“It’s a new season, but it does hurt,” Daboll said. “You got a good camp, felt good about coming into this game against a really good football team, and it does hurt. We got to pick up, move on, learn from it and obviously not good enough.”
It’s a mistake to overreact to Week 1 results in the notoriously fickle NFL, but it’s hard not to feel like Sunday was more of a continuation of last season than a fresh start.