Opponents scored 15.4 points a game in 2005, the Colts went 14-2 and Freeney, Sanders and linebacker Cato June went to the Pro Bowl. The yield was a league-best 16.4 points in 2007, when the Colts came as close to playing shut-down defense as at any time during the Manning era. They ranked third in total defense at 279.7 yards a game, nearly 20 fewer than any of the other 11 seasons.The 2005 team probably had a better threesome at linebacker in June, Gary Brackett and David Thornton, although Brackett and Clint Session might be playing as well this year as any pair has. The 2007 team had a star-spangled secondary with safeties Sanders and Antoine Bethea, both Pro Bowlers that year, and cornerbacks Jackson and Kelvin Hayden.
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