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Saturday, August 27, 2005 - Page updated at 09:21 PM

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Jackson, Seahawks burn Kansas City 23-17

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Darrell Jackson needed only one game to remind everyone who set the Seattle record with 87 receptions last year.

Getting his first extended time of the preseason, Jackson caught seven passes for 99 yards and one touchdown in the Seahawks' 23-17 victory Saturday night over winless and quarterback-challenged Kansas City.

Jackson had been limited to just one catch for 3 yards in the first two exhibition games while the Seahawks took a look at other receivers. But he flashed his old form against the Chiefs (0-3). Capping a three-play, 55-yard drive in the first quarter, he beat cornerback Patrick Surtain, one of Kansas City's key offseason acquisitions, on a 36-yard touchdown pass.

Matt Hasselbeck also had his most productive preseason game, hitting 22-of-33 for 254 yards and two touchdowns. He put the Seahawks (2-1) on top 17-14 in the third period with an 8-yard pass to Shaun Alexander and also had a 27-yard completion to Jerheme Urban.

Most of his production came against the revamped defense of a Kansas City team that could be one injury away from a quarterback crisis.

With the Nos. 2 and 3 quarterbacks sidelined by injury, the Chiefs last week signed Jonathan Quinn, a journeyman whose career appeared over when nobody invited him this year to training camp. After two series, a sharp-looking Trent Green came out and Quinn came on for his first game action since he was with the Chicago Bears last year.

Quinn, who has appeared in 17 games the past seven years with Jacksonville, Kansas City and Chicago, went the rest of the way and was 11-of-23 for 126 yards. He was sacked twice, and missed three times from the Seattle 9 in the closing seconds.

Larry Johnson, who's been complaining for two years of not getting enough carries behind Priest Holmes, broke through a big hole in the second quarter and went 97 yards for the Chiefs' second TD. Pro Bowl fullback Tony Richardson gave him a great block and he burst into the secondary and outran the pursuit.

"It was basically great blocking," said Johnson, who had 147 yards on nine carries. "If you go through and nobody even touches you, that's called great blocking."

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Green was flawless on his first six passes. He was 5-for-5 in an eight-play, 80-yard touchdown drive on the Chiefs' first possession, capped by his 4-yarder to Tony Gonzalez, who used his 6-foot-5 height to outjump 6-0 Tracy White.

But after hitting Eddie Kennison on a 9-yard toss on the Chiefs' second possession, Green was intercepted by Andre Dyson and never heard from again.

"With the quarterback situation like it is right now, we don't know what it's going to be from a backup standpoint," Green said. "Then we scored on the first drive and were moving the ball and the one bad play. So we said, 'You know what? Everything's moving pretty good. Why take any chances?' I understand where coach is coming from."

Josh Brown kicked three field goals for the Seahawks, from 22, 26 and 21 yards.

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