“Why is this year going to be any different?”
It’s the oft-repeated—and completely fair—question that comes up in any conversation about Kansas City Chiefs defensive coordinator Bob Sutton being fired at the end of the 2018 season.
In the past, Sutton has survived after both miserable year-long results and a miserable playoff loss to the Titans. Head coach Andy Reid tends to be a loyal man, both to his players and his assistant coaches. Despite all of that, I truly believe that we are seeing Bob Sutton’s final season as defensive coordinator of the Chiefs.
There are three predominant reasons that Andy Reid is (probably) going to find a new defensive coordinator for the 2019 season.