In my opinion, the loss of Lorenzo hurt because of his leadership. It sure appeared to me that Norman brought some of that Sunday. That might be exactly what our D needs. When they play cohesively as a tight unit, they are good across the board. When you start bringing in unfamiliar faces the cohesiveness drops.
In the postgame interviews, I found it interesting to hear that guys were saying they miss the 12th man more than I ever knew. They feed off that energy and it must be tough to generate that energy internally. Hopefully, we can get fans in the stands and help them out a bit moving forward.