Gapanthersfan

2003 playoff Rams. 

I knew they’d beat the Eagles after that performance but to take down the greatest show on turf in their house? 

19 minutes ago, ImfromClayton said:

I'm not even sure this is a debate. He's turned himself into one of the top LT's in football. Can't let him walk this early. His first 3 years, I thought he was a bust, so kudos to him for growing mentally, and physically. I'd call him a cornerstone of the franchise at this point. I anticipate having to take a RT replacement in a draft pretty soon. 

I’m a reformed Ickey knocker. He is a legit franchise LT. He will demand, and receive whatever he wants from somebody. He is a road grader and has really upped his game in pass protection. The potential is there to be even better than prime Gross. There will be no discount and there will be gnashing of teeth when the numbers are published, but he knows his value. 

10 minutes ago, CRA said:

Panther football in 2025.....is basically the Panthers needing things that are often completely outside the norm/expectations to happen.  I still contend, this is the most illogical season I have watched.  Which makes it very entertaining (which is all I ask). 

I’ve said it in the past that this team has found brief runs of success this season off of a player or few that decides to turn God mode on for the day.

Yesterday Chuba looked like the stud many forgot he was last season. Mike Jack ball hawked a pick 6 to the house? WTF? Derrick m-fin Brown.  Does anyone remember the last time a Panthers lineman closed out a big game? That play was classic Jenkins. 

Coker is a stud (we are VERY fortunate to have him). Tet is a stud. Brown is a stud. Rico is a stud. Ickey is a stud. The O line continues to play much better than they rightfully should be. The depth players by and large have been refreshingly competent. 

If they would have just played Panthers brand football all season they would probably have 9 wins but it is what it is. I think Bryce is far more comfortable in the game manager role, which for now is ‘ok’… for now.

A team that can run the ball at will and has an opportunistic defense is a tough out for anybody, home or away. 

If they play Panthers football they can beat anybody, as we saw yesterday. The bye could not of come at a better time. Perfect time to get healthy.

This team beat the Rams to death yesterday. The Rams. They barely touched the ball in the 3rd quarter.  Nothing that I would call flukey. They made Stafford have a bad day. 

Healthy Chuba, Rico and o line will make for bad days for opponents. 

As long as Dave can finally acknowledge that Bryce is a game manager, we have a chance. 

It is not possible to run the ball too much with this team. 

1 hour ago, onmyown said:

Young is a Tepper mistake and no one will convince me otherwise.

No NFL coach comes in, sees what Bryce has done, a short QB hopping around under throwing the ball and says yep, I can make a future with this QB and statistically he will be the first in history to do it with his limitations.

Some people seem to believe this. Tepper is strapping the team to Bryce.

There are a few of us who can see the obvious truth. 

Criminal negligence that many coaches would be fired for. Rico/Hubbard would have greatly swung the chance of winning squarely in our favor and he still chose to ride with the injured noodle armed kid. This one hurt, bad. 

16 minutes ago, Panthers Fan 69 said:

This just fuging infuriates me.  This is why Dave sucks and we will lose Rico in the offseason. What a terrible coach.  The players see it. The fans see it. The media sees it. The announcers see it.  Only one they doesn’t is Canalas. fuging idiot. 

This one really pissed me off. Panthers SHOULD have won by 2 scores. Had they not pissed this and the Saints games away, they’re 8 and 4 and squarely in first place in the south. Sour grapes and all but this was BS. 

18 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

Half of the roster?

We don't even have half of the starters that would start on most NFL teams. 

I also bristle at the idea of a "bridge" coach. That's letting Tepper off easy when it was juat plainly a bad fuging hire.

Especially when you have guys like Ben Johnson and Shane Steichen that aren't struggling this way.

Half of the starters are legit good NFL talent.

Tet, Coker, Ickey, Hubbard, Rico, Moton, Hunt, Lewis, Brown, JC Horn, Moehrig. 

Definitely still lacking in places and no where what I would call a good roster, but it has trended in a positive direction. 

Bridge is the only consolation I can give myself to cope with this gross coaching negligence in every aspect. There are/were so many better options that weren’t welcome here (Harbaugh/Payton) or never were going to be a part of this ish show (Ben, Shane, etc).

I think the team circumstances are different than when Canales was hired. The roster was almost completely void of legit nfl talent AND nobody was going to want anything to do with Bryce. The season went exactly as it was supposed to. 

It’s different now. Half of the starters are actual legit good nfl players who would start on most other rosters. Good o line. Great RBs and stud WR1.  Rapidly improving defense. The team is a couple offseasons away and a journeyman QB away from being very competitive. Moreover, you can rack up a lot more wins in the NFC South than any other division in football so it’s an easier road to the playoffs. You’ve got to fade Tepper, but with the talent infusion, the job is a lot more attractive of HC candidates. 

