Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins (Post 14070976)

The Chiefs have proven you can have a ton of sacks and still have a really bad defense, and they did that without relying on the blitz. If you add a blitz-happy DC you'll probably notice an uptick against young/bad QBs, but what happens when you face QBs that thrive against the blitz, especially if you don't have press-man corners?

This feels exactly like a move from the Pioli years.

Originally Posted by RealSNR (Post 14070982)

Would some of you really rather have had Mike Smith as your DC?

Didn't ****ing think so.

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins (Post 14070956)

People always view this stuff with homer glasses. One week ago, all the talk around here was how the Chiefs' defense was actually good at home. Rather than looking at what QBs they had faced at home (almost all shit), they ignored the warning signs.

Steve Spagnuolo is a guy that had a couple of good defenses a decade ago when he had DE's like Strahan (HOF'er) Tuck, Osi Umenyiora, and JPP.

In 2007, his three best DE's combined for over 300 career sacks.
In 2011, his three best DE's combined for over 210 career sacks.

No shit he had good defenses back then. Christ, Greg Robinson could have coordinated a great unit with that talent.

The best thing you can say about him is that when he had the best DL of the last generation he didn't **** it up, but that's damning with faint praise.

Even in 2016 he had two good-great ends and three All-Pro DBs. No one could **** that up.

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins (Post 14070976)

The Chiefs have proven you can have a ton of sacks and still have a really bad defense, and they did that without relying on the blitz. If you add a blitz-happy DC you'll probably notice an uptick against young/bad QBs, but what happens when you face QBs that thrive against the blitz, especially if you don't have press-man corners?

This feels exactly like a move from the Pioli years.

Originally Posted by The Bad Guy (Post 14070972)

It's tough for me to say they have bad talent when Hitchens played a lot better in Dallas and other teams were interested in him, and they have 3 guys who could post double digit sacks.

They need more secondary talent and will potentially need to figure out a MLB or SLB, but there are pieces to work with.

Originally Posted by suzzer99 (Post 14070985)

So if we tag & trade Ford, does the team that gets him have the same rights as we do - potentially to franchise him another 2 years?

If we just let him walk we get a 3rd rounder basically?

Originally Posted by The Bad Guy (Post 14070987)

I don't agree at all about the Pioli years. Spags loves zone blitzes. I'm not sure how much press-man he ran, but the zone blitz was a staple of those Giants teams from what I remember.

The secondary was completely lost. There were more blown assignments this year than I can recall ever happening. That has to change. There was a massive communication breakdown and that's probably the biggest task for him to fix.

Originally Posted by Mecca (Post 14070988)

I think that is the problem, there is bitching to bitch because who else were you gonna hire?

Hewitt and McDonald weren't options here with no playcalling experience, Kris Richard wasn't getting out of Dallas...at that point who are you left with?