{"id":861521,"date":"2026-04-08T20:36:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/861521\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T20:36:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:36:44","slug":"dave-canales-talks-lavonte-david-impact-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/861521\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Canales Talks Lavonte David Impact &#8211; JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDave Canales Talks Lavonte David Impact<br \/>\nApril 8th, 2026 <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lavonte-david-0103.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-314604 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lavonte-david-0103.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"176\" \/><\/a>So Joe asked Panthers head coach and 2023 Bucs offensive coordinator Dave Canales what the NFL world needs to know about Lavonte David.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Joe got private time with Canales last week at the NFL annual meeting Phoenix and asked him to reflect on working with the Bucs legend. (No, Joe and Canales were not holding hands and gazing at the mountains.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cCommand,\u201d Canales replied. \u201cJust what he commanded from the group, not just the [Bucs] defense, but the team. A professionalism about him. An ease in the way that he connected with his teammates is what I saw. And for me being there for one year and just being received by guys like Lavonte, and Vita [Vea]. But just speaking about Lavonte, just how natural the game came to him, it just seemed like he always knew where the play was going.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cIf it was a screen, he\u2019s somewhere around the back \u2014 somewhere around the ball. If it was a run play, you know, he\u2019s screaming over the tops of blocks. And in the pass game, just making an impact whether it was blitzing or dropping into coverage and showing different looks. Watching Todd\u2019s defense and knowing how versatile and multiple they can be, it really requires guys to be on the same page and between Lavonte and Antoine [Winfield] getting guys on the same page and understanding the looks that go into the week \u2014 to know where you\u2019re supposed to be. He was the heart and soul of that whole thing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cAnd certainly Lavonte was a special player in the locker room with things that might have happened, like a lot of it never got to the coaches because Lavonte would handle a lot of that stuff \u2014 and have conversations and just keep guys on the right track.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cI know he\u2019s a guy they\u2019re certainly going to miss there and certainly somebody I was really fortunate to be around for a year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Joe will share more reflections on David from other NFL coaches in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/billcurrieford.com\/sale\/ford-tampa-fl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-232326 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/BillCurrieFordlogo400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"154\"   \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/billcurrieford.com\/sale\/ford-tampa-fl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-396877 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/RangerApril2026.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\"   \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joebucsfan.com\/2026\/03\/dave-canales-talks-new-bucs-ashawn-robinson-and-christian-roseboom\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dave Canales Talks New Bucs A\u2019Shawn Robinson And Christian Rozeboom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave Canales Talks Lavonte David Impact April 8th, 2026 So Joe asked Panthers head coach and 2023 Bucs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":861522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2077],"tags":[211,2599,2598,7,6,704,250,2597,2596],"class_list":{"0":"post-861521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","8":"tag-buccaneers","9":"tag-bucs-message-boards","10":"tag-bucs-news","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-tampa-bay","14":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","15":"tag-tampabay","16":"tag-tampabaybuccaneers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116371018616704295","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861521","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=861521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}