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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
2nd in the league in sacks with Houston effectively a non-factor.
"Sutton doesnt know how to generate a pass rush!"
Bob Sutton isn't perfect but he's doing solid work with this team and it's looking better. If they can just get those catastrophic coverage breakdowns down to maybe 1/gm (I'm looking at you, Ron Parker) then this D can play near the top half of the league going forward. Think of how amazing that passer rating stat is when accounting for the explosive play stat. And it doesn't take the sack figures into consideration.
And fellas we absolutely have to grade on a curve here. Playing 70-80 defensive snaps/gm is ****ing hard. Yeah, they could get off the field sooner and they're improving there but the league rules just around designed for that. Asking teams for a bunch of 3 and outs is just asking too much.
Sutton still has that Patriots game that worries the hell out of me - I think he did a truly poor job there. It apart from that hes built a defense that gets key stops when it needs them, gets after the quarterback and sure seems to be getting better. Through the halfway point of the season, I say he gets about a B/B-
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I looked at the stats today.
The Chiefs secondary is basically gifting the opposing team 6 points every Sunday because of blown coverages. If they could stop doing that, they'd go from 25.6 ppg to 19.6 ppg, which would move them from 21st in scoring defense to EIGHTH.
Now, that's not going to realistically happen but better safety play would help the corners A LOT and I could see them shaving 3-4 ppg off that easily. That would move them into the top half of the league.
I really hope they do something before the deadline.