Canales in his press conferences

[Gapanthersfan]

18 hours ago, strato said:

To all y’all I can read the room and understand my opinion wouldn’t be popular. I have had them before. It is what it is. 

I don’t need you guys to rebut my opinion thinking I would be convinced by your opinions. 
I have had enough of that with my unpopular Bryce opinion - which was fuging 100% right btw. I wasn’t a flip to anti Bryce I was anti Bryce ore draft. Never changed my take. Not saying That’s not saying I won’t  change this one. 

Said at the beginning I expected missteps. You should expect them when you admittedly hire a guy before he is ready and need him to grow into the job. We are four games into the second season with a hopeless albatross around our necks playing QB.  I need to see more before I join the lynch mob. His beta voice and cheerleader stuff notwithstanding, because I don’t like that. It isn’t my idea of what grown men respond to. 

But he was brought here to try and salvage a train wreak of a draft pick at QB which I never thought could be done, I need to see him fail with a good piece of clay, before I flush him. He did a good job with Baker. He obviously has a huge pile of poo to contend with - that btw won’t get any smaller for the next Tepper lackey. It won’t be easy for whoever. I am gonna try and stay out of the Canales party moving forward. 

Well said.

My valid concern is this: Say DC does survive to see ‘his’ QB. how many viable brain cells will have survived the hell he will have gone through up to that point? Just think if he has 1 more year of Bryce forced on him. 

[strato]

8 minutes ago, Gapanthersfan said:

Well said.

My valid concern is this: Say DC does survive to see ‘his’ QB. how many viable brain cells will have survived the hell he will have gone through up to that point? Just think if he has 1 more year of Bryce forced on him. 

Thank you. If that happens, barring a miracle where Young magically acquires an ability to compete against pro defenses, I won’t be here and won’t care.

Personally, when I see Andy run the offense I feel like a weight has been lifted. It goes back to looking like pro football. 
I can’t help but think it would be liberating for Canales. or anyone. Bet we’d have seen Reich perk right up. 

[kungfoodude]

On 10/1/2025 at 9:53 PM, AggieLean said:

I feel for the man. This might have been a job too big for him. Fixing Bryce, and then getting this organization back right is a tall task.  I know he’s gotta be dealing with Tepper, and Tep looks like a man that comes down hard and has a sharp tongue. I know he dreads those one on ones. 
 

Probably on a PIP like us corporate folks go through, and if you’re on that, it’s only a matter of time before the hammer comes. Said he could do such and such, knowing he really couldn’t; like saying you were proficient at excel, knowing you weren’t really that good at it. Hope he doesn’t relapse 

The amount of people in the corporate world that you meet and want to directly ask, "How the fug did you get this job?" is staggering. 

[bythenbrs]

33 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

The amount of people in the corporate world that you meet and want to directly ask, "How the fug did you get this job?" is staggering. 

And Canales responds, “No one else would take the interview… “

[Shotgun]

36 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

The amount of people in the corporate world that you meet and want to directly ask, "How the fug did you get this job?" is staggering. 

Nepotism...that's how. 

[Gapanthersfan]

56 minutes ago, strato said:

Thank you. If that happens, barring a miracle where Young magically acquires an ability to compete against pro defenses, I won’t be here and won’t care.

Personally, when I see Andy run the offense I feel like a weight has been lifted. It goes back to looking like pro football. 
I can’t help but think it would be liberating for Canales. or anyone. Bet we’d have seen Reich perk right up. 

What I would now give to see a Darnold roll out 30 yard laser to Tet on a post route for 6.  

[strato]

6 minutes ago, Gapanthersfan said:

What I would now give to see a Darnold roll out 30 yard laser to Tet on a post route for 6.  

I think we were both Wilks advocates, and yeah. 
Except for the couple good games Andy played and the one standout Bryce game last year, it is the best the team has looked in years. 
I mean we’re we gonna be champs? No. Were the top teams a lot better than we were? Yep.

It was something to build on and we threw all of the things we had in front of us, cap space, draft picks, etc, and Sam is better than a Bryce will ever be, we threw it all away to chase a trend. Not to Set a trend but just to be in with the cool kids. 
And proved we had no idea what we were doing. 

[CRA]

4 minutes ago, strato said:

I think we were both Wilks advocates, and yeah. 
Except for the couple good games Andy played and the one standout Bryce game last year, it is the best the team has looked in years. 
I mean we’re we gonna be champs? No. Were the top teams a lot better than we were? Yep.

