NFL Fan Rants - Rant and rave about how your favorite football team will fare this year.
Defense wins championships.
This is true. To their credit, signing Carrier to shore up the safety position is perhaps their best short-term solution. A careful analysis of their season will show that the defense was dramatically better the second half of the season as the young linebackers began to mature. In their last couple of games, including the playoffs, it is arguable that the defense played far better than did the offense. But what will help even more is the addition of Ray Rhodes, a terrible head coach but fantastic defensive assistant coach.