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Not going to say much here; already said my piece about Spags a couple times in the last couple weeks.
Anyone remember when there was a question if the Chiefs run D would be better or worse without Jones? Last night's performance poses that question again. I'm still on the fence about it, but we'll see going forward. Personally, I hope Jones comes back and finds a way to fit his style into this defense. I think we'd be golden up front at that point.
McClain, Nnadi (especially Nnadi), and Saunders appeared to play just about as well as they could play fundamentally speaking.
Hitchens played like his highlight reels; fast, aggressive, sure tackling. Was a great performance.
Mo Claiborne is a tough, physical CB that can and will play the run. Liked that a lot.
Frank Clark had himself a day. Though he kind of dropped off in the second half. I still think he has some nagging lower body issue. Also, late in the second half, I noticed that he was holding his arm at a funny angle between plays a couple times. But in the first half he looked pretty darned good.
This is the defense that Spags was fielding back in 2007-2008, and when he was re-hired by the Giants in 2015-2016. Fast, chaotic, blitzes from every direction, with tight coverage in the secondary.
Can they keep it up? We'll see.
But I was heartened to see that they stuffed a rush offense that burned the Packers run defense to the tune of 150+ yards just a week or two ago.
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