Bruh so Fuller is a safety now allowing HB to basically be wherever the **** he wants on the field is such a genius move. Also allows Sorenson to just focus solely on playing a LB type of role.

Who doesn't love them some Spags? Give up the love peeps!

I’m a bundle of sticks for Spags!

W-whut? You mean to tell me that effective defense is predicated on....
AGGRESSION????

Well who the **** knew?...

I love how even tho Breeland didn’t get the sack on Trubisky, none of our guys stopped and Jones was there for the sack

This is effectively Spags team now. Our identity is the D.

The D that we're going to ram up the patriots and ravens asses dry

Damn Fuller started crashing down before Trubisky even started his motion. Great play.

Damn can you imagine if Fuller starts playing like Earl Thomas back there.

We gonna ****.

And if our QB starts playing like Patrick Mah... oh wait. Our quarterback IS Patrick Mahomes already!

I’d re sign Fuller to play safety. Have HB play wherever he wants

In PHX. They called it “Monster.”

You guys are too hung up on traditional "positions".

This is what I was talking about before the season.

Spags doesn't care what you want to call the position, he cares about the skillset of the player and how to best utilize it on any given play on any given Sunday.

It's why we have so many linemen that can play inside or outside. It's why Honey Badger is so valuable to him, because he can play slot, either safety, hell he was even in man on WR's outside some against Chicago. (don't remember seeing that before).

The point is you don't know what the **** we're going to do when you come up to the line.

so if Fuller can drop and play some safety, well that's just one more chess piece. But I wouldn't call him a SAFETY. More like they're all kind of defensive backs.

Your outside corners remain more or less outside corners. Everyone else could be doing any one of three or four jobs on any snap.

I dig it.

Hell nah. Our identity is Patrick Mahomes, but the arrow is definitely trending up for the D.


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It's Christmas. Why are you posting? You better stop that shit before Gaybeard ( NAMBLA goes to sea ) and his cabin boy come along to remind you that Jesus' fictional December 25th birthday is NO TIME to be screwing around on CP!

This is a Patriots deepthroat piece but a nice bit about KC's pass defense for those who like the ANY/A metric:

http://www.footballperspective.com/2...tempt-part-ii/

49ers regular season stats for defense:


19.4 points per game
113 rush yards per game
61.36% opponent red zone TD percentage (25th in the nfl)
-KCs whole year ranking was 8th in the nfl at 51.56%-...that 41.7 mark would place us 2nd in the nfl.
SF was ranked 7th in opponent passer rating during the regular season at 84.1
KC was ranked 6th at 83.5....the 73.4 over the last 8 game is 2nd in the nfl.


So, in short, KC can make a legit argument that they have a better defense... or at least equal.

49ers went up against Russel Wilson x 2, AR, Brees, Lamar Jackson, Rams 2nd time around - and other prolific offenses.

AFC west is a joke compared to NFC west. Ignoring injuries b/c every team deals w/ those.

RE: the Chiefs D: only 3 of those 8 teams were above .500.
Pats, Titans, Texans.

Did you see the interview prior to the AFCCG? Spags talked about watching HB keying on offenses and seemingly being out of position frequently, but a player as instinctive as HB MUST be trusted and afforded that freedom.

It requires some serious testicular fortitude to extend that trust to a player, but it has paid off in spades.

Rams = Chargers. Seriously. They caught lightning in a bottle last season, and regressed to the mean.

You're not seriously touting the 5-10-1 Cardinals as serious competition?

9ers played the Bengals, Bucs, Browns, Panthers, Redskins, and the scrubby Cardinals...twice. And barely beat the mother fookin Redskins. I won't bring up the loss to the Falcons, because you know, they are hot diarrhea in a dixie cup.

Woof Woof. Go read the Mercury News some more to feel better about your chances. Because they are slim.

We said we were a defense away from a super bowl, and here we are. Hell yeah

Spags has done a fantastic job.

What a turnaround.

hell of a coaching job.

Loving the whole staff.

Chiefs hire Steve Spagnuolo as new defensive coordinator
 

Chiefs film review, Part 1: With Mike Pennel leading the way, KC boasts a new and improved run defense

https://theathletic.com/1552465/2020...d-run-defense/


Seth Keysor


People should be talking about the Kansas City Chiefs’ defense more than they are right now.

The Chiefs’ AFC Championship Game victory over the Tennessee Titans should have opened some eyes nationally as to the improvement Kansas City has made in stopping the run. Titans running back Derrick Henry was an unstoppable force barreling through the playoffs one run defense at a time, and the Chiefs, it was believed, were weak in that area. It looked like the perfect foil for Kansas City’s Super Bowl chances.

Instead, the Chiefs held Henry to his lowest rushing total since Week 10, and his lowest yards-per-carry output since Week 6. They also handed him a net loss catching the ball, tackling him behind the line of scrimmage on both of his catches for a total of minus-8 yards.

