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Originally Posted by Chiefs Moon
The defense is soft and that's on Sutton. When players embrace "bend but don't break," it's over. They are ok with getting rolled between the 20's. That's not the mentality of a championship defense. We don't force turnovers, and when turnovers are possible, we don't have DB's with ball skills-- especially now that EB is out. Peters is the lone ball hawk, but he's unwilling to tackle. Ford is a joke against the run and DJ has noticeably slowed. The mentality is all wrong to overcome where talent is lacking.
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It was a really interesting adjustment. The whole rush 3 thing. It was a brilliant adjustment to account for spread, quick strike, pick play offenses. But he has to make the counter adjustment and I'm glad it's getting exposed now vs later. First of all, we have to get a million times better at timing the jump ball. I don't subscribe to the idea that we have to blitz more, but we have to get much much better at creating pressure.
Sutton made in game adjustments in Pitt to bring a bigger defensive front in, which carried over to Oakland. So it looks like he's trying to make adjustments. He just hasn't found the right one yet. We'll see what he does after 11 days to plan for Oakland. Hopefully he sees tape of the siemian debacle last year and figures out a way to stop the pass.