Mike Shula
Mike Shula
Mike Shulais an American football coach who is the offensive coordinator for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League. Shula has been with the Panthers since 2011, when he was hired as their quarterbacks coach. He was promoted to offensive coordinator after Rob Chudzinski was hired to be the head coach of the Cleveland Browns. Shula served as the head football coach at the University of Alabama, his alma mater, for four seasons, from 2003 to 2006...
april character evaluate guys held leave lined progress spend spring tape three trying weeks
You spend three weeks in April getting yourself lined up for spring recruiting. You're trying to evaluate as much tape as you can. If you don't know who you want by this time, you're way behind. Character is more important too. We're being held accountable if guys leave with the new (Academic Progress Report).
chance family gives spend sunday time
You really don't see your family from Sunday to Thursday, so this gives us a chance to spend some time together,
defense improvement lined running rush sudden sure team
That's why you play the games. There's always things that you've got to get lined up for. I'm sure they're working on their running game, and we've got to make improvement on our defense ... or all of a sudden a team like that could rush for 250, 300 yards.
anytime ball empties happens hopefully impact open players touch
Anytime it happens to any of your players it empties your stomach. Hopefully he'll make a speedy recovery. He had an impact on every game, even when he doesn't touch the ball a lot. He can open things up for the other guys.
maybe tough toughest
We know we're in for a tough one, maybe the toughest one all year.
gonna work
I don't know how we're gonna work all that out. We'll just see how we get it going.
glad sure tried
I'm sure he was glad to be out of the hospital. I know he was glad to be out here. I think he even tried on a helmet.
balance believes hard improving obviously running work
He believes in running the football, and they're going to work as hard as they can on improving in that area. He obviously understands how important that balance is.
coach depth everybody great seniors tough
I feel better about our depth this year, and everybody who's been through tough times are seniors now. They're experienced and better players, and also better leaders, because of it. It makes you feel great as a coach to be around them.
both field guys spot
That's really another spot that you'll probably see both guys on the field this week.
attention bragging couple front game happened keeps last number paid rivalry time undefeated win
It's a big win because it keeps us undefeated and keeps everything out in front of us, ... There's so much attention paid to this game for a number of reasons, because it's a rivalry and the things that have happened the last couple of years. I think the most important thing is the game is for bragging rights. This year, anyway, it's our time to brag.
depend depends hard mindset school
It's all going to depend on his mindset in the off season. It depends on how hard he works, in school and in football.
biggest cards course defense hard holding last lined plays practice quickly showing since talked training worked
The biggest thing on the no huddle is you've got to get lined up quickly and you've got to communicate, ... It's hard to simulate that during the course of practice when you're holding up cards and still showing them plays but our defense has talked about it since day one of training camp. We've worked on it hard for the last 10 days.
attention football hard themselves worked
They've worked hard to get themselves in this position, to have a lot of attention on this football team. Then again, you don't want that to take away from their preparation.