After much consideration, I&#8217;m going with the six sacks. I think that&#8217;s the worst part of this unbearable season. Oh, sure, it&#8217;s hard to pick just one thing. There are so many staggeringly awful things wrong with these Chiefs. They have been shut out. They have been blown out. They have been edged out. They have been freaked out.</p><p>Sunday, they lost their 19th game in 20, a streak that puts them down with the dregs of the dregs, the expansion Tampa Bay Bucs, the Rod Rust New England Patriots, the bags-on-their-heads New Orleans Aints.</p><p>And Kansas City lost this one in style, giving up a Chiefs-record 54 points to the free-falling Buffalo Bills. The Bills had scored 54 points the previous three weeks <em>combined. </em>They had lost four in a row. They were guided by a second-year quarterback, Trent Edwards, who had thrown eight interceptions in the four losses.</p><p>Sunday against the Chiefs, Edwards threw two touchdown passes, ran for two more, did not come close to turning the ball over and had only eight incomplete passes.</p><p>There&#8217;s a reason for this, a good reason, and it is simply this: The Chiefs have the worst pass rush in the history of professional football. I am not saying this to be flip, and I don&#8217;t mean this in the exaggerated way that you might say, &#8220;This is the worst traffic jam I&#8217;ve ever seen,&#8221; every Monday when taking I-35 North. No, these Chiefs are quantifiably the worst pass-rushing team ever. They have six sacks this year. That&#8217;s six sacks. The whole team. The whole year. Six sacks.</p><p>In the end, I think that&#8217;s the essence of this season, the core of this disaster, a big reason to believe that this rebuilding thing is not working at all. Yes, I have written that I like coach Herm Edwards and I think he&#8217;s a good coach &#8212; and I still do. But you know what? Six sacks over 11 games might tell a more compelling story. The Chiefs&#8217; defense is not putting up a fight. Nothing, for a football fan, is more frustrating than watching a defense that cannot get anywhere near the quarterback.</p><p>First, we need to put this in perspective. The Chiefs have six sacks. Of course, that&#8217;s last in the NFL. The Chiefs have six sacks. There are 19 individual players in the NFL who have at least that many. The Chiefs have six sacks. Derrick Thomas once had seven sacks in a <em>single game</em>. The Chiefs are on pace for nine sacks all year, and that would be an NFL record. The current record is held by the 1982 Indianapolis Colts, who had 11 sacks that year. And that was in a strike-shortened, nine-game season.</p><p>You know, last year the Chiefs had the NFL sack leader, Jared Allen, but they decided he wasn&#8217;t worth a long-term investment. This year, Jared Allen has eight sacks, and simple math tells you that&#8217;s two more than the entire Chiefs team.</p><p>There has never been a team that puts so little pressure on the quarterback. Ever. Understand, the Bills gave up five sacks to the Jets a couple of weeks ago. Buffalo&#8217;s offensive line has struggled most of the year. And Sunday, the Chiefs did not even get close enough to Trent Edwards to give him a warm towel and ask him what he would like to drink (which seemed to be their defensive game plan). The guy was given more time than Charlie Manson. He stood in the pocket long enough to be declared a naturalized citizen.</p><p>The only time the Chiefs chased him at all was when they chased him into the end zone &#8212; Edwards ran for those two touchdowns, which would be one more touchdown than he had scored in his NFL career.