Joe Cullen to be named DL coach?
 

Only tweet I've seen on this they haven't let go of Brendan Daly yet.

@GeneFrenette: Look for former #Jaguars defensive coordinator Joe Cullen to be named @Chiefs defensive line coach later today, per NFL source.

https://twitter.com/GeneFrenette/sta...-w7VqOY1g&s=19

Cullen is a good coach. That would be a solid hire, especially as D-Line coach.

Daly’s message has seemed to grow stale as our best talents on the D-Line (Clark and Jones) seem to be unmotivated a lot of the time. I know you can’t pin that all on the coach and the players share responsibility in that, but results are results.

Have Clark and Reed got better since they came here from Seattle? How much has Jones improved under Daly? What about the development of some of our lesser heralded, talented D-Line guys?

When he came here, he was advertised as some super motivator that was gonna turn our D-Line into something that mimicked the success of the Pats D-Line. Not saying there weren’t any improvements, but clearly that hasn’t happened.

Maybe Cullen won’t be able to do any better(?), buts it’s time for a new approach.

Time to move on from Daly as far as I’m concerned.

this is a very good move

Yeah, change is definitely needed on the DL. Coaching staff included.

Maybe it will be. I don’t know. I’ve never heard of the guy. It should be noted though that we were saying the same thing about Brendan Daly when he was hired. I’ll believe it when I see it.

Yes. Now cut bait with under-producers and get more talent for what it would cost to pay the under-producers.

I’m all for this.

Go look at what that defense did against Josh Allen and then the Colts.

Seems it would be a good move, along with some new players that stay focused AND motivated.

Was reading his Wikipedia and saw this lol

Oh **** he'll fit right in! Welcome aboard!

Streaker coach who drinks a lot. What could possibly go wrong?

Not saying we should bring him back, but Britt Reid wasn’t such a bad DL coach. Managed to squeeze a lot of production out of JAGs like Rakeem Nunez Roches and Kendall Reyes

Great Googly Moogly....:facepalm:

If you haven’t been naked in a Wendy’s drive thru have you really lived?

Holy shit. This would be a fanatic hire. I’m not getting my hopes up though because this dude doesn’t even have a blue check mark.

Kind of ironic that he’s partly following Britt Reid, eh?

But those incidents were from 2005 & 2006.

While stupid, I’d like to think he’s past that and grown from those experiences since it was 15+ years ago.

Hopefully his demons don’t get him while he’s here . . . . . .

That's... not a good look for us if we hire another position coach with an alcohol/drugs problem in his past given we're still attempting to save face from Britt Reid nearly killing a girl

I kinda wish the Chiefs would move on from Spags tbh.

I think you're going to make not a lot of hires if you avoid people with a substance abuse problem in the NFL.

I'd have to be on something to get in at 4 am and work till 9 pm every day for months.

Some folks on Twitter wondering if this is an indication we might be going to a 3-4, and if so, is that an indication that we might be getting a new DC.

Just chatter and bs for now, but worth watching

don't care too much except the end result...Spags gone

I truly feel our most talented front 7 defenders (Jones, Bolton, Gay) would thrive in a 3-4. Jones has already proven he's a much better fit in that scheme. Ingram has always been a 3-4 guy too if they're planning on re-signing him.

Would love to see it. What we're doing now is beyond stale.

Not really much reason to stick with a 4-3 right now. All of the good assets on the front 7 would transition over.

Gotta be better than Daly. He has had the DL regress every year under him. Another Pats cast off that’s magic ran out when he left BB.

Gay and Bolton are your ILBs and they’d be fine. You don’t have any OLB/DEs in house and Danna/Kaindoh aren’t 3-4 DEs. Jones is though.

I hope to god we don’t move back to the 3-4.

Feel bad for Daley if true. We’ve completely neglected the DL through the draft ever since he got here.

Clark quit, Okafor sucks and Chris Jones has been the same guy despite multiple DL coaches.

To his credit he found Danna who has been an excellent role player. Wharton was a damn nice find too. Shocking that the best DL on the team was acquired mid season.

This team needs a talent and youth injection on the DL in the worst way.

