Canales' O - Year 2

[t96]

1 hour ago, Car123 said:

26th ranked offense in 2013.

18th in PPG. And we had an all time elite D that year to go with great ST too. Shula held Cam back a ton except for 2015. 

[t96]

30 minutes ago, CRA said:

Did you stop with a one stat cherry pick  because if you went further you saw a 2013 rushing team under a defensive head coach that on offense also was….

12th - scoring %

7th - TO% 

9th - 3rd down % 

7th - redzone % 

And it auto killled your narrative?? It almost seems like you were trying to suggest the 12-4 team was basically similar lol 

Yeah that offense was LEGIT at ball control and sustaining drives. 

[PanthersATL]

16 minutes ago, strato said:

Just remembering what people thought of our schedule the second half of the season, and I believe ‘brutal’ was the consensus. 

Looks like our 2026 schedule is ranked #10 out of 32 on strength of schedule. 

It's what we get for winning the division.

[toldozer]

Biggest stat

Wins with Bryce young as QB 8

Losses with Bryce young as QB 8

.500 football with a guy that cannot stretch the field or see the middle of it.

Coach of the year if you ask me

[cranky]

The Panthers win the NFC South, and for the first time in 10 years, get to host a playoff game this weekend and there's 3 pages of post trashing Canales and the offense. Crazy.

 

[mrcompletely11]

Just now, cranky said:

The Panthers win the NFC South, and for the first time in 10 years, get to host a playoff game this weekend and there's 3 pages of post trashing Canales and the offense. Crazy.

 

just the facts ma'am

27th ranked O (yardage)

27th- points 

27th - yards per offensive play

27th - scoring %

29th - TO% 

25th - 3rd down %

24th - redzone %

26th - EPA/play

[strato]

26 minutes ago, CRA said:

I think despite being a suspect playcaller…..he gets a solid grade for his big picture management of how to make the most out of what we have.  He has figured out the general managment of how to deploy things to find a close game 

Honestly, he has balls for being so radically conservative. No one wants to watch us run into a wall 2 times, dump off short of the sticks on 3rd, punt and play defense, but… he is minimizing the damage Bryce can do and keeping us in games longer than we reasonably would hang with a more opened up offense. 
 

He seems to understand the bottom line of Bryce. He only leans on him when there is no other option, or we are in an advantageous position to where something can possibly be exploited. 
It has worked a couple of times and we came away with a win no one expected. 
 

Even that flea flicker people went nuts over because it was in the red zone… I started thinking. We are pretty much in a red zone offense anywhere on the field 20 yards is a deep ball, etc. 

That is like most plays, if they execute it it can be a good play and if they don’t it is a shitty play. Okay it failed. But I would like to have seen what it looked like with decent execution. 

Edited Monday at 11:36 PM by strato

[UnluckyforSome]

2 minutes ago, cranky said:

The Panthers win the NFC South, and for the first time in 10 years, get to host a playoff game this weekend and there's 3 pages of post trashing Canales and the offense. Crazy.

 

You're free to start a praise thread, hallelujah!

[electro's horse]

Cranky how is your data visualization career going 

[CRA]

7 minutes ago, cranky said:

The Panthers win the NFC South, and for the first time in 10 years, get to host a playoff game this weekend and there's 3 pages of post trashing Canales and the offense. Crazy.

 

Canales isn’t being trashed in this thread.  There are compliments and critiques.   

where we stand at the conclusion of year 2 is just elementary and normal football talk…and  a we now have finalized season to take it in. 

it’s also relevant as we look to the postseason.  It’s the whole look at yourself in the mirror and think of how are you going to try to find a close game.  It’s going to take an ugly game.  We got to make it ugly. 

[Carolina Cajun]

TOP is the stat to look at.  We run a sloooowww plodding offense.  Its not good, but better than the stats indicate, we went from 31rst to 19th.  Just like the best years under rivera, SLOOOWWW plodding offense giving fewer opportunities to the oppenent was the saving grace. why do you think we went for it on 4th so much.

[strato]

20 minutes ago, PanthersATL said:

Looks like our 2026 schedule is ranked #10 out of 32 on strength of schedule. 

It's what we get for winning the division.

Kind of like a credit card. Instant gratification now, pay later.  And you Will pay. 
 

[cranky]

9 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

just the facts ma'am

27th ranked O (yardage)

27th- points 

27th - yards per offensive play

27th - scoring %

29th - TO% 

25th - 3rd down %

24th - redzone %

26th - EPA/play

I am not argueing about the facts. They are all correct and there will be plenty of time to bitch about them after the season is over. I just assumed people would want to enjoy the week regardless of how they got there. 

[UnluckyforSome]

2 minutes ago, Carolina Cajun said:

TOP is the stat to look at.  We run a sloooowww plodding offense.  Its not good, but better than the stats indicate, we went from 31rst to 19th.  Just like the best years under rivera, SLOOOWWW plodding offense giving fewer opportunities to the oppenent was the saving grace. why do you think we went for it on 4th so much.

Young is a master of the 2 yard pickup so it just becomes a natural skill for him. It's his mutant superpower to pass the ball for 2-3 yards. Uncanny!