JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Nothing about Sunday's 26-10 loss to the Jaguars was conventional, but the way they came out of a 76-minute weather delay was indicative of the way the entire day went.

Trailing 10-3 with 8:23 left in the second quarter, the Panthers got the ball first, with something resembling a normal situation after the longest halftime in league history.

Guys were trying to stay moving in the locker room during the long break, and it appeared they were well-positioned.

They were moving the ball, with Bryce Young converting a third down to Tetairoa McMillan, and then scrambling for a 22-yard gain to have something resembling momentum in a one-score game.

But after Hunter Renfrow was clocked on a second-down pass, the Panthers had to call a timeout to gather themselves before pressure led to a quick incompletion and a punt.

"I was telling guys there, it was nice that we were starting with a kickoff, right?" center Austin Corbett said. "So kind of you just get that full reset telling guys just to understand that you know it's time to go play and put a little drive together, but we've got to go finish."

That's what the Jaguars did, on the other hand, with one big play able to pop the game open.

Travis Etienne's 71-yard run was a dagger, the key to a four-play, all-run scoring drive that allowed the Jags to take a 17-3 lead just before the half.

It was nearly half of Etienne's 143-yard day in front of his brother, and the bulk of Jacksonville's 200 yards on the ground.

The run started away from Derrick Brown, so he didn't have a clear explanation for the way it unfolded.

"I haven't seen it yet. I was on the other side," he said. "I don't know what happened, so I can't talk about it, but that falls on us up front, and we take pride in stopping the run.

"And obviously, we didn't get that done today, so we'll see a different version of that this week."

Safety Tre'von Moehrig got caught in traffic while trying to keep it from popping outside. Safety Nick Scott had a shot but couldn't wrap him up, and Mike Jackson was also screened off from an angle.

Only linebacker Christian Rozeboom chasing downfield kept it from going for a touchdown.

"It's just everybody being on the same page, everybody, all 11," Moehrig said of the run defense. "You know, you never want to see that, obviously, but you know you've got to come back in, in this next-play mentality. So it's really not too much, to play and keep your head down, you've just got to keep playing after that."