Mike Shula's Words About "Encouragement From Film" In Context.

[Saca312]

Looks like Rivera's not the only one who's quote got taken out of context.

Here's what Shula has to say:

http://www.panthers.com/news/article-2/Grill-Bill-Justified-concerns-/0e52fd28-305f-46c0-bab2-edd5dc7c04a6

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I get why tweets about this made many aghast. So, for what it’s worth, here's the full exchange:

“If you can believe this or not, I'm more encouraged, because I was like everybody else – down. And we're still down. But after watching the tape, I'm more encouraged than I was at this time last week.”

Why is that?

“I think there's guys that are getting a better feel for us doing things. Christian (McCaffrey) continues to get better. Curtis (Samuel) is becoming more involved. Ed (Dickson) played well with a lot more snaps, although he's been very consistent throughout. Chris Manhertz had a few more snaps and he did a nice job. And there were guys that were filling in that played a position or ran a route that they never even practice. (Devin) Funchess going from one side to the other, taking a lot of snaps for (Kelvin Benjamin). And Cam, fundamentally, that was probably as good as he's been consistently. Unfortunately, our mistakes were bad. You're going to make mistakes; you just hate for them to end up in turnovers against a good offense.”

I completely agree. Cam's fundamentals in the pocket were really good. Curtis Samuel being more involved is encouraging, and hopefully that translates to more targets. Funchess has been real nice and just needs Cam to throw an accurate deep ball again.

Mistakes were costly. On that first drive, everything was spotless until Matt Kalil messed up on his assignment. Cam's reads were not the best and led to costly decisions. Some of the playcalls need work. 

But honestly, this isn't that far-fetched of an assessment from Shula.

[rayzor]

just put points on the board.

 

[dpm0409]

3 minutes ago, rayzor said:

just put points on the board.

 

Yes.  And touchdowns, not FG's

[LinvilleGorge]

Trying to make sense out of Mike Shula

[Ace_Aladdin]

22 minutes ago, Saca312 said:

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“I think there's guys that are getting a better feel for us doing things. Christian (McCaffrey) continues to get better. Curtis (Samuel) is becoming more involved. Ed (Dickson) played well with a lot more snaps, although he's been very consistent throughout. Chris Manhertz had a few more snaps and he did a nice job. And there were guys that were filling in that played a position or ran a route that they never even practice. (Devin) Funchess going from one side to the other, taking a lot of snaps for (Kelvin Benjamin). And Cam, fundamentally, that was probably as good as he's been consistently. Unfortunately, our mistakes were bad. You're going to make mistakes; you just hate for them to end up in turnovers against a good offense.”

I completely agree. Cam's fundamentals in the pocket were really good. Curtis Samuel being more involved is encouraging, and hopefully that translates to more targets. Funchess has been real nice and just needs Cam to throw an accurate deep ball again.

Mistakes were costly. On that first drive, everything was spotless until Matt Kalil messed up on his assignment. Cam's reads were not the best and led to costly decisions. Some of the playcalls need work. 

But honestly, this isn't that far-fetched of an assessment from Shula.

Unleash  the  2 TE/RB set which puts our best players on the field.

 

[Ace_Aladdin]

3 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Trying to make sense out of Mike Shula

 

 

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“I think there's guys that are getting a better feel for us doing things. Christian (McCaffrey) continues to get better. Curtis (Samuel) is becoming more involved. Ed (Dickson) played well with a lot more snaps, although he's been very consistent throughout. Chris Manhertz had a few more

 

The sooner we use both of these guys not only for blocking but in the receiving game the better this offense becomes and actually puts up points on a consistent basis.

 

 

[dldove77]

If we reel off thirteen sixteen straight wins I'll cut the coaching staff some slack. I'm a reasonable man.

[Popsickle]

5 minutes ago, sanjay_rajput said:

Unleash  the  2 TE/RB set which puts our best players on the field.

 

And who are our best players? 

[Jeremy Igo]

"You're going to make mistakes"

 

I wonder how often Belichick tells his team this.

[Ace_Aladdin]

14 minutes ago, Jeremy Igo said:

"You're going to make mistakes"

 

I wonder how often Belichick tells his team this.

Yea but he gets free  6 wins for being in a shitty divison, oh yeah and gets to pick his own players that fits his scheme.

Great thing we drafted Butler instead of Hunter Henry or OT instead of busted DE & WR. 

[KB_fan]

Yeah, I listened to the full Shula presser (so appreciate Roaring Riot Report posting that and the Wilks audio too... I think both are taken down now, they're generally only up for 24 hours), and I understood the context of his remarks, but I still was bothered by it.

1) If THAT was Cam looking "sound on his fundamentals," we're in BIG TROUBLE.  Lots of misreads, it seemed.... 3 INTs.  No thanks.

2) At least 3 or 4 times in the full Shula presser, he commented something like "you're not going to believe this" and "it may seem like I'm making excuses, but...."

It just wasn't believable.  Shula is a glass half-full kind of guy.  He was unable to stand up there and point a finger at what's wrong, take responsibility and commit to fixing it as best he can given the limitations of our personnel and injuries.  He's looking at things through rose colored glasses.

I was pretty bothered by it.

Basically as so many have said over and over, Shula is quite good on his scripted drives at the beginning of the game.  And regarding those drives, there were some nice things to look at, 1st drive especially, in terms of how we moved the ball.

But 7 or 8 of the remaining drives were pretty awful...  Shula has shown he doesn't know how to adjust. 

So Shula may be optimistic about how his 1 or 2 scripted drives looked.  Some things worked.  But the rest of the game???  I'm not sure he watched it all!

[Ace_Aladdin]

1 hour ago, Popsickle said:

And who are our best players? 

J-Stew 

CMC

Dickson 

Funchess 

Manhertz

Samuel

[Saca312]

@KB_fan reads were bad, but fundamentally with his pocket movement he was on point. Pretty sure that’s what Shula eluded to. 

[Ace_Aladdin]

11 minutes ago, KB_fan said:

Yeah, I listened to the full Shula presser (so appreciate Roaring Riot Report posting that and the Wilks audio too... I think both are taken down now, they're generally only up for 24 hours), and I understood the context of his remarks, but I still was bothered by it.

1) If THAT was Cam looking "sound on his fundamentals," we're in BIG TROUBLE.  Lots of misreads, it seemed.... 3 INTs.  No thanks.

2) At least 3 or 4 times in the full Shula presser, he commented something like "you're not going to believe this" and "it may seem like I'm making excuses, but...."

It just wasn't believable.  Shula is a glass half-full kind of guy.  He was unable to stand up there and point a finger at what's wrong, take responsibility and commit to fixing it as best he can given the limitations of our personnel and injuries.  He's looking at things through rose colored glasses.

I was pretty bothered by it.

Basically as so many have said over and over, Shula is quite good on his scripted drives at the beginning of the game.  And regarding those drives, there were some nice things to look at, 1st drive especially, in terms of how we moved the ball.

But 7 or 8 of the remaining drives were pretty awful...  Shula has shown he doesn't know how to adjust. 

So Shula may be optimistic about how his 1 or 2 scripted drives looked.  Some things worked.  But the rest of the game???  I'm not sure he watched it all!

Cam can audible out of plays or use  motions to recognize the coverage defense is in. He needs to improve his pre-snap game first if this offense is going to truly evolve.

One example is the 3rd down screen to Samuel, he should have motioned CMC out to right and see what kind of defense Saints where playing , now he has 2 options to go and MLB would have to hesitate were the ball is going. The blitz was coming from right so if he detects that CMC would have been wide open for a big gain.