Should Dave Canalas be on the HOT seat??

[Donald LaFell]

10 hours ago, tukafan21 said:

Anything below .500 next year and we should be replacing both HC and QB

The team is still in a tough spot. I think a competent GM/HC could do everything right and still only get 7-9 games next year. Hopefully we’ll get better after moving on but the Bryce trade and Bryce himself are still limiting the team.

[Panthering]

Not really to be honest as frustrating as he can be sometimes. Big picture he's not on the hot seat unless 2026 is a disaster. 

[scratched]

Anything under .500 should definitely be grounds for firing. 10 wins should be enough to get the monkey off his back.. Problem is, I don't think we have the right QB to win 10 games. I think this will be DC's last year in Carolina and BY loses his job after this year. 

[LinvilleGorge]

Going into the season? No. But it's easy to see how that could change quickly during the season. All I'm gonna say is he better improve that QB room. If Bryce reverts back to "pre-improved" Bryce Canales might not be here in '27. If I was him I'd want a legitimate fallback plan.

[strato]

1 hour ago, Donald LaFell said:

The team is still in a tough spot. I think a competent GM/HC could do everything right and still only get 7-9 games next year. Hopefully we’ll get better after moving on but the Bryce trade and Bryce himself are still limiting the team.

I am kind of there.
 Without knowing what FA or the draft look like, just looking at what is there now? Hard to see where the two more wins are coming from. 
The Icky injury is a major setback. We are worse than the team that went 8-9 right now. 
Ask me in May, maybe I give a more optimistic take. 

[parker]

I don't think he is on the hot seat.  I think he has one more year to improve, unless next season is absolutely horrible.  

[OneBadCat]

No absolutely not. This was essentially a 10-7 team. Refs rigged the last Tampa and Saints game.

[ProcessBlue2]

He’s in a weird spot because I don’t think 8 wins gets you in the playoffs 2 years in a row. So he has to improve or he’s going to back track and depending how much he back tracks, he could be fired. 
 

0-4 wins- likely fired before season over

4-7 wins- depends what happened, injuries, etc

7-9 wins -probably okay depending on how season ended. Losing a ton in November/December might get him fired.

10+ wins- no worries

[Joe Bear]

4 minutes ago, OneBadCat said:

No absolutely not. This was essentially a 10-7 team. Refs rigged the last Tampa and Saints game.

I'll say 9-8. Week 18 game was rigged as all hell so the next day could get more eyeballs. Penalties wiped out Panthers points, penalties gifted Bucs points. I don't even consider the record 8-9 because it's so illegitimate. 

[Joe Bear]

Just now, ProcessBlue2 said:

He’s in a weird spot because I don’t think 8 wins gets you in the playoffs 2 years in a row. So he has to improve or he’s going to back track and depending how much he back tracks, he could be fired. 
 

0-4 wins- likely fired before season over

4-7 wins- depends what happened, injuries, etc

7-9 wins -probably okay depending on how season ended. Losing a ton in November/December might get him fired.

10+ wins- no worries

Worth noting no coach under Tepper has ever had a 10-win season, so setting that as the expectation would be foolish (especially considering the first-place schedule, OL injuries, etc.). This year was the high point thus far in Tepper's tenure.

6-7 wins seems likely next year and if that's the case, probably hot seat for the following season, but not getting canned. Kind of depends on what Bryce does.

[Jackson113.2]

[strato]

40 minutes ago, Jackson113.2 said:

I am not thinking he has that in the best order. O’Connell should be in front of Canales, I think for sure. Maybe Lafleur, Packers underperformed a bit. Maybe Quinn. Redskins had a rough year. 
 

Schottenheimer? Don’t see it absent some sort of collapse.

Not sure there is a need to put ten names down, really. 
 

Re Canales, if it goes bad early, it is likely Bryce doing his annual ritual. Which is one of the big subplots we will be looking at next year. 

 

[SmokinwithWilly]

He should be, at minimum his OC seat. His offense and situational awareness are some of the worst I've ever seen from any coach and that includes Matt Rhule. He's slow to react, he's not creative at all, and defenses can feast on his predictability. 

I think the HC seat is warm but will get hot really quickly if this team doesn't step it up, and by a lot. We need more Dallas, Miami and Atlanta offense instead of Seattle, SF and Tampa (2). Hell we even barely squeaked by the Jets. He's got to be better or he's going to be gone. 

[Paa Langfart]

21 hours ago, t96 said:

should get a chance to handpick a QB before getting let go.

And then what?  3 more years to develop said qb ?