[Megatron96]

To be honest, I wasn't that knowledgeable about Spags before he became DC for KC. I knew he'd been the DC for NYG when they won the SB against the 17-0 Patriots, but I barely watched that game the first time because, well, it was NYG vs. NE.

when he was hired I tried to do some research and found an article that had been written a few months before the hire that ranked him among the top-10 best DCs at the time, which I posted in this thread somewhere.


Then i got lucky and a friend of mine who is a NYG fan lent me a DVD of the SB game. After watching it a couple times my impressions were:

Spags was very creative in his blitz/pressure packages, and he was a very aggressive play-caller.

For me, that was enough. After years of Sutton's lack of creativity, the lack of discipline by the DL, and apparent wishy-washy play-calling in big moments in the biggest games, I just wanted KC to make a wholesale change defensively, and Spags seemed like the most likely candidate to effect that sort of change.


Glad things turned out the way they did. I'll say it again: Steven Spagnuolo is the best situational DC in the league, and probably the best DC the Chiefs have ever had. We're lucky to have him, and I hope he stays for another 100 years.