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You're familiar with it. Longtime football fans of the NFL, they know all about Pittsburgh

Steel Curtin,

the defense of the 70s, the Bears 46 defense that shuffled their way to the Super Bowl in the

80s and perhaps the most dominant defense ever. The 2,000 Ravens who allowed just 10.3 points per

game. You got to be kidding me. But in the 20 years since that Baltimore team hosted the

Lombardi Trophy, scoring the NFL, yeah, here it is. It's of 20 percent. And it begs the question

in the era of dynamic offenses. Does defense actually win championships? What's going on,

everyone? I'm like, yeah, I'm joined us always by the defense apologist.

Didi Kink of Walla, ready to rock and roll today.

I'm just throwing it out there.

It's not being an apologist if it's factual and true, right, Mike?

We'll find out by the end of this episode if it's factual and true.

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