NFL: Ranking the Top 5 Defenses on paper right now

Now that we’re done with the business of free agency and the NFL Draft, we can take a deeper dive into how depth charts look for 2015.

Each waking day we find ourselves in the same exact situation as the day prior.

We wake up, drink our morning coffee and read the freshest sports content of our choice. Some still religiously grab the paper, if you can actually believe it.

Choice of delivery method aside, sports fans across the globe are currently being treated to a situation brewing between the National Football League and the entire New England Patriots organization that can be described as serious, ridiculous and laugh out loud comical.

We see pictures of Tom Brady, Don Yee, Ted Wells and Troy Vincent. We hear words such as conspiracy, sting, integrity and deflator.

Folks, this one might get truly ugly between Roger Goodell and Robert Kraft before it’s all said and done.

Nevertheless, the entire story revolves around football manipulation and gaining an edge on offense; it’s nothing new. Offense rules the NFL to the point that Fantasy Football has arguably surpassed basketball in popularity.

For those sick and tired of this recent talk and want to change the script, please follow me.

After all, we know that there’s one general mantra for which great coaches and team builders live by: offense puts fannies in the seats, but defense wins championships.

And finally, after the workmanlike offseason of free agency and the NFL Draft, we can now take a deep dive into realistic depth charts heading into the 2015 season.

So let’s put down the back-pages showing Brady holding a deflated pigskin and get some serious football talk into the mix–a little defensive discussion.

Here are the Top 5 NFL Defenses on paper:

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