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Originally Posted by BossChief:
It’s so promising to see so many young players make strides under Cullen. Pretty much every single DL player is noticeably far better now than before he took over. This DL is going to be NASTY towards the end of the year and going forward.
You NEVER want to lose a guy like CJ95, but if we do end up trading him in the offseason, I have high hopes for the player they choose to replace him being coached by a guy that has proven to be able to bring the best out of his players.
My fear is losing Cullen to a team wanting him as their DC while also losing Jones to a trade.
Yup - I think this has to be a real concern at this point.
55 is old for a HC, but not a DC. Lots of teams like grizzled older DCs. And he has one year as a DC with Urban Meyer; not like he has some lengthy track record of failure.
Someone's going to hire him as a DC next season. He had some alcohol related strangeness in '05 and '06 (fired from Mississippi shortly after being hired; suspended for a couple weeks I think with Detroit) but that was 20 years ago now and I figure teams will probably be willing to look past it.
If the Chiefs stay at this level, and I think they will, I'll be surprised if they don't lose him. And before we get to 'well what Spags retires?' - I'm not a huge fan of that possibility either given that I think Spags coaches the shit out of DBs and I think he has developed some really good concepts and tendency breakers here in KC in his own right.
I think there may actually be some peter principle stuff with Cullen that we can't be sure of either way. But I know he's a HELL of a defensive line coach and I'd sure hate to lose him. He's a really good complement to Spags, IMO.
I just think it's pretty likely we will. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Pasta Little Brother:
Please stop :-) they aren't going 18-1. This is why yiu guys lose your shit in close games thinking we're unbeatable and should blow everyone out.
Might want to try to find some receipts of me ever doing that before putting your foot in your mouth. [Reply]
George Karlaftis recorded a career-high eight pressures in yesterday's win over Chicago.
His 16 pressures this season rank sixth in the NFL behind only Aidan Hutchinson (19), Maxx Crosby (19), T.J. Watt (19), Myles Garrett (18) and Micah Parsons (17).
Scary thing for the rest of the league is he's largely doing this without playing next to Chris Jones yet. Didn't play week one and only 16 snaps in week 3. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Sassy Snatch:
Scary thing for the rest of the league is he's largely doing this without playing next to Chris Jones yet. Didn't play week one and only 16 snaps in week 3.
The scary thing for the rest of the league is Chris Jones has been doing this without playing next to George Karlaftis... [Reply]
:-) Spags and the boys threw this man into an existential crisis
Justin Fields after the Chiefs game: "I'm looking at it like the big picture, life in general to be honest with you. I think this past week has had me kind of look at it like: What are the important things in life?" [Reply]
