Charlotte — When the Green Bay Packers are good on defense, they're capable of putting decent pressure on the quarterback, limiting big plays and coming up with a turnover or two.
When they are bad, they are a catastrophe.
In their 37-29 loss to the Carolina Panthers Sunday at Bank of America Stadium, the Packers defense was mostly a boiling caldron of dreck and when things got the worst it spilled onto the sideline in the form of a shouting match between safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix and linebacker Julius Peppers.
That a second-year pro with very few NFL credentials could lay into a future Hall of Famer shows the level of frustration and lack of connectivity the unit has been feeling in back-to-back losses to the Panthers and Denver Broncos.