It was something to build on and we threw all of the things we had in front of us, cap space, draft picks, etc, and Sam is better than a Bryce will ever be, we threw it all away to chase a trend. Not to Set a trend but just to be in with the cool kids. 
And proved we had no idea what we were doing. 

we spent a decade basically wanting to get away from the brand of football that Fox/Rivera offered us......and now we would sell our right pinky toe to get back to that (which was Wilks)

if there was ever an example of the grass isn't always greener..... 

[strato]

5 minutes ago, CRA said:

we spent a decade basically wanting to get away from the brand of football that Fox/Rivera offered us......and now we would sell our right pinky toe to get back to that (which was Wilks)

if there was ever an example of the grass isn't always greener..... 

What people can’t seem to learn is, the pendulum always swings back the other way. What is old, becomes new and vice versa. 
I mean, wait long enough, bell bottom jeans come back. 

I like to zig when everyone else is zagging. That is how trends get started. Don‘t follow, do what you know you can do and do it better than everyone else. You will be fine. 

[LinvilleGorge]

2 minutes ago, strato said:

What people can’t seem to learn is, the pendulum always swings back the other way. What is old, becomes new and vice versa. 
I mean, wait long enough, bell bottom jeans come back. 

I like to zig when everyone else is zagging. That is how trends get started. Don‘t follow, do what you know you can do and do it better than everyone else. You will be fine. 

IMO the NFL has shown they'll keep tweaking the rules to benefit offense. They want high flying high scoring games because that style of football draws more casual viewers. That's not to say you can't still win with stingy defense and good enough offense but you have to realize that the NFL will be actively working against you from a rules standpoint.

[strato]

12 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

IMO the NFL has shown they'll keep tweaking the rules to benefit offense. They want high flying high scoring games because that style of football draws more casual viewers. That's not to say you can't still win with stingy defense and good enough offense but you have to realize that the NFL will be actively working against you from a rules standpoint.

I get it. But where is it written that a stout defensive team can’t have a great offense? 
And where is it written that a stout running game is worthless? 
 

It is still football. And the teams, you see the defenses got lighter to get faster, and then you see a pound it out attack can defeat that. 
And when you get down to the end of the year the best teams are led standing and generally the defense has a say in the outcome. The running game has a say. If you don’t have that your high flying offense might get grounded. That has it changed that much. 
I don’t know how to formulate thoughts into the propers all the time but I’ll punt that above and say it this way:

In a way, our experience reflects the saying “perfect is the enemy of good”. 
We went for perfect and became horrible when good was in our grasp. What would you rather watch? 
 

 

Edited 49 minutes ago by strato

[LinvilleGorge]

16 minutes ago, strato said:

I get it. But where is it written that a stout defensive team can’t have a great offense? 
And where is it written that a stout running game is worthless? 
 

It is still football. And the teams, you see the defenses got lighter to get faster, and then you see a pound it out attack can defeat that. 
And when you get down to the end of the year the best teams are led standing and generally the defense has a say in the outcome. The running game has a say. If you don’t have that your high flying offense might get grounded. That has it changed that much. 
I don’t know how to formulate thoughts into the propers all the time but I’ll punt that above and say it this way:

In a way, our experience reflects the saying “perfect is the enemy of good”. 
We went for perfect and became horrible when good was in our grasp. What would you rather watch? 
 

 

I mean, sure. Assembling a roster of All-Pros sounds like a good idea. It's just tough to do.

[raleigh-panther]

50 minutes ago, CRA said:

we spent a decade basically wanting to get away from the brand of football that Fox/Rivera offered us......and now we would sell our right pinky toe to get back to that (which was Wilks)

if there was ever an example of the grass isn't always greener..... 

true

what is also true, there was absolutely no plan that was developed  and executed, for  the personnel needed to 

1. Go from run first, to offensive juggernaut 

or

2  go from a 4 3 with some 3 4 variants to largely 3 4

and that continues  to this day 

tepper, heavily involved in those decisions, thought  he could flip a switch and  hire a middling college coach amd viola,  it will be done 

and still it continues, ‘if i hire a QB whisperer, i can fix my historically small, slender framed,  qb and make him Drew Brees ‘

and here we are 

im throwing in the towel on these guys  

‘cant fix a bad design’   They will never be even a top 15 team the top of the team operates 

the happiest people right now  shaq  eddie p, cmc, dj moore, burns, baker, darnold et al

they escaped tepper 

 

Edited 24 minutes ago by raleigh-panther