Marvins Defense in Baltimore

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(11-14-2018, 12:05 AM)THE PISTONS Wrote: Yes - The defense was absolutely loaded. For someone to look at it and say it wasn't start dominated...is not reality.

They played a 3-4 too...so Adams and Siragusa's jobs were to take up space to keep lineman off of the LB's.

McCrary was a sack machine. He had 14.5 sacks one season...as a DE in a 3-4. That doesn't happen much. In 75 games with the Ravens he had 51 sacks.

They were never a 3-4, always a 4-3; McCrary played 3-4 DE for all of half a season, then retired.

There's a reason why he's my favourite DE ever, after Dunlap.

I posted about it in the other thread. Their alignment was as follows (left to right):

Burnett-Siragusa-Adams-McCrary
Boulware-Lewis-Sharper
Starks-Woodson-Herring-McCalister

Duane Starks and Kim Herring were super underrated too; they weren't world beaters like the Woodsons, but they were like a Leon Hall and George Iloka, in terms of production, respectively.

As depth, you had:

- Cornell Brown (jack of all trades LB who is Vinny Rey on Steroids {not literally, of course} and from a better bloodline)
- Corey Harris (great 3rd S, who also was a fairly good returner; not needed of course, with Jermaine Lewis and Woodson on the team)
- James Trapp (active corner, with plenty of starting experience, prior to joining the Ravens)
- Keith Washington (great run-stuffing DE)
- Adalius Thomas (who didn't see the field much, but you know what he can do)

So aside from great/stud players as your starters, you have 5 depth players that could probably (and did) start on other teams.

Legendary defense.