- Look up defense, defence, or
defensive in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Defense or
defence may
refer to:
Defense (military),
forces primarily intended...
- In
gridiron football,
defensive backs (DBs), also
called the secondary, are the
players on the
defensive side of the ball who play ****hest back from the...
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Defensive end (DE) is a
defensive position in the
sport of
gridiron football. This
position has
designated the
players at each end of the
defensive line...
- A
defensive coordinator is a
coach responsible for a
gridiron football (American football) team's defense. Generally, the
defensive coordinator, the offensive...
- tackles.
Defensive tackles are
typically the
largest and
strongest of the
defensive players.
Depending on a team's
defensive scheme, a
defensive tackle...
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Midfielders may play an
exclusively defensive role,
breaking up attacks, and are in that case
known as
defensive midfielders. As
central midfielders often...
- ball are the
offensive line,
while linemen on the
opposing team are the
defensive line. A
number of NFL
rules specifically address restrictions and requirements...
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Defensive rating or
defensive efficiency is a
statistic used in
basketball to
measure an
individual player's
efficiency at
preventing the
other team from...
- The NBA All-
Defensive Team is an
annual National Basketball ****ociation (NBA)
honor given since the 1968–69 NBA
season to the best
defensive players during...
- The
Naismith College Defensive Player of the Year
Award is an
annual basketball award given to the most
outstanding defensive player in men's and women's...
