Before you decide that Luke is playing poorly...

[PantherFeez]

Here's the play in gif form:

 

[PantherFeez]

Another; this one happened 2 minutes before Zod's play with the safety closer with the LB's. Again in a 3-4 formation for a big gain.

 

[frash.exe]

Front seven looks completely emaciated compared to last year

[dunnlx]

Short is playing excellent. Star and Cole, not so much.

Everyone needs to step up, maybe with big Frank coming back that will help. Damn I hope so!

[CPantherKing]

This was the correct defensive call.

 

 

It was executed terribly.

 

12 drives in the last 6 quarters for the defense. 8 TDs, 2 FG attempts, and 2 Punts. 38.8% of the runs went for 4 or more yards. It comes down to the DL.

 

Against the Ravens in the first quarter the Ravens had 1 big run of 7 yards. Wes Horton and Colin Cole never touched the offensive linemen over them and let them get immediate releases on Kuechly and Klein. Then Cole engages an offensive lineman and takes an angle into the backfield. The running back had already reached the LOS, so this choice by Cole was wrong. Then Wes Horton fails to keep his shoulders parallel with the LOS and pursue down the line to contain the RB. He rounds out off the LOS, over pursues leaving a gap for the RB and then tries to arm tackle the RB. After this play alone both of them need to be replaced. They made 5 mental errors between the 2 of them on one play. It would have been better to engage the OL trying to get to the line backers and push them down the line with their momentum in the gaps for the RB. This frees up the line backers to make the play.

 

The biggest issue is offensive linemen are able to turn Stars shoulders way too quickly and ride him out of the play. This is what the Steelers exposed and the Panthers will see it time and time again until it is corrected. Turning Stars shoulders so quickly means he can now be single blocked and the other OL helping to turn Star now has a clean release to Kuechly. This DL went from a force to a joke in 6 quarters of football.

[Bj-Monster23]

Charles is standing up and playing wide + the nose tackle is right over the center in the 1 tech This looks like a 3-4 alignment

They are in the 3-4 on this play I notice it too.

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[Diehardpanther02]

I wish cole would be benched hes

To fat and slow to get off a block and beat a one on one. He gets a good initial push but from then on it he can be moved if you knock his weight to one side. Kk and star should get the most snaps with dwan coming in for star in passing situations. This may have been whats going on but we are losing on the interior as well as the edges. But poort secondary tackling and pursuit has been bad, hopefully norman can be coached up he has the aggresiveness.

[DaCityKats]

It starts up front, but Luke and the lbs have not been playing sound football for the last 2 weeks. Rivera even said he had some mess ups.

His mess ups are correctable tho

[carolina-chuck]

Blackburn and Klein have been asses.

[Snake]

Both interior linemen are doing poorly on both sides of the ball. Honestly some of the worst sacks Cam has taken have come from Turner and Amini. On the defense both the Steelers and Ravens have owned Star and Cole. Not really sure why those two start beside each other because both are space eaters that are not eating space.

[Kevin Greene]

Only Luke can do this:

 

 

Last LB I saw who could do that was Brian Urlacher.

 

 

 

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[FattyFatFat]

You're not just a pretty face.

[teeray]

I'm sure it has been mentioned but he is also leading NFL in tackles I believe

[Rise of The Hive]

Luke is fine. This is about as absurd as calling for Shula's head with the backfield we are left with.