Evolution, Adaptation, and the Mike Shula Offense

[PhillyB]

1 hour ago, top dawg said:

Enjoyable read.  

I don't know about the John Fox comment however.  I think that his tenure,  especially the latter part,  was unduly affected negatively by the business side of football,  leaving him with mere facades of complete teams. 

john fox's philosophy was that players should adapt to the scheme, rather than the scheme adapting to the players. aside from the classic run-run-draw dynamic, this was probably the biggest criticism of his actual football philosophy. fox was notorious for trying to shoehorn players into inflexible positions and insisting their failures at that position were a judgement of their value.

fox would've keep running cotchery on go routes until he was fired. shula has adapted... probably part of why gettleman (who has no qualms about dropped the axe on underperformers) has decided he's worth keeping around.

[stankowalski]

3 hours ago, PhillyB said:

tennessee made adjustments after those first two drives; they went from playing a ton of zone and hoping their front four would get pressure to sending the house on nearly every down. it was a quick shift by the titans and it took shula most of the game to respond.

I'm sensing a bit of hyperbole or are you seriously suggesting that Shula called nothing but go routes for 3 full quarters?

[The_Light_Brigade]

5 hours ago, jayflip said:

What begat Dat Alice?

[PhillyB]

1 hour ago, stankowalski said:

I'm sensing a bit of hyperbole or are you seriously suggesting that Shula called nothing but go routes for 3 full quarters?

no, not go routes specifically, but lots of long, slow-developing stuff. half those deep routes were punctuated by double moves halfway up the field, probably designed to get subpar corners to bite or get turned around.

not a bad plan really, just needed to be adjusted as soon as TEN started storming the gates every down.

[SZ James (banned)]

where's the painting of cam newton in a brylcream ad with crying mom in the corner? you're slipping dude

[Jase]

Shula didn't come from no dang ol' monkey

[PhillyB]

12 minutes ago, Jase said:

Shula didn't come from no dang ol' monkey

were you there?

[bigskypanthersguy]

6 hours ago, The_Light_Brigade said:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/87/Jabba_the_Hutt.png

[GRWatcher]

lol I actually like this better. Thanks!

[beastson]

No sir this some bullshit lol

[PhillyB]

4 hours ago, beastson said:

No sir this some bullshit lol

why do you say that?

[CoastalCat]

On 11/19/2015, 2:50:23, PhillyB said:

 

Scientists confirm Andrew Luck is the closest living relative of H. habilis

 

 

But was the ape dong necessary? 

[CoastalCat]

On 11/19/2015, 11:47:07, Match.com said:

This is too long bro..I'm trying to work but not trying to work...lol

1) Please don't use the term "bro" again unless you're quoting Seinfeld or a white Eagles fan with corn-rows.

2) Don't copy and paste the ENTIRE original post when commenting, especially when commenting about how long it is. 

[beastson]

51 minutes ago, PhillyB said:

why do you say that?

Thats what you said

Funny cause I can imagine Cam saying that

Edited November 20, 2015 by beastson