J Person article on Canales and game plan and Rico

[raleigh-panther]

i find this to be alarming on so many levels 

im going to change the order of the portions i copied from Joe’s article

i  really have serious doubts   about Canales’ common sense 

1. A running team forgetting to run 

2. Making this game plan about Young’s passing game momentum .  Total idiot.  It is about winning games not about young’s momentum. That is what practice is for , not live games 

god help us all. 
 

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Confused by the Panthers’ pass-heavy play calls vs. 49ers? Rico Dowdle probably was, too

 

CHARLOTTE, N.C. —

In two seasons here, Canales has juggled offensive play calling with his head coach responsibilities. Sometimes the balls end up on the floor.

In two critical moments Monday night, Canales chose to go with a pass in situations where a handoff would have been the more direct approach. The first was the disastrous, first-and-goal play from the 1 where Bryce Young opted against running in for the score and instead lobbed the ball toward rookie Mitchell Evans, only to see safety Ji’Ayir Brown come down with it.

The second one was just as perplexing. When the 49ers were whistled for roughing long snapper J.J. Jansen on Ryan Fitzgerald’s successful PAT pulled the Panthers to 17-10, Canales took the point off the board and went for a 2-pointer from the 1.

But Canales ran a play that didn’t take advantage of the spot, with Young missing Jalen Coker in the back of the end zone. (Rookie wideout Jimmy Horn Jr. appeared to be the first read in the flat.)

Canales said after the game he wanted to build on Young’s record-breaking passing performance in Atlanta, and thought the line was protecting well. But that lack of rhythm Canales mentioned was the result of never giving Dowdle the opportunity to get into it.

When Dowdle ripped off a 17-yard gain on the first offensive play of the second half, Canales came back to him two plays later. It was his final carry.

 

After an overnight, cross-country flight, Rico Dowdle began his Tuesday — at least on social media — with an emoji.

Dowdle’s post on Xcontained no words accompanying the face with spiral eyes emoji, which EmojiTerra tells us symbolizes “confusion, dizziness, overwhelm or being utterly shocked.” Per the website, it’s often used to convey “feeling dazed, hypnotized, or caught off-guard in troubling or surprising situations.”

It’s not hard to figure out why the Carolina Panthers running back would be feeling some or all of those emotions.

Dowdle has been one of the Panthers’ fun, feel-good stories this season, an Asheville native who signed a prove-it deal with his home-state team and then got right to the business of proving it.

Before the Panthers hosted the Dallas Cowboys in Week 6, Dowdle warned his former team to “buckle up,” then backed up his words by running for 183 yards and racking up 239 yards from scrimmage.

But in a 20-9 loss to the San Francisco 49ers on Monday night, it was Dowdle who was buckled up. And the guy who strapped Dowdle into a safety harness and threw on the child-safety locks was none other than Panthers coach Dave Canales.

Dowdle led all backs Monday — including Christian McCaffrey — by averaging 6.3 yards per carry. But while 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan was feeding McCaffrey a cornucopia of 24 carries and 31 touches, Dowdle finished with a meager six rushing attempts. That matched his season low from a loss at Arizona in Week 2, when Chuba Hubbard was still RB1 and the Panthers were throwing nearly every down in the second half trying to catch up.

Dowdle wasn’t the only back Canales dissed. Hubbard had just three carries and the Panthers finished with 13 as a team, tied for the fifth fewest in franchise history. Some of it was about opportunity, or lack of it.

With the 49ers’ two touchdown drives consuming more than 16 minutes, the Panthers ran just 43 offensive plays, which matched their low under Canales and tied for the second fewest in team history. But Canales, who arrived in Charlotte last year preaching the balanced offense gospel, conceded Tuesday that he didn’t emphasize the running plays on his call sheet nearly enough.

“Offensively, just could not get our rhythm going. And really it just started off with the run game. I have to make sure that that comes alive,” he said during an opening statement to reporters. “That’s a part of who we are. It’s a part of what we believe in. We have two great backs that contribute to this team. The offensive line was blocking well and that was a missed opportunity by me. And I’ll do better in that regard.”
 

 

 

 

Edited 16 minutes ago by raleigh-panther
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[kungfoodude]

Canales outsmarts himself on a very consisent basis. In some ways, he is one of the most ill suited to be head coach of the Tepper tenure.

[LinvilleGorge]

Well, we built on that momentum alright. LOL

Trying to prop up a QB with a game plan instead of trying to do your best to win a game with the tools you have at your disposal is what you do with a rookie early on in his career on a bad team. It's not what you do with a 3rd year #1 overall pick when you're shockingly sitting at 6-5 and playing for the division lead.

I mean, I get the temptation. I really do. You see all these stacked boxes and you know there's opportunities in the passing game but your opponent is constantly stacking the box for a reason. They WANT to take away the run and force you to throw. Taking away the run from yourself via play calling is just giving them what they want. Yeah, the box is stacked. fug it. Force them to key on the run anyway. We have to use the run to setup the pass. You can't be a pass first offense with Bryce Young at QB.

[strato]

It was not the first time. But it all runs together. I can’t remember if it was him or the year before Frank whee saying during the week they were gonna have to get someone involved more and the game comes and it never happens. 
 

Seems to me you make them prove they can stop your run game before you just go to throwing the ball. 
OTOH I understand setting up the run with the pass as well but throw those backs out there and see what SF can do.  

[csx]

Canales is a fraud

[kungfoodude]

1 minute ago, csx said:

Canales is a fraud

For all the Bryce apologists, the Canales apologists are almost worse.