Defense wins championships, and this was the mantra the Kansas City Chiefs embodied when they overcame the San Francisco 49ers to win Super Bowl LVIII on February 11.
The Chiefs’s impressive comeback win during the biggest game of the season was built by their defensive coordinator, but he wasn’t shy about sharing the glory to his players. In fact, he credits the team’s sudden boom throughout the year for their incredible Super Bowl run.
Kansas City Chiefs DC Steve Spagnuolo praises defense for winning Super Bowl LVIII
Pete Sweeney of Arrowhead Pride wrote about the defensive coordinator’s guest appearance on The Pat McAfee Show recently. Pat McAfee and his team asked plenty of questions to get as complete a picture as they could on the Kansas City Chiefs’ incredible Super Bowl victory.
Sweeney recorded the high praise Spagnuolo gave his defense:
“This was highest number of guys on one unit that we’ve had,” said Spagnuolo. “When you have that, you feel confident in any type of in-game adjustment, anything new that you put in during the week, that the guys are just going to embrace it and roll with it — and they did that all year long. Even when we had injuries, we had guys that would step right in there from a mental standpoint and do the job. To be quite honest with you, I think that’s a credit to our assistant coaches, to have guys like that ready mentally and not skip a beat.
“Drue Tranquill, coming to us, new from Chargers and Nick [Bolton] gets hurt, we step in. We don’t skip a beat because he’s a high-cerebral, high-IQ guy and we were able to keep doing the things we do.”
While they weren’t able to stop Christian McCaffrey (160 all-purpose yards, 1 receiving TD), the Kansas City Chiefs defense was able to prevent Deebo Samuel (41 all-purpose yards, 0 TDs), Brandon Aiyuk (49 receiving yards, 0 TDs), and George Kittle (4 receiving yards, 0 TDs) from making any major impact on the game.
It was a masterful display from the entire Kansas City defense, and the Chiefs Kingdom hopes that they will continue this excellent defensive display onto next season.
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