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Life is changing..
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: NW Missouri
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Chiefs hire Steve Spagnuolo as new defensive coordinator
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#3061 |
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Join Date: May 2017
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Spags looks like he can handle the job. He's already shown himself to be a ton better than Sutton.
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#3062 |
The Boom Boom Room
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Far Beyond Comprehension
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#3063 |
MVP
Join Date: Mar 2013
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Spags is sexy.
He’s helped bring some much needed edge to this defense (as has HB and Clark). Love the attitude I’ve been seeing on the field from the defense the last few weeks. |
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#3064 |
Unsparing
Join Date: Aug 2008
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#3065 |
Going home eventually
Join Date: Dec 2002
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Spags has been a difference maker. The defense believes.
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#3066 |
Unsparing
Join Date: Aug 2008
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#3067 |
Suupraa Geniuuusss
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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For the fourth time in his career Steve Spagnuolo has taken a bad/average defensive unit and turned them into something significantly better. With less talent than what the previous DC had at his disposal. Tip of the hat . . .
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#3068 |
Banned
Join Date: Dec 2018
Location: Ethiopia
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Spags can stick around. Love the dude's passion, and clearly the players do too. Chiefs made the absolute best of their offseason!
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: midtown KC
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People were all like-well, sometimes he's good, sometimes he's shit. But context is everything. Everywhere he's gone, his defense gets better, and usually within a year or so. The only exceptions were unstable head coaching/front office situations. We're stable here. Perfect situation for Spags to flourish. |
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#3070 |
Andy Reid Supporter
Join Date: Apr 2012
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Tied for 10th in points allowed after struggling early. Amazing
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#3071 |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Nov 2018
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Spags may just of been the biggest hire in Chiefs history in the past 7 years
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#3072 |
I'll be back.
Join Date: Nov 2002
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#3073 |
Special Teams ACE!!!
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Where the hell is SNR
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Few DCs are miracle workers. I don't think Spags is a miracle worker, but he's an experienced coordinator who tries lots of new things and knows how to get a group of players to play team defense. And I think a lot of people just looked at the stints with that abortion post-bountygate Saints team and the talentless Giants teams from 2015-2017 and just assumed the guy couldn't coach.
Back when we were waiting for Sutton to get fired, people brought up how scheme/coordinator are kind of irrelevant if the talent and the culture of rock solid defense is there on the team, and how if those things AREN'T in place, pretty much any DC is going to struggle. It's clear right now that KC has enough talent in place to not suck on defense, but Spags still deserves a ton of credit for getting that talent to buy in and play as a team-- it's something Sutton CLEARLY struggled to maintain in his time here. Again, they're not the greatest defense ever, but they're playing up to the expectations we had-- and probably way above that. It's been YEARS since our run defense looked this good. A whole bunch of the Sutton "leftovers" like Ward, Sorensen, Kpassagnon, Nnadi, and even Ragland have really improved and stepped up in the midst of this transition. Just about every new addition is a positive contributor to this team when they get snaps-- Wilson, Okafor, Pennel, Saunders, Honey Badger, Breeland, and... yes, I'll say it... as of late, Frank Clark. That's also not including someone like Ogbah who was one of our best pass rushers until he went on IR. Yeah, I'd say he's pretty good. Maybe he did lose his way for a bit there, but he's clearly found it again after taking that year off from coaching. |
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Special Teams ACE!!!
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Where the hell is SNR
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In Search of a Life
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: L.A.
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