At this point I see Canales as a bridge coach who has basically been nothing more than a placeholder to fall on his pocket knife for BY. There is no way on God’s green earth anyone in the locker room respects him after that BS on Monday night.

The only apprehension I have with wanting him gone is starting yet another coaching cycle change, but it is different this time around. 

20 minutes ago, electro's horse said:

Pretty obvious people on mint wanted Bryce to have a big performance on prime time. 

Exactly this. Either by mandate or his own doing, Canales’ job is not trying to win football games, it’s trying to make Bryce look competent, but the 2 are mutually exclusive. One is very doable, the other is completely impossible. 

I refuse to give him the out that he is just that dumb because nobody is that dumb. I also refuse to believe that Rico didn’t approach him on the sidelines to voice his frustrations, which if so, obviously didn’t get him anywhere. 

5 minutes ago, csx said:

Canales is a fraud

His play calling on Monday would get most coaches fired. Panthers could have won by 2 scores by just doing the obvious. It’s so perplexing that one has no choice but to consider nefarious intentions. He wants to be seen as a play calling savant and I honestly believe that he loathes running the ball successfully. 

I could see a situation where a player has made enough $ to be comfortable, gets a few concussions and begins to realize he’s growing more and more forgetful and that his personality has changed/worsening depression. It’s just not worth playing any more at that point, regardless of how badly they want to hoist a lombardy trophy one day… and you as a fan can’t be upset with that. 

35 minutes ago, RJK said:

1 game but something I want to say is this team lacks real leadership. From the way ashawn acted after the Buffalo game and now this, it’s embarrassing beyond just football. Canales clearly doesn’t have control of this team 

Agreed. 

20 minutes ago, 3838 said:

Last week you were an orthopedic expert... today a neurologist

He’s not wrong. It is a bleed until proven otherwise. When they mentioned that dude was puking… that’s worrisome 

42 minutes ago, electro's horse said:

Buddy I spent my first two years in neuro and have trauma experience and you posted a ChatGPT summary in my thread 

lol! I was thinking the same thing. 

Coker

I have zero faith in this staff to develop a QB via the draft. The team would be far better served with signing a mid tier FA QB who fits the typical mold of what a QB is supposed to be. 

7 hours ago, Dave Gettleman's Shorts said:

Prime Time Game and back home in Cali

Dave wanted to show the world how much of an offensive genius he think he is but failed miserably

This exactly. Throwing on first and 1 at the goal line told me EVERYTHING. No serious coach trying to win the game makes that call. Not even if it was Brady to megatron. He wanted to show the world how he was able to make BY a successful NFL qb. He made last night about himself. 

12 minutes ago, jb2288 said:

Says who? You? Being .500 this year is all I need to know about if Canales can coach or not 

This team is winning due to the massive talent infusion Dan and Co have been able to orchestrate in a very short period of time. 

Fox and Rivera had their faults, but never did their teams look this completely lost and unfocused this frequently. Where is the hurry up in the hurry up offense? Where is the cohesion? Clock management. This is the most basic of basic stuff.

Dude chased points tonight when there was zero to benefit. clueless. The winning strategy was to limit SF’s possessions. That’s it. Keep CMC and Kittle off the field. The defense gifted him 3 interceptions in the first HALF.   Dave instead goes full retard and tries to feature injured ankle Bryce’s patented air raid attack.

First and goal at the 1.  Chuba looks healthy. Rico is Rico. He calls a pass.

This is completely unforgivable malpractice and almost feels like he owed a bookie a lot of money. 

It’s easy to say BY is holding the team back, and he most certainly is, but Canales is the far bigger issue. This team will never beat the big dogs in the playoffs with that clown calling plays. 

Just now, jb2288 said:

“A few more games” has us 9-3 instead of 6-6 

Then 1 and done in the playoffs. Canales ain’t out coaching anybody. 

Rhetorical question: Does anybody see Canales being significantly more successful even with a better QB? I mean, they’ll win a few more games here and there, but he will never be able to out coach any of the better organizations. Shanny knew everything that was coming and how to play it. 

Moehrig should have saved that punch for Canales. 

So let’s see. Defense came ready to play and the offense looks completely lost, unprepared and thoroughly out coached. Sounds about right. 

I just don’t know. Canales has to go, but who does the team get that would be an upgrade? 

Losses like this are just sickening. Decimated defense still kept them in it. 3 picks and still get smoked. 

Shanny has to be laughing himself to death. Canales, you are way out of your league tonight. Shanny has known every play coming tonight.