Are we going to completely ignore that Kuechly hasn't been playing well?

[SuperJTheGreat]

I'm not worried about Keek, I'm worried about everyone else around him.

 

The only key players we have on defense besides him is Star and Short. 

 

Johnson has been a no show. 

you should be.

[Sam Mills Fan]

Too much responsibility right now. He feels like he has to stop offenses all by himself like it's 11 vs. 1. O-linemen are getting to his level more so than he's experienced since he's been in the league, so he's getting the new challenge of trying to fight off blockers.

[csx]

Luke been playing like trash since day one. No heart. But its always Cams fault.

since game 3 maybe.. Do you even watch these games?

[KillerKat]

Missing tackles, slow to the ball, bad in coverage etc. I love Luke but we, and the rest of the defense has looked awful. Don't know why

When your whole team looks bad, it's the head coaches fault.

[TheRumGone]

maybe hardy actually brought us an edge on defense more than anybody thought.

[Woodcookedbbq]

Had help from the D line last season. Not so much this season.

[Swaggasaurus]

yeah he sucks...Thomas Davis who I love move than life itself sucked last week too

[FugginPoo]

don't think its coincidence that once Panthers stabbed Hardy in back, Defense as a whole went to poo

[Rags]

you should be.

 

No player plays great every game. He's had two bad games but, uh, so has This Entire Defense.

 

I'll take two seasons of great play before I jump to conclusions over two or three bad games. Chill.

[Rags]

maybe hardy actually brought us an edge on defense more than anybody thought.

 

Exactly.

 

Everyone always brings up how Hardy only had one great season. But he's always been a monster against the run.

[LinvilleGorge]

No one on D is playing well. Our D and OL are invisible. Recipe for disaster.

[Sloth]

Short has been our only consistently good player on the line, and he's rotational. CJ is doing zilcho. Star has been bad and is getting handled. Cole/Dwan aren't doing anything. Addison is fast and can get to the QB but couldn't stop me from running at 4 YPC. That's the problem. With that group playing like hot garbage, our bad secondary shows up and our LBs need to do too much and get worked. Add in that Harper straight up can't play and booooooom.

 

I have no idea what they're going to do to fix this.

[carolina-chuck]

I'm not

[CollegePanther]

What's it matter? When the whole defense is crumbling around you, you can't hold it up on your on.