Every year, at the conclusion of training camp, Patrick Mahomes breathes a sigh of relief that he and the rest of the Kansas City Chiefs' offensive starters don't have to practice for another year against the pressure-based defensive schemes of coordinator Steve Spagnuolo.

Spagnuolo’s first head coaching stint came with the St. Louis Rams from 2009 to ‘11. He also briefly served as the New York Giants’ interim head coach in 2017. The 65-year-old owns a sterling record in Kansas City, having won three Super Bowls and helped the Chiefs finish in the top-10 in scoring defense in five of his six seasons.

The Kansas City Chiefs hired Steve Spagnuolo to be their defensive coordinator in 2019, replacing Bob Sutton, who had held the position for the first six years of Andy Reid's tenure in K.C. Spagnuolo came in to fix a wounded Chiefs' defense,

Kansas City Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo has been a popular name amongst NFL head coaching searches. And in the eyes of Andy Reid, another NFL head coaching job for his longtime assistant is well overdue.