Happy to be home again this weekend
The Panthers opened the season with three road games in the first four, but get to play at home for a second straight week Sunday.
While there are multiple benefits to that, Canales mentioned getting to see three of his kids' soccer games last weekend as one of the real fringe benefits of back-to-back home games.
"I mean speaking personally, it's just spending time with my family, spending time with my wife and my kids throughout the week," he said, getting an "awwww" from the crowd. "And where you normally get on a plane sometime on Saturday afternoon, and I get to go see soccer, and you know those types of things that just put you in a good state of mind."
Of course, Canales knows his team's going to play half its games on the road, and he wants to be buttoned-up there as well.
"I will say the flip side, I think in my experience when I'm on the road, I have a window on the plane to watch a little bit more film, to look at my call sheet one more time, go up and down the aisles talking to players, talking to coaches," he said. "And so there's a connectedness that happens to a team playing on the road. We've got to be able to make sure that shows up on game day.
"But we certainly love being here at home, playing in Bank of America Stadium, where we're familiar. We do everything here. We have our meetings and our practices, and we love it here. And so we look forward to that, just having the back-to-back weeks where we can kind of, you know, spend time with our families and really recover that way, going into this long season."