Throughout the history of the Baltimore Ravens franchise – which goes back to 1996 – the team has generally been known for strong defenses above all. The Ravens have ranked first in Defensive DVOA in six different seasons – 1999, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2011, and 2023. That doesn’t even include the 2000 Ravens, who may have put the greatest defense of all time on the field. That team ranked second to the Tennessee Titans.
That the 2023 Ravens topped the Defensive DVOA charts is more instructive for the purposes of this article. Defensive coordinator Mike Macdonald, now the Seattle Seahawks’ head coach, did a brilliant job of getting
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