Nice SI article on Shula, the offense, and the team's focus

[KSpan]

Bit of a fluff piece in regards to the ties to Don Shula's SB trips but I particularly liked the quotes below, the first being about Cam's mastery of the offense and the second about Cam's recognition of their relative lack of "big game" experience. Also says that the team focuses on letting "yesterday" go and moving to the next challenge... they will be ready for the Super Bowl.

http://www.si.com/nfl/2016/01/26/mike-shula-panthers-super-bowl-50-don-shula

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“First off, it’s not over yet, this season,” Shula said. “We have to prove it one more time. But I think his handle on our offense has grown every year, but he’s brought a bunch of things this year to the table that have opened my eyes to being more flexible and really just listening to his ideas more. My brother (former Bengalshead coach David Shula) has got a great line: If you ever want to get your idea heard, you’ve got to make the coordinator think that it’s his idea. I passed that along and Cam’s done a great job with that.

“He actually had a play (Sunday) night that he called, the quarterback draw early in the fourth quarter was his idea, and we made a big first down on it. He’s just got a great feel once he gets into the game, and starts seeing match-ups, seeing the field in general, seeing the potential for weakness in coverages. He’ll find where those are. And then it’s just those little tweaks a quarterback can make. ‘Hey, we did this earlier, I think we can do this now.’ He sees it more so than I see. And he’s not afraid to take chances.”

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“Cam brought up a good point last week going into (Sunday) night’s game, that not a lot of guys on the team had been in a game this big. And he was the first one to talk about it, to say, ‘Hey, let’s not dance around that.’ So because of that we’ve got to prepare even harder, and that’s how we feel obviously going into this game.”

 

[CarolinaSamurai]

Thanks great post.

[GRWatcher]

Even SI can't keep our no-name WR's straight. Talking Ted Ginn in the video but mostly showing Philly Brown lol. But that was a great article. Thank you!

[DaveThePanther2008]

1 hour ago, GRWatcher said:

Even SI can't keep our no-name WR's straight. Talking Ted Ginn in the video but mostly showing Philly Brown lol. But that was a great article. Thank you!

I noticed that too.  2 of the three shots were Brown. 

Good Article

[London Loves Luke]

Just realised that this game vs the Broncos features "son of Bum" vs "son of Don" as well as two of only 4 coaches in history that have been to a Super Bowl as a player and a coach (Rivera and Kubiak). Spooky.