Chiefs Coordinator Quotes
October 29, 2026
ASSISTANT HEAD COACH/SPECIAL TEAMS COORDINATOR DAVE TOUB
Q: How has K Harrison Butker been this week?
TOUB: “(K Harrison Butker) He's been solid, we haven't had to do this, obviously. But we're at the point now where every position has competition. Everybody has somebody that's behind them that's ready to come up. We don't have that on the practice squad. So, we went out, we brought in three kickers and worked them out to get somebody onto the practice squad to be ready. It's a lot better to have them on a practice squad so you can get them working with your operation. It takes time to get that right. I mean, that's the whole idea of it, doing that. And it doesn't matter who it is, that's what we would do.”
Q: Why was K Justin Tucker the one that you chose?
TOUB: “Because (K Justin Tucker) he is a good kicker. And I've heard he's been out making the rounds, and we talk. All the special teams coaches talk. He had four workouts before we brought—we were his fifth workout, tryout. And the word was that he was hitting the ball great, and I wanted to see it. I always thought he was a great kicker, and those two guys right now, (K) Harrison (Butker) and him, they idolized each other in the league when they were kicking together. He was out there, he did his 10-game suspension, so he was available, we brought him in. He was one of three kickers that we thought were the best guys out there. I made a grueling workout for these guys. I had a 30 kick, 10 extra points. I had seven kicks over 50, one was a 60 yarder. He made every kick, and not only did he make them, he was accurate. 60 percent of his kicks were inside of a six-foot cylinder in the middle of the uprights. Somebody that's struggling as a kicker is not able to put the ball with that kind of accuracy in 30 kicks. So, he was off the charts good. That's the reason why we signed him to the practice squad.”
Q: What mentality does a kicker need to have to be uncharacteristic?
TOUB: “That's a great question. You have to—there's a combination, it's like a golfer. You have to have a combination of technique and then the mental toughness to be repetitive. And you’ve got to leave those, the ones you miss, there's nothing you can do about it. You missed them, it's over. It's all about going forward. What's he going to do now? And that's the point we're trying to get (K Harrison) Butker to right now. He's our kicker. He went 10-for-10 yesterday, with (K Justin) Tucker standing right there. And he went 10-for-10 on a windy day. It was 28-mile an hour gusts yesterday, and he went 10-for-10. And I thought right before we got at the practice, I was going, this poor guy, it's 28-mile an hour gusts, and he's got to go out there and try to, and he did. He went 10-for-10, so that's a good thing. So, we're going to keep working it. Today's another day. We're going to kick again today and move forward with this thing.”
Q: Do you do the workouts inside or outside?
TOUB: “Outside, outside, you want to get outside in the weather. It was windy, no, it was in our backyard there.”
DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR STEVE SPAGNUOLO
OPENING STATEMENT: “Good morning. Got knocked down, got back up, ready to play a game. We've got a pretty important one this week, so I'm just going to open it up and let you guys roll.”
Q: On CB Chris Roland-Wallace.
SPAGNUOLO: “Listen, I think I've said this before. I mean, (CB Chris Roland-Wallace) he's done a lot of things for us. I've got a lot of confidence in Chris. If he's got to go in there, we just roll with him. He does everything. You don't see all these walkthroughs, but he's out there. He plays safety, gets reps at safety, gets reps at nickel, gets reps at dime. So, when you put a guy in a lot of different spots, I think that kind of says it all, that we're pretty confident in what he can do.”
Q: What did you see from CB L’Jarius Sneed?
SPAGNUOLO: “Yeah, I don't know if you guys know (CB) L’Jarius (Sneed). It wasn't a great week for him, and then we got him to the game, and part of that was my fault. I told these guys this on Tuesday. We doubled 11 (Seahawks WR Jaxon Smith-Njigba). I don't know how much you guys studied it, but there were plenty of doubles in there. We doubled a certain way. If I had to do it again, I would change that. That's not L’Jarius. I think that put that on me. And number 11, he's going to win something. He actually had a completion when we had him doubled on one of them. The other ones, they didn't go to him. But we didn't double him the whole game, so he obviously caught some. I said this to the guys on Tuesday because I didn't really even realize it until, listen, he had nine catches and whatever yardage he had, so he had a really good game. When he had those nine catches, there were still only 13 points on the board. So, I looked at that as a positive. The only reason that that happened was because we played really good in the red zone. When you can win in the red zone on third down and get an interception like (DB) Nohl (Williams) did, that's really big. Now we can't always bank on that, but that was a really good football player, a really good wide out we went against. I put most of that on me that we didn't do as good a job as I would have liked to.”
Q: On CB Mansoor Delane going up against Seahawks WR Jaxon Smith-Njigba, and how that prepares him for the future.
