Simeon Rice was a month away from turning 12 and living in Chicago's South Side when the Chicago Bears trounced the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XX and cemented the legacy of their defense as one of the greatest in NFL history. In fact, nearly 40 decades later, Rice still considers the '85 Bears defense to be the greatest ever, but he personally helped another team get close.

In the second half of the 1990s, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers built a defense around future Hall of Famers Derrick Brooks, Warren Sapp, John Lynch and Rondé Barber that had a sustained run as one of the league's best for a decade. In 2001, the Buccaneers signed former Arizona Cardinals edge rusher Simeon Rice in free agency, and by his second year in the system that defense peaked. Tampa Bay's 2002 defense punish

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