Chiefs defense this year. What do you expect?
 

The first year and a half of Romeo seemed we sat back in a lot of coverage. I am not saying we didn't blitz but it appeared anyway we didn't do it a whole lot relying on Hali to be the man. Last year the NE game we started blitzing like crazy, at least compared to what is seemed we did before. Particularly DJ seemed to start coming up the middle a lot more.

top three, they won't be on the field very long.

Going to be tough to be top 3 given our schedule. If Powe works out though it could be a huge boost towards that.

Hard to judge last year since we played so many awful QBs.

When it's all said and done I expect us to be slightly worse due to 3 factors:

1. Tougher schedule
2. Carr > Routt
3. Huge ****ing learning curve for Dontari Poe

Granted, but do you expect to see more of the coverage D or more of the blitzing D that we saw for the last half of the year?

Unfortunately the offense won't be either.

Our defense has 90's chiefs D potential. I think it all comes down to Eric Berry, if he can recover and get better, sky is the limit! Add in Houston who was beast last few games and Powe, I think we could have a borderline legendary defense on our hands.

uh, ST on the field for 50 min?

Also, add a 4th factor:

4. Last year our offense was shit, so teams didn't have to score as much.

That might not be a bad strategy.

It's going to come down to the front 3. Dorsey has progressed but we need TJ to really take that next step. I was watching Red Zone and they had Bill Maas on talking about playing in a 3-4 and how you ask your lineman to actually not explode off the ball but to hold a gap. He said it's pretty much against everything you've been taught as a lineman but that's a 3-4.

Anyway as they were showing highlights they were pointing out how TJ still gets knocked off the ball and doesn't beat single blocks. That's where we need that improvement. Of course the NT position is a big ? but I think we are in a better situation than we were last year.

If we had any kind of an offense last year we probably still lose to NE but it isn't a blow out given how the defense started that game. We also beat the Steelers as well. Inuries and the Palko Plague really ****ed us in a few games, that's for sure.

Pete, I expect you to bitch about the defense, regardless of whether or not the finish #15 or #1 overall.

I'll try not to let you down, big guy! :D

Pain.

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