C HICAGO | Four exhibition games are usually plenty for most NFL teams, but this preseason can&#8217;t possibly be long enough for the Chiefs.</p><p>&#8220;I wish we had five or six preseason games,&#8221; said wide receivers coach Eric Price, who is busy sorting through several candidates for playing time. &#8220;I&#8217;d like to just keep on playing those things.&#8221;</p><p>Price&#8217;s wish is shared by each of the Chiefs&#8217; coaches, Herm Edwards included. So don&#8217;t expect the exhibition norm &#8212; one, perhaps two series and finished for the starters &#8212; in tonight&#8217;s preseason opener against the Bears at Soldier Field.</p><p>Excepting selected veterans like Tony Gonzalez and Larry Johnson, Edwards indicated most starters could expect extended playing time, which he didn&#8217;t define. All of their new components, particularly on offense, demand it, he said.</p><p>&#8220;The young guys need to play a lot,&#8221; Edwards said. &#8220;It&#8217;s according to what kind of team you&#8217;ve got. That&#8217;s the point we&#8217;re at right now. We&#8217;re not a veteran football team anymore. We&#8217;re the other way, so these guys have to play a lot.</p><p>&#8220;The way they learn the best is by playing. The more we can put them in game situations &#8212; playing Chicago will be another step for them &#8212; it helps a lot of guys learn that all of a sudden teams do things differently than the guys you see every day (in practice).</p><p>&#8220;That&#8217;s what you have to adjust to. That&#8217;s the thing about pro football for young guys. They have to adjust to what the other team is doing, the speed of the other guy you&#8217;re playing against. When you practice against the same guy every day, you kind of understand the tempo, you kind of understand the guy. When you play against somebody new, for a young guy, it&#8217;s a whole different experience.</p><p>&#8220;I like what we&#8217;ve done so far. We&#8217;ve still got a long way to go.&#8221;</p><p>On offense alone, the Chiefs have a new coordinator and system, a quarterback beginning his first full season as a starter, an offensive line featuring three new starters and a fourth in a different position, a new starting wide receiver and a new fullback.</p><p>The Chiefs barely had time to make introductions in their two weeks of training camp. It&#8217;s little wonder that the new coordinator, Chan Gailey, said his biggest concern was getting his starters enough preseason time together.</p><p>&#8220;We need to play together as a unit more than we have in years past in preseason ballgames,&#8221; Gailey said. &#8220;The only way to create consistency is to have guys play together. We have to try to get that done and yet be smart about it at the same time.&#8221;</p><p>Edwards is hoping the Chiefs, unlike in either of his first two seasons, can come out of the preseason with some momentum. They had disjointed preseasons in each of the last two years and then started the regular season slowly.</p><p>They gave many of their preseason snaps last year to Casey Printers and Jeff Terrell, two quarterbacks who didn&#8217;t make it with the Chiefs to the regular season.</p><p>This year, most of the work will go to Brodie Croyle and Tyler Thigpen, their two top quarterbacks.</p><p>&#8220;Hopefully, we&#8217;ll play just until we get in there and get rolling and kind of get some momentum going into the next week,&#8221; Croyle said. &#8220;We probably need to play a little bit more than normal with a new offense, a new offensive line and everybody trying to get their timing together. It might be two series, it might be four series. You never really know until you get out there.&#8221;