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in Fragen 09.07.2018 14:22von dasg234 • 2.926 Beiträge
The NFL can seem like a world dominated by quarterbacks, but did you notice who won the Super Bowl last season? It was the Broncos, who had Peyton Manning in name alone; the future Hall of Famer threw nearly twice as many interceptions (17) as touchdowns (nine). The Broncos were led to that Super Bowl by their defense, which dominated the regular season and held three of the leagues best offenses to a combined 44 points in the playoffs.The centerpiece of that defense: star pass rusher Von Miller, who piled up five sacks in three games and was named Super Bowl MVP. If Miller was the best defender in the postseason, the best defensive player of the 2015 regular season was otherworldly Texans defensive end J.J. Watt, who led the league in sacks (17.5) and quarterback hurries (50). In addition to serving as helpful ambulatory examples of the word disruptive, Watt and Miller have something else in common: They were both taken in the first round of the 2011 NFL draft.We have a ways to go, but we may very well be watching the prime years of the best defensive draft class to ever play the game.The 2011 class did deliver a certain MVP named Cam Newton, but the vast majority of the drafts output has been from the other side of the line of scrimmage. In fact, forming a starting lineup from that 2011 class produces a terrifying defense. If you line them up in a 4-3, you can go with Watt at one defensive end spot across from the Rams Robert Quinn, who had a 19-sack season as recently as 2013. Jets end Muhammad Wilkerson would kick inside to play tackle alongside massive Bills nose tackle Marcell Dareus, forming a devastating two-way front four.Now consider the back end. The AFC West came away from the 2011 draft with a pair of terrors at outside linebacker. We can slot Miller alongside Chiefs star Justin Houston, who has averaged more than one sack per game over the past three seasons. The interior isnt quite as laden with talent, but we can move Seahawks cover linebacker K.J. Wright into the middle.Throwing on this team? Good luck. Our cornerbacks are an NFC West tandem; Arizonas Patrick Peterson and Seattles Richard Sherman are both capable of shutting down top talent. The lone weak spot comes at safety, where the likes of DaNorris Searcy and Chris Conte would be competing for starting reps. But thats not much of a complaint.The scariest thing, perhaps, is the players I havent named who narrowly miss out on this team. Chris Harris was an undrafted free agent in 2011 before turning into a perennial Pro Bowl corner in Denver. Jimmy Smith, Byron Maxwell and Buster Skrine could easily step in as nickel corners. Aldon Smith was as dominant a pass rusher as there was in the league before his career unraveled. Ryan Kerrigan and Pernell McPhee are dominant at their best, as is defensive tackle Jurrell Casey. Cameron Jordan has made two Pro Bowls and cant even sniff this team. The talent level in this class is unreal. It is already historic.What can rival it? The best defensive draft in post-merger NFL history is almost definitely the class of 1981, which produced five Hall of Famers on the defensive side of the ball: Lawrence Taylor, Ronnie Lott, Howie Long, Mike Singletary and Rickey Jackson.That 81 class made 15 first-team All-Pro appearances through its first five seasons in the league, a staggering number. The defenders of 2011? They have 16 All-Pro appearances in their first five seasons. Watt, Peterson, Sherman and Miller have been awarded the honor multiple times. The offensive players from that same draft have combined for just four All-Pro appearances over that span.Can the class of 2011 live up to the lofty heights of 1981 and send five defenders to Canton? Its not out of the question. Watt faces some injury concerns, but hes probably already done enough to justify enshrinement. Every eligible two-time defensive player of the year has made it to the Hall of Fame, and Watt has already won the award three times.The same logic also suggests that Peterson and Sherman have already done enough to get in. Of the 25 Canton-eligible, post-merger defenders who were named first-team All-Pros three times during their careers, 16 (64 percent) made the Hall of Fame. Both NFC West cornerbacks have done that before the sixth year of their respective careers. Miller, who has racked up the same honor two times, is knocking on the door. The fifth Hall of Famer isnt quite as clear, but with Dareus (when not suspended), Houston and Quinn all regularly producing dominant seasons, there are reasons to be optimistic.You can make the case that this is an offensive era. Enlightened by college football, its a pass-heavy league with tempo everywhere. Offenses averaged 22.8 points per game last year, the fifth-highest figure in NFL history.But ... Denvers run to the Super Bowl with some of the leagues worst quarterback play tells us again just how impactful a team with several star defenders can be. Offenses are better-schemed and better-coached than ever, but a great defense can still rip their plan to shreds. And the class of 2011 has delivered more world-class, game-changing, opponent-destroying defenders than any other draft in 30 years. Jordan Wilkins Hoodie .com) - The Calgary Flames aim to bounce back from their first regulation home loss of the campaign on Friday night when they host a Detroit Red Wings club that they swept in three meetings a season ago. Colts Hoodies Shop . -- Bobby Ryan helped the U. http://www.cheapcoltshoodiesjerseys.com/tyquan-lewis-hoodie/ . -- Charlie Graham stopped 67 shots as the Belleville Bulls edged the visiting Guelph Storm 6-5 on Saturday in Ontario Hockey League action. Cheap Colts Hoodies Store . Thats about all he can do right now, so hes trying not to think about when he might be able to play again for the Los Angeles Lakers. Kemoko Turay Hoodie . -- Team after team passed on Andre Ellington in the draft. Britains world road race champion Lizzie Armitstead has withdrawn from the Giro Rosa due to illness.Armitstead, 27, has has been in superb form this season but has struggled with illness at the womens version of the Giro dItalia and has pulled out to focus on her 2016 priority, the road race at the Olympics in Rio next month.Her Boels Dolmans team-mates Megan Guarnier and Evelyn Stevens cemented their domination of the race on Friday. Guarnier retained her overall lead with two stages to go but American compatriot Stevens is closing fast.The 33-year-old Stevens won her second straighht stage, and third this week, with a storming display in stage seven, a 21.dddddddddddd9km time trial from Albisola Superiore to Varazze.Guarnier, 31, was 29 seconds back but still leads Stevens by 34 seconds in the general classification.Emma Pooley was the best-placed British rider, finishing 13th, and is now in 37th place overall. The 10-day race finishes in Verbania, Piedmont, on Sunday.Information from the Press Association was used in this report. China Jerseys Wholesale NFL Jerseys China Discount NFL Jerseys Wholesale Jerseys China Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping Wholesale NFL Gear Wholesale NFL Camo Jerseys ' ' '
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