{"id":22970,"date":"2025-07-25T11:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T11:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/22970\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T11:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T11:51:08","slug":"dave-canales-expectations-are-high-for-the-panthers-other-teams-wont-want-to-play-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/22970\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Canales: Expectations are high for the Panthers, other teams won&#8217;t want to play us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Panthers have had seven consecutive losing seasons, so it might seem like there\u2019s not a lot of reason for confidence coming out of Carolina. But head coach Dave Canales doesn\u2019t see it that way.<\/p>\n<p>Canales said he thinks his team is building something in his second season as head coach, and that the Panthers believe they\u2019re going to be a tough team to beat this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/45806941\/carolina-panthers-dave-canales-year-two\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The sky\u2019s the limit for this group<\/a>,\u2019&#8217; Canales said, via ESPN. \u201cThis is going to be a very competitive team. I don\u2019t think people are going to want to play us by the style of football that we play. I\u2019m expecting that. My expectations are really high for this group.\u2019&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>After an ugly 1-7 start last season, the Panthers played respectable football over the second half of the year, going 4-5 over the last nine games of the year and playing well in some of their losses, including taking both of last year\u2019s Super Bowl teams, the Chiefs and Eagles, down to the wire before ultimately losing. So it\u2019s not hard to see why Canales thinks his team deserves to have high expectations.<\/p>\n<p>The betting odds still say the Panthers are unlikely to make the playoffs this season, with their odds of making the postseason around +225. But Canales believes his team is heading in the right direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Panthers have had seven consecutive losing seasons, so it might seem like there\u2019s not a lot of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-22970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}