December 18, 2008, 3:14 PM

Getting Defensive: A tough week for elite defenses

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Fantasy defenses have been a good market to be bullish about this year, but if ever there was a week to turn bearish on some of the elite defenses, this might be it. Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Tampa Bay, Tennessee and Chicago are the top five scoring defenses this year, and every one of them has a very tough matchup that will make it a definite starting question mark this week. But not all of the top defenses are in this boat, so the focus of this edition of Getting Defensive will be to help discern the bovines from the ursas.

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