Dopes.

Before the first game - I want to say a word about dopes.
The Chiefs are facing the second-toughest schedule in the NFL. One team they have a good shot at beating - the Tennessee Titans - will find the Chiefs down two offensive starters. And I do mean "offensive". Starting #1 WR Dwayne Bowe, and starting right offensive tackle, Donald Stephenson. Both for doping. One cheating and one just stupid.

Let's start with Stephenson. A Kansas City kid. The product of Blue Springs High School, and the University of Oklahoma. He's a home-grown player. Hometown boy made good. Everyone loves that story, right? He had a spotty season last year. OK, but hardly anything that resembled his hero, Branden Albert, whom the Chiefs let walk last offseason. The result has been a preseason in which the offensive line has "struggled" (newspaper speak for "sucked"). The fact that anyone on this O-line is serving a suspension for "performance-enhancing drugs" has to make you wonder just how bad they would have sucked if they weren't cheating.

Then there's Bowe. The $56 million man. Caught doing 48 in a 35 after midnight in Riverside, driving an older Audi with a car load of stoners, looking for a Sonic and carrying two joints. SERIOUSLY? This sounds like something that would happen after a Dungeons and Dragons meet-up of the Park Hill High School Audio Visual club. This guy makes $56 million and he's getting caught in 17 year old hijinx?

The Titans are not good. Dexter McCluster will be stoked, but otherwise, they are one of the few teams on the schedule this year that doesn't really strike any fear. The Chiefs should win at home, but how much more difficult will it be without these two DOPES?