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We are what we are

By Randy Mueller
ESPN NFL Insider

Wednesday, October 8, 2003

When team officials, both front office and coaches, sit down during the early stages of building an NFL team, they must ask themselves, "What do we want to be?" Based on the answer, they put their teams together and hope the end result will fit their style and their coaches' schemes, as well as the personality they'd like to exude during the fall. An "up the field" pressuring type defense, like Tampa Bay's, had better have defensive linemen who are quick off the ball and can beat people one on ...

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