarterback Jalen Hurts. On second-and-4 from the Chiefs 44-yard line, Hurts made an ill-advised throw that was initially ruled an interception by Deandre Baker — but a review showed the ball hit the ground, so the interception was overturned. Three plays later, it appeared that Hurts found Goedert for a six-yard touchdown, but both teams committed penalties on the play. When the dust settled, the Chiefs' defense stood strong, holding the Eagles to a field goal, narrowing the score to 14-13 Chiefs.

The Chiefs' last drive of the half started with three rushes of over 15 yards. At the two-minute warning, the Chiefs were at the 10-yard line, threatening to score another touchdown. After a roughing the passer call on Philidelphia’s Derek Barnett gave the Chiefs a fresh set of downs from the 3-yard line, Mahomes found Jody Fortson on a touchdown pass up the gut extending their lead to 21-13.

Eagles kick returner J.J. Arcega-Whiteside muffed the following kickoff but fell on the fumble. Starting from their 11-yard line, Hurts went to his go-to receiver DaVonte Smith on the first three plays of the drive. Two plays later Chiefs cornerback La’Jarius Sneed crashed in on a cornerback blitz, strip-sacking Hurts to end the half.

The Chiefs received the opening kick in the third quarter. After a sack and a scramble, Mahomes was hit on a throw intended for tight end Travis Kelce — which was intercepted by Eagles linebacker Eric Wilson.

Taking the ball over at the Chiefs' 49-yard line, Hurts and company quickly moved the ball down the field to inside the Chiefs’ 10-yard line. Kansas City’s defense was stout against the pass in the red zone, forcing a 24-yard Philidelphia field-goal attempt — but Chiefs cornerback Chris Lammons was offsides on the play, giving Philidelphia second life on the drive.

On fourth-and-3, from the Kansas City 3-yard line, the Eagles elected to go for it — but wide receiver Arcega-Whiteside committed offensive pass interference on the play, backing the Eagles up to the Kansas City 13-yard line. Facing fourth-and-13, Philidelphia elected to kick the field goal and made it.

Kansas City methodically moved the ball down the field on the subsequent drive, going 75 yards down the field on 11 plays, setting up a 1-yard touchdown run by Darrel Williams, extending the Chiefs lead to 28-16.

As the fourth quarter began, Hurts scrambled outside of the pocket to throw the ball away. As he was going out of bounds, Alex Okafor hit Hurts late, drawing an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty that gave the Eagles a fresh set of downs. Three plays later, Gainwell took the handoff up the middle for a 7-yard touchdown, closing the gap to 28-23 Chiefs.

With 9:57 left in the fourth quarter — facing an important third-and-6 from midfield — Philidelphia defensive end Josh Sweat committed a neutral zone infraction that set up a 5-yard pass to Hill to keep the drive alive. With a fresh set of downs, Mahomes found Hill on a 12-yard touchdown pass across the middle.

The Eagles got the ball back with 6:44 remaining, and had a 34-yard touchdown pass to DeVonta Smith called back for illegal touching; he went out of bounds and was the first to touch the ball upon re-entering the field of play. On fourth-and-11 from the Kansas City 35-yard line, Siriani elected to go for it — but Hurts threw an incomplete pass that gave Kansas City its first defensive stop of the day.


Injuries


There were no significant injuries in this game.


Special teams


Neither team punted the ball throughout the course of the game.

Philidelphia kicker Jake Elliot was a perfect 3-3 in field goal attempts.

Both teams had a fumble on kick returns. Byron Pringle for the Chiefs, and J.J. Arcega-Whiteside for the Eagles.


