Last week: 25 (-2)

Record: 0-2

Matt Cassel is a limited quarterback, so their best chances of making the playoffs would have been to follow the solid defense, good running game, conservative offense, easy schedule, don’t make mistakes model they made it on in 2010. That doesn’t work so well if the defense doesn’t play well. Allowing 40 at home in the opener to Atlanta, missing your top cornerback and top pass rusher, is excusable. Allowing 35 to the Bills at full strength is not. The Chiefs have had to abandon their conservative offensive game plan in each of their first 2 games, passing a whopping 42 times to 24 runs last week, and they’ve predictably turned it over 6 times in 2 games. The Chiefs stand at 0-2 and head into New Orleans this week with a good chance to go down 0-3. It’s starting to look like the best Chiefs fan can hope for is their team finally bottoms out this season and takes a franchise quarterback through the draft. Matt Cassel is what he is and he’s owed a non-guaranteed 7.5 million heading into his age 31 season in 2013.

Kansas City Chiefs

Studs

WR Dwayne Bowe: Caught 8 passes for 102 yards on 14 targets on 50 pass snaps, 2.3 YAC per catch

LOLB Justin Houston: 1 quarterback hit and 2 quarterback hurries on 18 pass rush snaps, 5 solo tackles, 1 assist, 4 stops

Duds

LG Ryan Lilja: Allowed 2 sacks and 1 quarterback hurry on 51 pass block snaps

RG Jon Asamoah: Allowed 1 sack and 3 quarterback hurries on 51 pass block snaps

TE Tony Moeaki: Allowed 1 quarterback hurry on 3 pass block snaps, run blocked for 7 yards on 5 attempts, 1 catch for 9 yards on 4 attempts on 46 pass snaps, 0.0 YAC per catch

FS Abram Elam: Allowed 4 catches for 77 yards and a 2 touchdowns on 4 attempts, 7 solo tackles, 3 stops

RE Glenn Dorsey: Didn’t record a pressure on 15 pass rush snaps, no tackles

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