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The Best and Worst: Defense

By By Ryan Early
NFL Insider

Friday, July 18, 2003

Free agency and the salary cap has done a good job of evening out the talent throughout the NFL. By design, teams cannot dominate all areas of the game. Instead they have to come up with a strategy to best lead to on field success. Some teams try to get one outstanding player on each unit, hoping they will improve the play of those around them. Others pick and choose whole areas of the team to make great while ignoring the others, hoping their gamble pays off. The Carolina Panthers have fro ...

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