CHARLOTTE — No one in the Panthers locker room, and especially not quarterback Bryce Young, is pretending that last week's opener against Jacksonville was a pleasant memory.
But they also know it's not helpful now as they prepare for Sunday's game in Arizona, especially now that they've cataloged it and put that one to bed.
Young said Wednesday that putting a three-turnover game like last week's behind him is essential, even if it's easier said than done. Moments after their "Tell The Truth Monday" session in the team meeting, they retreat to the quarterback meeting room with assistant Will Harriger, and they continue picking through the remnants of the previous game.
"We come in on Monday, we watch the film, we go in with a growth mindset," Young said on Wednesday. "Watch every play, analyze everything, talk about it, and then we figure out what it is that we can take from there, learn from there. And then we have a deadline of coming back to a meeting, and now we're on to the next team."
So Monday, after Harriger finished going through it with Young, Andy Dalton, and Hendon Hooker, that was it.
"We literally watch the tape, then the tape's over, we start watching the next team we're playing," Dalton described. "And to be honest, there was a shift in mood once we went from one to the next.
"You can see people start to let go of the last week, the disappointment of the day before, to move on to the next week."
There's no official signal, no gavel they hit to declare one week finished, but they kind of know. And they have to be willing to let it go, though it takes years to develop that particular muscle.
"I mean, it works both ways, right?" Dalton said. "Even when you win, you've still got to do that. And when you lose, usually the night after the game, it's hard to sleep. Then you get to the next day, you watch it, and then I feel like it's just onto the next one."

When Dalton talks about moving onto the next game, it sounds so easy, so matter-of-fact. But he's also 37 years old and has played in 175 of them, winning more than he's lost. So he's had years to master this, and it takes time.
Young is still relatively new at this and has had to learn how to dissect more losses than he ever experienced in high school or college, and it's a different skill.
"I mean that's the nature of the sport," he said. "Whatever level, whatever it is, you've got to play again next week, good, bad, or indifferent. Whatever it is, you don't go into the next game. Winning or losing, nothing you do carries over, so you get a lot of practice throughout playing sports."
Young's disposition lends itself to it.
Veteran right tackle Taylor Moton is a student of stoicism, and said in his conversations with Young, he's realized that the 24-year-old understands the need and the method of moving on that he refers to as "One snap, clear."

"Just that mantra, just taking it one day at a time," Moton said. "It's big in the stoicism, so I read up on it, I don't know if he does, but yeah, he exemplifies that. He's great at that. Just one snap, clear, right? I think that's huge across the board, whatever position you're in. It's not always going to be perfect, but like if you have a bad play, go on to the next one, bad game going on to the next one. Whatever it is, you can't turn a bad play into a bad drive, a bad drive into a bad game, right? You've got to learn how to go on to the next one.
"I mean, shoot, I think that that carries on in life, right? Learning how to learn from your mistakes and go on and make sure that those mistakes won't happen again. Learn from them, but don't dwell on it because we're on the field, you really don't have time to."
Moton said he has learned how to find clues on the big screen during games, to notice his hand placement on blocks. But to see Young process big-picture challenges in real time has impressed him.
"So I understand the importance of, just had a bad play, let's learn from real quick, OK, onto the next one," Moton said. "He's always been a very mature guy, and I feel like he's someone who just continues to grow in the right direction on a daily basis. It's been great to see all the strides he's made over the years. I think he's a tremendous player. Especially at the quarterback position, it's very important to have that 'one snap, clear' mentality."
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