Freed believes that the lingering cloud of dust -- caused by the towers' collapse and the digging out of ground zero -- caused some of her long- and short-term medical problems, such as her "WTC cough" and other respiratory issues.
The correct thing to say the Ditka thing is that you love defense, that it's an essential part of the game, that nothing tops a pair of smash-mouth clubs gritting it out in the trenches, or whatever cloud-of-dust cliches you want to use.