rayzor

I like the guy. I think he's got the potential to be great here. I still need to see it, but I think he can pull it off. The more I hear and read about him and from him, the better I feel about him. I'm not going to start saying the p word, but I feel like we're going to see an improvement. At this rate abd after last year I'd be content with getting back to 5 wins as long as we see this team get better.

I was initially on board with this idea, but then I started thinking that unless it's Pete Carroll on speed dial for advice, I don't want it for Canales. Unless there's someone he already has a solid relationship with, I don't want it for him. Last year we got input from too many places. I don't want that for Canales. I don't want him to have some old guy telling him to tap the brakes unless Canales is just a weak minded and/or stubborn individual who can't figure poo out on his own (which was the case with Rivera). I don't want some old guy hanging around saying "you know in my day this is how we did it" as if that was the way it should be done. Figure poo out as the HC. Get stuff right on your own. Get stuff wrong on your own. And when you get stuff wrong, own it and use it as a learning experience. If they can't get it figured out without a crutch from an old guy then they probably won't have the job for long anyways. Have a mentor already in place on speed dial, but don't go around asking for one to be yours that you don't already have a relationship with. If Morgan feels there should be one, then let him find the right guy for Canales. I just don't think that this is needed.

Then we wait 2 years and take advantage of other options until then. Hopefully we won't need to do that.

Other than a cheap vet FA or a very late round flyer or UDFA, no more QBs this year. No trades. No attempt at a top shelf FA. No day 1 or 2 draft picks. Intention should absolutely be to see if we can get something (performance-wise) out of this pick that we fuggin paid so much for with a new coaching staff. Then next year see what, if anything, can be done to get another one. But we are at the beginning of a several year process to make us really competitive. We roll with who we've got this year and focus coaching on Bryce and building up the parts around him.

I would like to see a hire on offense that was an older guy, but he's 42 (not incredibly young) and he's been coaching at the pro level for 13 years (came with Carroll to Seattle from USC in 2010). I'd say that's a good bit of experience... especially the majority of it being under the tutelage of Pete Carroll.

just a reminder

no. not him. please. he scares me. do not hire him.

good special teams coach. but from the way it's sounding a toxic presence in the organization. at the heart of most of the hunger games drama. give him the boot (if tepper will let you) and find someone else who isn't stirring and spreading poo all over.

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?