Dave Canales speaks after Panthers 13- 6 win over the Jets | Carolina Panthers

Dave Canales speaks after Panthers 13- 6 win over the Jets | Carolina Panthers

All right. Uh, first and foremost, got to give a lot of credit to the Jets. Um, the way that they, you know, gave us great challenges in our run game to try to find, you know, positive yardage and, uh, you know, they were an aggressive group and, uh, the guys challenged us in every way you could think of, you know, in the pass game, uh, with the pressures in the run game, all those things. Um, so I got to just tip my hat to them. You know, we’re grinding out trying to find solutions and find yards. And, um, you know, Andy was able to come in there, get a critical third down for us. Xavier with a big day, just all the hard work paying off. Um, and then of course just can’t say enough about the defense coming away with, you know, six sacks, uh, a couple of interceptions there and just really playing excellent football all the way through the game. Okay. Update on the condition of Bryce. Yeah, Bryce, we’re evaluating him for the right ankle. Um, so we’re taking all the information and we’re going to look at him when we get home some more um, and see where we’re at. We’ll let you twisted it maybe at trying to avoid the sack. Yeah, on that long third down. Yeah, I was trying to get out of trouble there and got caught up a little bit. So, we’ll update you as soon as we have, you know, more information. Now, were you guys able to stick to whatever plan you had coming into the game with regards to how you used Chuba and Rico, or was it were there alterations that you guys had to make just based on what the defense was showing you? Yeah, it just came out like we thought, you know, we just switched some series and and let those guys go out there and play some football for us. And um you know, we were able to find some yards in different ways, some screens, some different things like that. And then, um, you know, as they were trying to, you know, make things difficult, you know, we we were able to get the ball on the edge a couple of times, um, with Rico in there. So, I just thought it was a good day of both guys running physically, uh, running aggressive and and it ended up paying off for us. Dave, you mentioned a couple of interceptions both by JC Horn. Even the timing of when they happened, how would you describe his impact? Yeah, just clutch play um doing right doing right longer and that’s that’s our definition of finish and putting himself in position to make those plays and um and really just his ability, his ball skills, you know, to be able to come up with those plays um was huge for us, you know, and gave us a chance to put it away two drives before the end. um really with the interception. Uh but the defense just showed up collectively, you know, um you know, Princeley another guy that just, you know, showed up for us today and, you know, got banged up a little bit and went back out there and finished and I thought what a great step for him of just just telling the team how much this means to him uh to be out there and be available for the guys on a chance Bryce can’t play next week. How’s the offense changed with when you go to Andy? Yeah, we’ll look at we’ll look at all that and see what the best version of us is, but right now it’s running the football and Andy can handle all those things and you know the pass game, the reps, the time on task with the group that we have. We got to stay within our core of our system and you know Andy’s fully involved in all that. So if he does play that that’ll be the the mode has been remarkably durable throughout his first three years. That was a supposed knock on him coming in for y’all to hold him out the end of that game. Does that speak to the potential severity of this? We’ll see. We’ll we’ll we’ll look at all the information. We’ll make sure we trust our docs and uh and get the full evaluation and we’ll go from there. Dave, when did you realize Doo wasn’t going to be able to go? What does it say about the group that you’re able to continue to plug in so many guys there? Yeah, I think the injury happened on Thursday and um you know, we started moving him around, trying to mobilize it. we just couldn’t get his strength back to a point where we felt safe about playing and putting him out there and you know the the beautiful timing of Austin Corbett coming back and you know I got to watch the film but you know first first impression is that Austin did a great job just continuing to allow us to play our style of offense. What does having a winning record at this stage of the season mean after the struggles of the past few seasons? Uh we just take it one game at a time. Um we celebrate the wins. We celebrate the heck out of it just now and uh the the resilience of this group, the focus uh the toughness to finish when we needed it. guys making plays on the offense on special teams. I thought Trevor ETN did an excellent job today fielding the ball um and making some yards out of that. So, he handled uh all those punts great, which was which was such a good thing, good feeling for us. And then, of course, for Xavier to come through in a one-on-one opportunity, they challenged us all game and to make that play when we had a chance for it was huge. Dave, of your assessment of Bryce while he while he did play, he was doing excellent uh throwing in rhythm. um you know, manufacturing, making sure we’re getting to the right runs based on the looks and all those things. You know, he’s been just continuing to build off of that. Uh just feeling confident about our process and being able to push our football forward. So, he’s been doing a great job. Dave, you brought up JC Horn’s interceptions. I mean, those come in two really key spots where momentum can shift. How much did those turnovers change the game for you and how you attack the rest of the game? It was huge just from a standpoint of guys expecting their their teammates to show up and make big plays and um just the excitement and the uh the energy that it brought the sideline for him to come up with