Chiefs Film Room: What happened to Bob Sutton?
By Tarek Mavani
I’m not knocking Hali, but counting on a 32-year old with balky knees to win one-on-one matchups consistently doesn’t seem like a sound strategy. Sutton has to give Hali and the rest of this defense help through play design, yet he refused to do so at all last Sunday.
This time Sutton tries to change things up by rushing four d-linemen, but once again Roethlisberger has all day to wait on Brown to get open. Through four games, the Chiefs d-line hasn’t shown the ability to pressure QBs on a regular basis. But does Sutton adapt his scheme to compensate for this? Nope, he just keeps trotting out the same old vanilla schemes hoping things will suddenly click. Well, the only thing clicking on Sunday was the Steelers offense.
A coach’s job, first and foremost, is to put his guys in the best possible position to succeed. And while the definition of success is relative, I feel fairly confident that not getting embarrassed qualifies. Sutton completely failed to put this defense in a position to succeed last Sunday; they never stood a chance.
Hopefully Sutton makes good use of this bye week, because with the Raiders and Saints coming up, this defense needs the Mad Scientist back.