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Brett Keisel condemns the current NFL trend that downplays stout defense

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Fantasy football killed the game we got to play. The amount of generated by fantasy is too good for league to ignore! It has changed the players too! They use it as a measuring stick.
Grateful I got to play when the game still cared about Defense. It’s becoming obsolete. pic.twitter.com/eZA0umG5GC— Brett Keisel (@bkeisel99) October 1, 2018

Former Steelers’ defensive end Brett Keisel knows a little something about playing defense in the NFL. That’s why his recent Tweet can hardly be taken lightly. Although Keisel blames the demise of stout defense on the rise of Fantasy Football and all the money associated with it, that’s certainly not the only factor explaining why NFL defenses these days are hardly what they used to be.