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Originally Posted by Chris Meck
There's nothing vanilla going on.
Vanilla would be rush four, play zone with two deep. That's vanilla.
Spags has blitzed LB'ers, safeties, corners, zone blitzed (that's when you see like Karlaftis drop while like Sneed blitzes) jailbreak blitzes, you name it. Rush 5, 6, from anywhere.
It's risky as ****.
Sometimes it gets your burned, and looks bad when it does.
I don't think that's what anyone, especially Spags would prefer. I bet he'd LOVE to be able to sit back in two deep most of the time. But if we did that now, we would NOT be 10-3 and this close to the #1 seed, I'll tell you that with no question.
We can't get home with 4. This is our biggest weakness. That, or our OT play. Either one of those might be enough to derail us from a SB trophy.
But as we're talking about defense, let's talk defense.
We have a player talent/production problem on the defensive line. We have Jones, who is doubled as much or more than anyone in football, a rookie who's trying to figure it out in Karlaftis, and a bunch of JAGS who can get some pressure here and there, maybe even a sack every once in awhile but cannot win one on one consistently.
This is where the Clark trade still hurts us. He's lousy. He's been lousy most of the time except the 2019 post season. We vastly overpaid in hindsight and it's handicapped us in terms of available resources. It was a fair bet that Veach made, there was no reason to expect the production to fall off of the cliff, but it sure did.
And the problem is, you can't get double digit sack production picking #30 or worse every year.
So we're going to have to try to buy a pass rusher (or multiple) again.
That's it. That's the only thing that makes for a top ten type defense.
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Watch the Eagles defense, the Cowboys defense, or even the Titans defense.
There is a clear difference in how the defensive players on those teams play. I am not talking about scheme, I am talking about technique on the defensive line and secondary, and I am talking fundamentals like tackling.
None of Spags defensive units for the Chiefs have ever been good tacklers. And they have never been great at taking the ball away. And until this year, they were never really any good at sacking the QB either.
There is a deficiency in the approach Spags takes to coaching his defenses. His defenses had those issue when he had veteran players all around, so blaming the young players is ridiculous.
Young player have given this defense something we have never had on defense during the Reid era, and that is very good overall team speed on that side of the ball. So maybe they have improvements to make in some areas, they also add value as well.
The common denominator is Spags. And like I said in another post, when people actually start blaming Denver's 4 TDs on Mahomes, instead of holding Spags accountable, you know that the ball washing has just gone too far, and needs to stop.
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