When it comes to third downs, it was that kind of a day for the Carolina defense in a home loss that dropped its record to 1-5.
Horn admitted third down is beginning to get into the heads of the Panthers' defensive players. "That's money down,'' he said. "It's win or lose games. It's a lot of momentum on those downs. We've just got to be better."
The Panthers have to get better at a lot of things defensively. They rank near the bottom of the league in most key categories, and the Falcons took advantage of them at Bank of America Stadium.
The Carolina defense entered the game allowing the NFL's fourth-highest third-down conversion rate (47.4%) and did nothing to change that Sunday by allowing the NFC-South leading Falcons to convert 50% (6-of-12) of their third downs.
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