Many people around the league consider the 2000 Ravens to be the best defense ever. That defense carried Trent Dilfer and its anemic offense all the way to the Super Bowl, dominating every offense it played along the way in the postseason.
If I would have told you two years ago that a Peyton Manning-led Broncos team would follow a similar formula in 2015, you would have told me that there is no way, in today’s high-flying, modern, contact-allergic NFL, that a team as defensively oriented as the Ravens could push its way to the Super Bowl, no matter how good compared to the rest of the league.