DENVER - Rod Smith reached his milestone. Mike Anderson got his yards. The Broncos' defense played a great game, too, and the win brought back memories of a time when it was the Denver offense the NFL feared most, not the one from Kansas City.

Anderson had a 44-yard touchdown run, and Smith became the first undrafted player in NFL history to reach 10,000 yards receiving Monday night, helping the Broncos shut down the Chiefs from start to finish in a 30-10 victory.

"They beat us in about every way they could beat us," Chiefs coach Dick Vermeil said.

Jake Plummer went 13-for-18 for 152 yards - including a 12-yard TD pass to Smith - and ran for a score on fourth-and-goal from the 1, an efficient performance that was more than enough to blow out Trent Green, Priest Holmes and the Chiefs.

Green threw 27 touchdown passes last season for the league's most productive offense. The Chiefs (2-1), however, were anything but productive in this one.

Holmes was held to 61 yards, backfieldmate Larry Johnson added only 13 more and Kansas City went without a touchdown in the first 58 minutes.

In a way, though, Green's 21-yard TD pass to Samie Parker was significant: It kept Vermeil from suffering his worst loss as an NFL coach and allowed the Chiefs to avoid matching their worst loss in the 46-year history of this AFC West series.

"I think we proved we can play with the best of them," Broncos defensive end Trevor Pryce said. "That was the best offense in the NFL, make no doubt about it."

But this game conjured memories of the days when they said that about the Broncos (2-1).

Led by Anderson's 98 yards and a pair of long gains on reverses by receiver Ashley Lelie, Denver ran for 221 yards. With the running game working, Plummer was effective off play action, a la John Elway when he was handing off to Terrell Davis in his final, Super Bowl-winning years with the Broncos.

"I didn't do much but just guided them down the field," Plummer said.

Then, there was Smith.

He finished with eight catches for 70 yards and one touchdown - the 12-yarder that made it 17-0 in the second quarter. His milestone, the one that made the 11-year veteran the 24th player in NFL history to reach 10,000 yards, came in the third quarter off a 19-yard catch.

A while later, he got knocked in the head by Sammy Knight and had to be helped off the field with a concussion, a seemingly fitting ending for a receiver who has built his reputation on working hard and never quitting.

"If the game was on the line, knowing Rod, he would have wanted to go back in," coach Mike Shanahan said.

But it wasn't. And Smith didn't.

"It's really hard to describe," he said. "It's a matter of being in a place where you love playing. For them to give me that many opportunities in my career, to reach something like that, I actually take my hat off to them."

While the Broncos savor their second straight win after an ugly season-opening loss to Miami, the Chiefs will try to quickly put this one behind them.

They didn't have left tackle Willie Roaf, who was out with a hamstring injury, and that caused a shuffling of their normally dominating line.

"I have to make an apology to the fans of Kansas City for not holding up my part and helping this team win," said Jordan Black, who replaced Roaf at left tackle.

Still, the loss of one player couldn't explain all the ineptitude - the two sacks, the lost fumble that led to a quick Denver score, the shanked punts and most notably, the 13 penalties for 118 yards, eight of which were called in the first half while the Broncos were cruising to a 20-0 lead.

"I'm disappointed in myself," Vermeil said. "The coaches lost, too. When you come out and lose like that, the coaches got beat, and the players got beat. It's not just the players. Maybe we have to do a better job when we get up here."

Notes: Smith scored his 63rd touchdown, leaving

him two short of Davis' franchise record. ... The Chiefs worst loss to Denver remains a 34-7 defeat in 1996. Vermeil's worst loss as an NFL coach remains a 45-20 defeat at Minnesota in 2003. ... The Broncos scored on two of four trips inside the 20 to make it 4-for-11 on the season.