Bayless and Stephen A on Mike Shula

[mc52beast]

Guys were talking about the offense we saw last night, Bayless said Shula called a terrible game, didn't understand anything he was doing. Stephen A said It wasn't Mike's fault, said no matter what he called the Broncos had an answer for it.

So what is it, did Mike screw the pooch last night or was it just a matter of the Broncos defense being better than our offense.

[ickmule]

both

 

[KillerKat]

Just now, mc52beast said:

Guys were talking about the offense we saw last night, Bayless said Shula called a terrible game, didn't understand anything he was doing. Stephen A said It wasn't Mike's fault, said no matter what he called the Broncos had an answer for it.

So what is it, did Mike screw the pooch last night or was it just a matter of the Broncos defense being better than our offense.

We saw nothing of what we had been doing this year last night. We also saw no adjustments after halftime. We got Shula'd. 

[rodeo]

We wasted every single first down with the same run up the middle. It was one of our most poorly called games of all time.

[CPF4LIFE]

I still cant get the failed trick play out my mind and the excessive runs up the middle on first down for no gain in the damn Superbowl

[KillerKat]

Just now, rodeo said:

We wasted every single first down with the same run up the middle. It was one of our most poorly called games of all time.

The offense I saw last night looked exactly like 2014. You can probably tell who decided to take control of the offense yesterday.

[truthjuice]

6 minutes ago, mc52beast said:

Guys were talking about the offense we saw last night, Bayless said Shula called a terrible game, didn't understand anything he was doing. Stephen A said It wasn't Mike's fault, said no matter what he called the Broncos had an answer for it.

So what is it, did Mike screw the pooch last night or was it just a matter of the Broncos defense being better than our offense.

Both. Shula called a terrible game. Blown assignments, dropped balls, few bad throws, crucial turnovers. 

[tondi]

As I said on another thread, it was almost like we tried to turn Cam into Tom Brady back there and ended up with the same results.  Very little creativity on the calls, very few option plays, no misdirection, no reverses, only that one God awful trick play.  Almost like they left half the playbook in Charlotte.  Nothing appeared to be done with the cadence or snap count to draw them offside or to try to slow down their pass rush.  Just drop Cam back time after time to get killed by the same pass rush that we had no answer for time after time.  We were even back to having the old problem of Cam getting to the line of scrimmage with 5 seconds left on the play clock so he had zero time to look over the defense and do anything other than barely get the snap off.

Having said that, Shula didn't cause the turnovers, penalties, dropped passes, etc. so its unfair to blame everything on him.

[beastson]

I expected more from Shula, boy I won't do that again. I'm going back to my old feelings about him

[g5jamz]

Maybe those 4 guys on the house roof were something.  ;)

[TheRed]

13 minutes ago, rodeo said:

We wasted every single first down with the same run up the middle. It was one of our most poorly called games of all time.

In that regard it was one of the most poorly called games I've ever seen. I mean, how scripted can you get?

[Rocky Davis]

Shula certainly didn't adjust to what Denver's D was doing.  I thought that was one of many things he gets paid to do.

[CPF4LIFE]

What frustrates me the most about the runs up the middle is that its just not well designed play, majority of the time when Stew gets the ball he runs into the back of Kalil or Turner-Norwell and gets stopped in his tracks by the defender. Just a botched play 80% of the time from the jump

[Seltzer]

I didn't like the runs up the middle or the trick play either, but we would have won if we would have executed. The Tolbert fumble and dropped passes were killers.

I am by no means saying the play calling was great though. It certainly didn't look like we made any adjustments in the 2nd Half, but again that is subjective because I have no way of knowing.  

The one thing I am mad at Shula about is that it did seem like time and time again we were getting to the line with under 10 seconds on the play clock.  Hard for Cam to make adjustments in that situation. Seemed like the plays were so coming in and that is on Shula