Mike Shula

Supposedly on Miami Hurricanes radar for head coaching gig.

 

I know we talk shit about him all the time, but why does everybody 'outside this building' think he's so great?

Is he really?

Would we digress should he leave?

Or is is Cam and company doing well in spite of Shula?

What ticks me off if when we're running the ball down their throats consistently, he starts passing. Or could many of the plays we think are bad play calls by Shula, really bad checks by Cam?

Hrmmm.

 

As long as a coach honors the playaction, with a solid running game anyone can do the same thing. It's Newton that makes this sucker run, not Shula.

Let's just think of the Green Bay game. It didn't go into overtime, and yet it lasted 3 hours and 40 minutes. It was longer than some overtime games.

We were up by 23 points, and we chose to pass, run trick plays, and even in the closing moments, we had no runs when our biggest enemy was time.

Shula is bad.

 

He may be bad but I fear a QB regression with change.

On the subject of coaches, we're gonna get raided bad if we keep this shit up.

 

The offense would get so much better. Shula is getting touted for the same reason most coordinators do: his team is winning. When Jay Gruden was hired by Washington, I said on this board and elsewhere that it was a laughable move that would sink the Racistnames and undermine RG3 as the starting quarterback, along with the Bengals getting a substantial upgrade from hiring Hue Jackson. All of that shit came true. Pep Hamilton was being praised to high heaven in Indy until things went south and they dumped his ass. The sample is too small to say anything definitively, but most people agree that the Colts looked better with Chudzinski calling the plays.

Shula is fucking garbage. He's an incompetent boob who only ever sniffed the league because of his last name, went thirteen years between coordinating gigs because he was so awful in his last one, and only got this job because he was already on the staff and Rivera was terrified to bring in anyone who might outshine him given that his job was in jeopardy back then. In the two seasons under Chudzinski with most of the same personnel, Carolina had the most explosive (20+ yard) plays in the NFL. In the two and a half seasons under Shula, Carolina has the least explosive plays in the NFL. And it's not because of an increased reliance on the running game, as the Panthers rushed for more yards in both Chudzinski seasons than they have in any Shula season.

Shula doesn't have a fucking clue how to develop route combinations, which is why the first two years had so many situations with receivers in the same area rather than one running off the coverage for someone else. He uses slow-developing runs that frequently result in the ball carrier being hit behind the line. He runs fly sweeps on 1st & 10 that create 2nd & 15. Cam is so, so lucky that the team is winning because if it wasn't the narrative would be a lot like RG3's with questions about Newton's numbers getting worse and skepticism about his ability as a passer.

 

I hope I never hear Shula and football in the same sentence ever again.

 

See Kaepernick as an example

 

Kaeps stats were going down with the khakis the switch to Christ just finished what was already happening.

 

Cam currently has by far the lowest completion percentage of his career, the lowest quarterback rating of his career, the lowest QBR of his career, by far the lowest rushing average of his career, and is on pace for the most interceptions of his career.

 

I didn't realize he had lows across the board. But its not unreasonable to fear growing pains under a new OC.