rayzor

best in the league last year under pressure. that's baker mayfield...best in the league under pressure. that's a bit of one. also he had one game at Lambeau field where he had a perfect rating. no big deal? he was the first ever to do that. baker mayfield...first ever to have a perfect game at Lambeau field. the parts where he was at his scariest, he became more than competent. he became good. buy it or not. i don't care, but there's plenty for others to see where canales has helped immensely with both baker and geno. not excited? fine. hate it? fine. constipated? fine. am i delusional? maybe, but that's fine as well.

this. he's worked miracles with geno and baker. if canales can't get it done with bryce, it can't be done. after that, the QB whisperer gets his choice of QB.

tabor needs to go.

all we have to go on as far as interpretation during the tepper area is him micromanaging. this isn't an uncommon practice within the league, but it is usually without the level of micromanaging that has gone on here. it could be that there will be a scaled back level of accountability, but with tepper... we need to see it first before we believe there's any sense of learned/acquired moderation in his management style.

Make him assistant head coach, give him a fat raise, and give the league an even bigger reason to want him as a HC. Let him have complete control over the D and make it clear that it's his. This is the best path forward for him if he doesn't get a HC gig this time around.

And stay out of the way.

I think this is a better hire than Vrabel or Belichik would have been for them. He's a good coach who a lot of players want to abd will play for. I wasn't worried about them getting Belichik cause I think he's done. Vrabel would have been a Reich style hire. It caught me off guard. I don't consider him a retread because it's been over 10 years since he was one and he was really young when it happened. I wanted Canales more,but my 2nd and 3rd options were (not in order) Evero and Morris. Again I probably don't know what I'm talking about, but I think this makes them more of a long term threat in the NFCS.

Keep the D staff. Rebuild the Offense and Special teams.

i kept hearing buc fans saying they should fire Bowles and hire Canales. they know the difference he can make on a team.

some progressive minds border on complicated and really isn't a good fit for a lot of real situations. it's a lot of theory and academic, but in reality it doesn't really fit. you have to get the situation to fit the idea (square peg in round hole). Canales seems to be someone who looks at the situation as is and then thinks outside the box and tries to see what he can do to improve it. him coming from a personal trainer background i think can also play a role in his ability to motivate players. the biggest part of a trainers job is to get people motivated to push themselves to achieve great results. people may balk at the lack of play calling experience, but being a play caller isn't necessarily a requirement for being a good coach. but even at that, what he did for a first time play caller was pretty damn good considering who had throwing the ball. and again, his ability to help out the QB...the most important position on the team...i think has been incredible, especially considering where QBs he's worked with before, during, and after he's worked with them. With him they saw great improvements. both Wilson and Geno saw a drop in performance after working with him and we'll likely see a drop in Baker's production next year. interviews you hear from him and comments made about him, you realize that he looks closely at what players can and can't do and he'll scheme around it and develop them and get them to excel where ever they are. it's a gamble to be sure, but every coaching hire and draft pick is a gamble too. odds aren't exactly in our favor, but i'm hoping that we did something right for once.

i think on his part it was leverage with the falcons. if he wants that job and they want him for that job, but aren't willing to commit...boarding a plane to come to carolina might have been an effort to get the falcons to jump. on our end it would have been to just check another option against the guy that we were leaning towards and see who instilled the greatest amount of confidence in what they could do. and/or see if there was any chemistry there.

tbh, he's probably the best choice we could have made to help BY out (or whoever we get at QB if BY doesn't do well next year). for a team that has no identity anymore, canales seems like a guy who can really help people develop that identity. i think/HOPE that he's the right guy for the job.

leverage with the falcons?

yes. x link = fail

as i pondered these guys the last couple weeks, he was the one i wanted most. i feel good about it, but i also felt good about reich and rhule so what the hell do i know?

only thing we can do... sit back, get comfortable, and watch

I think it was obvious there was no point trying to because there is nothing desirable here for him compared to any other job. He was never interested in us. Even Tepper saw through that BS.

We were also one of 32 teams the last two cycles. Can't say we got good coaches either time.

My gut is telling me... Quinn (or Morris) to Seattle Vrabel to ATL Ben Johnson to Was And Canales here.

Vrabel won't come here. Seattle is a much more likely destination...or even ATL. Much better situations for him.

He was never really interested in being here. Why would he? All we were useful for was a negotiation tool with Michigan.

Those two or Evero over Vrabel. I want someone who hasn't been fired in the last year from the same job we're hiring him for. I think he's tougher than Reich, but I'd rather just go a different direction.

if you have an organization where the ownership backs everything you do and is giving you nothing but support and what you need to get the job done...fine. what we have, though, is an owner that has a deserved reputation of hovering and micromanaging and midseason. the biggest obstacle you'll have is the guy that hired you.