Rhule analysis from a Baylor beat reporter

[Mr. Scot]

Just now, LinvilleGorge said:

It won't surprise me if some of the "committee" approach involves CMC still on the field split out into the slot. As great as CMC is and as great of a season as he had, I still think there's a LOT more we can down with him in terms of creating match up and personnel grouping issues for opposing defenses.

That's gonna be on the OC.

He's a pro guy but from what I've read, he's never been a coordinator or a play caller.

[Cuttinedge]

Great talent evaluators....So he’s the polar opposite of RR

I like a lot of what I’m hearing  about rhule. Isn’t dead set on doing it one certain way. And he seems like a workhorse. He may get out coached some but I don’t think he’ll be underprepared. 

[jtm]

You could say this exact same thing about at least a dozen college coaches.  

[(ATL'ien)CamNewton]

15 minutes ago, Mother Grabber said:

why? just cuz?

No because finding a QB that can take you to the promised land is next to impossible

We had or have a QB who is good enough or was good enough to win a Super Bowl - the Panthers just failed him ..

We're going to land two QB's capable of winning a Super Bowl back to back ? Nah ..

If we ended up wasting Cam it will take us a while for us to recover .. we ain't wasting Cam then lucking into another QB with potential to win a Super Bowl

[Manna]

19 minutes ago, Smithers said:

Yep...that’s what has made NE so good for so long.  

Thats one of the reasons why the SB loss irked me as I recall Ron saying that "we'll stick to what we do". Broncos players even said so themselves that the Panthers didn't show anything new. Hopefully Rhule will do what it takes to win and not be so rigid with his philosophy. 

[Mr. Scot]

1 minute ago, Manna said:

Thats one of the reasons why the SB loss irked me as I recall Ron saying that "we'll stick to what we do". Broncos players even said so themselves that the Panthers didn't show anything new. Hopefully Rhule will do what it takes to win and not be so rigid with his philosophy. 

Ugh, don't remind me.

[(ATL'ien)CamNewton]

People getting on Rivera about not changing things up in the Super Bowl .. you do what got us there .. you don't change up what got you 15-1 and to the Super Bowl ..

Seattle, Arizona knew what was coming and we still bashed them in the head .. if you wanted the Panthers to stop doing what they were doing, stop it, Denver did

[TheRumGone]

36 minutes ago, Ship said:

Rhule definitely has the tools to be more of a Pete Carroll than a Chip Kelly. It’s about the players and the process not sacrificing everything for the system.

@Growl was mentioning the intent was to find a John Harbaugh type of coach. I think Pete follows this as well. Pretty good thought.  He’s not stuck on one type of system philosophy but changes due to what players he has. He’s coached all over position groups like Rhule has. He’s a manager of men and gets elite coaching and coordinators to teach. 
 

the more I read about Rhule the more I like.
 

[LinvilleGorge]

9 minutes ago, (ATL'ien)CamNewton said:

People getting on Rivera about not changing things up in the Super Bowl .. you do what got us there .. you don't change up what got you 15-1 and to the Super Bowl ..

Seattle, Arizona knew what was coming and we still bashed them in the head .. if you wanted the Panthers to stop doing what they were doing, stop it, Denver did

You don't change what you do, you change HOW you do it. Slight changes to formations, different shifts, etc. You can't give an elite NFL team two weeks to study your tape and change literally nothing and expect to have success. That's exactly what we did.

[MHS831]

44 minutes ago, Mitchl13 said:

Can’t wait for the basement dwellling mouth-breathers to argue with these actual facts.

My house sits on concrete slab--so there!  Right, Mom?  She says, "Right!"

[top dawg]

43 minutes ago, Manna said:

This is all I really care about.

Yep! 

I just hope that he takes that same situational awareness to game day. That would seem to be a logical assumption. 

[Mr. Scot]

4 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

You don't change what you do, you change HOW you do it. Slight changes to formations, different shifts, etc. You can't give an elite NFL team two weeks to study your tape and change literally nothing and expect to have success. That's exactly what we did.

Especially not after Atlanta gave them the blueprint on how to beat us.

Even worse: Let's say you go in doing what you do and you're failing. Well, then you adjust, go to your backup plan, etc.

This assumes of course that you have a backup plan, which there's no evidence Rivera ever did.

Hell, back in 03, Dan Henning basically created a whole new offensive game plan from scratch, and it worked.

[(ATL'ien)CamNewton]

1 minute ago, LinvilleGorge said:

You don't change what you do, you change HOW you do it. Slight changes to formations, different shifts, etc. You can't give an elite NFL team two weeks to study your tape and change literally nothing and expect to have success. That's exactly what we did.

Had we changed formations and different shifts we would still have Mike Remmers who we acquired from Denver - they knew how trash he was .. if we changed things up their defensive line was still head and shoulders above our offensive line ..

Their defensive line was able to wreak more havoc on our offensive line than our defensive line could wreak on their offensive line .. though it was extremely close

[LinvilleGorge]

2 minutes ago, (ATL'ien)CamNewton said:

Had we changed formations and different shifts we would still have Mike Remmers who we acquired from Denver - they knew how trash he was .. if we changed things up their defensive line was still head and shoulders above our offensive line ..

Their defensive line was able to wreak more havoc on our offensive line than our defensive line could wreak on their offensive line .. though it was extremely close

But Shula again changed nothing about how he countered pressure. All season long he kept up with the same slow developing downfield routes and would counter pressure by keeping in extra blockers. Denver had the DBs to account for that. They'd just send blitzers at those extra blockers to nullify them and create one on one matchups for their pass rushers anyway. The concept of simply shifting to shorter, quicker developing routes was just absolutely foreign to Mike Shula.