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Originally Posted by Chiefspants
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 blitzing for the Eagles first two drives in the 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.
In the golden era of Kansas City football, that is the exact defense Patrick needs to win a championship -- and to pull it off with a secondary and linebacking core that are ALL 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 we witnessed the Chiefs greatest playoff defensive stand in a half century to keep Joe Burrow from a game winning field goal to send us home.
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post is spot on
it's never going to be the defense's job to go win the game in the mahomes era
but they did more than once this postseason, and the rest of the time, got critical stops when they were needed
mission accomplished
as long as the defense gets on base, mahomes will drive in the run