Overreaction Monday has yielded to Acceptance Tuesday and Turn-the-corner Thursday at New Orleans Saints camp as the team prepares for Sunday's game against the Carolina Panthers.

And yet around the Who Dat Nation, the fallout from the demoralizing 40-32 defeat to the Washington Redskins still lingers, like storm debris on our city's curbs.

By all accounts, the setback was one of the most shocking in recent memory, not so much for what happened but how it happened. The Saints were almost unrecognizable in their lack of discipline and sense of urgency, anything but the irresistible force we've come to expect at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.

The Saints were penalized 12 times for 109 yards. That's happened exactly one other time in the Payton-Brees era, and not since 2008.

They committed three turnovers. That has hasn't happened at the Superdome since 2010.

And Drew Brees completed less than 50 percent of his passes. The last and only times that's happened in the Payton-Brees era was 2006.

Fluke? Perhaps.

Coincidence? Maybe.

Or is it a sign of things to come?

The Saints knew they faced a big challenge without Coach Sean Payton on the sideline and in the game plan meetings this season. They now know it might be even tougher than they expected.

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Life without Sean Payton is tougher than New Orleans Saints expected