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Originally Posted by WhiteWhale
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.
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Spags, like every other good DC, needs talent to succeed. When he’d had talent, he’s been successful, and when he hasn’t had it he has not.
After this offseason, I have the confidence to say he will have the talent to succeed.
I also have no doubt that this defensive staff is a significant improvement and anybody who thinks otherwise doesn’t have a clue IMO.