Anyone mentioning Sutton is an idiot. That said, this one one of spags worst game plans and adjustments.
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And the weeks before?
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At this point comparing Sutton to Spagnuolo is like comparing herpes to AIDS. Nobody here wants either one.

Too much talent on defense for them to play this bad.
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It's no secret that the Chiefs have had serious problems stopping the run since before Spagnuolo arrived. Mahomes has been so good that teams have quickly abandoned the run to play catch up (even Baltimore has done this at inexplicable moments in the past). He certainly hasn't fixed the run defense, and moving Jones more to an exclusive DE role may have reduced his effectiveness in a manner not unlike how Gunther once limited Derrick Thomas.

The defense does not lack for talent in back half. This isn't a 2002 type situation where you look across the roster and see very few players who would start on an even average defense.

While I've never been a fan of Spagnuolo, who I felt succeeded because he had three Pro Bowl pass rushers and another good one all at once, he's also faced likely two of the three best run offenses in the league so far. I think that they may be better off playing a less aggressive style of defense where the lineman work on maintaining better gap discipline so that they force teams to face the strength of the defense-the secondary.
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True....Not at LB there isn't.
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The run d will improve. It’s the pass rush I’m worried about
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The #Chiefs are spending 25% of their 2021 cap on the defensive line. That is the highest percentage in the league. Only 5 other teams are over *18%.*

The defensive line has a combined 3 TFL through the first two games. Not what you're looking for!

— Brandon Kiley (@BKSportsTalk) September 20, 2021

This is ... not good
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Jones is, apparently, our only real weapon up there

Honestly don’t expect much of Clark anymore… but Nnadi, Reed, Saunders and Wharton were all guilty as well

None of them stood out against the run, which is where their supposed strength lies… bunch of soft bitches
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For some reason Nnadi gets alot of praise yet the run d has sucked the whole time he's been here.
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Theres 15 more weeks the 2019 defense wasnt good til November. Calm down.
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Run d is about the whole unit playing fundamentally sound.

They don’t do that
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Couldn’t possibly agree more, I’m good and tired of hearing about what a rock he is
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Baltimore can run on anybody, it's the poor tackling that gave them cheap yards on every possession that did them in. He'll, Clete helped us for once and put them in some tough down and distances with cheap calls and we still fucked it up.
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Nnadi is still nursing something. They have him on a pitch count.
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Was good to see a Sutton game plan again. But that was enough. Hope Spags has time to maybe study some film of the other teams before we start the game from now on.
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