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KANSAS CITY – Everyone thought it was going to be a shootout. No one thought it was going to a blowout when these two division leaders convened at Sunday night summit at Arrowhead Stadium.
The Kansas City Chiefs put up 551 yards of total offense in a 45-10 victory over the Bengals.
A.J. Green tallied seven catches for 117 yards and C.J. Uzomah hauled in his second touchdown of the season.
The Chiefs 551 yards of offense are the most allowed by the Bengals defense since 2006.
Thanks to Justin Tucker's first missed point in Baltimore, the 4-3 Bengals are percentage points out of first place behind the 3-2-1 Steelers.
The Chiefs Quarterback Patrick Mahomes carved them for 320 yards in a brisk three quarters and they lost WILLIAMS Vontaze Voltaire Burfict to a left hip injury.
Carlos Dunlap and safety Shawn Williams were called for 15-yard penalties, Dunlap for bumping an offensive lineman after he pushed Mahomes out of bounds and Williams for spearing the ball carrier when he was down.
Mahomes could do no wrong even when he did not. He dropped the shot-gun snap, headed right, went to the front of the receiver Tyreek Hill all alone at the front pylon for a three-yard touchdown. That made it 45-10 for the most points scored against the Bengals in the eight seasons of the Green-Dalton Era and the most they've missed a 49-31 loss to the Bills in 2010.
When it rains it pros. That fourth quarter saw Bengals wide receiver John Ross re-aggravate his groin injury in his first game back and left without a catch. Mason Schreck, part of a crippled tight ends group.
Quarterback Andy Dalton finished a disappointing night for the offense on 15 of 29 passing for just 148 yards and a 63.6 pass rating.
After Mahomes' 50-yard bomb to wide receiver Sammy Watkins on the first sneak of the second half set up the touchdown that made it 31-7, Dalton went back to Green's back-side slant. But safety Ron Parker undercut the road and ran it 33 yards for pick six to make it 38-7.
The Bengals offense committed the cardinal sin playing the high-flying offense of head coach Andy Reid's Chiefs and NFL Kansas City built a 24-7 half-time lead.
And when one of those punts implicated for the sake of a hit and miss, the Bengals could not stand up to a disheveled display of Kansas City's Kansas City rolled to a staggering 319 yards in the first 30 minutes.
Mahomes, the gun-slinging second-year player, began the night two touchdown passes away from Andrew Luck's NFL-leading 20 and he regained the lead with 1:55 left in the half on his third touchdown End Demetrius Harris to give KC a lead of 21-7 was a shockingly easy 17-yard play that summed up the night. Nobody touched Harris off the line as he got behind cornerback Dr. Kirkpatrick and got wide open in the middle of Kirkpatrick, dropping defensive lineman Sam Hubbard and Williams.
But as badly the defeated played, the inability of the offense to the control of the game against a Chiefs defense on the pace of the NFL.
On the ball kicked the Bengals got their ball 40 when the kick slithered out of bounds. But they could not run it against a defensive giving up. 5.4 yards per carry and when Green ended their monster 110-yard half with drop, another incomplete forced a punt chip-shot field goal with eight seconds left in the half that made it 24-7.
So the Chiefs hit the Bengals in their Achilles' Heel. They are now in the last two minutes of the first half of the last 24 games.
Mahomes cruised to first half 19 of 25 passing for 234 yards and a wow 144 passing rating. While Mahomes hit three receivers for at least 47 yards, all but eight of Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton's yards went to Green. Green had six of the ten completions as Dalton went 10 of 19 and his TD went to four yards to tight end C.J. Uzomah on third down to cut it to 14-7 with 7:25 left in the half.
That was a heck of a drive because they had to overcome each other (Clint Boling and Alex Redmond) and Green accounted for 77 of the 82 yards.
But the Bengals had no answers in all three phases. While Bengals running back Joe Mixon had 23 yards on nine carries, Mahomes took off three times for 42 yards.
The Chiefs went 95 yards on their first possession (when old friend Josh Shaw was called for a hold on the opening kickoff) and Kansas City's longest drive of the season was bad.
Missed tackles by safeties Jessie Bates and Shawn Williams began Tyreek Hill's shimmying 27-yard catch and run. Cornerback William Jackson missed wide receiver Demarcus Robinson at the sticks for a first down and on third-and-two Mahomes fooled them badly when he kept the ball on a field and read on it. Somewhere in there right end Michael Johnson had to go back Kareem Hunt stopped for no gain, but he went too high and Hunt went low for six yards on the first half.
Then Hunt really hit them in the gut. Kirkpatrick and a swarm looked like they had him for a two-yard loss, but Hunt emerged from the mess and then leaped over the 6-2 Bates to finish off a 21-yard run that will not be used in any defensive textbooks.
Mahomes then got an easy six-yard touchdown pass when he sprinted to the right edge in a two-way go, caught linebacker Hardy Nickerson in no man's land and flipped it to him to Hunt to give the Chiefs a 7-0 lead in the middle of the first quarter.
The Chiefs' second drive was more of the same for the defense. Missed tackles and looking about 10 miles per hour slower. Both happened on tight end Travis Kelce's 43-yard ramble down the left sideline. Tony McRae cornerback pitfall missed the Bates, Williams and the linebackers could not get him.
Marvin Lewis successfully challenged the field and was forced to a 53-yard field goal by Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis. Harrison Butker cooperated with his first miss of the year when he hooked it.
It was at that point the Bengals had to take over and get back into the game. They had great field position at their own 43, but they just did the opposite and imploded.
Their tackles blew up the series. Right tackle Bobby Hart was called for a false start and then left tackle Cordy Glenn and Dalton's scramble could not get a desperation completion to Mixon.
Then the punt was a disaster. They appeared to try to run a fake, but personal protector punt Clayton Fejedelem dropped it and the Chiefs recovered at the Bengals 32.
The Chiefs did not blink going up 14-0 with 13:18 left in the first half when they promptly spoke two missed tackles by linebacker Vontaze Burfict into Hill's 16-yard completion (he caught it over the middle, avoided Burfict and then raced across the field out of bounds without being touched) and Hunt's 15-yard touchdown catch. Mahomes had his head on his back and was hitting his back to Hunt in a hurry and Burfict, wearing the defense's helmet microphone helmet, could not wrap him up.
The Bengals could not take advantage of scoring first to open the game. Mixed rolled for five yards on the first snap, but Green came back to get mauled by cornerback Orlando Scandrick was second-down incomplete and on third down Mixon could not get anywhere in the world.
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