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Originally Posted by ThyKingdomCome15
I have to give the Patsies credit where credit is due. Not one year in the Mahomes era has KC fielded anything close to what the Patsiies churned out defensively on a consistent basis. Bill found gem after gem year after year. Brady couldn't do it without him. Amazing.
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Getting closer, though.
The Patriots built their defense through smart drafting and BB took over for a guy in Carrol who wasn't going to let the defense atrophy.
The Veach era Chiefs had a defense that needed to be rebuilt from the ground up and it needed to be done quickly so as not to waste some cheap years from Mahomes. And Veach, though he gets mixed grades on the veterans he brought in, largely got the defense to adequate over that short period of time.
But he's also been building a foundation for potentially sustained success long-term. He's finding younger players to replace those short-term veterans.
Just remember that the Patriots were really 2 different dynasties and the first one was built on a foundation that existed prior to BB. Parcells took those guys to a SB w/ Bledsoe, Carroll continued to build in the margins and then BB took over in a very right place, right time scenario. Then after that first burst of success, he had a decade or so to continue to build that roster.
That's where we're getting with Veach now.