The Kansas City Chiefs currently require the suspension of disbelief

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• Bowe is not quite back yet.

It’s hard to give up 40 points to another NFL team. You really have to work at it. It tends to require an abject level of failure. The kind of game where you allow a punt return for a touchdown, have an interception returned for a touchdown, and help a rookie quarterback be named the regular season starter for another team after leading scoring drives on the first six possessions.

This was the Friday-night preseason game at Arrowhead between the Kansas City Chiefs and Seattle Seahawks. The 44-14 loss was hard to watch, even with the aid of the fast-forward button. It’s a lot more difficult to dismiss this as a random preseason shellacking since nearly all of that scoring occurred with the Chiefs’ starters still in the game. It’s getting harder to predict regular season success for a team that has hovered around a division title the past two years only because of the mediocrity of its division.