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Mike Shula has already cost us one Super Bowl

Kevin Greene

By Kevin Greene,
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rayzor Grand Master

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2 adjustments should always be made.

1) to your available personnel, their strength and weaknesses. build to strengths. work around weaknesses. for example, OT has been a weakness of cam for a while so...quit putting him in situations where he has to rely on them for so long. i don't care what your philosophy or grand master plan is or how brilliant you are. if you can't do the above, you shouldn't have your job. chud was never aware of even who was on the field in any situation. he threw plays out there regardless of whether they fit the personnel on the field or not and making the assumption that they all should be capable of the same things might be ideal, but it's unrealistic naive.

2) to your opponents. one thing that fox was horrible about was looking at the opponents strengths and planning to ram heads with their strengths rather than go after a weakness. if a team was great at stopping the run, we focused on running the ball. might show you've got balls, but so does a 6'2 120lb drunk russian kid taking on a 2400lb bull. I dont think shula is that bad, but i don't think that he makes adjustments. when you see that some team is beating you like crazy on the edges and getting to your QB regularly on your long drawn out pass plays, stop doing it. its that simple. find an alternate plan that gives you a chance of success.

the manager that puts 100% of their trust in their plan going into a venture and sticks to it come hell or high water is destined for one thing, failure.

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rayzor Grand Master

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1 hour ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Wade Phillips exposed the poo out of Mike Shula that night. Shula still hasn't recovered from that sonning. It's like he doubled down on his problem areas since that experience instead of learning from that utter decimation. 

i think he wants to prove it will still work. fox did the same thing.

i think to a large degree, shula's failing is rivera's failing and vice versa. i don't know who it is that is making the decision to change nothing, but right now i don't get the sense that this evolution was anything more than dreams without either the true intention or ability to make it happen.

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Fwiw, our offense played as well as the Broncos offense did.  Our offensive line couldn't block Von Miller and Demarcus Ware, both potential hall of famers.  Their offensive line couldn't block Kony Ealy.  We made more all around mistakes than they did.  Poor tackling on a punt return, missed field goal, and most importantly, turnovers.  That cost us the game.  Nothing else.  

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3 minutes ago, Sasquatch said:

Replace Shula with Henning in these threads and it's 04 - 06 all over again. 

BTW, Are you folks slamming on Shula aware that he's been awarded OC of the year twice in the last 5 years? It doesn't appear NFL folks agree with your opinions.

 

If nfl folk actually thought he was worth a damn, he'd be a head coach. OC of the year twice in five years and you still don't get any interviews? That should be a huge red flag 

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