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Originally Posted by Megatron96
Buddy of mine is a lifelong TB fan and, on a sidenote, he's a coach for his kid's HS football team in Ft. Myers FL. So he knows a little more than the average fan about the game. He told me that Canales was okay last season, but not great. He got bogged down trying to establish the run early on, to the point local fans were calling him "run, run, pass Canales," during their losing streak.
According to my buddy, Baker bailed him out of some situations last year once Canales finally started asking Mayfield to throw the ball more and using the short passing game in place of a traditional running attack. So it was a collaboration more than Canales leading Baker to a career season.
Now, that's a long way from being a bad coach. Obviously, he's better than a whole slew of OCs right now.
But I won't be terribly surprised if CAR offense struggles through the first half of the year with that QB and offensive roster.
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With all due respect to your buddy, gotta break down more than his pass/run splits to determine if Canales is going to be able to develop Bryce Young. Baker obviously enjoyed his best season as a pro last year throwing for over 4000 yards for the first time in his career and was also able to minimize the turnovers which has hurt him in the past. Lets not forget that Canales also was largely credited in aiding Geno Smith's 2022 comeback to relevancy.
So there are two pretty good examples of players enjoying their best season under Canales' watch. He seems to be doing a better job than most getting more out of players than other coaching regimes have in the past. Nothing is a for sure thing but it will be interesting if he is able to extract more out of Bryce Young. Hell even from 2010-2017 Canales was the receivers coach with the Seahawks and I thought he got the most out of those players. (Baldwin, Tate, Lockett, etc).
I don't really question his prowess or mind but sometimes coordinators aren't ready for the HC role (Spags for example). I think his biggest challenge is that he is trying to develop a very important piece for Carolina but now is responsible for so much more of the overall team and identity.
Will be interesting how it plays out.