Throughout the first three months of the 2018 season, all you heard about throughout the NFL (and justifiably so) was that offenses had shot so far past defenses schematically, that defenses had no chance to catch up. Points were being scored and yards were being gained at a record pace, and when the Rams beat the Chiefs 54-51 at the end of Week 11, it marked the only time in NFL history when both teams had eclipsed the fifty-burger mark in the same game.
Meanwhile, defenses were running around like proverbial headless chickens, doing really dumb things in the red zone like playing all their cornerbacks off and leaving receivers wide open due to inflexible coverages.