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Originally Posted by Hammock Parties
 7:50
after all the shit we endured with GROB and Sutton playing the DBs soft constantly, seeing an opposing fanbase lament their very own defense doing that against us in the biggest game of them all? perfecto. |
I still see Spags getting grief on social media for the Super Bowl, but here's the thing.
In the 2nd half, his defense held the Eagles to a field goal (thanks to a critical sack by Saunders who ran his ass off to make the play), and forced a 3 and out in large part due to Spags dialing up his blitzing. They held the Eagles to 3 points in their first two drives in the second half. In the Patrick Mahomes era, that is all that was needed to flip the balance of the game to the Chiefs and give Patrick the ball with 5 minutes left for a game winning drive to win the Super Bowl. As a Chiefs fan, you take that hand every single time it's given to you.
In the golden era of Kansas City football, this is the exact defense Patrick needs to win a championship -- and to pull it off with a secondary and linebacking core where every player but Justin Reid is on their rookie contracts is just a masterstroke from Spags/Veach and our scouting.
And that's just the Super Bowl -- we're not even talking about the AFC Championship game, where, down Sneed and Gay, we witnessed the Chiefs' greatest playoff defensive stand in a half century to twice keep Joe Burrow from a game winning
field goal to send us home.