{"id":775020,"date":"2026-02-25T08:45:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/775020\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T08:45:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:45:26","slug":"panthers-oc-brad-idzik-speaks-on-taking-over-play-calling-duties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/775020\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers OC Brad Idzik speaks on taking over play-calling duties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 24, 2026, 5:01 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/carolina-panthers\/364\" data-autotag=\"8afac4d1-41b4-4302-b154-b45f5b48a0d2\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Carolina Panthers<\/a> offensive coordinator Brad Idzik can now add &#8220;play-caller&#8221; and &#8220;jokester&#8221; to his re\u0301sume\u0301.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">On Tuesday, during the team&#8217;s media availability at the 2026 NFL Scouting Combine, head coach Dave Canales <a href=\"http:\/\/pantherswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/panthers\/2026\/02\/24\/panthers-nfl-scouting-combine-dave-canales-brad-idzik\/88846343007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> that he will be handing over offensive play-calling duties to Idzik. The 34-year-old, who has spent the last few seasons as Canales&#8217; &#8220;primary architect,&#8221; is now set to assume the role for the first time in his NFL career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">So, how has he been readying for it? Well, Idzik offered up a hilarious response to reporters this afternoon . . .<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Kidding aside, Idzik has been prepped through five years under Canales. Before he was hired as Carolina&#8217;s offensive coordinator in 2024, Idzik served alongside Canales as an assistant in Seattle from 2019 to 2022, then as the wide receivers coach for Tampa Bay in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Idzik also talked about that relationship from the combine . . .<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Idzik, Canales and the Panthers will look to improve on a unit that ranked 27th in total offense this past season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Follow\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ThePanthersWire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">@ThePanthersWire<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter\/X for more Panthers content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 24, 2026, 5:01 p.m. ET Carolina Panthers offensive coordinator Brad Idzik can now add &#8220;play-caller&#8221; and &#8220;jokester&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[95878,235,260,2567,7,6,236,97114,97115,95882,96059,96511,95896,95888,95895,96684,95906,95884,95883,96239,95894,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-775020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-carolina","10":"tag-carolina-panthers","11":"tag-carolinapanthers","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-panthers","15":"tag-sstssportsnflpanthers","16":"tag-sstsnpanthers","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagcarolina-panthers","19":"tag-tagdave-canales","20":"tag-tagnational-sports","21":"tag-tagnfl","22":"tag-tagnfl-hub","23":"tag-tagnfl-scouting-combine","24":"tag-tagoverall-positive","25":"tag-tagsports-coaching-training","26":"tag-tagsports-news","27":"tag-tagtampa-bay-buccaneers","28":"tag-tagtwitter","29":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116130396714089805","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}