The Kansas City Chiefs’ defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo likes to blitz opposing quarterbacks from nearly every position on the field. But in order for this hair-on-fire, pin-your-ears-back approach to be effective, his secondary needs to be able to hold up in coverage at the line of scrimmage.
So that’s exactly what the Kansas City coaching staff asks cornerback L’Jarius Sneed to do. On Friday, Chiefs’ defensive backs coach Dave Merritt referred to this as giving Sneed a “Liam Neeson assignment.”
In other words, Merritt told reporters, coaches simply say, “You go and take care of this.