Who on the defense can have a monster game like Hardy last season?

[t96]

In one of the videos of the sideline on Panthers.com media vault, once the Browns game was "won" CJ was saying to the camera, "we gonna feast next week baby!" etc. Big Money is going to prove he's worth it next week. He's going to have 4.5 sacks on Matt Ryan, book that sh*t.

[SgtJoo]

Norman and Benny by being lockdown corners and taking Julio out of the equation, giving time for our pass rush to get there.

[bandu]

Colin Jones

[La Pantera]

I'm hoping for 2 sacks from CJ. A sack  from KK..  .5 from Star and Ealy. And 1 from Harper.

 

 

is that to much?

[janderson20vt]

Whoever is covering Julio. Good lord I hope the doesn't tear us up.

[pantherclaw]

Johnson always brings it to the Georgia Dome.

[RelaxImaPro]

It's time for Luke or TD to have a breakout game honestly.  They're the two leaders of the defense, and both are recognized as being at, or near, the top of their respective positions.  They've each made plays here and there... but neither one have had a "damn what a game" moment like they did last year.

 

They better be absolutely shutting down the screen and run game and some nice plays in coverage wouldn't hurt.

[PandaPancake]

Sacks are nice but if we could get one on the first couple of plays it always seems to rattle the other team. If we could get another KK sack like last time this game would be over before it began

[cardiackat88.]

I personally feel like we need Josh Normans head completely in the game and focused beyond what he thought he could be.

Shutting down Julio is a large portion of the work.

[Catweisers]

I think Big Frank is going to put in a memorable performance come Sunday to make up for some of them Sundays he missed this year.

http://www.panthers.com/team/roster/Frank-Alexander/4c95d3aa-4dad-45bf-bd70-bc86e8e3d1f

He has been missed more than we can know this year. 

George Allen was right "The Future is Now

[Kakarot]

It's going to be my boy CJ aka Big Money Heavyweight!

[CRA]

It's time for Luke or TD to have a breakout game honestly. They're the two leaders of the defense, and both are recognized as being at, or near, the top of their respective positions. They've each made plays here and there... but neither one have had a "damn what a game" moment like they did last year.

They better be absolutely shutting down the screen and run game and some nice plays in coverage wouldn't hurt.

Outside of a nice tackle.....I can't recall a single game changing play from either this year.

I'd say they are past due

[RelaxImaPro]

Outside of a nice tackle.....I can't recall a single game changing play from either this year.

I'd say they are past due

 

Luke has had a couple that I remember... the game-clinching forced fumble against TB week 1, that sick diving pass break up week 2 against the Lions which probably would've been taken to the the house if caught.  He also had the game-sealing pick in the most recent TB game (though it wasn't quite as critical as his forced fumble week 1).

 

TD, on the other hand, I can't really remember much at all from him this year (I think he forced a fumble or got a sack after being personally responsible for a huge gain the play before IIRC). 

 

They've both been solid, but not as good as they can/should be, and not as good as they've been the past 2 years.  Both still playing at a Pro Bowl level, but I guess we've become used to more than that from them.

[mcdougal]

Probably Luke