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).
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.
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.
enthusiasm faster guys nine playing positions reacting tempo
I thought the tempo and enthusiasm from our guys was real good. We have a lot of positions that are open, nine positions specifically. We have to get used to reacting faster and playing better as a group.
small work
We've got some work to do. I think we made a small step.
certain coaches couple felt good looks runs
Our coaches felt like we could make a couple of little adjustments and get some good looks for certain runs and boy, they were good looks,
june point ready
I think he could be ready to go at some point in June or July, if not earlier.
bother guy parker punching stuff
(John Parker is) a guy that every once in a while you have to get on a little bit, but he's like a punching bag. That stuff doesn't bother him, which is good. You like that in your quarterback.
caught exciting explosive good hard liked night training worked
Keith worked really hard this summer. He had a good training camp. He's an explosive receiver. He's exciting to see because he's so fast. What I liked about (Saturday) night is once he caught the ball, he was going north.
efficiency running
We'll be out there and running their plays, but there's no way we can simulate their efficiency and speed.
answer sails took wind
To be able to answer is big. It took the wind out of their sails after they had some.
pulled result team tough ways
When you go through some tough times together, you find out a lot about each other. There's a lot of different ways you can go, and this team pulled together. And this was the result of it: 10 wins.
felt knocking trying weeks
Two weeks ago, we were 9-0 and we felt like we were knocking on the door. Now we feel like we are trying to find the right address.
against football good half poise team
We didn't have our poise in the first half and that is something that if you don't have it against a good football team at home, it is going to be ugly.