CHARLOTTE — There was only so much Bryce Young could say.

A pair of interceptions, which would have been three except for a Jacksonville penalty. A fumble when he was caught in the middle of trying to slide to get down. Miscommunication with center Austin Corbett on snaps.

Not a lot went right for the Panthers quarterback in Sunday's 26-10 loss to the Jaguars, and he wasn't going to try to suggest otherwise.

"Obviously can't turn the ball over like that," Young said. "Cost the team. I have to be better than that, but just better decision-making."

Young was far from alone in feeling that way, after a day in which very little went right, and they lost the third straight season opener he's participated in.

This one was more difficult because of what had preceded it, and the optimism they had generated with last year's surge and an offseason spent adding rather than subtracting on offense.

But Sunday, there were moments when they struggled to get the snap in.

Panthers head coach Dave Canales said they needed to "clean up" some things regarding the cadences, as the Jaguars changed some looks and they didn't adjust quickly enough. But the end result was about more than any one snap or play.

"Frustration, ... Frustration," Corbett replied when asked what he was feeling in those quiet moments afterward. "That's about it. We beat ourselves there. A lot of things in that game that are not winning football.

"Didn't protect the ball, didn't hold up in the run well enough, didn't hold up well in the pass, and we made it hard on the defense to be able to get stops, giving them some good field position. So, overall frustration."

And that was made more frustrating by their inability to do some of the things they normally count on.

As to the snaps, some of which appeared to crawl up on Young before he was ready to field them, Canales said it was a matter of making sure he and his quarterback were "on the same page."

"There's going to be looks that we know we can get up there and run fast," Corbett said. "There's going to be looks off the card that weren't on film and that we had to break down, and you just got to do that faster and just get everybody on the same page as fast as we can and get the ball snapped."

But that's a specific example on a day of general breakdowns. When Canales walked into his postgame press conference, he also wasn't mincing words about what he saw.

"That's a picture of where we're at right now," he began. "Obviously not good enough. The turnovers, the explosive plays, I thought our tackling was not great, we let a couple of plays out that we had stopped essentially for nothing, and we let them get through to the second level.

"I think anytime you have four turnovers in a game, you give an offense with a bunch of weapons more opportunities, this is the outcome, this is what happens here. I'm proud of the guys for finishing. I'm proud of them for continuing to play, but they know as well as I know that's not good enough, but it was a good chance to just look at them in the eye and say, look, this is where we are at right now and we've got to look at the tape we have to grow from this we have to take care of the basic things that we've been working on and and just take a next step this week.

"But certainly disappointed in how we played today, especially with all the things that we emphasize."

If there was one moment that encapsulated the day, it was their first drive of the second half.

After taking the kickoff and driving to the Jaguars' red zone, their drive stalled inside the 10, with two straight Chuba Hubbard runs failing to gain much.

Faced with a fourth-and-1 from the 5, they went to an empty backfield, and Young looked and looked before chunking the ball out of bounds toward the corner of the end zone. As he walked back to the sideline, Canales patted him on the head, they said a few words, and Young continued to the bench and slammed his helmet down.

"Just the competitive nature," Young explained. "We all probably could do a better job. I definitely could do a better job with body language there. It's on me, but just competing, that's all. It was just something that was going on with, not executing, again, when you're not executing, it sucks, but I have to do a better job as a leader."

Still, placing this on one person would be a mistake, and they all know that.

"There are 11 guys that are frustrated out there today; whoever is out there is frustrated," Corbett said, summing up the day. "This is not what we were wanting Week 1, and we've got to make some changes."