The Chiefs went from 55 and 57 sacks to only 39 last year. The pass rush from week 1 through 11 only had 21 sacks averaging 1.9 sacks/game which was one of the bottom teams in the league. You could really tell Spags was relying too much on blitzing most of last year. There’s only so many blitzes you can put on tape before teams can adjust, so it was a big need to address the pass rush.
Not surprisingly, the Chiefs had 18 sacks in their last 5 games which drastically improved that number to 3.6 sacks/game.
The pass rush immediately got better when Omenihu came back. Danna also had a pec injury which hampered him until about December and that made even more of a difference.
They’ve got their 4 best rushers in Chris, Karlaftis, Omenihu and Danna.
They’ve got Felix in a critical year right behind him. Now they have ONM and Gillotte behind them. I’d argue ONM was perfectly fine bc they don’t need him to play a ton of snaps. He’s gonna be a money down rusher.
Stack good pass rushers. You never know when a few guys will miss time. As much as I hate them, you have to give the Broncos credit for doing this with Bonitto, Cooper, Allen, JFM and Roach/Ellis and even Tillman. Not to mention those assholes got one of my guys Sai’vion Jones.
Keep your guys fresh and rotate. We need to be drafting a pass rusher in the top 100 every single year.
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Mike Greenberg@Espngreeny
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