5BLACK E5 DAILY 01-06-07 MD RE E5 BLACK The Washington Post R Saturday, January 6, 2007 E5 Professional Football Kansas City Chiefs Kansas City Chiefs (9-7) Indianapolis Colts No. 6 seed (wild card) No. 3 seed (won AFC South) TEAM STATISTICS at Indianapolis Colts (12-4) TEAM STATISTICS (NFL rank in parentheses) (NFL rank in parentheses) POINTS PER GAME WRC-4, WBAL-11, 4:30 p.m. (Tom Hammond, Cris Collinsworth, Bob Neumeier). POINTS PER GAME KC 20.7 (15) IND 26.7 (2) OPP 19.7 (12) First meeting this season. OPP 22.5 (24) YARDS PER GAME YARDS PER GAME KC 321.4 (16) IND 379.4 (3) OPP 328.9 (16) OPP 332.3 (21) RUSHING YARDS PER GAME Offense Defense RUSHING YARDS PER GAME KC 133.9 (9) 3-6 The Chiefs will look to pound the ball The Colts finished last in the league in 32 IND 110.1 (18) OPP 120.5 (18) Playoff record for OPP 173.0 (32) with RB Larry Johnson, who led the rushing defense and probably couldn’t Sacks for the PASSING YARDS PER GAME Colts QB Peyton PASSING YARDS PER GAME league in rushing attempts and finished have gotten a worse first-round pairing. Chiefs, sixth fewest KC 187.5 (22) Manning in the NFL IND 269.3 (2) OPP 208.4 (18) second to LaDainian Tomlinson in rush- The return of S Bob Sanders, who OPP 159.3 (2) ing yards. Trent Green is scheduled to played only four games during the regu- INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS 416 start at quarterback despite a sore ankle, lar season because of knee troubles, 173 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS 1 Passing Cmp Att Yds TD Int Rtg NFL-record regular but Coach Herman Edwards might go to could help. DE Robert Mathis has 9 ⁄2 Rushing yards per Passing Cmp Att Yds TD Int Rtg Huard 148 244 1878 11 1 98.0 Damon Huard if Green struggles. The sacks to lead the team. Chiefs CB Ty Manning 362 557 4397 31 9 101.0 Green 121 198 1342 7 9 74.1 season carries for game allowed by the Addai 0 0 0 0 0 --- Croyle 3 7 23 0 2 11.9 Chiefs RB Larry Colts had some success at times with Law, a veteran with Super Bowl experi- Colts, worst in the Team 362 557 4397 31 9 101.0 L. Johnson 0 1 0 0 0 39.6 Johnson this season rookie RB Joseph Addai, but they’re still ence, has seven interceptions in his last Opp. 266 415 2705 16 15 80.4 Team 272 450 3243 18 12 84.7 NFL Rushing Att Yds Avg Lg TD Opp. 314 506 3524 18 15 82.3 a pass-first offense with QB Peyton Man- 11 games against the Colts. Rookie Tam- Addai 226 1081 4.8 41 7 Rushing Att Yds Avg Lg TD ning, who finished third in the MVP bal- ba Hali leads Kansas City with eight Rhodes 187 641 3.4 17 5 L. Johnson 416 1789 4.3 47 17 1,081 loting. Manning got TE Dallas Clark sacks and comprises a formidable set of 208.4 Manning 23 36 1.6 12 4 Bennett 36 200 5.6 41 0 Carthon 3 4 1.3 3t 1 Green 19 59 3.1 10 0 Rushing yards for back last week from a knee injury that DEs along with Jared Allen, who was Passing yards per Team 439 1762 4.0 41 17 1 D. Brown 10 24 2.4 7 0 Colts rookie RB kept him out four games in December. second on the team with 7 ⁄2 sacks. game allowed by the Opp. 519 2768 5.3 76 20 Cruz 5 19 3.8 7 0 Receiving No. Yds Avg Lg TD Kennison 4 16 4.0 9 0 Joseph Addai Chiefs, 18th in Harrison 95 1366 14.4 68t 12 Hall 3 11 3.7 9 0 the NFL Wayne 86 1310 15.2 51t 9 Huard 9 9 1.0 8 0 Addai 40 325 8.1 21t 1 Ross 3 8 2.7 4 0 Utecht 37 377 10.2 26 0 Parker 3 7 2.3 5 0 Rhodes 36 251 