Should Dave Canalas be on the HOT seat??

[frankw]

2 hours ago, Khyber53 said:

Sheesh. 

If Bryce had won the Super Bowl, y'all woulda been like "He didn't win by enough. He missed that pass in the third quarter."

fug it.

We went to the playoffs, no matter how we got there and played a helluva game where we came up just a bit short of advancing. It's been a long time since we even made it to the post season for anything.

But hey, keep punching yourself in the nuts because you think that's what you need to do. 

We all watched as our #1 pick couldn't complete a single pass in 4 downs with the game on the line after a guy pushing 40 walked down the field and kept all 3 timeouts in his pocket.

The bar for some folks here is just having a QB that exists I guess.

[Joe Bear]

Interesting how some people lay blame at the foot of the quarterback after the defense blew the lead the offense provided them, and for a wide-open dropped pass on the last drive that was acknowledged as a drop by non PFF-employed, non Tepper-employed FOX analysts and former players.

The whole team, at every position, could have played better. But singling out one to place all the blame looks pretty ridiculous. Perhaps we'll next get a "swept by the Saints" comment to complete the set.

Edited February 24 by Joe Bear

[frankw]

6 minutes ago, Joe Bear said:

Interesting how some people lay blame at the foot of the quarterback after the defense blew the lead the offense provided them, and for a wide-open dropped pass on the last drive that was acknowledged as a drop by non PFF-employed, non Tepper-employed FOX analysts and former players.

The whole team, at every position, could have played better. But singling out one to place all the blame looks pretty ridiculous. Perhaps we'll next get a "swept by the Saints" comment to complete the set.

Please enlighten why it's a good thing that our now 4th year QB got swept and outplayed by a rookie 2nd round pick bud.

[strato]

25 minutes ago, Joe Bear said:

Interesting how some people lay blame at the foot of the quarterback after the defense blew the lead the offense provided them, and for a wide-open dropped pass on the last drive that was acknowledged as a drop by non PFF-employed, non Tepper-employed FOX analysts and former players.

The whole team, at every position, could have played better. But singling out one to place all the blame looks pretty ridiculous. Perhaps we'll next get a "swept by the Saints" comment to complete the set.

We were swept by the Saints! 

[strato]

19 minutes ago, frankw said:

Please enlighten why it's a good thing that our now 4th year QB got swept and outplayed by a rookie 2nd round pick bud.

It is really disheartening to see people take their QBs the last couple of years and have them do so much better than we have with ours.  
And a second rounder, in his second game, beats us on our field? And looks really good doing it. Then comes back and beats us a second time in a must win game for us. 
 That was major salt in the wound. 

[Joe Bear]

21 minutes ago, frankw said:

Please enlighten why it's a good thing that our now 4th year QB got swept and outplayed by a rookie 2nd round pick bud.

Never said it was, friend. But it's a team game. Remember QB wins not being a real stat?

[Joe Bear]

4 minutes ago, strato said:

We were swept by the Saints! 

And they finished last! Who finished first?

[strato]

7 minutes ago, Joe Bear said:

And they finished last! Who finished first?

Exactly, we couldn’t beat a sorry last place team even once, with the division as the prize. 
 

I will give Bryce the Wild Card game but we went 1-3 and were only rescued by a very improbable tie breaker.  If Atlanta had not got to 8-9 TB had the tie breaker on us too. 
 

That is obscured for a lot of people by the technicality of winning the division and a good effort in the Wild Card game.  Personally I don’t think overlooking it helps people see an accurate picture of what the future might hold. IOW it wasn’t the flex a lot of people think it was.  

[Joe Bear]

Just now, strato said:

Exactly, we couldn’t beat a sorry last place team even once, with the division as the prize. 
 

I will give Bryce the Wild Card game but we went 1-3 and were only rescued by a very improbable tie breaker.  If Atlanta had not got to 8-9 TB had the tie breaker on us too. 
 

That is obscured for a lot of people by the technicality of winning the division and a good effort in the Wild Card game.  Personally I don’t think overlooking it helps people see an accurate picture of what the future might hold. IOW it wasn’t the flex a lot of people think it was.  

Here's the thing; the Panthers were the better team against TB. The officiating in that game was historically awful toward only one team. If the Panthers win that game, though, the Saints-Falcons tilt means nothing and it gets fewer eyeballs. Also, if the Panthers win that game, I'm gonna predict "Yeah 9-8, nothing to be proud of" would be the motto around here.

There's plenty of negativity. Poking holes in a playoff season, something that comes once per decade or so around here, seems to be an unhealthy exercise.

[strato]

8 minutes ago, Joe Bear said:

Here's the thing; the Panthers were the better team against TB. The officiating in that game was historically awful toward only one team. If the Panthers win that game, though, the Saints-Falcons tilt means nothing and it gets fewer eyeballs. Also, if the Panthers win that game, I'm gonna predict "Yeah 9-8, nothing to be proud of" would be the motto around here.

There's plenty of negativity. Poking holes in a playoff season, something that comes once per decade or so around here, seems to be an unhealthy exercise.

That’s a stretch. A winning record and not backing into the playoffs ranks much higher than what our outcome actually was. At least for me. And I am pretty sure I am one of those people you are referring to. 
 

The holes were poked by the team’s shortcomings, no one here had a hand in that.  Noticing them, is just seeing things for what they are.  
 

I didn’t expect us to be in the playoffs or even sniff them last year. We over achieved just to do that but also we showed what we were not, down the stretch. 
 

Us doing so well against the Rams’ defense two times and so poorly against other teams told me Seattle was going to beat them in the playoffs. They had obvious weaknesses.  Speaking of, glad we could finally exploit someone’s weaknesses in the passing game. Those two Rams games were really entertaining games, both the win and the loss.  
 

Watch what the Rams do in the offseason, bet they will address it.  
 

 

 

[RumHam]

On 2/12/2026 at 4:49 PM, Jackson113.2 said:

"It ended on a relative high, but is that sustainable? It better be, considering [Dave] Canales enters Year 3 working for an impulsive owner. There’s not much room to slide backwards from an 8-9 season and 13-21 overall record. It doesn’t help that his primary job has been the development of quarterback Bryce Young, and the progress there has been inconsistent. Canales was supposed to turn the former top pick into a franchise quarterback. If that doesn’t happen by next January, the Panthers could be looking for both a new coach and quarterback."

Ralph Vacchiano

https://catcrave.com/dave-canales-just-got-saddled-with-dubious-take-panthers-fans-will-shred?fbclid=IwdGRzaAP7KdRjbGNrA_spzWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHkJgz3K18Jjarul1xOGWwqi_Olc6gUM1gUm90pB_BCM7YI4ifkLzMVkwueT2_aem_D7hVeUNDAOosS8ZVQB-aSQ

Thoughts?

No. He will definitely leave here and win elsewhere. He's gotta learn how to be a coach and mix that with his knowledge.