Sorry, I don't give a shit.

Look at the money spent on the line. Yeah, we didn't invest much cap capital in the D line, but we didn't ignore it.

Has a Reid team ever ran a 34?

We only have two LB's. Going to be hard to run a 34 as the base D.

Saw something on Twitter (so take with a grain of salt) that said Daly is joining Ken Flajole to coach the LB's. So Daly not gone?

Link?

We ran a 3-4 the entire time under Sutton.

It’s Arrowhead Live.

Then Nick Athan said it was BS.

So who the **** knows what to believe at this point.

It makes sense since we have to replace house. As someone else said, I don’t think Daly was ever the problem. A lot of that is talent and scheme.

Lol what? We ran a 3-4 every year until Spags came

3-4 defense can go **** itself

If athan says it's not true then it is

LMAO

Pretty much. Arrowhead Live has actually broken something recently, so I’ll go with them lol.

Or we could switch to the 3-3-5.

Doh! I had completely blocked those years out of my memory!

I don't blame you. :D

Although I did enjoy the ferocious pass rush, I miss that part. Poe dominating inside with Hali and Houston crushing QBs on the edge. Although it never mattered in the end.

Only 2 LBs? Run the 5-2 like the '85 Bears!!

So apparently Brendan Daly was also our Running Game Coordinator this year on top of the DL coach. Doubt we move on from the guy and instead just bump him over to one of the openings on the staff on either offense or defense.

Oh god no.

He’s worked with TEs in the past.

But the only openings we would potentially have are OC and QB coach, right?

I don’t think we want to experiment with that.

Yeah, no. I was just putting his history out there.

Although he’s never worked with LBs before, that I’m aware of, so this maybe another Greg Lewis thing where they’re trying to get him experience for a DC job here or somewhere else.

Or if we are bringing in a 3-4 DL coach, the OLB’s in a 3-4 are basically stand up DE’s. So he could be a LB coach.

I don’t buy the 3-4 shit for a second.

They literally just transitioned from a 3-4 to a 4-3 3 years ago and they’re going to do it again?

And that’s without even mentioning that they still have Spags.

We would basically be tossing Kaindoh and Danna out the window.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Joe Cullen mic’d up during OTAs per <a href="https://t.co/Pjb1isyPMC">https://t.co/Pjb1isyPMC</a> . He has been reportedly linked to the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Chiefs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Chiefs</a> as a DL coach. <a href="https://t.co/v6qxLLIW2J">pic.twitter.com/v6qxLLIW2J</a></p>&mdash; Nick Jacobs (@Jacobs71) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jacobs71/status/1489669402249338883?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I’m good with a change at DL Coach. No position group on the team has seen less return on its investment than that one.

I’m encouraged by what we’ve seen from our secondary the last two years, despite having such an inconsistent pass rush. Plus, we’ve been really bad against the run for the majority of the last 4 years.

Josh Allen, the DE, reportedly loves this guy.

He drove through a Wendy's drive-thru drunk and naked? That makes me want to hire him even more!

I wish he was coming with.

Unless Spags is retiring that makes no sense

They're only late round picks. Danna I think could play OLB in the 3-4. I mean Hali was able to adjust so I'm sure he could make it work.

I don't see it happening either, though. Unless they've honestly determined it's the best move for Jones, Gay and Bolton and they want to maximize their abilities. Jones was way better in the 3-4 if we're being honest.

**** that.

Daly was paid a king to come here and has been handed elite talent at DE and DT and completely ****ed it up.

Nobody improved under him and you could argue everyone regressed.

Run defense coordinator.

Think about that for a second.

He's just another Patriot stooge, shouldn't be surprised I guess.

I actually love the 3-4 and never wanted to transition away to begin with.... but the biggest problem with a 3-4 transition is you'd be completely ****ed at the two most important positions - OLBs. You'd need to fist out some cash for adequate names otherwise I don't really see how you garner any pressure with the current group. It doesn't make sense to transition back to a 3-4 right now if I'm being honest. You're just adding more to the problem.

Exactly, would make more sense to move to a nickel base than go to a 34.