7.0 27 0 Page 1 4 4.0 4 0 Clark 30 367 12.2 40 4 Colquitt 1 0 0.0 0 0 Fletcher 18 202 11.2 26 2 Croyle 3 -3 -1.0 -1 0 Stokley 8 85 10.6 23 1 Team 513 2143 4.2 47 17 Moorehead 8 82 10.3 36 1 Opp. 461 1928 4.2 85t 14 Proehl 3 30 10.0 13 0 Receiving No. Yds Avg Lg TD Klecko 1 2 2.0 2t 1 Gonzalez 73 900 12.3 57 5 C. Johnson 0 0 --- --- 0 Kennison 53 860 16.2 51 5 Team 362 4397 12.1 68t 31 Parker 41 561 13.7 43 1 Opp. 266 2705 10.2 46 16 L. Johnson 41 410 10.0 78 2 INTs No. Yds TD Sacks No. Hall 26 204 7.8 19 2 Harper 3 18 0 Mathis 9.5 Wilson 15 132 8.8 19 3 June 3 14 0 Freeney 5.5 Bennett 9 77 8.6 14 0 Doss 2 47 0 Brock 3.0 Dunn 4 40 10.0 15 0 David 2 16 0 McFarland 2.5 Webb 3 23 7.7 11 0 Bethea 1 38 0 June 1.0 Cruz 2 20 10.0 11 0 Jackson 1 24 0 Reagor 1.0 Gardner 2 17 8.5 13 0 Boiman 1 0 0 Thomas 1.0 Huard 2 -6 -3.0 -2 0 Giordano 1 0 0 Schobel 0.5 D. Brown 1 5 5.0 5 0 Team 15 157 0 Team 25.0 Team 272 3243 11.9 78 18 Opp. 9 136 1 Opp. 15.0 Opp. 314 3524 11.2 87t 18 Punting No. Avg. Net In20 INTs No. Yds TD Sacks No. Smith 47 44.4 34.5 14 Law 4 11 0 Hali 8.0 Team 48 43.4 34.5 14 Wesley 3 39 0 Allen 7.5 Opp. 47 43.3 36.8 17 Page 3 30 0 D. Johnson 4.5 Scoring TD XP-Att FG-Att S Pts Knight 1 27 0 Edwards 2.5 Vinatieri 0 38-38 25-28 0 113 K. Mitchell 1 23 0 Knight 2.0 Harrison 12 0-0 0-0 0 72 Allen 1 3 0 K. Mitchell 1.5 Wayne 9 1-1 0-0 0 56 Surtain 1 0 0 Bell 1.0 Addai 8 0-0 0-0 0 48 Hali 1 -9 0 Fox 1.0 Rhodes 5 0-0 0-0 0 30 Law 1.0 Clark 4 0-0 0-0 0 24 Page 1.0 Manning 4 0-0 0-0 0 24 Reed 1.0 Fletcher 2 0-0 0-0 0 12 Surtain 1.0 Gramatica 0 9-9 1-1 0 12 Team 15 124 0 Team 32.0 Carthon 1 0-0 0-0 0 6 Opp. 12 146 1 Opp. 41.0 Hayden 1 0-0 0-0 0 6 BY CHRIS GARDNER Klecko 1 0-0 0-0 0 6 Punting No. Avg. Net In20 — ASSOCIATED Colquitt 71 44.3 39.3 23 PRESS Moorehead 1 0-0 0-0 0 6 Tynes 1 33.0 33.0 1 BY DILIP VISHWANAT — GETTY IMAGES Stokley 1 0-0 0-0 0 6 Team 72 44.1 39.2 24 Wilkins 1 0-0 0-0 0 6 Opp. 75 40.8 34.4 23 Smith 0 0-1 0-0 0 0 Scoring TD XP-Att FG-Att S Pts Team 50 48-50 26-29 0 427 L. Johnson 19 0-0 0-0 0 114 Opp. 41 41-41 24-35 0 360 Tynes 0 35-36 24-31 0 107 Gonzalez 5 1-1 0-0 0 32 Special Teams Coaches INJURY REPORT Kennison 5 0-0 0-0 0 30 The Colts have the best clutch kicker in NFL history in Adam Vi- Edwards has the Chiefs in the playoffs in his first season with the Hall 3 0-0 0-0 0 18 QUESTIONABLE: WR Ricky Proehl (Ham- Wilson 3 0-0 0-0 0 18 natieri, who helped the Patriots win three Super Bowls in four sea- team as Kansas City looks to end a string of five straight losses in Parker 1 0-0 0-0 0 6 string); CB Nicholas Harper (Ankle); WR Pollard 1 0-0 0-0 0 6 sons, but the Chiefs could use punter Dustin Colquitt to win the the postseason. The Colts’ Tony Dungy has had his teams in the Reggie Wayne (Quad); TE Dallas Clark Team 37 36-37 24-31 0 331 field position battle. He led the league with a 39.3 yard net punt- playoffs in eight straight seasons and is perhaps the mot notable (Knee); LB Keith O’Neil (Knee); S Bob Sand- Opp. 34 33-34 26-32 0 315 ing average during the season. K Lawrence Tynes made 24 of 31 coach who has not won a Super Bowl. ers (Knee); G Ryan Lilja (Knee). field goal tries this season, including a long of 53 yards. The INJURY REPORT Chiefs’ Dante Hall is one of the most dangerous return men in the Winner: Colts QUESTIONABLE: CB Benny Sapp (Ham- league. — Mark Maske string).