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if only there was a way for him to just destress at the end of a long late night film review

If you're arguing for him to pick a defensive coordinator it's completely reasonable to ask where that coach might come from, especially since he doesn't even have roster control over half his team right now, and he would have known that when he agreed to the job. So either he was told "you don't get to pick the DC" and was fine with that, or he asked to keep Evero after that hideous year in 2023. In the NFL you build personal relationships and that's who you end up hiring. Dave has spent most of his career as a low level offensive staff member on two teams with older coaches who ran the whole defense on their own. Plus, no one in their right mind is going to take this coordinator job after Tepper refused to let Evero leave. But let me ask this a different way; what has DC done that makes you think he should be allowed to pick a defensive coordinator As far as his own operation, this is what he signed up for. I'm not very excited for the guy who agreed to only run half a team suddenly getting to run the rest of it, especially since he's spent most of his tenure fielding one of the worst units in the NFL

Panthers offensive line is probably better today that it was in 2011, unless you’ve got some wrong opinions about Byron bell you want to share. Thomas Davis played two games that year. Jon Beason played 1. Not much difference between the running backs if we’re being honest, probably a little better in 2011. You didn’t even name a defensive lineman, probably because Fua and McClain didn’t stand the test of time. Charles Johnson is who you could have named. Doesn’t matter because brown is the best player between both units. Less said about Greg hardy the better the biggest differences were cam, smith, and Olsen. And even with smith being the best WR, that 2011 team was also trotting out legadu nanee you called the 2011 team “infinitely” more talented and included two players that suited up in three games between them. Not sure you know what you’re talking about. and yeah, six wins (in a 17 game season no less) is probably a great height for DC.

None of it is explicitly stated but there are multiple moments during his story where I was like “excuse me what?” and then at one point Izzy recalls yelling in a fight and making some comment about how much Dave loves cigars with the guys but like it’s said in a way that would stop a dinner party like…..it’s cringey

I wrote a large thread about this when Canales was hired that was immediately locked.

He only wrote like 20% of it, and “writing” is a stretch. Almost all of it is Izzy’s and it reads like a screenplay treatment. Or like she’s describing what she imagined the story would like as a movie. Neither of them is writing great gatsby any time soon. The book was published by some scammy self financed author company so he had to put up the money himself for her to publish it. You get the sense this was a “sorry i cheated on you” gift. Izzy wants to become an evangelical motivational speaker and needs a book to be able to sell after her speeches. The big takeaways were… 1. There’s powerful “yeah I DID do this and only this and I am so sorry for doing this, the only thing I did” energy in the story. It’s clearly not all he did. 2. Izzy baby girl what is you doing 3. Dave is a colossal asshole (spending money at strip clubs while his wife can’t afford groceries) and in all of the parts he “wrote” he comes across as weird and full of himself. 4. something very clearly happened between Dave and someone on the staff from Seattle and it’s probably Brad Idzik. It is alluded to several times because the book wasn’t edited so there’s lots of different fragments of the same story.

Oh come on

These are heights Canales has not and won’t reach. infinitely more talented, eh? who are the equivalent players to Brown and Horn on the defensive side of the ball in 2010

Am I ever wrong

Damn pregame production teams have got their marching orders on Bryce.

I like to reverse the comparisons. could Bryce young survive in the mid 80s nfl? not career wise, like physically.

What exactly has scourton done exactly

Oh not at all. But that was definitely how he was presented and how he (at least partly) sold himself. you don’t just get to “hand it to the haters” and get to spend another first rounder.

DC was hired to fix Bryce young. He has failed at that. he has shown nothing that indicates he should be able to draft a qb or hire his own DC. Who would he even hire? Who do you think Canales can call up and convince to take this job? What personal relationship can he leverage? Is there another evangelical masturbation enthusiast he can holler at

Rams, chiefs, eagles, bengals, falcons and Dolphins all have qbs eating up a huge amount of the cap. The saints cap situation shouldn’t be compared to anything and requires like differential equations to figure out. it’s dishonest at best to compare them head to head. The panthers currently have what is supposed to be the best advantage in the NFL: a high first round qb on their rookie contract. The panthers have thrown huge money at two guards, reupped moton, have (somehow) spent real actual money on the center position, and were even gonna pay Thielen before his wife put her foot down. To put this another way, what is the defensive equivalent of signing hunt and Lewis? What is the offensive equivalent to letting Shaq, Jackson, Chinn, Luvu walk?

It’s not just the panthers FO/coaches. Look at people on this board, or almost any of the talking heads. everyone has their different reasons for staying on this sinking ship. Whatever you speculate as the reason at the top of the Panthers organization probably has some truth in it. when the owner picked the qb, and he picked a coach to train the qb, and everyone on the team knows you can’t criticize the qb, here we are.

The writer of this article is Jeff Howe, a patriots beat writer. he was probably just watching the game and was like “oh fug this dude sucks.”

I think he struggles finding the ball when he’s not tracking it in the air. I suspect this might be because he can’t see Bryce in the pocket just like Bryce can’t see any of them. I also think all the WR are hearing footsteps on crossing routes and I don’t blame them at all.

Lmao yeah wasn’t this the “tee hee a girl can make trades too” pick

Geno Smith was a 10 year veteran when he finally had his breakout season with Canales as his….qb coach and passing game coordinator. Not his offensive coordinator. There’s no shortage of veteran qbs who finally had success in a good situation. baker mayfield, former rookie of the year, looked fine after he had a conversation with Sean McVay. The Bucs offense was even better in 2024 with Canales. regardless of what are reasonable expectations for Bryce, the whole qb whisperer thing has been nonsense from the go.

or, and hear me out, maybe he's not in fact a QB whisperer

I bet they weren't.

oof But the 2025 reviews are not favorable, according to a coach, an executive and a scout who have studied Young’s performances this season. He has been downright “awful” at some points during the Panthers’ 1-3 start, according to one evaluator who was granted anonymity so he could speak openly about another team’s player. He’s looked uncomfortable in the pocket, struggled to see the field, lacked anticipation and failed to be consistently accurate. “I don’t think he’s the guy,” another evaluator said.

it's always the ones you don't expect five years from now we're going to be reading stunned reactions from Adam Thielen. "I just thought he liked to collect children's shoes. Yeah it was weird but everyone has hobbies, ya know?"

sources confirm many team mates were confused he spent most of the offseason after his rookie season watching youtube videos and shopping at Lidz.