Especially with the league being a predominantly passing league now.

There were times where I felt spags figured something out where we were having huge success blitzing while every other defense seems to want to go zone.

But that exposed some of our weakness when we flat out cannot cover in man and it could get worse if the league chooses to emphasize defensive holding.

So I’m not sure how to feel about our scheme. I do think our late season reinforces the importance of making sure our defense does just enough to suppprt a dominant offense which we absolutely need to get back on track.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We have named Joe Cullen our Defensive Line Coach and Brendan Daly will coach Linebackers. <a href="https://t.co/PQ1oz6c0wR">pic.twitter.com/PQ1oz6c0wR</a></p>&mdash; Kansas City Chiefs (@Chiefs) <a href="https://twitter.com/Chiefs/status/1489700190823014401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Imma be honest - coachspeak bores the hell out of me.

That's not to say he can't teach, just that this clip doesn't show it. I LOVE watching Andy go over technique with guys, especially the O-Linemen.

Any ****ing idiot can scream "GO BE GREAT!! PUNCH THE BALL!!!!" but show me a guy that can teach how. Show me someone that can demonstrate that long-arm ninja swipe thing that I've seen some DL do that messes with the timing of those feints from the OL. Show me someone that can see a guys primary move and get working with him on the right secondary and how to execute it.

At some point I just get exhausted by the 'BLOOD MAKES THE GRASS GROW, KILL KILL KILL!!!' guys. I want someone that is actually showing these guys how they can be better football players.

I hope Cullen is that guy because I'd like to see a ton of young talent added to this DL and I'd like to see them actually develop on his watch.

Nick Athan with his millionth L LMAO

The one thing about Spags is he does not let team just run the football on us. Hated the last couple Sutton years.

Idk if a run defense coordinator is a thing, but on the Chiefs website it clearly lists him as the “Run Game Coordinator”, the same way Kafka is listed as the “Passing Game Coordinator”.

https://www.chiefs.com/team/coaches-roster/

Nice, this is a great move. Love that this organization is always going after the best position coaches they can find. Well, the best of everything they can find really.

In a way when Ingram was in we ran a 3-4. Not in the traditional sense, but he stood up and behind the DL a lot. I think Spags did that to make him more comfortable, and he might be more interested in adapting adding new wrinkles this year.

Okay, so this makes sense then.

House leaves, Daly is the LB backfill, Flajole stays as OLB, and Cullen to DL.

@barleyhop: Interesting. Daly's not coached LB's before, but they keep some continuity on the staff after House leaves.

Cullen is a helluva hire. Excited to have him in the building. https://twitter.com/Chiefs/status/1489700190823014401

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Cullen has primarily coached 3-4 DL (and was DC of a 3-4 base Jaguars team last year), but has experience with 4-3 DL under Leslie Frazier. Going to be a big task for the new guy with some probable new bodies along the Chiefs DL.</p>&mdash; Craig Stout (@barleyhop) <a href="https://twitter.com/barleyhop/status/1489705335334002697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Still need to cut the head off the snake and Hire Fangio.

I am shocked that Fangio have not been picked up quickly

I like it. They might be losing both OC’s this offseason. No need to create too much change there.

I like Culley as well. If EB leaves I hope Nagy comes back

Veach at his PC:

“We’re going to attack the DL this offseason” (paraphrasing)

Then they go out and get one of the best DL coaches in the NFL?

Should be a fun offseason.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Again, pure speculation here. Just putting the pieces together as best I can</p>&mdash; Arrowhead Live (@ArrowheadLive) <a href="https://twitter.com/ArrowheadLive/status/1489712948956348424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Eh I wouldn’t read too much into the Shane Ray thing.

There’s 0% chance they’re changing the scheme again. It just doesn’t make any sense.

If we are cutting Clark we are likely drafting an edge rusher first anyways. As well and signing one(maybe resigning Ingram). We need to add at DT as well regardless of scheme, so we could add a NT instead. Saunders also big/talented. Danna can trim some weight. Kaindoh can bulk up, he’s still a young project anyways.

Shane Ray is this year’s Kyle Long