Mars 💫🕺🏽

Ndamukong Suh says he urged Todd Bowles to blitz less and trust the Bucs’ defensive line to pressure Patrick Mahomes ahead of Super Bowl LV, helping Tampa Bay beat Kansas City 31-9 “Going into the championship game, Super Bowl against Kansas City, and having played them earlier in that year, and they just came in, in Tampa and destroyed us. They ran through us. I begged and begged and begged for us to look at that game totally different because we got two weeks to prepare for this game or a week and a half, however you want to look at it” “Our DC who's now the head coach, Todd Bowles of Tampa, loves to blitz, loves to get after the quarterback and speed up their process. And I told him and I was like, ‘Hey man, we're watching film. I'm looking at these different things. This this offensive line as a whole has no chance against our defensive line. Put all the pressure on us up front in the front seven of our defense because we have a young back group, back end of guys from DBs, our corners and our safeties’” “He’s like, ‘Let me take a look at it.’ And so we came into the game plan and he said we're going to play two-high, Tampa 2. Basically have two high safeties. And when we were going through this in practice, he was like, ‘I'm starting to see, I like this. If you guys can stop the run in a soft shell, and you guys can also get after the pass rush, we will stay this throughout the game.’ We end up winning that game 31 to 9. Wasn't even close. And so being able to have a coach that was willing to change and adapt to some different things to understand what's best for the team, I think was key, but then also us being able to execute”