Quote:I was born in '87

Ahhh...youth. 

Let me try to add some context to my arguments in this thread.

 

1.  When you were born, the NFC was in the midst of winning THIRTEEN (13) STRAIGHT Super Bowls, most by extremely embarrassing fashion.  The scores were as follows:

 

XIX- San Francisco 38-Miami 16

XX-Chicago 46-New England 10

XXI NY Giants 39-Denver 20

XXII Washington 42 Denver10 (This was for the season played in 1987)

XXIII  San Francisco 20 Cincinnati 16

XXIV San Francisco 55 Denver 10

XXV NY Giants 20 Buffalo 19

XXVI Washington 37 Buffalo 26

XXVII Dallas 52 Buffalo 17

XXVIII Dallas 30 Buffalo 13

XXIX San Francisco 49 San Diego 26

XXX Dallas 27 Pittsburgh 17

XXXI Green Bay 35 New England 21

 

The 1994 Chargers were the only one of those AFC teams during that stretch that played a 4-3.  Cincinnati (Tim Krumrie) and Pittsburgh (Steed) were the only teams with legitimate NTs in my opinion.  The Dallas teams that played in those Super Bowls during that time featured what may well have been the most dominant run blocking O Line in history, along with Emmitt Smith.  Pittsburgh was the one team in those postseasons able to stop Emmitt Smith and the Dallas running game,and it was due to having a big front 7 and stud NT.

 

2.  You were in your late teens when the JDR/Mike Smith defenses with Stroud and Henderson were at their peak. 

 

Imagine that team with a young, healthy JJ Watt playing LDE (Reggie White), a healthy Reggie Hayward playing RDE (Clyde Simmons), Luke Kuechly at Will (Seth Joyner), a slightly less physical version of Jalen Ramsey (Erik Allen), a cheap shot artist in the box version of Donovin Darius (Andre Waters) in a blitz happier version of the Fisher led tacks and you have something that approximates that Ryan era Eagles defense.

 

3.  I would say since you were born, the best defenses were that Eagles team, the Cowher era Steelers, the 2000 Ravens team, Dungy Era Bucs+ 1st Gruden year, Seattle 2013-2015, and Denver last year.

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