No Star, no Luke for 2nd half, D could be better overall...still #1 scoring defense in league right now

[Sam Mills Fan]

Chew on that for a second. With 3 games left for Week 1, the Panthers are the only team to hold their opponent to single digits. That despite the fact we were missing 2 beasts (although we gave up 0 anyway without Luke) and I think all of us spotted plenty of ways the D can improve going into Week 2.

 

That should bring a smile to your face.

[the butch]

Mentioned this in another thread.  Held to 9 points without two of our first round picks, I'll take it.

[t96]

Only team I see possibly doing better is the Vikings but I still don't anticipate it. Looking like we will be the #1 D for week 1 and damn I'm happy about it. Hoping Shaq can have more of an impact as well after this no-show. Also, Ealy was pretty terrible today, hopefully he'll get better as the season goes on. And of course as you mentioned Luke and Star out. Seriously though.... Imagine if we had Hardy right now... Would be the best D in the history of the league with him and everyone else healthy.

[Matthias]

Let's hold our horses just one sec, it was the jags after all.  Of course, I already know our defense is better than last year.

[PhillyB]

the jags are likely to have the offensive output of a shuffleboard squad this year but i'll take it anyway

[Lemory]

AJ Klein did a very good job filling in for Luke as well. He's really strong in run support but a little suspect in the passing game. 

[Mr Mojo Risin]

Technically they scored on us without Luke right before half time but still a very nice showing by our defense

[UNCrules2187]

Let's hold our horses just one sec, it was the jags after all.  Of course, I already know our defense is better than last year.

Hold our horses? Half the "experts" thought the Jags were going to drop 20+ on our defense.

poo, Marc Sessler of NFL.com thought Bortles was going to throw 3 TDs on our D.

I'm not holding any horses, I'm riding those fugers like JNo.

[Davidson Deac II]

Hold our horses? Half the "experts" thought the Jags were going to drop 20+ on our defense.

poo, Marc Sessler of NFL.com thought Bortles was going to throw 3 TDs on our D.

I'm not holding any horses, I'm riding those fugers like JNo.

Well, he did throw 2 td's.  One of them went to Josh Norman. 

[twylyght]

Technicality, but Ravens would be tied with us in addition to Denver being ahead.  Both of those teams scored defensive TDs

[Matthias]

Hold our horses? Half the "experts" thought the Jags were going to drop 20+ on our defense.

poo, Marc Sessler of NFL.com thought Bortles was going to throw 3 TDs on our D.

I'm not holding any horses, I'm riding those fugers like JNo.

Of course those same experts will act as though they said nothing of the sort.

[JawnyBlaze]

Yea, I'm happy with the win of course and not trying to be a debbie downer, but I have to say that this is all good and well but it's like our "dominance" at the end of last year.  Until we play a legit team, I'm going to stay happy about the individual battles won but not convinced it is indicative of how the war's going.

Technicality, but Ravens would be tied with us in addition to Denver being ahead.  Both of those teams scored defensive TDs

Yea, I hate when people try to count defensive touchdowns into the total score when considering points allowed by a defense (the other defense, of course).

[LinvilleGorge]

Definitely a good overall performance by the D, but the entire DL was MIA for most of the 2nd and 3rd quarters.  And the fact that Bortles was terrible helped us out a lot too.  He missed a lot of open throws.