both of those interceptions in critical situations. And Mike Jack had a couple of really beautiful plays um on a one-on-one go ball down the field in the end zone and then an end cut, you know, a little bit later on the last drive, you know, really close to picking that ball off and then we had kind of a tie goes to the runner situation on the sideline where they got a first down. He had both hands on it. He’s trying to pull the ball away. So, I thought those guys just played excellent together today. How rewarding is it to see Trevor have a really good return game? Helped to set up uh the touchdown after at the beginning of the season. Had a muff uh replaced them in the game against Atlanta. How rewarding is it to see that faith uh pay off? Absolutely. And just working on his craft every day. Um what is what is mine to what’s my next step? And the next step was fielding those punts cleanly, finding yards. Great. Good for it. But if we catch them all, we save a lot of yards. And he did an excellent job today with that. Dave, this felt like a situation where after Bryce went down that the defense was not going to let you lose. And what what did that speak to that group specifically? Again, just great for the players to feel every phase doing their part. Special teams covering the kicks, returning the ball, getting us positive gains there offensively, making yards, making first downs. Um, you know, third down today, you know, we it was a little bit of a rough day for us on third down, but we found some good completions early on to move the chains to give us chances. Um, but I just love the fact that when everybody has a chance to affect the game, and they do, the trust factor and the confidence of the group takes a step and grows. Building off the winning later in the season, it’s going to be the first time that the Panthers have had an over 500 record going into week eight since 2019. Um, is there any significance to that in terms of what you’re building? We’re one game at a time and uh just taking these wins and celebrating the heck out of it. We have to keep that focus because it’s required of us to go back to work. We’ll celebrate it. We’ll look at the film. We’ll correct the things that we can improve on, but we have to have that kind of resilience and focus is just take a next step, go to the next game. We got a great opponent coming up. Um and I I cannot leave this podium without again just talking about the the Jets, Coach Wilks, um and just the job that they did, you know, and our guys to have the resilience to take care of the football was a big deal today. um especially with the with the challenges that we were presented. So really proud of the group and the way we finished. Do you win a game like this last year with the way that you guys kind of were struggling with complimentary football? Um off the top I can’t really give you a clear answer of that. Um, but I just again it speaks to like each phase. You know, I can ask the group, what are you expecting from your defense? And I believe the offensive guys will be able to say, “These guys are going to play really hard against the run.” And now creating the pressure, creating opportunities by getting pressure on the quarterback and affecting them. That’s something we can add to us, you know. Um, and then offensively, you know, still being able to come out of the day with a pretty decent run day, even even with the challenges that were presented. Um, we’re learning more about this group and who we are. What did you learn today about the the two back rotation you had and is that something you think you will continue to do? It felt great. It felt great for me to know whoever I was calling the the the run for I expect great execution out of these guys and you know uh Chuba even had a couple of excellent runs, you know, on the perimeter, you know, with screens um and uh bid out some pretty good yards in that regard, too. So, being able to be versatile with our play passes, our screens, and our runs is critical for us to have success. Can you get a little clarity on what happened right after Bryce’s injury? Did he come up to you? Was he having problems walking? What happened after that sack that made you say, “Okay, we need to take him to the locker room.” It was all the trainers just doing doing their job of evaluating him and and being able to say whether he could get back out there and put put, you know, force on that ankle and change directions and do the things we need him to do um within our scheme. And uh you know, just felt like we couldn’t get him back out there soon enough. And we’ll give you more information as we gather that. Just to clarify, is there a sprained ankle at at a minimum? Again, I I don’t want to give any specifics. I don’t have the specifics right now. So, I think we’re just going to have to just do our evaluation and go from there. It was there was some speculation he got pleaded. Was it more of a I I have no idea. I didn’t see it. Okay. Dave, there was six sacks today and then the Merrick one specifically, it looked like he disguised it really well. What did you see from that unit as a whole and then that sack in particular? time on task, guys working on uh the different rush patterns that we’re using for the week. They change them up a little bit every week, but the guys having, you know, being really focused in on the details of how to execute them, the timing of it and all that is getting better and better. So, um I just think it’s a credit to the coaching staff and the players taking to the game plan and executing it at a high level really today. You say if Bryce was high or low ankle sprain? Uh I’m not going to give any specific details. We’ll give you more information. You did say though, just to be clear, he was having trouble putting like weight on it. Yeah. and otherwise he would have been back in again. So, thank you. All right. Thank you. All right. Thank you. [Music] [Music]

Listen to Canales talk about the team’s performance on Sunday and offer an update to the status of quarterback Bryce Young.

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