The defense really is horrible. Unless the defense does a complete 180 this team is not good enough to win a playoff game anyways.. Really sucks but teams that only can play one side of the ball have a limit of how successful they can be especially when the side they actually play well on isn't consistent either.
This team is going to have to make some tough decisions on some of the defensive players.. Brandon Carr isn't living up to his contract, Demarcus Ware is a shell of his former self, Sean Lee can't stay healthy, Morris Claiborne is no where near as good as would justify trading up for him, and Bruce Carter has fallen off the map..
All that said we can still find ourselves in the playoffs this year but games like tonight make it hard to ignore some of the issues that this team is facing going forward.