The #Chiefs are hiring Steve Spagnuolo as their new defensive coordinator, sources say. The former #Giants DC and interim HC/#Rams HC began his NFL coaching career as an #Eagles assistant under Andy Reid. Now rejoins Big Red in KC.
Originally Posted by -King-:
I mean we allowed a season high 28 points from the worst offense since the 2012 chiefs... And the game became a 1 score game when their QB engineered a 75 yard touchdown drive before getting knocked out of the game.
It was as bad as it appeared.
Except it wasn’t but believe what you want. [Reply]
Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501:
But again, for as much as the defense frustrates me, how can uou possibly put our playoff losses on spags? It was the gazillion sacks and negative offense in Tampa. The defense more than held their own against Cincy. It was the offense that constantly put up three and outs in the second half. It's not like they just sucked. They were repeatedly put in really really bad spots by our offense
I'm basing more off the totality of work, not just by a few games where they had to pickup the offense. Overall, I don't think you could ever rank Spags defense in the top half of the league, in any given year they've always floated around mid-tier. If you've seen what Brady was able to do with top ten defenses in his career, that seems to be the winning formula. My argument centers around not wasting Pat's prime years, and other playmakers on our team, based on loyalty to a good, but never great defense and/or coordinator. Patrick's trajectory is going towards Aaron Rodgers more than it is Tom Brady at this point, and it's better to see it in advance and correct it rather than let our late 20s stars retire or go to another team before you get it right. If we win the Superbowl this year, or get to the AFC Championship, then I'll gladly say let's try it again. But if they regress and lose out because the defense couldn't stop anyone in the Divisional or Wildcard rounds, then it's a glaring problem at that point in an offseason full of questions on how do we make the team better to get back to the point we were once at. [Reply]
Originally Posted by MahomesMagic:
All teams run them the point is to get a guy that is comfortable running them a lot.
Without a pass rush it doesn’t matter. The Bengals dropped 8 against KC because their three guys could pressure Mahomes. The formula does not and will never change. Pressure the QB and you have a chance. Do not and it can be very hard to win. [Reply]
Originally Posted by tredadda:
Without a pass rush it doesn’t matter. The Bengals dropped 8 against KC because their three guys could pressure Mahomes. The formula does not and will never change. Pressure the QB and you have a chance. Do not and it can be very hard to win.
Of course. Last week against the Bengals it would not have mattered what you were calling when your DL gets its ass kicked. [Reply]
Originally Posted by MahomesMagic:
Of course. Last week against the Bengals it would not have mattered what you were calling when your DL gets its ass kicked.
Which is exactly why I think he needs one more season with Veach addressing the Dline like he does with any area of weakness. No pass rush and every coordinator and scheme fails. Doesn’t matter if that coordinator is Spags, Belechick, or Buddy Ryan. [Reply]
Originally Posted by tredadda:
Was it Spags that almost cost us the game or Mahomes? This team was cruising up 27-0 before the offense got careless.
They had a 40 yard TD drive. A 60 yard TD drive and two 75 yard TD drives. It's not like Mahomes was turning the ball over in our own red zone. [Reply]
Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501:
I have said repeatedly that in 3 years spags has not costed us a season. For all the ups and downs they have yet to let us down in a playoff loss. We followed up a embarrassing stretch in 2019 with a dominant playoff run on defense. We had a solid showing in 2020. We had an embarrassing game on defense vs Cincy followed by a playoff game where our defense actually played burrow reasonably well.
We've had plenty of bad stretches on defense but have generally been good when we get to the playoffs. I'm plenty uncomfortable with our defense right now but yeah, until he actually costs us a playoff game he deserves the benefit of the doubt. Our offense, not our defense, by a mile are the biggest reasons for our recent playoff exits