BYE Week poll: Do you think Morgan and Canales are headed in the right direction?

[PadresPanthersFan]

Considering the hand they were dealt they've done decent. Record is atrocious as is the d. The o needs work. 

But the young guns are almost all contributing,  no future was mortgaged, it seems they actually have a plan. Give them another full offseason but so far I like what I see. 

[MechaZain]

Hard to say when this season hinges on the QB and he's been so underwhelming. 

I'm not sure how long of a leash Bryce is on so it's hard to tell whether the stuff I hate about the playcalling is on him or Canales. It still seems like they're trying to force him into the scheme instead of designing it around what he can do but that might be to evaluate him. So Canales is like Reich but with a much better run game, which in turns opens up the playbook a lot more.

Morgan I'm calling a wash so far.  The ground game improvement and the draft are enough for me to forgive his missteps.

[Gapanthersfan]

For a first time GM being dealt 2 7 offsuit and having Tepper as an owner? In one offseason he has solved (hopefully) our o line disaster and made games at least watchable. Draft and offseason brought in some very promising young talent. 3 promising rookie pass catchers??! He got something for mingo. Mike Jackson for peanuts. He has avoided an OMG WHY?!! Type of move. He signed our homegrown RB, and actually got him to stay, for reasonable coin. 

Overall positive moves. He’ll have a chance to hire his own DC in the offseason and hopefully convince Tepp to go back to a 4-3. 

So positions in most need: 

QB, D line, LB. That’s not too shabby. If we get a solid DC, go heavy in the draft on drafting DLine and roll with a bridge veteran QB, this team could be surprisingly competitive. 

It seems so far that he has an eye for talent. T would never of signed off on Harbaugh or Payton, so we got Canales. I can’t put that on him. 

Being a former player, he understands intimately, locker room culture. Players universally respect him. He knows problem children. Signing Chuba showed that we retain ‘our’ type of guys. 

I think he has done an admirable job, all things considered. We knew it would be a bad year, but telling me in the offseason that we’d be set on the offense except for QB? I’d still be laughing. 

[Jon Snow]

Too soon.

[csx]

Too early. Signs are mixed. 

This years draft ok

[d-dave]

I think that things are going about as expected.  The Draft Class is looking pretty decent.  The FA class has been a mixed bag, but might get better the back portion of the season.

Dave Canales has been a rookie HC with limited play calling experience.  I'm not a fan of him playing "best chance of winning QB."  You've got to ride Young through the season and trade him in the off season unless he suddenly learns to be an aggressive QB.  Canales will start off really well running the ball, but he abandons it too early too often.  He tries to get cute instead of doing what works.  Those are things that will improve with time.  When he was hired, someone said he was a year too early.  I thought that seemed pretty accurate.

For me, I think the Panthers need to stay the course.  Let people make mistakes, learn from them and improve.  We've been too kneejerk since Tepper bought the team which has led us to being one of the biggest laughing stocks in the NFL.  As the kids say, give them time to cook.

[countryboi]

Dan is doing a fine job, however, I'm not sold on Canales. I think he needs to give up play-calling duties, but I also realize that this wasn't an easy fix.

[Navy_football]

They seem to have a plan. That's all you can ask for. Strong convictions but also willing to make adjustments when necessary. And they aren't married to any player. Regardless of salary or draft position.

[ImfromClayton]

I am very pleasantly surprised. I said this in another thread, but the bottom of the league is absolutely terrible this year. I'm not sure how much I value some of these wins, but, at least they aren't losses. 

Our organization has been so nonfunctional, I'm not sure you can really evaluate either of these two. Dan Morgan has done some things I love. Canales has done some things I love. We are nowhere near league average though. So tough to say. I don't find either to be fireable right now. The measuring stick is the w/l record, and that appears to be improving from last year, for whatever that's worth. Going into this season I thought we were a bottom three team in the league, and then Derrick Brown got hurt, making us even worse. I think we have overshot my very low expectations. 

But we are not even playing the same sport as the best teams in the NFL right now.