When watching film on the Chiefs, the first thing that pops out at you is their speed. Not just on offense. On the entire team.

Kansas City is built to play fast and we saw it first hand against a Ravens team that is built to be physical. They looked slow in all three phases of the game last Monday night. It seemed as if only Marquise Brown and Devin Duvernay were the only ones fast enough to play for the Chiefs.

Kansas City takes advantage of their speed on both sides of the ball thanks to two of the best coordinators in the NFL.

Offensive coordinator Eric Bienemy and defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo complement each other so well as play callers. It doesn’t always work that way but both have a great understanding of how each other wants to play and they complement each other well.

The Chiefs obviously have a lot of talent especially on offense but talent doesn’t always equal wins. It takes good coaches to harvest that talent and get the most out of it. Andy Reid and his staff do that as well as any staff in the league. That is why the Chiefs are so good.

Here is my breakdown of the Chiefs offense and defense.

Offensively: The Chiefs have the most explosive offense in the NFL. Patrick Mahomes and company can score on any given play. Kansas City’s skill group is known as the “Legion of Zoom” and rightfully so. Between Tyreek Hill Clyde Edwards Helaire and Mecole Hardinan, the Chiefs have plenty of speed necessary to make big plays.

Andy Reid is a West Coast Offense Coach by trade but he has slowly morphed into a spread offense coach since he’s been in Kansas City. Even with Alex Smith, Reid spread teams out and liked using option, read plays and run, pass options.

Reid and Bienemy have taken the play design process to the next level now that they have Mahomes and this skill group.

For all the bells and whistles in their offense, the Chiefs aren’t as complicated as you’d think. They keep it simple when it comes to personnel. They are primarily in 11 personnel which allows them to play their best people. On occasion you might see them get into 10, 12 and maybe 21 but for the most part, they play with three receivers, one tight end and one running back.

However, what makes Kansas City’s offense so tough to defend is the myriad of formations, alignments and motion. No teams uses formations and motion like the Chiefs do. Factor in the RPO’s and this is a bear of an offense to defend.

The Chiefs RPO package is as good as it gets in the NFL. It’s also simple. Kansas City runs many of the RPO’s off their inside zone running game. They read second level defenders and leverage. Based on those keys, Mahomes will either give it or pull it.

The Chiefs also run a fair amount of special plays or gadgets, especially in the red zone. They put defenses in constant conflict and tonight will be no different.

 Defensively: The Chiefs are a multiple defense under defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo. They will play 40, 30 and 60 fronts depending on the opponent and what they do schematically.  Against the Chargers in Week 2, the Chiefs spent the majority of the game in a 40 front and against 12 and 13 personnel, they jumped into a 60 look that enabled to defend all the gaps and set an edge. Kansas City will also play a 30 front against 21 personnel teams that like run the ball between the tackles like the Patriots do.

From a coverage standpoint, Kansas City will play a lot of Cover 2 zone but they will also play split coverages and man free a fair amount.

Spagnuolo is not a pressure coach by trade. He relies a lot on his defensive line to get pressure. Typically he will blitz on long downs like second and long and third and long.

Defense was perceived to be the Chiefs weakness in recent years. Not anyone. Spagnuolo has turned This defense into one of the best in the league.