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Don Shula in Today's NFL?

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Today's media, tech, and players are different than when "The Don" coached. How would he have handled today's game?

Also, he coached some "characters." Wonder how they would have fared under media microscopes, and with twitter access.
 
he would have been great in any era, part of being great is being able to adapt to the changing times.
 
Shula would have been a great coach in any era. And like many great coaches, he'd need a strong personnel evaluator to help him.
 
Well.... for starters.

He probably would of told Snake Martin to quit being a little bitch and go change his tampon.

But hey, thats just my view on things.

:tumbleweed:
 
Some fun to speculate what Butch & Sundance, and well as Garo, etc may have been tweeting. Garo called Robbie cheap. That would have been good for over 100 posts and a few thousand reads. lol
 
If were applying today's media, technology and etc to when he was coach he wouldnt have lasted as long as he did. After about the 5-6 season of not winning a title with Marino he would of been shown the door.
 
Even with the technology as it is today, Shula would be a great coach. Anyday of the era of the NFL!
 
Depends on which Shula your talking about. The young hungry Shula, or the old content Shula.
 
Magnificently. That's how he would have handled it. The guy had like 2 losing seasons ever. He had more coaches go through there than Miami Airport.

He built a team around Unitas, another around Csonka, and another around Marino. He found guys who could do stuff and built systems and recruited coaches that could use the stuff they did well.

He regularly drafted low and didn't have the advantage of free agency to plug his holes. He made his team physically superior by working them mercilessly (today they have 17 padded practices and rarely a two-a-day, but Shula had them doing four-a-days without water). He drilled knowledge and discipline into his troops so they were regularly one of the least penalized teams in the league.

He dominated physically, intellectually, and relentlessly. As Bum Phillips said, "He could take his' n and beat your'n, then turn around and take your'n and beat his' n."

Yeah, Don Shula would have succeeded in today's NFL.
 
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Magnificently. That's how he would have handled it. The guy had like 2 losing seasons ever. He had more coaches go through there than Miami Airport.

He built a team around Unitas, another around Csonka, and another around Marino. He found guys who could do stuff and built systems and recruited coaches that could use the stuff they did well.

He regularly drafted low and didn't have the advantage of free agency to plug his holes. He made his team physically superior by working them mercilessly (today they have 17 padded practices and rarely a two-a-day, but Shula had them doing four-a-days without water). He drilled knowledge and discipline into his troops so they were regularly one of the least penalized teams in the league.

He dominated physically, intellectually, and relentlessly. As Bum Phillips said, "He could take his' n and beat your'n, then turn around and take your'n and beat his' n."

Yeah, Don Shula would have succeeded in today's NFL.
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Free agency was apart of the landscape during Shulas late years. Trace Armstrong among many others come to mind.
 
No question Don Shula had the "it" factor that the great coaches have. There are some very successful coaches that likely wouldn't have fared well in today's NFL. You think any owner today would give Tom Landry seven years to pull off his first winning season? Of course Landry ended up as one of the all-time greats.
 
With the way things have been going in Miami the past ten plus years, all I have to say is.....I miss Shula patroling the sidelines more than ever! Imo, Don Shula takes a backseat to NO coach in NFL history.
 
Digital said:
Magnificently. That's how he would have handled it. The guy had like 2 losing seasons ever. He had more coaches go through there than Miami Airport.

He built a team around Unitas, another around Csonka, and another around Marino. He found guys who could do stuff and built systems and recruited coaches that could use the stuff they did well.

He regularly drafted low and didn't have the advantage of free agency to plug his holes. He made his team physically superior by working them mercilessly (today they have 17 padded practices and rarely a two-a-day, but Shula had them doing four-a-days without water). He drilled knowledge and discipline into his troops so they were regularly one of the least penalized teams in the league.

He dominated physically, intellectually, and relentlessly. As Bum Phillips said, "He could take his' n and beat your'n, then turn around and take your'n and beat his' n."

Yeah, Don Shula would have succeeded in today's NFL.
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So right. 33 years coaching and only 2 losing seasons - one of them 6-8 and the other 6-10. And don't forget the team he somehow got to a SB with the late David Woodley at QB and the late Andre Franklin at RB.
 
Don was great over three decades. I don't know how many eras that is but it's a lot. 33 seasons coached w just 2 losing seasons and 6 Conference Championship wins, 2 SB wins. He would be fine in today's era - as he was in the 60's,70's,80's and 90's.
 
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