TEMPE, Ariz. -- Sunday can’t come fast enough for Arizona Cardinals quarterback Carson Palmer.

The lingering aftertaste of a dismal season-opening performance in which he threw three interceptions, short-hopped receivers and made a series of bad decisions will have lasted six days by then. And while Palmer moved past the loss on the flight home from Detroit, coach Bruce Arians said earlier this week, Palmer needs to play to officially move on.

“Any time you lose, I always feel like that,” Palmer said. “Whether you’re sore, beat up or tired, or whatever the case is, you just can’t wait to play again.

“I’ve been feeling like that since Sunday night.”

Carson Palmer threw three interceptions in the Cardinals' season-opening loss to the Lions. Scott W. Grau/Icon Sportswire

Palmer’s resiliency has been one of his defining traits in his 15-year career. Arians, who has coached for the past 32 years and mentored the likes of Peyton Manning, Tim Couch, Ben Roethlisberger and Andrew Luck, said Palmer is the most resilient quarterback he’s ever been around. Especially during games.

But Arians didn’t see that side of Palmer -- the one that’s able to forget a bad play or bad pass and move on immediately -- in Detroit.

“That’s what surprised me about the other day,” Arians said. “Because he has been so resilient.

“He can put things behind him and move forward as good as anybody I’ve ever been around.”

It’s a characteristic that didn’t come naturally to Palmer.

He had to learn how to be resilient over time, how to block out the bad and temper the good, how to refocus, both in the short term and long term. It comes with the position, Palmer said. If he can’t move on from a bad pass or bad game, he’ll mentally linger on it, which leads to self-doubt and more bad passes and bad plays.

“You’ve got to bounce back,” Palmer said. “You’ve got to get back up whether it be from an injury or you get knocked out and you’ve got to come back, or a bad play or bad pass.

“You’ve got to rebound and come back up fighting.”

But Palmer doesn’t have to be nice about it.

Offensive coordinator Harold Goodwin has seen a “pissed off” Palmer this week, but in a good way. Palmer was fired up at practice Wednesday, his typical day off -- but Arians said he had scheduled Palmer to practice that day months ago -- which permeated throughout the rest of the offense.

“We all know that was a bad game,” Goodwin said.

Palmer’s teammates know to what expect from him this week. Whether they’ll see it is the question. He wasn’t his typical resilient self during the game, which could be a precursor to this week.

Or Palmer could revert back to his usual ways.

“He always bounces back,” wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald said. “When you play 15 years in this game, you have to be resilient.”