Statistics


CATEGORY KC PHI
Total Yards 471 461
Total Plays 63 70
Yards per play 7.5 6.6
Rushing Yards 200 103
Rush Attempts 32 19
Yards per rush 6.30 5.40
Passing Gross Yards 278 387
Sacks/Yards lost 1/7 3/29
Passing Net Yards 271 358
Comp/Att/Pct 24/30/80% 32/48/67%
Yards per pass 8.70 7.00
Interceptions thrown 1 0
Fumbles lost 0 0
Turnovers 1 0
Penalties/Yards 7/46 9/49
Total Drives 8 8
First downs 31 30
Rushing first downs 12 9
Passing first downs 16 19
Penalty first downs 3 2
Third down (Made/Att/Pct) 9/10/90% 6/12/50%
Fourth down (Made/Att/Pct) 0/0/0% 1/2/50%
Goal to go (Made/Att/Pct) 4/4/100% 2/4/50%
Red Zone (Made/Att/Pct) 5/5/100% 3/6/50%
Touchdowns 6 3
TDs/Rushing 1 1
TDs/Passing 5 2
TDs/Interception 0 0
TDs/Kickoff Return 0 0
TDs/Fumble Return 0 0
TDs/Punt Return 0 0
TDs/Defense/ST 0 0
Safeties 0 0
Extra Points (Made/Att) 6/6 3/3
Field Goals (Made/Att) 0/0 3/3
Two-Point Conv (Made/Att) 0/0 0/0
Kickoffs (Num/EZ/TB) 7/5/4 7/7/3
Punts (Num/Yds) 0/0 0/0
Gross Punting Avg Yds 0.0 0.0
Net Punting Avg Yds 0.0 0.0
Total Rtn Yds (No KOs) 0 7
Punt Returns (Num/Yds) 0/0 0/0
Kickoff Returns (Num/Yds) 4/109 3/58
Int Returns (Num/Yds) 0/0 1/7
Punts blocked 0 0
FGs/PATs Blocked 0/0 0/0
Timeouts (Rem/Used) 2/1 0/3
Time of Possession 30:52 29:08
Attendance - 69,796

CHIEFS PASSING C ATT YDS AVG TD LG INT SK SKYD RTG
Patrick Mahomes 24 30 278 9.3 5 44t 1 1 7 131.0
TEAM 24 30 278 9.3 5 44T 1 1 7 --

EAGLES PASSING C ATT YDS AVG TD LG INT SK SKYD RTG
Jalen Hurts 32 48 387 8.1 2 37 0 3 29 105.1
TEAM 32 48 387 8.1 2 37 0 3 29 --

CHIEFS RUSHING CAR YDS AVG TD LG
Clyde Edwards-Helaire 14 102 7.3 0 17
Darrel Williams 10 42 4.2 1 10
Patrick Mahomes 5 26 5.2 0 12
Mecole Hardman 2 25 12.5 0 24
Michael Burton 1 5 5.0 0 5
TEAM 32 200 6.3 1 24

EAGLES RUSHING CAR YDS AVG TD LG
Jalen Hurts 8 47 5.9 0 12
Miles Sanders 7 13 1.9 0 5
Kenneth Gainwell 3 31 10.3 1 13
Jalen Reagor 1 12 12.0 0 12
TEAM 19 103 5.4 1 13

CHIEFS RECEIVING REC YDS AVG TD LG TGTS YAC
Travis Kelce 4 23 5.8 0 10 6 17
Tyreek Hill 11 186 16.9 3 44t 12 43
Byron Pringle 2 23 11.5 0 19 2 4
Darrel Williams 2 16 8.0 0 9 2 21
Mecole Hardman 2 16 8.0 0 9 3 20
Jody Fortson 1 2 2.0 1 2t 1 1
Clyde Edwards-Helaire 2 12 6.0 1 11 3 11
Noah Gray 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
TEAM 24 278 11.6 5 44T 30 117

