What will likely happen with this team moving forward….

[Cpt slay a ho]

Like a previous poster said we are 7-2 in one score games, that’s not going to be the case next year, look at the chiefs last year and this year 

we only dominated one team, and that was the falcons, every other win was a sweat fest til the end, that is not a recipe for success, it’s setting this team up for a huge let down next year 

Evero and the o line coach are the only two units I saw make actually improvements, besides that, this team is just another run of the mill inconsistent team, I just don’t see what competitive advantage Canales gives this team in any category you’d expect from a HC, let alone an offensive minded one 

Edited January 4 by Cpt slay a ho

[jbland]

2 hours ago, WarPanthers89 said:

No matter how we all feel about the performance and direction of this team moving forward, David Tepper likely gives all three one more season to prove we can get over the hump. You may not like it, but Dan got to choose his own coach and will be tied to him.

Bryce, Dave, and Dan are likely all going to be tied to next seasons success, and they know it. Three years is more than enough to turn a team around. Expect them all to be gone if we are not in the playoffs next season, and Bryce Young will be under a lot more pressure and could be benched again if things are going like they have this season offensively. 

David Tepper signed Dave C. to a 6 year deal and will want to show the rest of the league he can be patient and give a coach time for someone to build a proper team….3 years is enough time to do that. 

I really don’t mind DC or Dan but we have to (try to) upgrade the QB position. As I’ve been saying since last season we need to sign a veteran with upside, draft a QB - let him compete with BY and whomever we sign. I don’t think we need to draft a first round QB unless someone just falls into our laps but we have to start looking past whom we currently have. 
 

BY ain’t him. 

[mrcompletely11]

Just now, jbland said:

I really don’t mind DC or Dan but we have to (try to) upgrade the QB position. As I’ve been saying since last season we need to sign a veteran with upside, draft a QB - let him compete with BY and whomever we sign. I don’t think we need to draft a first round QB unless someone just falls into our laps but we have to start looking past whom we currently have. 
 

BY ain’t him. 

jury is out on dan but fug Dave man, he aint it, a fuging flea ficker from their 20?   Man I have never seen that before to my knowledge.  

[OldhamA]

2 hours ago, TheBigKat said:

https://x.com/gabemcdonald_/status/2007612883019186524?s=46
 

he’s either extremely pissed off or he has to take a massive poo

 

 either way BIG MONEY ain’t happy

I'm amazed he's not on Ozempic. 

[hepcat]

6 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

jury is out on dan but fug Dave man, he aint it, a fuging flea ficker from their 20?   Man I have never seen that before to my knowledge.  

I think Dan hit a home run with the 2025 draft class. McMillian and Scourton are going to be on this team for a long time. Ryan Fitzgerald has been money. To me he bought himself into the next coaching regime if Canales is fired after a disappointing 2026 season. 

[OldhamA]

1 hour ago, Hoenheim said:

Everything will be riding on the 2026 sesson

If they revert back to winning 2 to 6 ish games next year I think it all gets blown up and start over at QB and HC.

We won too many games this year for any significant changes to happen, besides maybe losing Evero and Idzik, DC and OC, and getting new coaches there. Maybe firing and replacing some position group coaches. 

Roster will be very similar.  Rico will be replaced by Jonathon Brooks imo, XL might be traded. Might get a big name free agent pass rusher and or MLB. But in general the team will look very similar players wise. 

And getting a more capable backup qb not named Andy Dalton. There's some fairly intriguing project QBs in the draft they might take a stab at as well, since Bryce has been so inconsistent this year.

Do we not have a Draft and Free Agency between now and next season?

We need another Draft of the same quality as the 2025 Draft and another solid Free Agency.

Bringing in help in the Front 7 and a new starting QB will put us over the hump. 

[jbland]

6 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

jury is out on dan but fug Dave man, he aint it, a fuging flea ficker from their 20?   Man I have never seen that before to my knowledge.  

