Kansas City, Mo. ? This would be a good week for Herm Edwards to put on a false beard and a fake mustache whenever he ventures outdoors.

Better yet, Kansas City’s beleaguered head coach should just not venture outdoors. Sleep in the office. Have meals brought in.

Chiefs fans are seething in the wake of Pittsburgh’s 45-7 demolition of Edwards’ team on Sunday, really seething, and the head coach is naturally the object of much of their wrath.

Even media covering the team are coming in for abuse. An outraged radio talk-show host was yelling at sports writers Tuesday for not being tough enough during the laid-back coach’s weekly news conference.

It was, everyone is pointing out, the worst humiliation Kansas City has experienced in a nonstrike year since Chuck Knox’s Seattle Seahawks pounded John Mackovic’s Chiefs 45-0 way back in 1984.

“That was 22 years ago,” thundered one caller.

Maybe one reason so many fans seem so angry is they can sense that the cacophony does not so much as faze Edwards.

“I know who I am. I know what I’m about,” he said. “I’m a positive kind of a guy. Losing is part of the deal. You’re going to lose. You’re not going to win every game.”

Fans’ ire may not be entirely due to the pistol-whipping they endured in Pittsburgh, or their 2-3 record going into this week’s home game against San Diego. Some might even argue that Kansas Citians have been remarkably patient.

Week after week they snap up almost every ticket to Arrowhead Stadium, which seats more than 79,000. Voters in Jackson County earlier this year voted a sales tax upon themselves to pay for more than $500 million in improvements to Arrowhead and Kauffman stadiums.

That’s a lot of support to lavish upon an organization that hasn’t won a playoff game since the 1993 season, that has appeared in the postseason only once since 1997, that raises ticket prices almost every year and plans a $3.50 surcharge on parking costs that already start at a minimum of $20.

Edwards is not trying to say the Chiefs did not deserve their Steeler whipping. He just doesn’t want everyone to overreact.

“It’s one of those games. You’ve got to let it go,” he said.

And he’s not going to cast his body off a high place for being a part of it.

“I’m just happy coaching,” he said. “I’m just happy I’ve been in the National Football League 27 years. I understand it’s a privilege, nobody’s got a right to be in this league.

“You’re talking about a young kid who came out of Seaside, Calif. Had aspirations of playing pro football. First of all, just trying to get out of Seaside to go to college. In my lifetime, I’ve never really had a real job. I’ve been in football all my life.”

One weapon the Chiefs were missing in Pittsburgh should be back to full strength on Sunday. Wide receiver and kick return specialist Dante Hall should be completely healed from a hip injury. Quarterback Trent Green is almost certainly going to miss a fifth straight game, however, and fullback also could be a problem

Ronnie Cruz, the only fullback listed on the roster, was lost for the season to knee surgery on Monday. Kris Wilson, a tight end who has never actually found a position, will move into Cruz’s spot. But other fullback candidates are going to be brought in for workouts.