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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 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 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, 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.
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The eagles were in the Super Bowl for a reason. There are always offenses that are gonna eat no matter what you throw at them. Our defense gave up points and yards because the eagles executed. Very well coached team with absurd talent at wr and OL. It’s not like we were calling bad plays or blowing assignments or whiffing on tackles.