Best Defense of the late 90s-early 2000s

[Alexander The Great]

Ray's Ravens



or

Warren's Bucs

 

[Bboystyle]

Gotta go Ravens. They won the SB,litterally

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

Baltimore. The defense allowed 151 points during the season, allowed less than 3 yards per carry, gave up just 970 yards on the season, no back crossed the 100 yard mark against them, and they pitched 4 shutouts. 48 turnovers forced on the season. That’s just under 9.5 points allowed per game. 14 of the 165 came on pix 6’s that the quarterbacks threw. They even managed to win 2 of the 5 straight games where the offense didn’t get into the end zone and nearly won the games they lost in that span. Then they allowed 1 touchdown in the whole postseason. Overall in the playoffs the defense allowed 16 points in 4 games while scoring more touchdowns than they allowed. In the super bowl the giants never even got into the red zone and didn’t cross the 50 yard line on their last 4-5 possessions. That’s no slight at the buccaneers either. Counting the playoffs they scored 9 touchdowns, almost 1 every other game, allowed fewer points than the 1985 bears did on the season, and broke that ravens team’s record in the super bowl for sacks and turnovers forced. In fact I think their defense outscored the raiders offense too

 

[Street Knowledge]

According to Footballoutsiders

The 2000 Ravens are the greatest run defense in history.

The 2002 Bucs are the greatest pass defense in history

 

[Freddie.Cane]

Ray's Ravens



or

Warren's Bucs

The :IrvinU:

 

[AlbertPullhoez]

2002 Tampa Bay is the better defense

Those Ravens played a bunch of shytty offenses and QB's

I mean look at the quarterbacks they faced

Tim Couch
Akili Smith
Doug Pederson
Spergon Wynn
Kent Graham
Kordell Stewart
Jay Fielder
Ryan Leaf
Jake Plummer
washed up Troy Aikman
Scott Mitchell

 

[PortCityProphet]

Ray's Ravens



or

Warren's Bucs

Ray got that killer look in his eyes and Warren got that hurry up and take the pic so I can take a hoe out and run off on the bill look

 

[PortCityProphet]

Ravens by a smidge.
But they're basically equal for the most part.

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

2002 Tampa Bay is the better defense

Those Ravens played a bunch of shytty offenses and QB's

I mean look at the quarterbacks they faced

Tim Couch
Akili Smith
Doug Pederson
Spergon Wynn
Kent Graham
Kordell Stewart
Jay Fielder
Ryan Leaf
Jake Plummer
washed up Troy Aikman
Scott Mitchell

Tampa bay didn’t exactly face a murderers row either though . Wasn’t a stellar time for quarterbacks. Aside from once and McNabb once, here’s the bucs list:

Aaron Brooks
Chris Redman
Kurt Warner, who was awful in 2002. Lost all his starts and threw 3 td passes all year
Akili Smith
Rookie Michael Vick
Tim couch
Randy Fasani
Mike McMahon
Tommy Maddox
Henry Burris

 

[Jplaya2023]

Its apples and oranges both defenses literally won the sb

Bucs had like 3 pick sixes in the sb. Thats crazy. Even if john knew all of the Raiders plays thats crazy.

Ravens allowed what 10 points total in 3 playoff games?

Comparing them is like comparing the 86 giants to 85 bears

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

Its apples and oranges both defenses literally won the sb

Bucs had like 3 pick sixes in the sb. Thats crazy. Even if john knew all of the Raiders plays thats crazy.

Ravens allowed what 10 points total in 3 playoff games?

Comparing them is like comparing the 86 giants to 85 bears

16 points allowed in 4 playoff games, 3 of them away from home. One offensive touchdown allowed all playoffs.

 

[AlbertPullhoez]

Tampa bay didn’t exactly face a murderers row either though . Wasn’t a stellar time for quarterbacks. Aside from once and McNabb once, here’s the bucs list:

Aaron Brooks
Chris Redman
Kurt Warner, who was awful in 2002. Lost all his starts and threw 3 td passes all year
Akili Smith
Rookie Michael Vick
Tim couch
Randy Fasani
Mike McMahon
Tommy Maddox
Henry Burris

Aaron Brooks and Tommy Maddox both had good seasons that year. Maddox won comeback player of the year that season if I'm not mistaken

I'll give you the rest of them dudes though

 

[75 Others]

Baltimore. The defense allowed 151 points during the season, allowed less than 3 yards per carry, gave up just 970 yards on the season, no back crossed the 100 yard mark against them, and they pitched 4 shutouts. 48 turnovers forced on the season. That’s just under 9.5 points allowed per game.

This...Baltimore and it ain't even close. This will never be done again

Not mention one game during that season the Jags dropped 38 pts I think.

Shannon and Ray actually reaveled that after Shannon scored the TD in the first qtr of the AFC Champ Game, Ray and Rod went and told him they were going to the Super Bowl

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

This...Baltimore and it ain't even close. This will never be done again

Not mention one game during that season the Jags dropped 38 pts I think.

Shannon and Ray actually reaveled that after Shannon scored the TD in the first qtr of the AFC Champ Game, Ray and Rod went and told him they were going to the Super Bowl

The final of that game was 38-35. In the other 15 games, the defense allowed 116. An average of 7.7 points . Well yeah that score was all they needed in the conference title game

 

[BlackAchilles]

Ravens, that front 7 with Sam Adams/Siragusa/Lewis/Boulware/McCrary/ Sharper was monstrous, they even got Trent fukking Dilfer to win a Super Bowl