Panthers Players React to 0-3 Start

A rough start to the season for Carolina, but they're not a team that has lost confidence.

The Carolina Panthers have dug themselves a hole with the 0-3 start to the 2023 regular season, but the team's confidence has not wavered to this point. Following last night's game in Seattle, several players spoke to the media in the locker room answering questions about the winless month of September.

QB Andy Dalton

"I think at the end of the day you put your head down, you look and see what you can do to get it fixed. You've got to look in the mirror, see how you played, and be honest with yourself. This is a long season, you know. There's a lot of really good teams that have lost three in a row. Ours just happens to be these first three. For us, the whole goal is to get things fixed, get things right, and to play our best football, and we have not played our best football yet." 

RB Miles Sanders

“It’s a lot of self-accountability that has to go on. Everybody has to look themselves in the mirror and know what they did wrong. There’s some stuff that I messed up on. I dropped the ball, stuff like that. You just go back to work and keep grinding. That’s all I can really say. There’s no other answer but to say that. Everybody knows come tomorrow we’re going to start with the film and the Wednesday we’re right back at it.”

WR DJ Chark

“Honestly it’s tough because you can’t put your finger on it. I don’t feel like we are that far away, but when we end the game and we’re done and we lost, it’s tough. Luckily for us it’s still early in the season. It’s three games and there is a lot to go and we understand the responsibility that we have to win games. So it’s tough and it makes the week long to get back out there again. We just need the lightbulb to click.”

WR Adam Thielen

"First of all, frustrated. 0-3 never feels good. We have so much confidence. I know I do individually, I know this team does, our coach does. So to be where we're at, obviously it not where we want to be. We knew that it was going to be a process to this season, but we got to find a way to be urgent. We're too good to just go through the season and just kind of waste it away. We got to be urgent in the way that we prepare."

C Bradley Bozeman

“This team is a good team. We have the tools to do it. We just have to put it together. We haven't put it together the last couple games. We need to come together and figure out what we need to do. We have to continue to build, continue to work, continue to do the things that we’re good at and continue to strengthen things that we’re not so good at. That’s our biggest problem right now. We have to come together.”

LB Deion Jones

“To be honest, it’s a long season. I’ve been on teams that started worse. To be honest, we just have to stay together and keep climbing. Like I said, we all have to stay together, we all have to get better. Everybody has to take another step, and we all have to buy in. No one can veer off. Like I said, got to keep going. It’s a long football season.”

CB Donte Jackson

“This is the NFL. Everybody wants to win, be successful, and be perfect out there. Being a corner, I had like three plays that I definitely want back. Those are the ones you feel like ‘this is your fault,’ but you have to keep pushing and keep going. That was a good, tough team. We played in a tough environment, we just have to learn from it and keep going.”

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