Coach Bates talks about the Panthers season

[Icege]

Assistant special teams coach Darren Bates returned to his podcast, Raw Room, and spent ~15min early in the episode reviewing the Panthers' season. Panthers' portion starts at the timestamp.

For folks that have problems with XL's accent (or accents in general), put on closed captions because DB's Memphis accent is probably going to beat the dog poo out of you.

[Mills]

Didn’t know “Dirty” Dan Chisena was that fast. (18:00 mark)

[ChuckWag78]

Love DB! Always loved seeing him pop up on the sidelines scream this season. 

[Icege]

1 hour ago, Mills said:

Didn’t know “Dirty” Dan Chisena was that fast. (18:00 mark)

Yea, I was NOT expecting that.

Found the plays DB talked about where Dirty Dan burned the opposing DBs...

[Jon Snow]

DMSU!

[Icege]

https://www.panthers.com/news/two-coaches-participating-in-all-star-games-daren-bates-jim-caldwell

Looks like they're sending Coach DB to find some DAWGS

[Basbear]

3 hours ago, ChuckWag78 said:

Love DB! Always loved seeing him pop up on the sidelines scream this season. 

me-

[TheSpecialJuan]

1 hour ago, Jon Snow said:

DMSU!

SDSU

[blueandblackattack]

10 hours ago, Icege said:

Assistant special teams coach Darren Bates returned to his podcast, Raw Room, and spent ~15min early in the episode reviewing the Panthers' season. Panthers' portion starts at the timestamp.

For folks that have problems with XL's accent (or accents in general), put on closed captions because DB's Memphis accent is probably going to beat the dog poo out of you.

Love coach Bates, I actually watched RR before he was a coach for us too. Love his energy, and you see him on the sideline every game chirping guys up. He's got that dawg energy!

[PanthersGTI]

This team did not quit. That tells me everything I need to know about Canales. We got our guy at HC and QB, lets get it! 

 

[PootieNunu]

On 1/18/2025 at 9:30 AM, PanthersGTI said:

This team did not quit. That tells me everything I need to know about Canales. We got our guy at HC and QB, lets get it! 

 

Even if Bryce isnt "the guy" he is playing well enough now to be at least a placeholder until we are ready to compete. 

Lets see him put a full season of good ball together before claiming him to be the guy.  

[PanthersGTI]

On 1/19/2025 at 11:38 PM, PootieNunu said:

Even if Bryce isnt "the guy" he is playing well enough now to be at least a placeholder until we are ready to compete. 

Lets see him put a full season of good ball together before claiming him to be the guy.  

Nah, IMO he is the guy. He just needed to get his mental right and he did. Not worried, that boy ballin. 

[PootieNunu]

33 minutes ago, PanthersGTI said:

Nah, IMO he is the guy. He just needed to get his mental right and he did. Not worried, that boy ballin. 

Thats fine he played well enough to get another season, I hope he keeps it up because that is better for us. 

[blueandblackattack]

On 1/18/2025 at 6:30 AM, PanthersGTI said:

This team did not quit. That tells me everything I need to know about Canales. We got our guy at HC and QB, lets get it! 

 

Agreed, and I think that really comes with alignment of vision for the team too. It's been spoken ad nausium, but when we tried last year to blank check the best coaches available at their position, regardless of their relationship or fit philosophy-wise with Reich, and it was a train wreck. Not defending Reich, but I bet if he got to pick his coaches, it might have worked out better cuz you can't keep changing things mid-season and expect the team to be on board, especially with all the infighting and rats in the room sneaking off to Tepper. One voice, one vision where everyone is on the same page, even when we were down 1-7, they never gave up, and kept pounding the drum of Canales vision, and they eventually turned to page.

Here's hoping we keep this momentum into next season, I'm feeling glass half-full on it.