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Originally Posted by Chris Meck
Bah.
All this Fangio stuff is entirely overrated in my opinion.
It's just disguising various zones with deep safeties while a very talented front four get to the passer.
It's nothing without a stellar pass rush from the front four. It's not some genius scheme.
Build a bad-assed pass rushing line, and anyone looks like a defensive genius.
It's the horses.
of course, Philly has the horses.
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It's not necessarily the schemes I'm talking about. It's that he had three seasons to study Andy's offense and Mahomes, which a lot more than the PHI DC has had. And not just film; he's been on the sidelines seeing how everything works first-hand. He's going to know situational tendencies, subtle formation or even player packages and what Andy likes to run from them. He's going to have some kind of a book just on Andy and Mahomes. If he's as good a DC as everyone says he is, that book is going to be pretty thick after playing against KC for three seasons x2.
Now, Andy is the king of breaking his own tendencies, and PHI probably can't just adopt Fangio's defense in a week and a half (don't think they would anyway), so it's not a huge advantage either. But the PHI DC would be a pretty dumb clown not to ask Fangio if he could look at that book.