Chiefs at Texans - Week 2 - Record: 1-1

That's Chiefs football. Chris Jones gets a hand on a late field goal attempt, partially blocking it, but it goes in anyway. Blocking it would have given us a chance, down only seven with three minutes left -- but yeah, the ball barely makes it over the crossbar. That gives them the 10-point lead.

Then Tyreek Hill, who's been the only real player on the day, takes the kickoff to the house, butttttttt...

Holding call against us.

That's Chiefs football.

So we go down to defeat 19-12, you mean it was that close? (Cairo Santos got one last FG with a minute left.)

The good news? The Texans defensive line had their way with us. Um... why is that good news? It is simply we didn't have our two starting guards because of injury, and I was hoping hoping hoping our backups, decent Zach Fulton and Jah Reid would be good.

They weren't. None of them were. Our O-line today was worthless. It's nice to think that a "stable" offensive line means a good one. I'm still not giving up on these guys, but the offense was a total mess today.

Missed receivers, critical drops, errant passes, and sack after sack after sack, penalty after penalty after penalty -- mistake after mistake after mistake.

The last time we lost a regular season game was last October against Minnesota. Wow, it's been nice since then. Thing is, this game was more like the Cincinnati game, remember that one? We could just never get untracked, kicking a lot of field goals -- Santos had four FG's in this one -- still losing.

More good news is the play of Spencer Ware and Charcandrick West. Those guys are actually doing pretty well. Our running game is fine, really. Then there's our special teams, and damnnn, Tyreek Hill. Very nice. Santos, punter Dustin Colquitt, our kick coverage team, they were the only thing worth anything.

Well, our defense did show up a few times, that's fine. Marcus Peters had a couple picks, that was nice.

But our passing game -- ::whimper::

Our receivers were nowhere. Jeremy Maclin was flustered. Chris Conley was non-existent. Albert Wilson was a non-factor. Reminded me of The Wide Receiver Project, and that's a very, very ugly thing, trust me.

And the turnovers. What a mess. It was just a mess, that's all.

It was simple. There is no question.

The Texans did not beat the Chiefs.

The Chiefs beat the Chiefs.

I still wonder, can this team really be an elite team? Can we have that got-it enough to be contenders? I mean it was nowhere today -- so disappointing. This is not a steady, strong team right now, I'm sorry.

Again, let's see what happens. Let's see if our O-line can be back to respectable. Let's see if our passing game can get back on track and Alex Smith can get back to not getting back to mistrusting his arm and his receivers.
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