FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — On a day like Sunday, there's only so much that can be said.

So Panthers head coach Dave Canales began his explanation for a 42-13 loss to the Patriots by talking about himself and his role in it.

"Certainly, not the execution we're looking for, and this is in all phases, first and foremost, giving the credit to the Patriots," he began. "They outplayed us in every phase offensively, defensively, and on special teams, with the big return yardage. When it's a full team effort like this, I have to put that on myself.

"I have to look at how I'm preparing the team, how we're going about our work. I have to look at that and compete to find an edge to get these guys to work together to focus, so we can get the execution that we're seeing happen in our processes, but this is

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