Seahawks 37, Panthers 27
Q. Your initial reaction? What went wrong?
ANDY DALTON: I think at the end of the day we hurt ourselves. There were too many penalties, too many little things that set us back and made it harder for us to have the success that we wanted to.
There are things we'll go back and look at and say that we did things really well. There are a lot of explosive plays out there, but we can't continue to hurt ourselves because we're not giving ourselves a chance.
Q. There's so much made about the noise. Frank Reich, when he was here, mentioned all the prep that went into the week, but how did that compare to the reality of what the team faced and how much of an impact penalties had?
ANDY DALTON: Yeah, the noise and just the operation and everything, you can't have that many false starts and expect to have success. Like I said, we hurt ourselves. We've got to find a way to fix it, and it's up to everybody on the offense to get this thing done.
Q. A career high in passing attempts today. What on the field transpired, do you think, to kind of cause that, and are you surprised by hearing me say that? Did you kind of know it was getting up there?
ANDY DALTON: I knew I threw the ball a lot. I didn't know it was a career high. Someone told me in the locker room.
But it's hard to play when you are one-dimensional, and I feel like that's what we did today. You know, we really couldn't get the run game going. I think part of the stuff, too, is some of these penalties and different things that set you back, and now you feel like you have to throw the ball.
So there are some things that I'm going to look back and things that I wish I could have done a little better in the pass game; but like I said, when you are one-dimensional, it makes it tough.
Q. When you have three straight losses, how do you keep yourself from trending downward emotionally?
ANDY DALTON: I think at the end of the day you put your head down, you look and see what you can do to get it fixed. You've got to look in the mirror, see how you played, and be honest with yourself.
This is a long season, you know. There's a lot of really good teams that have lost three in a row. Ours just happens to be these first three.
I mean, for us the whole goal is to get things fixed, get things right, and to play our best football, and we have not played our best football yet.
Q. Coming into today if somebody told you you would have thrown 58 times, what would have been your response?
ANDY DALTON: I wouldn't have thought I would throw it 58, but I just think as the game went on and just kind of how things went -- I mean, especially when you get into the end of the game, obviously you're going to be throwing the ball almost every down trying to crawl your way back in it.
So, I mean, I think that that kind of inflates the number there too, but we have to find a way to be balanced. We have to find a way to run the ball better than we did. We didn't run it good enough toted.
Q. Andy, Frank Reich said in here a minute ago that the quarterback has to be able to change the play. He said that some of these false starts were when you were rightfully changing the play. Can you sort of describe the process and maybe a little bit of what went wrong there on your end?
ANDY DALTON: Again, when you have to use the silent cadence, there's an operation to it. Even when mixing up snap counts and different things, we have to make sure that we're locked into exactly what we're doing.
So I think as a whole we'll take a look at it. I mean, we'll definitely get that fixed because we can't have that, can't have that happen again the way it did.
Q. Teams have struggled I guess before, but Frank said he still thinks you will be a good team. What have you seen these first three weeks that makes you to believe?
ANDY DALTON: We battle to the end. That's one thing that we've shown. Even last week when we scored a touchdown and kicked an onside kick and weren't able to get it, but we keep fighting. There's no quit in this team.
That's one thing that you can't coach. It's the mentality of just this group. We've got to find a way to get it fixed, though. I mean, there's too many good players, too many good coaches, too many good people that are part of this organization to not get it fixed.
Q. Have you ever been a part of the game with eight false starts? What was it like when that was happening?
ANDY DALTON: Yeah, it was tough. Again, you keep setting yourself back. You make it hard to keep drives going and hard to convert. You get yourself in longer situations, and third and long is tough.
Like I said, we have to find a way to get it fixed.
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