EAGLES RECEIVING REC YDS AVG TD LG TGTS YAC
Zach Ertz 6 60 10.0 0 19 8 29
Greg Ward 1 15 15.0 1 15t 2 0
Dallas Goedert 5 56 11.2 1 21 5 26
Miles Sanders 3 34 11.3 0 18 3 33
Quez Watkins 3 33 11.0 0 18 7 28
Jalen Reagor 1 9 9.0 0 9 1 11
DeVonta Smith 7 122 17.4 0 37 10 38
Kenneth Gainwell 6 58 9.7 0 15 8 41
TEAM 32 387 12.1 2 37 44 206

CHIEFS FUMBLES FUM LOST FF REC
(OWN)
TD REC
(OPP)
TD
Mike Hughes 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
L'Jarius Sneed 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Jerick McKinnon 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Byron Pringle 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
TEAM 1 0 2 1 0 0 0

EAGLES FUMBLES FUM LOST FF REC
(OWN)
TD REC
(OPP)
TD
J.J. Arcega-Whiteside 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Nate Herbig 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Dallas Goedert 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jalen Hurts 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
TEAM 2 0 1 1 0 0 0

CHIEFS DEFENSE TOT SOLO ASST SACK YDS INT TFL PD QBH TD FF FR
Mike Hughes 10 9 1 0.0 0.0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
Daniel Sorensen 9 9 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tyrann Mathieu 5 4 1 0.0 0.0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
L'Jarius Sneed 4 3 1 1.0 21.0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Mike Danna 4 3 1 2.0 8.0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0
DeAndre Baker 4 4 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Anthony Hitchens 4 4 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Juan Thornhill 3 3 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nick Bolton 2 2 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ben Niemann 2 2 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tershawn Wharton 2 2 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Alex Okafor 1 1 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Derrick Nnadi 1 1 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jarran Reed 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Chris Jones 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
TEAM 51 47 4 3 29 0 3 2 6 0 2 0

EAGLES DEFENSE TOT SOLO ASST SACK YDS INT TFL PD QBH TD FF FR
Eric Wilson 10 6 4 0.0 0.0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0
Alex Singleton 9 6 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Avonte Maddox 7 5 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Javon Hargrave 6 3 3 1.0 7.0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
Darius Slay 5 4 1 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rodney McLeod 4 4 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Derek Barnett 4 1 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Anthony Harris 3 1 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Marcus Epps 2 2 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Josh Sweat 2 1 1 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Davion Taylor 2 1 1 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
T.J. Edwards 2 1 1 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Milton Williams 2 1 1 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Steven Nelson 1 1 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Genard Avery 1 0 1 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tarron Jackson 1 0 1 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nate Herbig 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
TEAM 61 37 24 1 7 1 1 1 4 0 0 1

CHIEFS INT INT YDS AVG LG TD
DeAndre Baker 1 36 36.0 36 0
TEAM 1 36 36.0 36 0

EAGLES INT INT YDS AVG LG TD
Eric Wilson 1 7 7.0 7 0
TEAM 1 7 7.0 7 0

CHIEFS KICK RET NO YDS AVG LG TD
Byron Pringle 4 109 27.3 32 0
TEAM 4 109 27.3 32 0

EAGLES KICK RET NO YDS AVG LG TD
Jalen Reagor 1 44 44.0 44 0
Quez Watkins 2 14 7.0 14 0
TEAM 3 58 19.3 44 0

CHIEFS PUNT RET NO YDS AVG LG TD
TEAM 0 0 0 0 0

EAGLES PUNT RET NO YDS AVG LG TD
TEAM 0 0 0 0 0

CHIEFS KICKING FGM/FGA PCT LONG XP PTS
TEAM 0/0 0.0 0 0 0

EAGLES KICKING FGM/FGA PCT LONG XP PTS
Jake Elliott 3/3 100.0 31 3 12
TEAM 3/3 100.0 31 3 12

CHIEFS PUNTING NO YDS AVG TB I20 LG
TEAM 0 0 0 0 0 0

EAGLES PUNTING NO YDS AVG TB I20 LG
TEAM 0 0 0 0 0 0

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