{"id":25736,"date":"2024-02-14T22:22:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T19:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/25736\/chiefs-sign-defensive-coordinator-steve\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T22:22:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T19:22:20","slug":"chiefs-sign-defensive-coordinator-steve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=25736","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs sign defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo to extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chiefs sign defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo to extension\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\">\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Adam Teicher, ESPN editor<span class=\"timestamp \">February 14, 2024, 4:44 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"author-overlay\">Close<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Covered the Chiefs for 20 seasons for the Kansas City Star<\/li>\n<li>Joined ESPN in 2013<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>KANSAS CITY, Missouri &#8212; In Spags, the Kansas City Chiefs do indeed trust.<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs have demonstrated their confidence in Steve Spagnuolo, their defensive coordinator, by signing him to a contract extension, the team announced.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#39;s Choice<\/h2>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Spagnuolo guided the Chiefs to the second-best regular season defense in 2023 as the Chiefs won their eighth straight AFC West championship.  They allowed an average of 17.3 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs were even better defensively in the playoffs, limiting four of the league&#39;s six highest-scoring teams during the regular season to an average of fewer than 16 points per game, as the Chiefs became the first team to <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/win\/\"   title=\"win\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">win<\/a> consecutively.  return to Super Bowls in 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs averaged the youngest defensive team in the NFL, at 25.4 years old.  Chiefs players made T-shirts during the playoffs that read \u201cIn Spags We Trust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#39;m very grateful for the job Spags has done with the defensive team,\u201d coach Andy Reid said Tuesday.  \u201cI thought they were a great example to everyone by taking young guys, teaching them and watching them grow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Spagnuolo, 64, was an assistant to Reid for eight seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles before embarking on his own coaching journey that included three years as head coach of the Rams.<\/p>\n<p>They reunited in 2019 when Spagnuolo joined the Chiefs.  Spagnuolo was also their coordinator for the Chiefs&#39; Super Bowl championships in 2019 and 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chiefs sign defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo to extension\u060c Adam Teicher, ESPN editorFebruary 14, 2024, 4:44 p.m. Close Covered the Chiefs for 20 seasons for the Kansas City Star Joined ESPN in 2013 KANSAS CITY, Missouri &#8212; In Spags, the Kansas City Chiefs do indeed trust. The Chiefs have demonstrated their confidence in Steve Spagnuolo, their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[354,6986,6930,1739,2775,10734,1987],"class_list":["post-25736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-chiefs","tag-coordinator","tag-defensive","tag-extension","tag-sign","tag-spagnuolo","tag-steve"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25738,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25736\/revisions\/25738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}