I know this will controversial, but is this defense dominance sustainable or will we regress to the mean closer to the defenses spags started out with here. Right now we have the right scheme with an incredible core of players. But I think as times change and players swap out defense dominance will be way harder to maintain where on offense Reid and mahomes are always locks. Good news is spags’ floor especially in the playoffs is plenty good enough to win.

At some point we have to make choices about positions to deprioritize. And much as I love having real good MLBs, I kinda think the old eagles way of constantly churning young, cheap talent is the way to go.

Historically it is much harder to sustain dominant defense than offense.

Yeup.

Defense is about not having a weakness. Very few defenses involve a great player patching up holes in an otherwise average unit. Most elite defenses are teams that are strong from top to bottom.

And that takes luck or money.

And in either event, it takes really good timing that rarely lasts for long. Especially in a league where CB play is historically extremely erratic. HOF corners are great every year. Merely very good CBs have almost as many mediocre seasons as great ones.

Last season was a perfect confluence of career years in the defensive backfield, a deep LB corps and good enough play on the DL. That's just damn hard to bank on year over year.

You're not wrong, we did win a SB with them. But 2020 and 2021 were dark days for that defense, and they were very much part of it. They were slow, they couldn't cover, they could barely wrap up for a tackle. The only reason the stupid ass "keep Mahomes off the field, chew clock" strategy was even viable was because the LB corps allowed it, we were getting gashed. Did we overcome it the majority of the time? Totally. But that doesn't excuse how awful they were.

Is Bolton the answer and we need to pay him? Not necessarily, although I really would love to keep him. But if they move on from him for one reason or another, ill be okay with it. Veach has obviously earned himself plenty of leeway.

EDIT: I forgot how they responded when fans started boo'ing/calling out the defense that 2021 year. One of them said something to the effect of "fans should be more grateful, we got you guys a ring". They were totally content resting on their laurels, not even acknowledging how bad they were playing. So if I'm sour about LB play and I dont want it to go back to those days, this is partially why.

i've said it before, and will again, butker does not need a raise. if he isn't doing kickoffs, and keeping the leg warm, his accuracy will suffer and will halve the number of kicks per year. :D

My wife's gonna' be pissed if they do trade him. She doesn't know who Rickey is or I'd flip this to her.

#NewDealSF?

That sounds more like an extension than a trade.

Looks like dude rage quit Twitter.

I want to resign Creed Humphrey IF we start doing QB sneaks again and IF we start running from under center on 3rd and 1 and 4th and 1

It's better to burn out than to fade away. RIP to The People's Insider.

#GOAT

:doh!:

Well, Rickey nailed it with Butker. Harrison's new deal is official and he's under contract for 5 more seasons. Now we wait to see if anything happens soon with Creed.

Nice deal for Butker. Basically makes him a Chief for life. Happy for Butt-kicker. Now, let's get Creed signed, Veach.