bleu wrote:Cactus Jack wrote:CDior510 wrote:
I mean hey look. Newton was semi injured and semi pouty about the super bowl loss, and I love Luke Kuechly I really feel for him and your team. Josh Norman leaving really hurt you guys I don't think your defense is good enough to win without him and Kuechly and Thomas may retire.
I doubt Kuechly would retire at his age. The dude is a monster. You may be right about Thomas however.
It was a combination of Norman leaving and starting two rookie corners all year that hurt the defense. They certainly got progressively better as the year went on though. Kuchely is still young, he's got 3 or more years left in him, but Davis may be done. We'll see. Him leaving wouldn't be TOO detrimental though because Shaq Thompson is a decent next man up. They had a crazy amount of close games this year, I think it was more of a mentality thing and not being able to close out that hurt them more than anything.
Kechly's one maybe two more concussions away from being "Retired" by the league concussion protocol. Given his drive and want to win, plus the way he tackles that doesn't seem to far off for him to get another couple concussions hopefully not though.
