Steve Spagnuolo all-time brilliance as responsible as anything for Chiefs’ dominance
NY Post
The game — and the Chiefs’ historic charge toward an unprecedented Super Bowl three-peat — was slipping away Sunday night in Kansas City.
Midway through the fourth quarter of the AFC Championship game at Arrowhead Stadium, the Bills were doing the unthinkable: Controlling the Chiefs in their house, where they don’t lose.
The Bills, after a dodgy start, had found their footing and found it in their running game, which was controlling the Kansas City defense, dictating play. Buffalo’s lead running back James Cook was having a day.
Buffalo had just taken a tenuous 22-21 lead, and there was Steve Spagnuolo, the 65-year-old Chiefs defensive coordinator, marching up and down the Kansas City sideline, urging his defensive players to clamp down on the run.
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Suddenly, someone had hit a rewind button and everyone had been transported back seven months. It was early spring instead of late fall, it was broiling hot outside the arena walls and not freezing cold. Everyone was back at TD Garden. There were 19,156 frenzied fans on their feet begging for blood, poised for the kill.
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