Earlier, I posted an article asking who belongs on the Steelers “Team of the Millennium,” on offense. If you haven’t seen it, the link is HERE. This time, we’re going to walk through the defense and special teams.
In brief, my thinking is that the NFL rules (and consequently, NFL strategies) began to shift in favor of passing offenses in the early 2000s right as a new crop of passers entered the league. Couple this with players’ careers lasting longer and longer, and the last twenty years feel more coherent than any two random decades from previous eras.