Kony Ealy, Josh Norman, TD, Luke, and that Defense...

[Wundrbread33]

Thank you guys for killing it last night. 

That last TD was bullshit. You guys held them to less than 200 yards. Only gave up field goals. Ealy balled out and was nearly as effective as Von Miller. Josh shut down Thomas all game. TD is the toughest player in team history, and he a Kuechly came to play. Even McClain: I know he gave up some passes, but considering the situation he was in at the end of the season, I applaud his effort down the stretch.

I'm proud of this team for their year, but I hope we all recognize how amazing this defense was last night. Their performance will be lost because of our loss, but I'll remember what they did.

Keep Pounding baby.

[UKPanther94]

I think we saw Kony Ealy's coming out party last night, we saw flashes of it in the first half but the stuff with Allen/Johnson messed that up but he was our best defensive player by a mile, if we'd managed to somehow won there's no doubt he woulda been MVP.

[stankowalski]

Yeah defense was great and that was with a PS player, a dude who was on his couch a few weeks ago, a guy with a broken foot, a guy with a broken arm...they played very well considering.

[shaqattaq]

11 minutes ago, Wundrbread33 said:

Even McClain: I know he gave up some passes, but considering the situation he was in at the end of the season, I applaud his effort down the stretch.

I can't wait to see how he does with an off season to work with. He may not be a legit starter next year, but if he continues to improve like he has throughout the playoffs, he'll contribute.

[d-dave]

This playoff run showed us where we have some great depth, and some challenges.  That's for sure!  It's also why I feel good about next year.  Maybe not undefeated, but I think another strong year isn't out of the question.  If we play at a high level, we could head to the next SB too.

But that's a long way away.

I am very happy with our how Defense played.  Man, they were really great!

[Peppers90 NC]

Star deserves to mentioned too, he was as active as I recall seeing him. 

[NanuqoftheNorth]

Defense held up its end of the game and then some.

Kept being put in bad field position but kept ballin' all the same.

Didn't need much from the O or ST to win, but they weren't up to the task yesterday for whatever reason.

[tondi]

Other than not forcing two turnovers inside the Denver 5 and scoring on one of them, our defense was every bit as good as theirs.  If our offense had managed to achieve nothing more than having zero turnovers and our special teams didn't crap the bed we would have won.  Oh well, theres always 2028.

[mc52beast]

Dudes gave up a grand total of 194 yards, played like a #1 defense... 

Dont worry, this team will be back.

[Thanatos]

Kony Ealy had 3 tackles, 3 sacks, an INT and a FF....

On NINETEEN DAMN SNAPS.

What in the everliving fug Rivera? How is this guy not playing the whole game playing like he was? Just fug the coaches so much, clearly entirely unprepared.

[Sam Mills Fan]

This is probably what hurts the most. The defense played well enough to absolutely deserve a ring. If we had even gotten a D+ effort from the offense, we would have won. They couldn't even manage a D+ though.

[g5jamz]

D played great.  Couple of those quick slants were ticking me off, but other than that and a couple of runs by Anderson I felt we played well enough to win. 

ST and offense pooped the bed. 

[DaveThePanther2008]

55 minutes ago, Sam Mills Fan said:

This is probably what hurts the most. The defense played well enough to absolutely deserve a ring. If we had even gotten a D+ effort from the offense, we would have won. They couldn't even manage a D+ though.

I totally agree but damn.  It seemed like every opportunity they gave us was taken away by some BS call.  Every single decent field position we had. Gone

The way it felt to me was as long as we had poor starting position the refs let it play.  Every opportunity that we had to score ended up with some BS call.

Anyways I will get over this. 

Kony and the rest of the defense kept us in the game and with 6 minutes I thought we were going to pull it out.

Sadly we didn't

[Wundrbread33]

2 hours ago, Peppers90 NC said:

Star deserves to mentioned too, he was as active as I recall seeing him. 

Totally agree Pep, he balled out too.