Last week, I screwed up. I put too much faith in a young QB with a somewhat arrogant Offensive Coordinator. I believed, based off of the little that we saw of him in the NFC Championship Game, that the good things Caleb Hanie did in that game out-weighed the bad. I was wrong. I should have been looking at the INTs and not the TD passes. Does Hanie have potential? Of course, but the same can be said of every QB in the league backing up a starter. Otherwise, why the heck are they in the league? My conclusions, which I came to via what I thought was sound reasoning turned out to be quite wrong. I hope I’m allowed to be wrong, as you never truly know which way a game will go.

With that in mind, let’s break down the Kansas City Chiefs. The poor Chiefs have been decimated by injuries this year, more so than just about any other team in the league. They don’t have the most injuries, but the injuries they have had have been to big name play-makers, the kind of losses that hurt. Players that wouldn’t normally expect to see much (if any) playing time have been thrust into starter roles, and it shows. This is a team that is playing hard but just can’t quite seem to get over the hump. This isn’t the week that it all comes together for the Chiefs, unfortunately for them. KC is basically a middle of the road team, in that they don’t particularly defend well against the run, (26th in yards allowed) are slightly above average against the pass, (12th in yards allowed) and overall tend to allow teams to score on them with relative ease. Thus far this season, they’ve given up 30 TDs: 10 rushing, 19 receiving, and 1 STs return. That’s pretty much right in the wheel house of the Bears.