If it wasn’t obvious before that defense is a lost art in the NFL, it is now.

On Sunday, teams gained the fourth-most yardage ever on average in a single day. Two of the top four yardage weeks in league history have occurred this season. Four quarterbacks on Sunday—Ben Roethlisberger, Aaron Rodgers, Andrew Luck and Nick Foles—threw for 400 yards. That had never happened. For defenses, this isn’t a temporary crisis; it’s the new football reality.

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