Despite that impressive performance, a strange narrative has emerged from the game that the Titans “went away” from running the ball and that was the reason Henry didn’t dominate the game as anticipated.

https://twitter.com/gmfb/status/1219...562159104?s=21

The common discourse surrounding the game is that all-universe quarterback Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs’ buzzsaw of an offense forced the Titans to start playing catch-up and Henry was thus contained. As always, though, it’s important to fact-check claims to see whether they match up with reality. An easy way to do this is to check the drive logs, which show you every single play that occurred throughout the game.

Doing so in the Titans-Chiefs game shows that the Titans didn’t go away from using Henry because they were trailing by too much to run the ball. Rather, it appears they went away from him because he was largely ineffective. On Henry’s first 9 carries, he averaged 5 yards per carry, a respectable number. However, 24 of his 45 yards came on 2 attempts. His remaining attempts averaged 3 yards and set the Titans behind the chains several times, requiring passes or penalties to bail them out of bad down-and-distance situations.

After those first 9 carries, things got worse for Henry and the Titans rushing offense. On Henry’s final 10 carries — all of which came before the fourth quarter and the Chiefs seizing their biggest lead of the day — he gained a paltry 24 yards. The first carry of that ineffective stretch came with 13:39 remaining in the second quarter and the Titans holding a 10-7 lead. After that point in the game (keeping in mind the Titans extended their lead to 10 points), Henry’s runs gained 3, 5, 4, 3, 1, 1, 0, 3, 4 and 0 yards. And that’s leaving out a 3rd-and-1 stuff in which Henry was unable to gain first-down yardage despite a holding penalty on the Titans (that play can be found here).

So how did the Chiefs do it? Were they stacking the box constantly and daring the Titans to pass? Well, no.

https://twitter.com/natewellerr/stat...057188869?s=21

Pennel, Nnadi, Clark, Suggs and the rest of the defensive front are set to face a very different run game in the San Francisco 49ers’. However, the way in which the front was able to dominate the action against the Titans bodes well for their ability to control the line of scrimmage. While the Chiefs’ defense did struggle to stop opposing run games in the first half of the season, the additions of Pennel and Suggs, Clark’s return to health and the continued development of Saunders and Kpassagnon have them playing like a very different group now. If they continue to operate the way they did against Tennessee, the 49ers will not be able to get away with ignoring the passing game like they did against the Packers, and perhaps the Chiefs’ front seven will start getting the respect it deserves.

Chiefs hire Steve Spagnuolo as new defensive coordinator
 

It took Nixon to go to China.

It took Spags to get us to the Super Bowl

Miami!

The Undiscovered Country!

Patriots fans can be very frightened of change.

He has. Great hire By Reid.

Bob Sutton refused to try and confuse offenses through scheme. He just counted on his players winning their match-ups. It works fine when you've got a defense full of Pro Bowlers. But it's an absolute disaster when you don't. Last year, teams would find a match up they could exploit in our defense and just do it over and over and over again.

Spags creates a new gameplan every week. He makes in-game adjustments. He at least attempts to confuse opposing QBs. Even Aaron Rodgers credited his gamepaln earlier this year and admitted he misdiagnosed several of our coverages. I'm confident we'll have as good a gameplan we could ask for against the Niners. Just going to come down to execution.

I'm excited for the schematic innovations we'll see. I doubt either team comes out vanilla on O or D.

ROFL

That should shut up the idiot.

He also found a way to give other DB's new roles so HB can be flexible. Shadowing RBs with Sorenson was brilliant. Using Fuller in safety snaps was a great move for us. HB can freelance because other DB's are doing their job.

Jones needs to watch out lol

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">In addition to working with the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Chiefs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Chiefs</a> training staff, Chris Jones credits Steve Spagnuolo&#39;s wife&#39;s meatballs she made him ahead of the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Titans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Titans</a> game. Said he &quot;felt amazing&quot; after that. Also said that Spags told him to &quot;relax&quot; because that&#39;s his wife 😂☠️</p>&mdash; Aly Trost (@AlyTrost) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlyTrost/status/1220414992962523137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

And that’s why Niners went 6-2 vs teams above 0.500 and KC went 3-3 vs teams above 0.500. Man you guys are classless with the attacks/mockery. “Woof woof go read the newspaper ”

Then again you guys haven’t been to a SB in 50 years so this kind of behaviors is expected, right mods?

Who is favored in these match ups, if any?

Bieniemy vs. Saleh
Shanahan vs. Spagnuolo

Andy will be calling the game, not EB. Andy over Saleh all day.

Shanahan vs. Spags is tougher. If we'd played earlier this year I'd probably lean towards Spags, 60% vs. 40%. But that didn't happen, so Spags will have to make his adjustments on the fly. I think it's a coin flip. I believe Spags will make the right adjustments by halftime. But it might take longer.

I'd take Kyle at gametime, and Spags at the half.

If Kyle is able to set the tone in the game and has a two score lead at halftime, we're in trouble. If we have any kind of a lead (even if it's four points) with the kickoff coming to us in the 3rd, look out.

Pretty much my thinking. Spags seems to start the game kind of vanilla, and then makes his adjustments during the game. It's one of the things I really respect about him. he doesn't wait until the half to change things up. He's changing things up in real time.

