What defines a "physical" team?
 

This is one of those things I've been hearing for years, but lately it's standing out - and it's ****ing annoying.

Is "physical" team code for something? Like white players are "lunch pail type of guys, high motor, play the game the right way" etc?

The Titans were a "physical" team. Anyone who plays in the AFC North is a "physical" team. The Texans were a "physical" team.

What the **** does this actually mean?

I interpret "physical" as "lacking the natural talent to win using anything besides brute force". Of course football is extremely physical, but there is also a ton of finesse, misdirection, and trickery involved.

Run first defensive team.

It's basically code for "they aren't explosive and can only win by playing a muddy game" but were to nice to say that.

Anyone that thinks the Chiefs are not "physical" whatever that is supposed to mean. have not been watching. We were laying the wood yesterday.

Honey Badger don't give a **** he will physically dislodge you from your shoes.

No kidding. I loved watching our defense yesterday. You could tell the Titans were feeling it.

Mike ****ing Pennel says sorry the Chiefs arent more physical.

Dirty Dan says **** you to all the naysayers

I think our D had heard enough about Henry and his teammates. I wonder if the Tits plane ran out of ice packs on the way home last night.

Physical Team = Team that can’t throw the football and is playing the Chiefs

I love Honey Badger's term "championship swagger." That is the huge difference between this year and Sutton and Romeo's defenses (when they were good). Romeo had physical defenses in the past but zero swagger. Sutton had more of a finesse defense. This defense this year is both physical and has swagger.

I remember a few years ago, Shaun Smith came here guns ablazing and no one really know how to handle him. His attitude was so different anything we were used to. We've had physical defenses before but it's been a long time since we've had one this confident and that took this much joy hitting other teams in the mouth.

Shit, they been laying the wood since they got straight up embarrassed by the Titans game in week 11.

That was a blessing in disguise, looking back at it now. This defense is on a different level now.

This.

Kinda like the Titan's "Bend but don't break" defense we heard about all week.

Shit, Shaun Smith would have done so well on this defense with his attitude.

A physical team=The Legion Boom in their prime. The Steelers from the Jerome Bettis years. The Steel Curtain years.

Those were teams that were so physical that the other team had to play like they were going to war just to survive the game. And not just the stars of the team; the entire team played that way. The no-name guys came with just as much violence as the superstars did.

Our defense has been looking like that lately.

Our offense isn't physical in that sense. We don't try to bulldoze people. We out-smart and out-speed defenses. We have individual players that play physical. Kelce and Watkins play a brand of physical football and can dominate a defender. But Hill doesn't knock people around; he flies past them, over them, etc.