Houston Offensive Coordinator Bobby Slowik spoke to the media this week about the Kansas City defense.
Bobby: A lot of people have tried a lot of different things. Not just this season but really all of last season on tape to see different approaches that people have taken. Honestly, none of them have worked. He is that good. It would be the same for us. At the end of the day, we have some schematic things we are going to try to do to help us out and make sure we are aware of where ’95’ [Chiefs DT Chris Jones] is all the time, and we are taking care of ’95’ all the time. Even then, they did a great job of moving him around, putting him in different spots, he lines all over the front, sometimes not even at the line of scrimmage. He is everywhere and if they find a way to isolate him one on one, eventually they are going to isolate him one on one whether it is the run or pass game. For us, at the end of the day it is just how much are we going to strain and how much are we going to finish which is going to be the message all the way through the rest of the season.
On how different Kansas City is compared to other teams with pre and post snap movements
Bobby: It is really team and scheme dependent. ‘Spags’ [Chiefs Defensive Coordinator Steve Spagnulo] you can tell puts a lot of time in the pre and post snap movement and how they handle that and help confuse the quarterback and mix it up with some of the pressures they have, some of the coverages they have. I think they are really tied together and in tune with what they are doing and that is one thing that jumps out when you watch them, they are a darn good defense, they are also extremely well coached. They don’t get freebies. They are on their technique, they are on their responsibilities and that includes what they do shell wise, how they disguise things. They show middle field close, rock and roll all the way and invert it into middle field closed. They got everything. Which is great for us, it is a great challenge. It is great preparation as we keep going through the rest of the season. There are other teams we play well with what you see is what you get. We have kind of had both sides, so it is just another rep for us to go and try to attack.
