Shula

We'll all deal with it for 16 fucking games next season.

 

wonder who gets to be the interm when Rivera gets fired...lmao

 

Mike Shula's excited to be offensive coordinator again
Published: January 22, 2013 Updated 21 minutes ago



By Joseph Person — Inside the Panthers blog

During his final year as Tampa Bay's offensive coordinator in 1999, Mike Shula coached a pair of proven running backs in Mike Alstott and Warrick Dunn and a rookie quarterback in Shaun King.

The Bucs put up pedestrian offensive numbers, but fell a game short of the Super Bowl.

Fourteen years later, Shula is an offensive coordinator again after the Panthers promoted him last week. He inherits a veteran running back corps featuring DeAngelo Williams, Jonathan Stewart and Mike Tolbert.

Instead of a rookie quarterback, Shula has a franchise quarterback – the same one he's worked with the past two seasons: Cam Newton.

“I'm excited because number one, our quarterback,” Shula said Tuesday following the first of two Senior Bowl practices. “And I'm excited because of the guys that we're coaching.”

Shula, 47, said his offense will resemble the one Rob Chudzinski ran for two years before becoming Cleveland's coach. But Shula, the former Alabama quarterback and head coach, wants to put his own stamp on it.

“I think we're going to try to keep all the good stuff,” Shula said, laughing. “There's going to be a lot that's going to look similar. But there's going to be other things that we'll continue to throw around in the offseason.”

Shula said he was proud of the way the players ended the season after a tough start. The Panthers won five of their last six games to finish 7-9 and in second place in the NFC South, enough to keep Ron Rivera in Charlotte another year and get Chudzinski hired in Cleveland.

Shula said the key is continuing to find new ways to utilize Newton, who enjoyed the best stretch of his two-year career over the second half of last season.

“Obviously, we want to make things as best we can to allow our quarterback to play fast. And I think he's playing faster,” Shula said. “I'm more excited about him now than I was this time last year.”

 

People are criticizing the guy because he failed in situations he wasn't ready for. Shit he was barely shaving. Wasn't my first choice but I get it. I'll wait until I see the results.

 

Cripes man, that was a totally different O in 2002 to what Shula had. Brad, Keenan, Key, Jurevicious and a few capable TE's.

Plus the D was at its peek, #1 overall.

Tampa were second last and 3rd last in scoring the two years prior to Shula.
Hadnt had a winning season under Wyche or Perkins, they truly stunk and lacked talent.

I can see an arguement for McCoy I guess, but its not exactly inspiring either is it? Shurmur, you've got to be kidding, he stunk it up in STL and CLEVE.

At least Shulas stint was 10 years ago.

 

I dont think people realise how bad the Bucs were offensively either.

When he went to Alabama they got crippled by the NCAA too. Yeah, he got paid alot, but others walked or should I say ran away from that shit.

Dude wasnt scared to take on a challenge.

 

Hopefully a couple more too.

 

7-9

Rivera is fired


Cowher is hired




7-9

 

Certaintly will be entertaining to see how McCoy, Chud and Kelly adapt to being HC's.

 

well maybe we can erase all of Cowher's mistakes by 2019