SPAGNUOLO: “Yeah, listen, I learned something about (CB) Mansoor (Delane) in the game. I went right over to him. I said, ‘Look, I shouldn't have put you in that situation,’ I put it on myself, and he said, ‘Oh, no, no.’ I won't say the words we all use because it's on the sideline, but it was like, ‘No, put me on him again.’ I kind of liked that and kind of shared that with the rest of the unit because I wanted them to know the kind of guy that they had out there.”
Q: Are you preparing differently now that Broncos Head Coach Sean Payton is calling plays?
SPAGNUOLO: “Yeah, listen, I've gone against and seen (Broncos Head Coach) Sean (Payton) call a lot of games. So, we'll kind of use that history a little bit but both of them are really good, and Sean does a good job. They've got good players. We're trying to defend the players and try to be on top of what we think they might do based on the past. We're digging into that, obviously.”
OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR ERIC BIENIEMY
OPENING STATEMENT: “Good afternoon, how’re y’all doing. Hope all is well. Coming off a tough loss, we went up to Seattle. Obviously, we’ve got to do a better job of getting our players mentally and physically ready to play in a hostile environment. We got our butts kicked as a coaching staff and as a team and as an offensive unit. But now we're on to the Denver Broncos, AFC West opponent. We're on with it, moving forward. With that said, I'm all ears.”
Q: What do you want the team to take away from the loss at Seattle?
BIENIEMY: “Just the lessons. The grittier team, the hungrier team won. When it's all said and done with, they are the defending champs for a reason. They were going through a rut. They came out there and executed their defense better than we executed our offense. They played hungrier. They did all the little things the right way. We didn't, so that's a lesson to be learned, and those are part of the things that you learn throughout the course of a season, especially when you're dealing with a bunch of young men that really haven’t had an opportunity to experience stuff like that. But you utilize that, you take the lessons learned from it, and you turn it into a positive.”
Q: How is WR Cyrus Allen understanding the details of the offense?
BIENIEMY: “I think (WR) Cyrus (Allen)—first of all, I thought Cyrus played a good game. Obviously, he could have been better in a number of ways, but overall, he played good because he went out there, he played with great confidence. He plays fast. He did a heck of a job in the run game. Now, when it's all said and done, when I think I do this each and every week, I think every receiver can clean up all the route details. I think there's a lesson to be learned with that, but overall, I think Cyrus has taken the necessary steps to help himself moving forward.”
Q: What have you seen from the Broncos defense?
BIENIEMY: “They've done a hell of a job. They're playing some good ball and (Broncos Defensive Coordinator Vance Joseph) V.J. is a hell of a friend, a great friend of mine. We've kind of kept our conversation to a minimum this week, so I laugh at that. There's an inside joke. I'm not going to tell it. But anyways, I will say this, that kid, (LB Jonathon) Cooper, and I'm not taking away from anybody out there, but when he's on the field, there's a different tempo. There's a different pace. There's a level of intensity that picks up, and so he gets your attention right away. So, they've always had a great defense. Obviously, they didn't have a great game (in Week 1) and knowing this defensive coordinator and knowing this head coach, these guys are going to come out with piss and vinegar. So, we already know what they're about. It's our job to make sure that we're coming out and doing the things that we need to do in order for us to be successful.”
Q: What have you learned about QB Patrick Mahomes when times are frustrating in a game?
BIENIEMY: “Obviously, (QB Patrick Mahomes) he's become more patient. He sees the game very well. The thing that I love about him is he's not going to make any excuses. He takes accountability for everything, and it isn’t necessarily anything that I've learned. I just think that over his career, he's gotten more patient because he understands that, ‘Hey, I got a lot of game to come to me. I’ve got to make this play. I’ve got to make sure that I'm helping my teammates out,’ and I think if anything, with that comes a great deal of wisdom and just providing the necessary leadership during those tough particular stretches that we had. So, if anything, it's not anything that I've learned about him, it's just watching and observing him throughout that because he's obviously—I mean, hell, I keep forgetting that this is year 10 for him. He's been doing it for a while, and he has a great deal of experience, but I appreciate that about him.”
Chiefs Player Quotes
October 29, 2026
DT CHRIS JONES
Q: What's the spirit and attitude around here this week, leading up to Sunday?
JONES: “The energy is good. As much as we want to go undefeated, it happens. It happens. This year, last year, we were sitting at this point, we lost a couple of games. It's all about, more so, it's all about perspective, how you look at something. It’s not about how many punches you can give, it’s about how many punches you can take and keep going. So, it’s another opportunity for us to go into another hostile environment and show up as a team.”
Q: What has been the challenge that has led to adversity for you, maybe individually?
JONES: “A slow start. Always can be better. Never really satisfied. I'm my biggest critic. I critique myself the most. So, more so, it's just facing the challenges that that comes with and continue to build off of it.”
Q: Does the game feel big for regular season game?