What’s going on with Luke Kuechly

[WarHeel]

He’s still 6th in the league in solo tackles and has pulled down 2 INT. If that’s “falling off” I’ll take it.

[heel31ok]

2 hours ago, Carl Spackler said:

Blaming Luke for defensive problems is akin to blaming Hillary for Trump’s idiocy (now that I think of it, if she’d have ran even a half-ass campaign, terms like “deportation camp” and “travel ban” probably wouldn’t exist).

It’s not Luke’s fault is what I’m getting at

If your analogy was true to life it would be his fault ...

[BrizzMachete]

I been saying this since last year . Luke took a step back after all those head injuries . Look like he play with a little less fire . But he still a top linebacker so i can’t complain 

[heel31ok]

1 hour ago, Dunn said:

Looks like we might be double dipping at DT again this upcoming draft 

START double dipping at LT...

[raz]

1 hour ago, GreensboroPirate said:

How naive do you have to be to think that multiple successive concussions have literally 0 effect on your emotions, cognition, psychology, and capabilities as a football player.

I guess you just think all of those players who had CTE developed them the very day they retired, but not during their playing careers.

One of the most underrated aspects of players and their health is what level of encephalopathy they're playing with (and unfortunately for us, both Cam and Luke are fairly advanced relative to most players, and both have seen their play decline, in some measure, due to it).

It's a taboo topic for whatever reason, I guess NFL fans feel uncomfortable wrestling with the realities of it.

 

the big con the nfl is pulling on you is that its concussions that cause cte.  that way new helmets will fix it and we'll feel better about watching.    i do things where i take falls at speed a decent amount and risk getting hurt real bad for adrenaline so it doesn't bother me other people do it too.   

the us military put sensors on soldiers helmets to see how much damage being near an explosion causes.   they took them off in 1 day because firing a rifle is enough of the kind of blow that cumulatively causes cte

[h0llywood]

One observation is he’s not really participating in assisted tackles. While the numbers may say other wise, there’s been plenty of situations where he would watch the initial player complete the tackle. Old Luke would tackle a player even when there were 4 guys on him. Seems odd and hope it’s not something deeper (injury concern)