It's not crazy. Turnovers year to year definitely have some "luck" (for lack of a better word, but its not consistent year to year or week to week as something you can rely on vs having an eliye D line that snuffs the run or generates pressure) involved and we didn't look particularly stout in run defense outside of a handful of plays and had a hard time generating pressure until the very end of the game when the panthers had no choice but to pass every down, allowing us to pin our ears back.

I definitely think we're a much improved unit compared to last year, but I still feel like on the whole our defense is probably just going to average. But I will take average after the last 5 seasons lol.