CHARLOTTE—The message, in Derrick Brown 's mind, was simple.

"You got to go back to work. We got our ass whooped today," Brown said, shaking his head after the Panthers' 40-9 loss the Bills. I mean, hats off to them. They whooped our ass. So got to go back to work. We sat in this same position four weeks ago."

The position four weeks ago was coming off a 42-13 loss to the Patriots. The Panthers bounced back from that by railing off three straight wins, which means they're still 4-4.

"We sat here, we had these same questions four weeks ago, like I said, right?" preached Brown. "And you know for us to be able to snap back from that, I mean, coach breaks it up into the quarters, the season in the four quarters, and we just finished our second four games."

Dave Canales always preaches fi

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