But it's no secret that our LBs aren't the best group in the NFL. Spags is going to have to roll the dice a few times. We may get caught with our pants down once or twice in this game. But I really expect that by the half, Spags will have enough to stop the Niners offense a couple times. If we have the lead in the second half and Andy puts them down by two TDs, Spags can easily handle a one-dimensional Niners team led by Jimmy G.

Great post!

Goddamn I was practically prophetic on this one.

These are gold :D

LMAO

Time for a victory lap...of which there will be many in this thread.

**** yeah.

You were dead solid on point ALL this season!

Nick Jacobs had it first.

And you said KPass couldn’t beat tackles in a 4-3.

He did his best work on the inside. 4-sack season.

Good backup player for sure.

I want to see some shutouts next season! Sixty minutes of killer smothering DEFENSE! No more spotting the opponents double digits and putting it all on the offense to rally and comeback. A 53-0 final score would be nice. When was the last time the chiefs defense held an opponent scoreless? Answer: January 09, 2016 at Houston in the playoffs

Secret ingredient: Toradol.

Did anyone note the balls on Steve Spagnuolo?

He didn't sit back and let Josh Allen get comfortable. A week after Carr roasted him deep, it would have been very tempting to do that.

The Chiefs blitzed the shit out of Josh Allen tonight and he never got comfortable.

Spags is such a good ****ing coach.

Called a pretty good game except for the WTF moment after the Kelce fumble
Damn near gave 3 points to Buffalo playing that soft defense at the end of the 1st half

Spags owned Josh Allen and the Bills today. turned a supposed MVP candidate into Daniel Jones. Shut down their run game. Made Diggs a non-factor.

I said it last season, Spags will have this defense ranked in the top 5 by season's end. Mark it down.

He's the Anti-Sutton. It's so nice to know that even if we have a bad series, quarter or half, the guy is gonna keep throwing new looks and schemes out there.

Of all the things I've been wrong about related to football, my disapproval of this hire ranks #1

After the game Damien Wilson said they hardly blitzed at all

The blitzes haven't been getting home the last couple weeks. We need guys to start winning their 1-on-1s.

They would have gotten to Allen several times last night but one, it was slippery as heck and two, Allen is a big boy that's pretty fast for his size.

Allen is a hoss, I won't deny it, but getting close is only good when it's good. A QB can throw a bad INT due to pressure, but he can also step up and throw a TD into pressure. We need to get home on these blitzes because our CBs outside of Snead really don't have the speed or ball skills to cover most receiving threats downfield.

We were applying a bit of pressure last night. It's hard to tell if that's what caused Allen's issues because of the weather and the fact that he's typically not very accurate anyway. I just saw too many blisters get stonewalled last night and last week against LV to be feeling great about our pass rush.


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The got zero pressure last week. None. They got a lot of pressure last night, despite the lack of sacks. I get that it can be worrisome but last night's DL looked MUCH better than last week.

Chris Jones was an animal last night, for sure.

I think the Bills actually made a change at G because he was legitimately raping lol


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Football, like fashion, runs in cycles.

Spags was hot, then his schemes were old, and now his wheelhouse of pressure and blitzes is back in fashion.

Great hire Spags is a great DC.

Nailed it!

Even the blindest of homers couldn't have predicted just how outstanding Spags would become for us

Another elite take from me!!!!!

I never made any comments when the hire happened but I did not think Spags was going to be able to turn around our D. I was thinking it would be a marginal improvement over ****ing Bob but man, he is just crushing it.

We are so blessed.

Oh yeah, I figured the D would become adequate, but not the overwhelming swarm of angry hornets we saw last night.

Pass heavy league + Spags' exotic blitz packages= Sex

It's working so well because he and Veach are at the front of new NFL defense.

In todays game you have to be massive up front so those guys can run defend without help. Your secondary needs to be extremely versatile for confusion, that's why what we do works.

It's getting to the point where he might have teams calling about becoming the HC.

Although Brady is now with the Bucs Spags has experience beating him in the Super Bowl. I think that's one of the reasons we hired Spags was because we had to beat Brady to get to the big game. Now that's changed and we have Spags coaching the D against Brady in the big game.

If I were him I'd stick around and ride the championship wave. Rack up the rings and have fun. He knows all too well how quickly you become a pariah if you're an HC for a bad organization. But maybe the temptation would still be there.

Have you ever been wrong on this website before???

“I would love to do that (be a head coach) again, but I will preface by saying I’ve got a really good job right now and want to just hang on to the one I got,” he said. “I know how this league is. But that burning desire is there. If it’s in God’s plans, it’ll happen. And if not, I’m still a very fortunate man, very, very blessed.”

From an interview shortly after the Super Bowl.

Not so bad

Yep, trade ford and keep Houston

We should have kept Houston.

It seems unlikely!!!!!

Makes sense. He seems like a chill guy.

Houston didn’t want to be here. He wouldn’t take a reduced salary and ended up getting a reduced salary anyway in FA.

If we kept Houston we probably don’t get some of our FA’s in 2019 bc we would be paying Houston an obscene cap hit.

We’ve been over this about 500 times in the last nearly 2 years but it’s not surprising your dumbass can’t figure it out.

Did we hear that from Houston himself or was it rumor?

Truly asking, i don't know.