Or, as Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow says after two hellacious training camp-long battles with Awuzie: “You’re out there, you might have a five-yard hitch route, but Chido is not going to let that one go easy. He’s going to try to punch at the ball, he’s going to make the tackle, he’s going to make it a contested catch … Chido’s Chido. He’s always been like that. From the moment he got here, we knew what we had.”
The first time they played the Chiefs, PFF had Awuzie covering Hill three times, holding him to two catches for ten yards. In the AFC championship it was one target for a 10-yard catch.
Maybe Hill should be mad at Awuzie.
“I’m not going to let you know, though, because we’re still about to play him,” says Awuzie about how we played Hill. “I’m not playing man every play. Mix it up. It’s not about one player, it’s usually about the whole team. You have to keep offenses honest.”
He says Hill’s deacceleration is as impressive as his acceleration. But comes back to the communication of that Super Bowl play.
“I think we have a great chemistry all throughout the secondary,” Awuzie says. “When we came here, Vonn and Jessie already had something established and we came into it and I think our goal was to add to that, not to subtract from that. I think the more we poured into each other, the more we got comfortable each other, the more we have confidence in each other. We’re bouncing techniques, communication off of each other. From there it’s continually gotten better. I think it’s going to continue to get better as we play and get in these challenges.”
But these are the Dolphins and not the Chiefs. Hill? Or Waddle?
“That’s hard,” says Bates, when asked how they can give the attention to two guys like they did Hill last season. “You have to have some kind of post safety help.”
Meanwhile, Awuzie, the chessmaster, is plotting his next move.
“I think that’s just the beautiful part of playing defense, this preparation aspect of it,” Awuzie says. “We don’t know who we’re…
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