Alright but seriously. Mike Shula is worthless.

[Growl]

It's been three days since gameday now and a couple things have happened.

 

A) I've held to my vow to scale back on this team. My Huddle time over the past few days has been significantly cut back, and when I see posters making idiotic comments I'm mostly just letting stupid sleeping dogs lie stupidly.

 

and B ) The tidal wave of idiots who arise at every opportunity to trash down our QB has mostly receded. You have your usual array of simpletons who can't decipher what is happening on the field beyond where the camera places its view,  but they've been mocked by superior Huddlers into submission until the next time Cam is responsible for Byron Bell completely failing to make even the slightest bit of contact with an incoming pass rusher.

 

The serious issue that remains however is the fact that we are stuck with Mike Shula, and in this thread, whether it be through gif or joke or whatever, we will muse and mock about just how incompetent this hackjob is. There's no need for crow. As has been well documented, there were those who saw this coming, those who hoped for the best, and your usual cast of apologists which viciously attacked anybody who suggested that Mike Shula was not the man for the job in spite of all his failures. Okay so maybe a little crow, but I'm disappointed that it has reason for being served.

 

 

The bottom line is this: I don't know that I have ever seen someone who seems so unqualified for the position handed to him. The only thing that outweighs his inability to grasp our team's strengths and weaknesses is his complete and total potty job he's done as a playcaller.

 

For weeks now we have seen Shula ignore this offenses stronger points. Our massively gifted QB has been caddy-cornered by his play caller into remaining in the pocket, negating any advantage the threat of him running would give to our weak WR corp. Shula, in all his glory, has had Cam run very few designed runs this season (even in spite of his QB's own admission that running early helps settle him in) but, in an almost amusing display of incompetence, has continued to line up Cam in the shotgun and hand the ball off via a draw play, in a hilarious effort to try and use Cam's ability as a runner to scare the defense (mimicking the read option without an actual option on the play), without actually using his ability as a runner. Obviously, now that teams don't fear Cam running, the draw play has been as effective as, well, what you'd expect from the draw play.

 

In the same line of thinking, we have had Deangelo line up in the Wildcat a number of times this season- to run the exact same play every single time. At no point have we put the defense off balance. They know exactly what is coming, and the lack of success we've had out of the formation is evident of it. Remember that sweet pass Cam caught in Tampa his rookie year that almost went for a TD? Such a thing is a mythical beast in Shula's offense. The Wildcat is good for two yard runs up the middle.

 

You could make the argument Shula intended at some point to do different things out of these formations, but perhaps it would've been a good idea to do these things before the season was all but down the drain. One could say that perhaps the variations out of these formations haven't been implemented yet-but you'd be mocked. Was continuity not the reason Shula was supposedly promoted? We have seen these things in the past haven't we?

 

These brings me to Shula's failures calling a game. As has been said on here, the second half of the Arizona game was one of the most pitiful displays I've ever seen from an OC. The man has no understanding of rather basic concepts. The first qtr and for a time in the 2nd, we came out with our gameplan, and it was quite effective. Cam was on fire. The offense looked poised to explode at any point, and could have had even more if it were not for some focus lapses that have been a trademark of this team since Ron Rivera walked through the door and began coaching his way. (So much for "teachers" eh?)

 

Then, the second half came- and it was a whole new ball game. Arizona quite simply adjusted to what we did. They upped the measure and intensity of their blitz packages, taking advantage of our weak OL and our weak WR corp's inability to get open. With nowhere to go, our QB was put under pressure time and time again. So what counter did Shula make? Did he go to some quick screens that have proven to be effective when used? Did he get the ball in our most explosive wideout's hands (Ginn) in some quick screens and dump offs? Did he roll our large, fast QB out of the pocket and give the ball to Greg Olsen who was on fire? Perhaps some QB draws?

 

No. No. He did none of these things. He stuck to his 5 and 7 step drops. His deep, complex routes. He stayed the course without the players on the roster to be able to play this kind of way. He was unable to even process what was happening our team, and Carolina put up it's second 6 point effort under his watch in a total of four games. Did a drop or two hurt us here and there? Of course it did, but unfortunately, these things plague every team, every week, of every single season. It is there, at those points, that coaching comes into play. And the coaches for the Carolina Panthers in these moments, are completely, and utterly lost.

 

It is a shame that the rest of the NFC looks the way it does. That the team itself looks as talented as it does. Because the coaches for the Panthers make this team a tease. Good job Jerry.

[nosuchthingasapanther]

I've seen the sun cover less surface area than your post.

[jayflip]

Shula and Rivera are in way over their heads. It's kind of like that crappy movie Open Water, and it's only a matter of time til the sharks frenzy and they both sink to the bottom.

[Growl]

I've seen the sun cover less surface area than your post.

 

There is more information in the first line of my post than you've contributed since joining.

[Bishop]

Who thought he was going to turn things around? Mediocre coaching staff you get mediocre/ poor results. Being cheap doesn't  work in the NFL.

[EasternJ]

The tidal wave of idiots who arise at every opportunity to trash down our QB has mostly receded. You have your usual array of simpletons who can't decipher what is happening on the field beyond were the camera places its view

Be careful throwing stones at "idiots".  You might hit yourself in the eye.  You might think Cam is off limits, but his play is open to critical discussion like everyone else on the team.

[*FreeFua*]

I think at one point in the 3rd or 4th quarter Matt Ryan was 24/27 but only threw one pass that was longer than 15 yards. Atleast they are calling plays based on there horrible OLine. If there defense was as good as ours they would have won Monday night.

When you watch teams like Seattle, Washington, San Fran, these OC's are putting these QB's in good positions to succeed. With short passing plays with the deep ball mixed in. Roll outs for These guys to make plays with there legs. Not calling plays that take years to develop with a non existent OLine.

[Growl]

Be careful throwing stones at "idiots".  You might hit yourself in the eye.  You might think Cam is off limits, but his play is open to critical discussion like everyone else on the team.

 

It really rustles your jimmies when somebody uses a more intricate understanding of what's happening on the field to explain why your opinion is stupid doesn't it?

[ZeroZeroSeven]

Rivera - great DC, terrible HC.

Shula - good QB coach, terrible OC.

[Bishop]

I think at one point in the 3rd or 4th quarter Matt Ryan was 24/27 but only threw one pass that was longer than 15 yards. Atleast they are calling plays based on there horrible OLine. If there defense was as good as ours they would have won Monday night.

When you watch teams like Seattle, Washington, San Fran, these OC's are putting these QB's in good positions to succeed. With short passing plays with the deep ball mixed in. Roll outs for These guys to make plays with there legs. Not calling plays that take years to develop with a non existent OLine.

 

Its called good coaching.

[Cary Kollins]

Zero touchdowns.

 

 

 

That's all you need to tell me about his worthlessness.

[Guest]

Rivera - great DC, terrible HC.

Shula - good QB coach, terrible OC.

 

? I think that should be questioned as well. 

[Zod]

Who thought he was going to turn things around? Mediocre coaching staff you get mediocre/ poor results. Being cheap doesn't  work in the NFL.

 

You want a list?

[top dawg]

Don't you just hate the line "They're not built to come from behind"?

 

I never thought that this would apply to the Panthers in Cam Newton's third year.

 

Our big play, dynamic offense has gone from stud to dud in two short years.