Post Pioli, are we looking at a full rebuild?

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by Lou_Zare

Folks, Tamba Hali is not gonna get it done in the 43 as your RDE. This team needs a guy that can play 34RDE and get after it. And when they do switch, that guy needs to be good enough to switch with it because this team does not have that guy.

This year the team is on pace to have 25 sacks. That is pitiful and it's worse than last season's total of 29.

Hate to sound like a broken record, but the scheme they use is working better than switching to 43 because you just don't have a legit pass rusher.

This team needs a pass rush.

They are dead last in points allowed and dead last in turnovers. That is because they have no pass rush.

You see it over and over. Team after team, QB after QB gets tons of time to mince the Chiefs defense with passing. There is only one way to change that.

This post makes no sense.

First of all, I never said move to a 4-3. I'm talking about switching from a 2-gap to a 1-gap. In a 2-gap, your D-linemen occupy gaps. They don't go after the QB. So you take three pass rushers out of the equation on every play and you limit your ability to blitz. In a zone blitz or 1-gap 3-4, your 3 linemen attack, as well as some of your back guys like Hali and Houston.

Houston and Hali are exceptional pass rushers. Dorsey would be too in a 1-gap 3-4. Poe could be groomed to be. And DJ, Berry, and Arenas would be effective blitzers. It's not talent. It's scheme. When Romeo chooses to attack, through the blitz or by stunting his linemen, the defense does well. But his scheme isn't built around that.