2021 KC Chiefs Projected Special Teams Post-Draft

2021 KC Chiefs Projected Special Teams Post-Draft in my opinion:

K: Harrison Butker

P: Tommy Townsend

LS: James Winchester

H: Tommy Townsend

KR: MeCole Hardman

PR: Tyreek Hill

No changes before or after.

2021 Projected KC Chiefs Defensive Starters Post-Draft

Our defensive scheme is a 4 - 3 (4 Down Linemen, and 3 Linebackers) base 7 man front with a 1 gap Under Front alignment (Defensive Line shifts to the weakside, and the Strong Side Outside Linebacker moves up on the line of scrimmage. That makes the defense look like a 5-2 with 43 personnel. Sometimes, the Strong or Free Safety will drop down close to the line of scrimmage, and the defense becomes an eight-man front, or what’s known as the 46 (Brian Dawkins in Philadelphia, and probably Tyrann Matthieu in KC). Now everybody in the NFL does a little bit of everything because it’s the pros and a copycat league. But our defensive coordinator comes from the Jim Johnson tree (‘99 – ‘08 with the Philadelphia Eagles) and prefers a 2 High Safety alignment with Press Man Coverage, mixed in with Man Blitzes, Double-A Gap Blitzes, and Zone Blitzes depending on the situation also.

2021 Projected KC Chiefs Defensive Starters in my opinion after the draft:

LDE: Taco Charlton
LDT: Jarran Reed
RDT: Chris Jones

RDE: Frank Clark
LOLB (SLB): Willie Gay Jr.

MLB: Anthony Hitchens
ROLB (WLB): Nick Bolton

LCB (CB1): Charvarius Ward

RCB (CB2): L’Jarius Sneed

FS: Juan Thornhill
SS: Tyrann Mathieu
 
In the Nickel (5 DBs) against a spread offense, take out Anthony Hitchens, and replace with a Slot Corner. Rashad Fenton.
 
In Dime (6 DBs), take out Willie Gay and Anthony Hitchens. Add another Safety, Armani Watts, along with Rashad Fenton.

2021 KC Chiefs Projected Offensive Starters Post-Draft

2021 KC Chiefs Projected Offensive Starters Post-Draft in my opinion:

NFL West Coast passing scheme, and zone running scheme, mixed in with college option, misdirection plays, and spread offense. Every team has 11 players on the field at one time. How many at each position varies due to the situation.

 
QB: Patrick Mahomes
RB1: Clyde Edwards-Helaire (goal line and short-yardage Running Back)
RB2: Jerick McKinnon (our pass receiving Running Back)
WR1: Tyreek Hill
WR2: Cornell Powell

WR3: MeCole Hardman 

WR4: DeMarcus Robinson
WR5: Byron Pringle
WR6: Gehrig Deiter
TE1: Travis Kelce (pass-catching Tight End)
TE2: Blake Bell (blocking Tight End)
LT: Orlando Brown, Jr.
LG: Joe Thuney
OC: Austin Blythe
RG: Laurent Duvernay-Tardif
RT: Mike Remmers
 
The only real change is Cornell Powell basically replaces Marcus Kemp.

2021 KC Chiefs Projected Special Teams Pre-Draft

2021 KC Chiefs Projected Special Teams Pre-Draft in my opinion:

K: Harrison Butker

P: Tommy Townsend

LS: James Winchester

H: Tommy Townsend

KR: MeCole Hardman

PR: Tyreek Hill

This unit will be the exact same as last year.

2021 Projected KC Chiefs Defensive Starters Pre-Draft

Our defensive scheme is a 4 - 3 (4 Down Linemen, and 3 Linebackers) base 7 man front with a 1 gap Under Front alignment (Defensive Line shifts to the weakside, and the Strong Side Outside Linebacker moves up on the line of scrimmage. That makes the defense look like a 5-2 with 43 personnel. Sometimes, the Strong or Free Safety will drop down close to the line of scrimmage, and the defense becomes an eight-man front, or what’s known as the 46 (Brian Dawkins in Philadelphia, and probably Tyrann Matthieu in KC). Now everybody in the NFL does a little bit of everything because it’s the pros and a copycat league. But our defensive coordinator comes from the Jim Johnson tree (‘99 – ‘08 with the Philadelphia Eagles) and prefers a 2 High Safety alignment with Press Man Coverage, mixed in with Man Blitzes, Double-A Gap Blitzes, and Zone Blitzes depending on the situation also.

 
2021 Projected KC Chiefs Defensive Starters in my opinion before the draft:
 
LDE: Taco Charlton
LDT: Jarran Reed

RDT: Chris Jones
RDE: Frank Clark
LOLB (SLB): Willie Gay Jr.

MLB: Anthony Hitchens
LCB (CB1): Charvarius Ward

RCB (CB2): L’Jarius Sneed
CB3: Rashad Fenton

FS: Juan Thornhill
SS: Tyrann Mathieu
 
In the Nickel (5 DBs) against a spread offense, take out Anthony Hitchens, and replace with a Slot Corner. Rashad Fenton.
 
In Dime (6 DBs), take out Willie Gay and Anthony Hitchens. Add another Safety, Armani Watts, along with Rashad Fenton.

2021 KC Chiefs Projected Offensive Starters Pre-Draft

2021 KC Chiefs Projected Offensive Starters Pre-Draft in my opinion:

 
NFL West Coast passing scheme, and zone running scheme, mixed in with college option, misdirection plays, and spread offense. Every team has 11 players on the field at one time. How many at each position varies due to the situation.
 
QB: Patrick Mahomes
RB1: Clyde Edwards-Helaire (goal line and short-yardage Running Back)
RB2: Jerick McKinnon (our pass receiving Running Back)
WR1: Tyreek Hill
WR2: MeCole Hardman
WR3: DeMarcus Robinson
WR4: Marcus Kemp
WR5: Byron Pringle
WR6: Gehrig Deiter
TE1: Travis Kelce (pass-catching Tight End)
TE2: Blake Bell (blocking Tight End)
LT: Orlando Brown, Jr.
LG: Joe Thuney
OC: Austin Blythe
RG: Laurent Duvernay-Tardif
RT: Mike Remmers
 
As you can see above, we’ve made multiple changes on the offense, especially our Offensive Line to protect Patrick Mahomes.

Super Bowl LV Reaction

I’m just floored how much we came out flat, and basically forgot how to play football apparently.

In all seriousness though. The story of this game was injuries. Especially to our Offensive Line. Patrick Mahomes ran the equivalent of 400 yards sideways, and backwards. He had no time to throw. We need to replace them ALL as soon as possible.

With the 1^st moves in the off-season being on the Offensive Line. You should then focus on replacing our Linebackers. They were atrocious. That’s why we played Nickel and Dime defense a majority of the time all season.

Don’t get me wrong. We had a great season! But it amazes me that we got this far with glaring weaknesses, due to injuries, COVID, opt outs, and lack of depth.

I have a hard time believing that the Chiefs played great all season, and didn’t think they were going to lay an egg in the most important game of the year. We lit up everybody, but you can only be lucky for so long.

Kudos to the Buccaneers. Their defense stopped our offense. This is why I tell everybody, yeah it looks fun to score 50 points a game, but if you can’t stop anybody, it won’t matter. Defense wins championships. Offense just tells you by how much.