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Originally Posted by kccrow
More zone looks in coverage
- cover 3 from 2-high and single-high safety alignments
- cover 2 from 2-high
Using versatility to mask intentions... Thornhill and Mathieu you can run cover 0 from any 2-high look without trailing the receiver
Alot more DB blitzes
More press-man with front 7 blitzes and stunts on 3rd down
Much less off-man coverage
Much more aggressive 1-gap penetration along the d-line rather than 2-gap read and react
Just, overall, much more aggressive, in your face style of defense that pressures the offense into making mistakes instead of sitting back and reacting.
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This is optimistic considering Spags hasn't had any real sustained success in over a decade.
He's gotten a lot of mileage out of that Superbowl win. People tend to forget he's had fewer top 10 defenses and more bottom 3 defenses than Sutton has.
Proof will be in the pudding, but I'm not sold he's an upgrade as a DC. That's not a defense of Sutton. I wanted him fired. I just didn't want to hire a guy I've considered over-rated for 10 years.
I figure with new personnel he'll have a good season in 2019. KC will lose 1 or 2 top assistants who would probably do the job better than him. Then, like usual, teams will figure him out and start toasting his schemes.