Defensive Lightswitch

[bLACKpANTHER]

it looks to have been flipped off for the past few weeks. Maybe the entire season.

 

Now, I don't pretend to know everything about football or whatever, but I can't think that The Kracken and Mike Mitchell were this big of a difference makers for our team. We went from an almost Historically Great Defense last year to a colander (spaghetti strainer for the uninformed) in the run game. I know our DBs haven't been the best over the past few years, but its just ridiculous to witness the change in results we are getting.

 

Can someone explain to me why such a dramatic change? I mean, its the same coaching staff, same philosophy, same players (minus Hardy and Mitchell).

[CharlottePanther]

Bring back Fua and Mcclain and bench Star!! J/k, sad thing is with how bad our D is playing, probably wouldnt even tell the difference.

[CharlottePanther]

Bring back Fua and Mcclain and bench Star!! J/k, sad thing is with how bad our D is playing, probably wouldnt even tell the difference.

[Jeremy Igo]

it looks to have been flipped off for the past few weeks. Maybe the entire season.

Now, I don't pretend to know everything about football or whatever, but I can't think that The Kracken and Mike Mitchell were this big of a difference makers for our team. We went from an almost Historically Great Defense last year to a colander (spaghetti strainer for the uninformed) in the run game. I know our DBs haven't been the best over the past few years, but its just ridiculous to witness the change in results we are getting.

Can someone explain to me why such a dramatic change? I mean, its the same coaching staff, same philosophy, same players (minus Hardy and Mitchell).

The biggest factor is TD hasn't been healthy for quite a while. He looks like Beason last season

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

what's funny is that every sunday hardy gets paid to sit at home proves that we were absolutely right to try to retain him

[trev230]

Star is getting pushed around a lot more than usual. Until that Front 4 starts playing better we will continue to see big gains and plays against us. It's the way we our entire D is built

 

 

[CLG]

Aside from production, Hardy's attitude is missed on our DLine. Our Dline can consistently get beat all game without being visibly mad or showing some sort of passion to change it. Small things like that change the culture of a unit.

When Cincy kept converting third downs.. keuchly wouldnt have been the only guy on defense you could tell was pissed.

[Bj-Monster23]

it looks to have been flipped off for the past few weeks. Maybe the entire season.

 

Now, I don't pretend to know everything about football or whatever, but I can't think that The Kracken and Mike Mitchell were this big of a difference makers for our team. We went from an almost Historically Great Defense last year to a colander (spaghetti strainer for the uninformed) in the run game. I know our DBs haven't been the best over the past few years, but its just ridiculous to witness the change in results we are getting.

 

Can someone explain to me why such a dramatic change? I mean, its the same coaching staff, same philosophy, same players (minus Hardy and Mitchell).

We can easily say that not having Mitchell or Hardy has caused a huge problem from our defense. I know that not having either of those guys hurts our team, but I still don't believe that's the main reasons for our struggles. I feel that we just have to be more discipline in our gap assignments, and the lack of speed in the secondary has hurt us a lot. If we want to get on the right track our defensive line is going to have to get more pressure. If not our season could take a turn for the worse with our tough schedule. I believe as a fan and with the players that we have we can hang with any team in this league. We just got to start playing better on the road and at home. This is Cam's team with all of our deficiencies, it's time for Ron to put the ball in his hands and let him go to work.

[bigdog10]

Is it wrong to believe we are missing Captain at NB?  It seems to be that we are getting slaughtered on the quick screens to WR's and the slants.

[Peppers90 NC]

if you dont understand how much of an impact Hardy had, you should now.  No it's not the old safeties or the average cornerbacks, everyone knew our defense relied on the line and they havent played near as good as they did last year.  But whats the difference?  No Hardy.  Easy and self explanatory.

[Lemory]

Sophomore slump?

[Dunn]

I think another big thing is the Offenses seem to be getting the ball out very quickly and beating us underneath with the dink/dunk.  I'm honestly suprised we don't see more blitz packages to mix it up since our front 4 rarely gets pressure now.

[trev230]

Sophomore slump for sure with Star and what this poster just said above ^^^. I go to almost every game and have since 95. A lot of times on Monday's I watch the DVR of the game and the Offenses we are playing are getting the ball out so quick against us. It seems like it's time to try something else like blitzing more often. 

[t96]

It's funny how preople here went from "No way we should pay Hardy he only looks good and gets sacks because of CJ and Star" to "Hardy is by far the best player on our line and losing him made our defense the worst ever."