That was dumb as poo but I’m hoping Dave takes the same arc Ron did. People were calling for his head his first couple years until he grew into riverboat. Im hoping for one more year with the current staff in place. If they disappoint next year fire them all. 

[mrcompletely11]

2 minutes ago, hepcat said:

I think Dan hit a home run with the 2025 draft class. McMillian and Scourton are going to be on this team for a long time. Ryan Fitzgerald has been money. To me he bought himself into the next coaching regime if Canales is fired after a disappointing 2026 season. 

sure I like what hes done this year but you cant waste an entire draft like last year, so its pretty neutral for me until we see 1 maybe 2 more drafts

[mrcompletely11]

2 minutes ago, OldhamA said:

Do we not have a Draft and Free Agency between now and next season?

We need another Draft of the same quality as the 2025 Draft and another solid Free Agency.

Bringing in help in the Front 7 and a new starting QB will put us over the hump. 

yeah but we lose rico, probably some folks on oline/backup and we have to pay icky so I doubt we are as active in FA.  Need a good draft, a new play caller and folks to keep developing

[OldhamA]

1 minute ago, hepcat said:

I think Dan hit a home run with the 2025 draft class. McMillian and Scourton are going to be on this team for a long time. Ryan Fitzgerald has been money. To me he bought himself into the next coaching regime if Canales is fired after a disappointing 2026 season. 

Yeah, that Draft was great (by Panthers standards).

On top of the two mentioned I think Evans is going to be around for a while. Horn, Etienne, Thornton, Ransom and Umanmielen have flashed and even Jackson has made plays of late.  

We need to start stacking those types of classes. It's the Hurney Drafts, where your 1st rounder is a stud and everyone else is cut within 3 years, that kill you. 

 

[hepcat]

2 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

sure I like what hes done this year but you cant waste an entire draft like last year, so its pretty neutral for me until we see 1 maybe 2 more drafts

Yea the 2024 draft was bad, I agree. Top two draft picks are non-contributors. The Brooks pick was truly terrible. But they definitely rented Dowdle for a season waiting for Brooks to come back, who was a good back when healthy. It remains to be seen if that pans out. Brooks has had two offseasons out of football, he might not be ready to come back until 2027 truly. I think they should have been giving Etienne more touches late in the season but oh well. 

[OldhamA]

3 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

yeah but we lose rico, probably some folks on oline/backup and we have to pay icky so I doubt we are as active in FA.  Need a good draft, a new play caller and folks to keep developing

Dowdle isn't a loss - had a stellar couple of weeks, but reverted to type afterwards. 

We don't have to be super active in FA - we should be plugging holes. I just hope we can compete financially for the likes of Lance or Willis. 

[t96]

Canales got stuck with Bryce I don’t think he’s going anywhere until he has a chance with his own hand picked QB. Hopefully that isn’t delayed past next year but seems likely it will be sadly

[Khyber53]

1 hour ago, kungfoodude said:

He can absolutely win a playoff game. That's about what the overall playoff ceiling is, winning one game. That's it.

But for us, that's a major improvement. Whether we like it or not, right now we have a young QB that hasn't really proved he can be a major force in the league, just given us some very tantalizing scraps here and there. The kid has moxy, but sometimes gets caught up in small ball rather than taking over the game. And that won't get us very far, until it does, somehow, like it has this season.

The biggest, most contentious and maddening thing is that you look at Bryce, then look at how Darnold and Mayfield, heck, even Mac Jones did after getting out of cesspool coaching situations and then wound up spending a season with San Francisco or the Rams and suddenly they become world beaters after spending some time with a good HC, QB coach, OC and a top end QB ahead of them. 

Now, if we could make a swap trade to San Fran for Mac Jones (who looks a thousand miles better than he did with the Pats and Jags) for a season, sending Bryce there for a tune up, we might do well. But we'd need a HC and play caller (two different positions) to make it work. Otherwise we'd be tuning up a car and then giving it to our grandma to drive.

Never heard of two teams doing that, but considering it will be a while before we have the NFCWest as opponents again...