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To be fair, that has to do more with Rachaad White than Canales. White is a great pass catching RB but not a great runner. Tampa’s yards per attempt actually went up this year. 2022 - 3.4 yards per attempt 2023 - 3.6 yards per attempt

Brad Idzik spent four years as an offensive assistant at Stanford, three of those years were actually with McCaffrey. Oddly enough, this past year Canales used Rachaad White in a similar fashion to the way McCaffrey was used by us (and the 49ers). Only McCaffrey and Breece Hall had more receiving yards from the running back position than White and only McCaffrey, Hall, and Kamara had more receptions than White. Have to wonder if the Panthers will target a pass catching RB in the draft (Bucky Irving, Will Shipley, Blake Watson, etc.) or in free agency (Antonio Gibson) as that seems to be a part of Canales’ game plan.

I think he was referring to himself not getting into a fight at the game lol.

Martinook, Marty, and Martin walk into a hockey rink is the start of a good joke.

Good initial save, would like to see Jarvis beat his man to the net there.

But then I watch Noesen out there and remember that Donny Wads has him out there playing for less than $1M. For all the poo he gets about not being active on deadline day, he’s made some good moves.

Tough to say but I’d lead toward drafting. Svechnikov, Drury, Kochetkov, and Jarvis are NHL’ers. Nikishin, Ponomarev, Blake, Morrow, FUS, and Nadeau all look promising. The only disappointment is Suzuki and injuries killed his career before it even got started.

And Waddell took over for Francis/JR. Though I believe Necas was a Francis pick. In reality the best picks during that tenure didn’t even have their best years in Carolina (Lindholm and Hanifin). Waddell has done a lot of good for this franchise.

Recently but a lot of Rutherford’s picks were flat out luck (Aho, Slavin, Pesce, etc.) We missed on a ton first round talent during JR’s tenure to select guys like Jake Bean, Julien Gauthier, Haydn Fleury, Ryan Murphy, Philippe Paradis, and Zach Boychuk. Success occurred once we started nailing first round picks like Svechnikov, Necas, and Jarvis.

McAvoy is a piece of poo but he’s a piece of poo who should be on our team, can’t believe we chose Jake Bean over him.

Trading Rozier is going to end up being great for Miller, more opportunity for him at the two guard spot and more shots overall. He’s got 23 points, 7 rebounds, 3 assists, and 1 block midway through the fourth. Ball, Miller, Bridges, Washington, Williams, Smith Jr., McGowens, and Richards are all 26 and under and adding a top 7 pick to that group will create a nice rotation next year.

Those that trashed the Brandon Miller pick need to eat crow, the kid is a stud.

Spencer Martin, you’re up. Martin has actually played Boston three times this year already, going 1-2 while allowing a total of 9 goals.

Bunts

Retread coaches aren’t the issue, it’s what those retread coaches do and do not provide. Harbaugh has shown that he can develop or at the very least tailor an offense to his QB. I mean the guy took Colin Kaepernick to the Super Bowl and won a national championship with J.J. McCarthy. That’s a little different from Vrabel, who at the very most you can argue got Tannehill’s best years out of him but certainly didn’t develop him. Two different retread coach’s in my opinion. Regardless, the Panthers would essentially be hoping that Vrabel can develop a QB and they’d be doing so without any real solid data or evidence that he can. At least with Canales, though it’s a small sample size, he has a proven track record of developing a QB in a short period of time. Say what you will about him but he was present for both Geno Smith’s and Baker Mayfield’s career years.

Decent coach, wrong situation. Put him on the Chargers and it probably works out, put him on the Panthers and it probably ends the same way as it did for him in Tennessee. I also want nothing to do with Arthur Smith and it’s likely that he reunites with Vrabel. Would prefer Canales out of the realistic options, assuming Johnson and Slowik aren’t realistic.

On an expiring deal that is up at the end of the season. Rozier has two more years left on his deal after this one and will only decline in the next two years.

Hayward and Lowry will both be traded; Hayward might even fetch a first as well. People need to take a look around. Only perennial all-stars are bringing back hauls in trades. Rozier is a good player that has a cap hit of $24M next year and $26M the year after that, that’s all he is, a highly paid, good player. He’s not a Siakam level player. Additionally, there’s only so many teams that would even be interested in Rozier and they are all contenders. Hell, there’s only so many teams that could even fit Rozier’s cap hit in. Kicking the pick down the road might even beneficial because the Heat are going to be solid for the next couple of years. Acquiring more veterans on bloated contracts for guys like Rozier and Hayward would just be shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic. My only complaint is that we didn’t land Jovic in the deal but it could have been a scenario where we chose a future first round pick over Jovic and a second round pick.

It’s a 2027 protected first and unprotected in 2028. So in reality it’s only three years out and realistically we won’t even be competing for the playoffs until 2026 with a proper rebuild. At that point we could have an extra first round pick in 2027 or a trade asset. I get people want a quick fix but trying to fix this thing quickly by acquiring guys like Gorodon Hayward is the reason we are in this position to begin with.

I really like this trade. The Hornets need to get salary off the books and acquire draft capital and they did both. There’s a few on here that keep mentioning things like, “no one will sign here” or “no one wants to come to Charlotte”… I’d argue that the point of opening up cap space isn’t for now, it’s for the future. There’s only one guy that I’d target in this years free agency and that’s Maxey, and he’ll likely return to Philly. Beyond that the Hornets should continue to focus on rebuilding through the draft and then acquiring the missing piece via a trade, similar to teams like Minnesota, Cleveland, and Milwaukee. The Hornets offloaded a good player on a large contract and took no money back (Lowry is expiring) while also getting a future first round pick. This team is still two years away from realistically competing for the playoffs but hypothetically we could have a young corp of LaMelo Ball, Ja’Kobe Walter (draft), Brandon Miller, and Mark Williams. Assuming we just sign guys to one or two year deals that will continue to allow us to have cap flexibility in the future and then when this team is ready to compete we’ll also have trade assets (like the 2027 first round pick that we acquired). I think this deal is a win for the Hornets if they truly are content with doing a rebuild. Not having a big veteran contract on the books for the future is massive.

Rookie HC Rookie OC Rookie QB Not sure if that’s ever been done before.

It could be worse, y’all remember when Jack LaFontaine played a game, David Ayers was even better than him.

LMAO, Rod is as confused as the rest of us.

Teravainen

Not a whole lot to like in Martin’s stats other than a six game run with Vancouver in 2021. He has a career record of 17-26-6 (OTL). In the 48 games that Martin has played, only five times has he held the opposing team to just one goal; he has never recorded a shutout.