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Episode 21:

Flying high

  1. Linebacker Ray Lewis has been to 12 Pro Bowls, earned Defensive Player of the Year honors twice, helped win Baltimore a Super Bowl in 2000, and has been "The General" of the Ravens defense for well over a decade.

  2. Those are big shoes to fill. But when the future Hall of Famer was sidelined with turf toe this season, Terrell Suggs got a chance to try them on, leading Lewis' men into battle for four games -- winning all four -- and into the playoffs.

  3. "The NFL Season: A Biography," presented by SAP, continues with the story of Suggs' sizzling 2011 campaign, and a possible changing of the guard for one of the greatest defenses in NFL history.

T-Sizzle:

Hardnosed heritage

Terrell Suggs takes the field alongside Ray Lewis to face the Texans in the divisional round, and to defend a hard-nosed Ravens tradition started by the man who took him under his wing nine years earlier.

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