Mike Shula - update for the haters

[CRA]

27-12-1 regular season record

never missed the postseason

<insert Shula deal with it gif>

 

Is that record all thanks to Shula? Of course not.  But football is a team sport and clearly what Shula does meshes well w/ Cam AND Rivera's defensive style.  It equals wins.  So maybe we can overlook not having trick plays and be content with winning.

[L-TownCat]

I'm starting to see the contrarian in you.  I'm not attacking you but I get it now.  You love being the opposing force.

I'll not stand in your way here.

[Servant of Cthululelei]

And there's honestly something to be said about the value of consistency at the coordinator position.  While I think McDermott will get a head coaching gig sometime soon (probably this offseason), I find it highly unlikely that Shula will ever leave here for a promotion elsewhere.  Not because there's no chance of him ever being seen as a good coordinator, but because oh how spectacularly he failed as a HC at Alabama.

[Mojo]

He's improved/evolved.  That's what you're supposed to do.  Keep it up.

I'd still like to see him attack weaknesses more often/earlier. 

[The Huddler]

Give shula and Cam a offensive line and now were talkin

 

we dont even have game breaking WRs and we showed up in seattle

[LinvilleGorge]

He impressed me yesterday.  He still stubbornly stuck with running the ball into stacked boxes on 1st down way too much for my liking, but when the offense stalled, he mixed it up and got us going with some trick plays out of unconventional formations.  I'm just not sure why we have to completely stall out for him to change his approach.  One of the reasons we tend to start so slow offensively is because everyone knows what we're going to do to start out.  

[Zaximus]

He's been much better this year, but the problem is still there as in when he makes a bad call, it's a BAD call.   The only thing that is really standing out is the time on which he chooses or run or pass.  Sometimes we're stuck in a bad position on downs.

 

Also we need to play hurry up more, we see great things when we do, but don't use it enough.

[nosuchthingasapanther]

shula has his faults just like every offensive coordinator, but a lot of the flack he's gotten has been because of poor player execution.

[gakonline]

I am glad Shula stuck with the run game even though we were getting stuffed early on. The run game eventually opened and we ran the ball every single time on our first touchdown drive. This opened up the passing game in the second half. 

Hats off to the entire offense when things were not going our way. Early sack, no passing game and running started very slow. Shula stuck with the game plan and we played Panther football. I also thought he did a nice job making adjustments after the half. 

[tiger7_88]

With any other QB in this league besides Cam over the past 3 years, behind these OLs and using these WRs, Shula would have been on the street, out of a job long ago.

[teeray]

For the most part Shula has been fine.  OC is the worst job in football. 

I thought we should fire him at one point last year, but he has been fine this year, and most of his tenure.

[teeray]

With any other QB in this league besides Cam over the past 3 years, behind these OLs and using these WRs, Shula would have been on the street, out of a job long ago.

That is probably true of 100% of OCs

[frash.exe]

One thing that irks me in general with Shula is that we don't have a developed short passing game. You see the way the Patriots use it to move the chains and so do the Packers, because sometimes, you can't run and you can't get the coverage you're looking for downfield for those deep throws. I'm not saying let's switch to WCO and get away from Newton's strengths, but we should be nurturing it more and more instead of settling for 3 and outs when our 2 dimensions are guarded well. We do have Newton's legs but that only becomes so effective up to a certain point and if the defense had to account for the running game, his arm strength, his legs, and his short passing precision everyone on offense will be more productive. 

[chknwing]

On Greg Olsen’s game-winning touchdown: "We got the coverage I think that Mike (Shula) was looking for, that was a seam route by Greg. He was able to get into the seam and the safeties were split. He was able to get in that sweet area. I thought it was a heck of a throw."

 

lol wait Mike Shula was looking for blown coverage?