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On 12/22/2022 at 6:06 PM, onejayhawk said:

This is an article claiming that the DL is actually better than we thought. I can see the argument. Chris Jones is having a great year. Mike Danna and Kahlen Saunders have emerged as important rotation players. Carlos Dunlap has earned his money. We have pressures, we have sacks, and we have lots of batted passes. If we had a more experienced secondary and one more edge rusher this could be any elite defense.

Still, the key is bang for the buck. The Chiefs are bottom third in resources invested in DL, based on player draft position. That's what this analysis is about. Interesting.
https://www.arrowheadpride.com/2022/12/22/23520216/chiefs-defensive-line-performing-above-expectation 

And yet they couldn’t even touch Joe Burrow, who has time to set up a campfire and make s’mores back there before slithering away. 

They seem to rack up stats against bad QBs, and still give up points against them.

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Dominant performance against the Seahawks. 

Sneed shadowed DK all game, I’m hopeful that we continue to have him shadow number one WRs moving forward. Been advocating for a while to move Sneed back to being a more traditional corner. 

Also the defensive rookies did well, GK had a sack and another batted pass, even Chenal had a great TFL and Cook had a nice stop too. Josh Williams continues to get picked on, but hopefully that’s negated a bit by Sneed covering opposing number one WRs. 

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I think Jones has a real chance of winning the AP version. All Pro became a given when he crossed the 15 sack line for the second time.

Jones is only DT in the top 10 of the sack leaders and he has name recognition. Of course they may go with the sack leader, Nick Bosa this year. 

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The defense has been better this year, particularly the last month or two. A big part of that is the improved DL play. Chris Jones revived what had been flickering HoF chances with a DPoY kind of season. Frank Clark set aside his personal drama, cleaned up his life and played good football. George Karlaftis stepped and was arguably the second best DL player drafted in April. The pass rush became feared around the league.

A lot of the credit has gone to DL Coach Joe Cullen. He talks about his players.
https://www.arrowheadpride.com/2023/1/19/23562350/chiefs-defensive-line-coach-joe-cullen-chris-jones-george-karlaftis-frank-clark

L'Jarius Sneed was the best CB in the 2020 draft and we got him day #3. Lately he has been the spy on the opponent's best WR. 
https://www.arrowheadpride.com/2023/1/19/23562279/chiefs-jaguars-divisional-round-ljarius-sneed-improving

Nick Bolton set a team record for tackles and finished 2nd in the NFL. Not bad for age 22.
https://www.arrowheadpride.com/2023/1/19/23560615/nick-bolton-andy-reid-express-confidence-in-defense-ahead-of-chiefs-playoff-run

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