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Message: [QUOTE="bpo57, post: 3601593, member: 1572"] With apologies to the younger folk here, an example of an all-time defense would be the 1991 Philadelphia Eagles. Football Outsiders ranks them as the most dominant defense in NFL history using DVOA. I don't know if they were most dominant but they were up there. Led the NFL in fewest passing yards allowed and fewest rushing yards allowed. In fact only allowed 3.9 yards [B]per play[/B]. Had five Pro Bowlers on that defense - Reggie White, Clyde Simmons, Jerome Brown, Seth Joyner and Eric Allen. That team had the best front four I've ever seen in the NFL. Some other examples that come to mind would be the Steel Curtain in the 1970s, the Bears in 1986 and the Ravens at the turn of the century. [/QUOTE]