CAROLINA PANTHERS DEFENSE

 

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DE Kony Ealy

(on whether he is surprised that the game came down to a defensive battle)

“Defense wins games and offense sells tickets. That’s been the saying since football was created. At the end of the game it’s on our defense. You saw that out there.”
 

LB Thomas Davis

(on if he still considers this season a success)

“We definitely had a successful season, but you know we let so many people down. It’s tough to get over that feeling. We definitely feel like we should have won this game. Hats off to Denver, they did a really good job and they made more plays than we did today.”
 

LB Luke Kuechly

(on how disappointed he is)

“It stings. I previously said it, we accomplished a lot of what we wanted to do this year. We won the division, we won in playoffs. We made it to the Super Bowl. We checked off a couple boxes, but we just weren’t able to get this last one checked off.”
 

CB Josh Norman

(on the loss)

“I’m not going to lie and say this doesn’t hurt, because it does. It’s going to be with me for a while, but I know I’ll be back in this game.”
 

S Roman Harper

(on whether the season was still a success)

“Yeah, I guess. You’ll look back on it later and be happy for all the things you were able to accomplish. We had a player of the year, we had a coach of the year. We won 17 games, which is extremely hard to do in this league. The culture of this team kind of changed and caught fire around the whole world. I think are some of the positives we will take from it. We had college coaches dabbing. It was crazy. It was a phenomenon, and you will take of those positives; all the fun times, and the great times.”
 

Coordinator Sean McDermott

(on how effective Thomas Davis was)

“I thought Thomas (Davis) played well. Just to go out there 13 days out of surgery, he’s just a warrior. He’s one of our leaders both on and off the field and so I’m extremely proud of what Thomas has done for us and meant for this organization and this defense. That’s who we are, that’s our identity and I’m very proud to be associated with a man like Thomas Davis.”