Last season wasn’t a very good one for the Kansas City Chiefs’ special teams coordinator Dave Toub. His unit — typically among the league’s best since he came aboard with head coach Andy Reid in 2013 — had come to depend on a number of key veteran contributors. Many of those players were replaced by rookies in 2022.
But coaches like Toub spend their whole careers making do with the players at the bottom of a team’s roster, so it pays to remain philosophical about it.
“Everything goes in cycles,” Toub told reporters after Thursday’s OTA session at the team’s practice facility.