[Rain Man]

If the field is 53.3 yards wide, you could conceivably put a person every three feet across the field, which would negate the Chiefs' speed. In that situation, you'd have to rely on people to at least slow down the receivers if they go out for a route, or otherwise you're immediately dead. Also, in that scenario, the Chiefs would run up the middle and score 100 percent of the time. They'd blast a hole and then no one would catch the running back.

So you know as a DC, you'd have to have different levels.

You can't just line up in five rows of 11, because again the Chiefs would run and the linemen would obliterate the defenders one at a time as they moved forward.

So I think you have to put 15 guys on the line. The linemen probably can't obliterate three guy each in the first second after the snap, so you'd have a chance of slowing the running back down a little on the first level.

You're going to need 6 deep safeties because you need guys to gang tackle if at some point a ball carrier gets slowed down.

Now you have to address the receiver situation. You're never going to cover a receiver on a downfield route, so you don't even try. You just put your cornerbacks ten yards off the ball with the goal of tackling the receiver after he catches it. You'll want four guys on each receiver, 2 at 10 yards and 2 at 20 yards. That's a total of 12 guys. There's risk here, but we only have so much firepower.

So now we have 15 linemen, 12 cornerbacks, and 6 deep safeties. That puts us at 33 of our 55 players.

We need linebackers now. I think we put 10 linebackers behind the line with the goal of gang tackling a running back.

Then we have 12 guys who are "wide backers". They're outside the tackle box, maybe 7 yards off the line, and they go from the tackle box to the sidelines.

So that puts our lineup at:

15 defensive linemen
10 inside linebackers
12 "wide backers"
12 cornerbacks
6 deep safeties

How would the Chiefs attack this defense?