Mike Shula's EGO

[The Question]

has to be larger than Cams ever has been. His ego couldn't admit that Cam runs the offense better than he ever has and is the reason control was taken away from him last night. What logical reason other than mine could there be... I would love to hear it

[Even Janitor]

I think it was a sarcastic resumé building thing for Shula.  It's like he was saying "You know how I'm the offensive coordinator of the league's #1 offense, a team in the Super Bowl, yet no other team in the league, even the bottom feeders, has shown any interest in giving me a head coaching gig?  Well with tonight's game plan I'd like to present Exhibits A through Z of why that is."

[Cpt slay a ho]

where's the proof cam didn't have control......

[KushMcDieselson]

The proof was when he had about 7 seconds or less on the fuging play clock by the time they got to the line for a majority of the game.  How exactly is he supposed to read a defense and relay adjustments to 10 other guys in a stadium that loud in 7 seconds? Combined with the non existent no huddle, burning time playing our "win the TOP and play not to lose" gameplan.

[Fox007]

I think it's sheer stupidity / lack of skill.

How can one whose never been good have an ego? that's really weird.

Sure his plays on paper are ok some times but it's his IN GAME skill that is one of the worse ever at any level of play.

Dood has no in game management or awareness...no ability to adjust...just hope the players beat their man straight up ...lets not set ourselves up with a mismatch like OBJ going to the slot and Julio going to the slot etc...

And by god we will do 0 screen plays or boot legs.

Honestly if you wanna see an easy proof at his ineptitude....how many other mobile QBs actually get bootlegged out multiple times per game....then look at Cams bootleg plays....hardly any but when we do it...it almost always scores/works.
But why do what works when you can run the ball up the middle for 1 yard 10+ times in the SB.

[truthjuice]

I'll give Shula credit. He has built an offense tailored around Cam and to his talents. However, he has to allow Cam to to take some control. Give Cam the plays and let Cam decide what's gonna work and not. I'd love to see Cam call his plays like Peyton does. Cam has made Shula look like an offensive guru this year. 

[Semaj]

14 minutes ago, KushMcDieselson said:

The proof was when he had about 7 seconds or less on the fuging play clock by the time they got to the line for a majority of the game.  How exactly is he supposed to read a defense and relay adjustments to 10 other guys in a stadium that loud in 7 seconds? Combined with the non existent no huddle, burning time playing our "win the TOP and play not to lose" gameplan.

I noticed that too.  We kept waiting to the last second to snap.  If only they would have let Cam go no huddle in the 2nd half we would have easily won.   Game over.  Cam would have gotten it done.   I have no doubt.  So disappointed in the coaching staff ruining what was a magical season.  They had a great year coaching until the last damn game and then made no adjustments and pooed the bed.  Disgusting. 

[The Lobo]

21 minutes ago, KushMcDieselson said:

The proof was when he had about 7 seconds or less on the fuging play clock by the time they got to the line for a majority of the game.  How exactly is he supposed to read a defense and relay adjustments to 10 other guys in a stadium that loud in 7 seconds? Combined with the non existent no huddle, burning time playing our "win the TOP and play not to lose" gameplan.

Boom. Exactly.

[teeray]

The Shula hate is old.  Denver has a great defense and we played poorly collectively.

Not every play call is perfect, but we did enough to win that game, but fugged it up with pre snap penalties and turnovers.

You guys are no better than the Cam Newton haters who cant wait to get your claws out whenever things dont go well.

[whatever]

They played poorly collectively, but Shula also deserves plenty of blame, as well.

 

The playcalling on 1st down was atrocious and predictable the entire night and as others have mentioned, Cam rarely had time to make adjustments at the line because it was taking an eternity to get the play from the sideline. 

 

But yeah, pretty much the entire offense playing poorly didn't help. Plenty of blame to go around.

[KushMcDieselson]

I mean our play not to lose gameplan almost bit us in the ass multiple times this season, how in the fug did Shula expect it to work when we never held a lead? Its also extremely easy for the D line to time the snap when the snap is always at 1 second on the at clock, and even easier when you know it's first down so a run up the middle is coming.

All the Shula lovers want to keep pointing at the players not executing, and I understand he didn't fumble the ball, over throw it or drop the pass, but he did leave them hanging out to dry with his dumb ass play calling. 

Not a single screen pass, not a single end around or even an end around fake. Our run game succeeded all year on misdirection and DE's having to defend 3 plays in one, but instead of calling the plays that got us this far he called a handful of vanilla read option plays, that weren't really any different than just running it straight up the gut, they were getting enough pressure to cover Cam and the RB.

Even worse, blitz after blitz and the tackles getting beat in 3 seconds or less and he was still calling 5+ second routes. I don't recall very many slants, especially none of the quick variety, but I do remember him connecting with Ginn on a 5-7 yard slant once, and Ginn turned it into a first down, but let's not repeat plays that work.  I mean the drag route to Brown was beautiful and Talib was gassed trying to keep up with him, he grabbed that facemask to save the TD, and immediately called to come out for a breather.

But hey, let's stick with what's not working, and run it up the middle for maybe 2, then follow that with some 10+ yard routes where Cam either gets  sacked, scrambles for his life to throw it away, or maybe gets between 1-3 seconds and hits the check down for 3 yards. Follow that up with a false start and another slow developing play for Cam to throw it away, get sacked or hit the check down 5 yards short of a first down, then repeat for 2 more quarters.

[Peppers90 NC]

Some fans waited in the wood work to pounce on Cam for having a bad game. Took them a whole season of 19 games, but now they are out in full force. Some fans waited in the wood work to pounce on Shula for having a bad game. Took them a whole season of 19 games, but now they are out in full force. They are the same type of people, just a different target.

[pstall]

Things we do and say on Mondays

[KushMcDieselson]

Shula wouldn't get as much hate had he owned up to his poo play calling instead of throwing Cam and the offense under the bus.  I've hated Shula as consistently as his gameplan of "middle run, middle run, deep pass, punt" was for all of 2014. I have been pleasantly surprised with his play calling this year, but every week I waited for him to revert back, I just hate he decided to poo the bed on the biggest stage instead of the regular season.

You guys who have all this love for Shula go rewatch vs Seattle and vs Arizona, then rewatch the Superbowl and tell me it wasn't a complete 180 in play calling.

It really does make it look like Cam's mental game at the LOS has jumped to that next level, seeing as he had plenty of time to make adjustments at the line vs having to roll with Shula's dumb ass original call that took 25-30 seconds to send in in the first place.