"I just feel like this a wake-up call," Young said. "Something that you just got to learn from. I definitely think it's something that we needed, but I don't look at as a bad thing. I just look at it that it is motivation. It is something I'm glad that it happened. We need this."
"I don't think we came in as high as we should have,"
"I think we didn't do the things that we quite need to do. Too many people thought of this game as one of those games where you can just kind of jump out of your gaps, do what you have to do. That's not what it is. ... It doesn't matter if you're going up against the Panthers, the Eagles, the top team, the worst team. It doesn't matter. You've got to be better than that."
The Los Angeles Rams fell 31-28 to the Carolina Panthers, dropping to 9-3 and relinquishing the No. 1 seed in the NFC. Chicago now occupies the top spot at 9-3 by virtue of a better conference record. Players called the defeat humbling and framed it as a necessary wake-up call and source of motivation. The Rams entered the game as 9½-point favorites, and ESPN Research labeled the outcome the second-largest upset of the NFL season. Quarterback Matthew Stafford committed three turnovers. Coach Sean McVay maintained that standings do not matter until the regular season concludes.
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