If we get a QB that can keep our offense on the field instead of a shit load of 3 and outs we will automatically have a top 10 Defense with the talent we have. They just haven't had any help whatsoever from our O. We need to find that shut down corner opposite Flowers and our shit will be real.

God damn I wish we hadn't let Carr go !

This article and all the other "new guy / feel good"-shit makes me think of this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQBrYMDNyEk

to be fair, Carr's absence was evident early on imo, but the main culprit in a team getting blown out is an inept offense and we all know this team certainly had a crap offense which turned the ball over constantly for much of the season.

I would hope he feels confident enough to take a more aggressive approach.

-Will make the defense fit the players, instead of forcing players into his own scheme
-Some questioned... is he going to run the same defense he did when he was DC under Mangini? Absolutely not. He said he is going to borrow from Rex Ryan's philosophy to attack, attack, attack

The rest is just coach speak.

Ranks of Sutton's defenses at NY (first total yards, then scoring):

2006 - 20 6
2007 - 18 19
2008 - 16 18

Could be better, but it's not Dabollian.

I am worried about that too. Believe me, I'm cautiously optimistic.

But that failure was the result of the classic Patriot Way failure where you insist on running a 2-gap, even if you don't have the personnel to do it and even though the defense was growing outdated.

Sutton's defense is going to resemble Rex Ryan's defense much more than it did the Mangini 2-gap. I hope it works out. At least we know he's going to come here with something much different than what he used before.

Dude looks just like my dad in that picture.. kinda freaky.

I'd take a 6th ranked scoring defense...been awhile.

I doubt we re-sign Dorsey. But, it sure would have been nice to see how he would have done in this defensive scheme. He pressured the hell out of QB's at LSU, and might have turned the corner in a one gap set.

The NFL is MUCH quicker players than college. Dorsey didn't do anything at the NFL level because he's too slow for these guys.

I am skeptical of the Sutton hire. The Chiefs homer in me wants to believe. And when he says things along the lines of "we want to dictate the game on defense by disrupting the QB" it sounds like we will be getting away from bend/don't break. But who knows, really.

Yup. Not a pass rusher or a good fit in a 1 gap. People need to get over the myth he was ever going to be Warren Sapp.

heh -- I just noticed this OP pic has Chad Pennington, Sutton & Herm in it
http://media.kansascity.com/smedia/2...0fMV.St.81.jpg


and OMG is that Dick Curl off to the right, there? ??? ROFL

yep, I wondered if anyone would catch that.