The Kansas City Chiefs defense has taken a back seat to the team’s prolific offense in recent seasons, but coordinator Steve Spagnuolo is out to prove that his unit can turn the tide in 2023.
He spoke to reporters on Monday about the Chiefs’ improvement in zone coverage during training camp and credited two young leaders on Kansas City’s defense for their efforts in practice that have helped his unit turn a corner.
“There’s tighter coverage,” Spagnuolo explained. “We’re a zone match team, I think our guys are doing a better job of that. That’s a credit to the guys in the middle that are leading it like Nick [Bolton] and Bryan Cook, they are kind of in the middle of the whole thing and then our corners are playing pretty tight. I think rep after rep after rep we get a lot of passes thrown at us here, so we better get good at it because we certainly get plenty of work.”
Spagnuolo will do his best to ensure that the Chiefs’ defense doesn’t take a step back over the next month before the regular season.
Kansas City will face its first live-action competition on August 13th when they square off against the New Orleans Saints, who will look to undo the progress that the Chiefs’ defense has been making in workouts.
