and those are times when the D needs to step up.

And id bet ANYONE watching those games had ZERO confidence that a Gunther Cunningham defense would or COULD step up.

Even though he's NEVER done it before, in his entire career?

yeah, those 90's defenses really sucked.


I know he had DT and NSmith, but we have talent here too.


I want to see what happens when Grandpa isn't screwing everything up, and the focus of the team isn't totally on the offense.

Well done, soldier.

And the San Diego game was suspect. There were open WRs all over the field. Brees simply couldn't plant his feet in that terrible field, and the SD receivers dropped tons of passes in the rain. Under normal conditions, that game would have been a shootout.

Cinci quit in that game after Kitna came in. They quit the next week to against Pitt. (By the way, Marvin Lewis is supposed to be a genius. Cinci's D is horrible and they win with O. Marvin Lewis = overrated.)

Parker's point is that Gunt has never improved a defense's statistical ranking in 2 consecutive years.

I think the New England and Denver games were among our better D efforts. New England didn't have a running game, no, but this is the same team that won two Super Bowl titles without a running game, and it was really their only blemish in a streak where they were killing everybody.

And Denver's a damn good offensive team. I seem to have way more respect for Denver than most people that follow the NFL though. I think that's why Gonzo picked them to win yesterday, he's actually played against them. That team is like two plays from being a 15-1 team... and they have shredded people all year. But that 2nd game, Shanahan had to pull every trick play in the book to beat us, and he still couldn't do it. We made all the key plays and stopped them in the 4th quarter, and beat them down physically.

number of 1st round picks

offense:

Gonzo
Roaf
johnson
kennison

defense:

sims
johnson
woods
washington

Kind of like school, you do good you move on and you do bad you stay until you get it right?

a change at defensive coordinator will set back the defense back another 3 years. its dificult to learn a new system on offense or defense. this offense has one more year of dominance in it, assuming roaf or shields or both come back. stay the course. gun will field a top 15 defense next year. the only thing he needs to do different is press the corners and do the number 1 number 2 thing, instead of left and right.

Where's your evidence of this? Gun's first year with the Chiefs (1995) is by far his best. Marty's best D was his first year here. This myth of 2-3 yeards needed to implement a system...it's just total b.s.

Gun should be embarrassed to be in the presence of Al Saunders.

Maybe he is, and that's why he moved from upstairs to the field.

It may be a little different then taking over a D that already had quality players like DT, James Hasty, and the others. Gun took over a rock bottom D this time around so perhaps his chances of improving in back to back years is a little better. What were the rankings of the D in Guns good years? High enough I wager that improving it would have been pretty tough to do. I don't really remember but wasn't one of those Ds the #1 ranked D in the league? Since we were 25th in 2005 I have a hunch that Gun will see his second straight year of defensive improvement.

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I figured a half hour would be plenty of time for my statement to be rebutted. Go ahead it ain't gonna hurt my feelings. Really I can take it :)


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