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Originally Posted by Shoes
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.
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Oh he went way deep into it, including breaking down gamelogs, play-calls, in-game decisions. I just was never going to type all of that out.
Again, not saying Canales is a bad OC. To be clearer, I think he did a heck of a job. But further analysis seems to suggest that he wasn't the QB guru/offensive genius that some are making him out to be after last season's success. In other words, he got a little lucky as well.
I do think he'll get Bryce to perform better. I just also won't be surprised if that doesn't happen until after some struggles, because he's going to be working with less at key positions, like QB.