FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- The word of the day among New England Patriots players is "urgency."

"There is a sense of urgency and there needs to be," special teams captain Matthew Slater said as the Patriots returned to work two days after their 41-14 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. "We're in a fight and it's going to be a fight the rest of the season, as it is every year. We can't just assume that we're going to be the Patriots, show up, and have success. It doesn't work that way. Every one of us needs to heighten our sense of urgency, every one of us needs to heighten our attention to detail in order for us to have the results we want to have."

Slater later added, "I feel confident we're a resilient group and will be able to bounce back. Time will tell. It's easy to sit here and talk about it, but hopefully we go out and do something about it."

The process started Wednesday as players went through meetings and began preparations for Sunday night's home game against the Cincinnati Bengals.

"Our response starts now in how we prepare, how we get ready," said left tackle Nate Solder, who added that the urgency among players is "extremely high, as high as it can get."

Players also expressed confidence that the players in the locker room are capable of turning things around.

"I think we'll be ready," safety Devin McCourty said. "We have enough of the same guys that were here last year … I think guys are going to see this as a chance to fight, and get better and claw our way out of a situation where most people have turned their backs and saying ‘we're not good.' Now it's about playing for each other."

Added Slater, "I know everybody is ready to hit the panic button, but there's a lot of football to be played. I'm very excited and interested to see how we're going to respond. I truly believe that we'll respond with a lot of mental toughness and competitiveness. We have a lot of competitive guys on this team. No one backs down from a challenge. We're in an unfamiliar spot and we have to do something about it."