//Panthers' late-game struggles show a team learning how to win

Panthers' late-game struggles show a team learning how to win

Still, doing that is a learned process. The Panthers are a young team with a new coaching staff. Now that they’re more than halfway through the 2020 season, those factors aren’t necessarily as significant. But Rhule does believe that teams need to learn how to win, and those lessons come in three stages.

“You’re not going to win very many games, or even stick in very many games, when you have 12 penalties,” Rhule said. “So we have to eliminate the things that cause you to lose — that’s penalties, turnovers. We didn’t turn the ball over, so we gave ourselves a chance to win.”

It’s then about realizing that even though games may come down to the wire, there are plays in every quarter that determine the ultimate outcomes.

“There’s so many things you can point back to and say, well if