Doug Baker's 2008 NFL All Pro Team: Defense

The season over and I am going to present my NFL All Pro Team . In this article I am presenting the starting defense, punter, kick returner, and the defensive player of the year. Given that most teams run a 3-4 or 4-3 defense, I am picking four defensive linemen and four linebackers, so I have a 12 man team on defense. For linebackers I don’t pick inside and outside linebackers, I just pick the best linebackers in the league regardless of where they play in their respective defensive schemes. Since it’s my All Pro Team, I guess I can do that. Some players that didn’t make the team will be very upset, so I better go ahead and tell you who that is and give them honorable mentions here: Mario Williams, DE, Houston Texans Haloti Ngata, DT, Baltimore Ravens Patrick Willis, LB, San Francisco 49’ers DeMarco Ryans, LB, Houston Texans They don’t even get their pictures on this definitive NFL 2008 All Pro Team. Troy Polamalu, SS, Pittsburgh Steelers gets the cover of this article because he made one ... (link)