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I'm not knocking anyone for trying to decide which Year's Defense was the best ~ if you enjoy that sort of thing, more power to ya!! Different strokes, and all that.
My approach is to ask if this Defense is shaping up to be ~ not if it is, but if it is shaping up to be ~ on the same Top Shelf as our Defenses of 2001, 2003, and 2004, which I consider to've been unquestionably the best 3 Defenses we've fielded in the Bill Belichick Era. The 2002 Defense could be run on consistently, the Year before we acquired the Services of Mount Washington, and the Championship Defense of the early decade went into a slow decline after Teddy Ice Cold's Heart Attack after the 2004 Championship.
And I really don’t think you can quantify these things with Statistics.
Personally, I consider the 2004 Defense Hands Down the best of'm all: That was the 1st Year of the Polian & Manning Fan Boy Club Rule Changes, which immediately precipitated Manning's breaking Marino's TouchDown Record...and yet when we met in the PlayOffs, we held those caulksockers to 3 points.
3...freaking...points.
And that, Ladies & Laddies, was with a decimated Secondary.
The Colts were generally ~ yes, even around here, folks ~ expected to annihilate us.
Manning & Company had been unstoppable all Year long...until we stopped them cold.
3...freaking...points.
January...will be the true test of this Defense.
And by God, I like our Chances.
My approach is to ask if this Defense is shaping up to be ~ not if it is, but if it is shaping up to be ~ on the same Top Shelf as our Defenses of 2001, 2003, and 2004, which I consider to've been unquestionably the best 3 Defenses we've fielded in the Bill Belichick Era. The 2002 Defense could be run on consistently, the Year before we acquired the Services of Mount Washington, and the Championship Defense of the early decade went into a slow decline after Teddy Ice Cold's Heart Attack after the 2004 Championship.
And I really don’t think you can quantify these things with Statistics.
Personally, I consider the 2004 Defense Hands Down the best of'm all: That was the 1st Year of the Polian & Manning Fan Boy Club Rule Changes, which immediately precipitated Manning's breaking Marino's TouchDown Record...and yet when we met in the PlayOffs, we held those caulksockers to 3 points.
3...freaking...points.
And that, Ladies & Laddies, was with a decimated Secondary.
The Colts were generally ~ yes, even around here, folks ~ expected to annihilate us.
Manning & Company had been unstoppable all Year long...until we stopped them cold.
3...freaking...points.
January...will be the true test of this Defense.
And by God, I like our Chances.