Steve Spagnuolo adds insult to injury to Bills' painful loss to Chiefs days before Super Bowl LIX
I'll be really happy when people stop talking about the AFC Championship Game loss by the Buffalo Bills to the Kansas City Chiefs, although people still talk about "13 seconds" all the time, so maybe we still have a ways to go. When Chiefs' defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo was asked about the Eagles' "tush push" and […]
I'll be really happy when people stop talking about the AFC Championship Game loss by the Buffalo Bills to the Kansas City Chiefs, although people still talk about "13 seconds" all the time, so maybe we still have a ways to go.
When Chiefs' defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo was asked about the Eagles' "tush push" and preparing for it this week, he put a jab right through the heart of Bills Mafia, which isn't making things any better.
When asked about the "tush push" and whether or not he sees any way to stop it, he responded by saying "I really don't." Spagnuolo then went on to say it's a very different quarterback sneak than the one Josh Allen and the Bills run.
Over the course of the season, Allen was 20/21 on quarterback sneaks this season heading into the AFC Championship Game. Going to Allen when the Bills were in short yardage situations had been essentially automatic, and head coach Sean McDermott knew it.
"Well, it's been our best play all year, at one or inside of one yard," head coach Sean McDermott said after the game. "And you know, we won some of those, but to your point, [Kansas City] were doing a good job. And I thought overall, maybe we could disguise it, maybe not. But at the end of the day, we have confidence in Josh [Allen] and our offensive line to get those, and they've been getting them all year."
In the AFC Championship Game, the Chief stopped the quarterback sneak three times. Allen and the Bills were only 2/5 on quarterback sneaks in the game, and the two that he picked up required him to leap over the line as if it was a goal line on one of them, and barely picked up the other. In the most consequential moment, offensive coordinator Joe Brady went back to the quarterback sneak, and Allen was called just short in the controversial fourth down play that has drawn so much conversation over the last two weeks.
After successfully thwarting Allen and the Bills on their seemingly-automatic quarterback sneak, Spagnuolo saying that he doesn't see a way to stop Jalen Hurts and the "tush push" is quite a kick to the gut. Thanks for that parting gift, Spags.
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