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INDIANAPOLIS – The coach spent three decades burnishing his defensive credentials and vowed to bring his time-tested principles to the heartland. The general manager has spent nearly five years tinkering with the defensive personnel looking to build a title-worthy unit. Defensive players have come and gone, big names and less-familiar ones alike, in a seemingly eternal search for the right fit. And the break-but-don’t-bend thinking of the past would be supplanted by a much more aggressive posture.
These were to be the ingredients of a defense that, at long last, would make the Colts a more balanced football team.