Toub needs to buy into that complementary theme.

Because continuously encouraging your returners to field punts within the 5 yard line, resulting in terrible starting field position is decidedly non-complementary.

As I'm watching those clips, the whole time I'm in the head of the offense as though I'm playing Madden and trying to figure out what to do.

And literally the entire time I'm thinking "********************...."

I mean good lord that man creates some chaos out there. It's just a total maelstrom and these dudes are coming HARD.

On the 2nd drive after Spags beauty of a blitz getting Watson a sack, he set up the same damn blitz look. Tua saw it and changed the play to a protection.

Spags call was that similar look but it dropped everyone and the play ended up being 7 vs 3 on the back end with us dominating.

Shortly after they shows Spags smiling LMAO

"Complimentary" Just another word to say the offense has been a disappointment. As are all the "Reid is just saving things for the playoffs!" disastrous takes

I cannot wait to play the dumpster fire Bills. Finally they're gonna be able to shove that "we're 2-1 against the Chiefs!!!" stick of dynamite up their own ass.

2-4 sounds pretty great or, even better, 2-5 with another playoff L

mmmm, tasty!

I mentioned it about a month ago before we got Omenihu back that Spags does really fascinating things with his alignments to create pressure. Not just the stuff that's obvious to us like the blitzes or even the twists/stunts. But the way he uses shades and then the way he chooses to feign blitzes to create headaches in the protection calls - it's just cool as hell even when it seems like vanilla 4-man rushes on its face.

Then against Miami you saw him do some of those same things but also combine them with the blitzes (the CB blitz early being the most obvious example) to just completely mind-**** the QB. I mean he baited Tua into simply calling the wrong protection with some of those slides and by isolating Jones.

And times when he only sent 4 he'd make it look like he was sending 6-7. And on the fumble at the end he sent (I think) 7 but WANTED Tua to know he was sending 7 to try to rattle him, IMO. I mean NOBODY disguised anything there.

It was an absolute masterpiece. Everything he did was perfect. It was a culmination of a dozen different things that Spags will show on occasion but all rolled into a single gameplan that made life absolute hell for Tua.

I honestly don't know how any QB could've dealt with that defensive gameplan on Sunday. Mahomes would've struggled like crazy with it. It was as brilliantly done as anything we've seen from Reid on the offensive side of the ball.

And I didn't like the hire one bit. But man has this guy been a godsent the last couple of seasons. Truly one of the best out there and he's pretty unique in his approach (as opposed to just being another Fangio acolyte). I'm not sure if he'll ever get the kind of credit that someone like Dick Lebeau got - I think LeBeau made the Hall as a coordinator, didn't he? But I'm starting to think that he just might deserve it.

If he picks up another SB win or two, I think he'd absolutely be in the mix to go to the HOF as a coordinator, as long as he doesn't tarnish his legacy by trying to be a HC again. :)

i’ve been saying we turned into a complimentary football team since the beginning of the year. the offense is now playing thru the defense. setting up the punter, if you will ;)

Great article but I hate the term “complementary football”.

It’s a term that usually indicates you’re talking to a football dinosaur.

PHRASING

Hate to say it but the Chiefs executed it to perfection during the Alex Smith era.

They're doing it again, but with Mahomes the ceiling is much, much higher.

And when we beat the Eagles 17-14 everyone can lick our balls!!!

I was cumming hard during that blitz

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It's amazing to watch a master chef cook now that he's finally got the ingredients to make his best dish.

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