16, 18 and 10 points in 3 games - I will take the #1 D over #1 O any day

[chad72]

It always seems to be the prevailing theme at the end.

 

Give me the #1 D over #1 O any day. Wade Philips for MVP, one heck of a defense they built over there in Denver.

 

OK, the night time championship game jinx is over with for a non-#6 seed. White jerseys win 11 out of last 12 SBs, Panthers never won a playoff game in black, and NFL MVP does not win SB since 1999, NFC has won the toss about 13 or 14 times in a row - all those trends still continue.

 

Congrats Broncos!!!

[No 1 Manning Fan]

I always prayed for Polian to build a great dominant D every year instead of over paying for weapons for Peyton. D is the foundation of champions in the NFL.

[Blue Horseshoe]

Defense wins championships and it always has.

This is why I think it is completely ridiculous to use them to compare quarterbacks.

[Valpo2004]

This game showed why D is even more important then O-Line.  

[PeterBowman]

3 minutes ago, Valpo2004 said:

This game showed why D is even more important then O-Line.

and this is a VERY deep d line draft too

 

Andrew Billings would be nice or Sheldon Rankins.

[Synthetic]

13 hours ago, No 1 Manning Fan said:

I always prayed for Polian to build a great dominant D every year instead of over paying for weapons for Peyton. D is the foundation of champions in the NFL.

 

 

Tony Dungy had that defense in Tampa Bay. Those old Bucs teams were loaded and absolutely terrifying on defense. 2002 would have been his Super Bowl if they would have just waited one more year. 

[No 1 Manning Fan]

26 minutes ago, Bogie said:

 

 

Tony Dungy had that defense in Tampa Bay. Those old Bucs teams were loaded and absolutely terrifying on defense. 2002 would have been his Super Bowl if they would have just waited one more year. 

But in Indy we didn't really have the personnel to pull it off. We didn't have dominating defensive tackles, run stopping LBs, or a great secondary other than Sanders.

[krunk]

I never thought Carolina was a real number one offense even with the statistics. They played a lot of bad defenses.  It didn't really start looking legit until they put up points on Seattle and Arizona.

 

Maybe the Green Bay game, but they also got a lot of good field position and what not from their defense turning the ball over.  I never looked at them as some type of precision scoring machine.

 

I'm still giggling over Aquib Talib and Philly Brown.  Aqib treated Philly like he was a pure scrub.  He grabbed that man by the facemask and just slung him out of bounds like some kind of rag doll.  He played Philly like he had absolutely no respect for the man.  They didn't respect any of Carolinas personnel other than maybe Olson.

[Synthetic]

7 minutes ago, No 1 Manning Fan said:

But in Indy we didn't really have the personnel to pull it off. We didn't have dominating defensive tackles, run stopping LBs, or a great secondary other than Sanders.

 

I know what you mean. I always believed Dungy would have had to start from scratch to build another unit like he had in Tampa Bay. He spent years making that team in Tampa Bay, it was a lot of work. 

 

He made things work with what he had though, and that's part of why he was such a great coach. He had guys like Booger McFarland in Tampa Bay, who were not big names but would play big and I think he brought Booger over to the Colts over time. 

[ColtsSouljah]

5 hours ago, Valpo2004 said:

This game showed why D is even more important then O-Line.  

 

What a great point. Denver's O line was quite as bad as they have been, but they were still quite poor. Denver's D really covered that blemish!