JACKSONVILLE, Fla.— Jaycee Horn knows it would be easy to spiral. He knows the last few years of Carolina Panthers football lend themselves to a particular reputation and expectations, high or otherwise. And he knows the vast majority of fans, the NFL world, and even those who have been in the Panthers locker room in recent years could look at the result of today's Week 1 season opening 26-10 loss to the Jaguars and write this off as yet another in a long line of disappointing performances.

"Just a bad day," said Horn following the game. "I feel like, as a defense, we started slow…Just starting faster, I feel like as a defense we would have been good if we did that."

But Jaycee Horn has also been in the NFL for going on five years now, and he knows what the ebbs and flows of a 17-game

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