The Chiefs will give at least four rookie starters, and possibly five or six, a true sink-or-swim baptism in the season opener when they make their NFL debut against, gulp, the defending AFC champion New England Patriots.
Did we mention that the game is on the road in Foxborough, no less?
If it can get any tougher than facing the team that saw its 2007 run toward 19-game perfection cut short in the final minutes of the Super Bowl, it’s hard to imagine how.
