Great points, as usual.Shula had a chance with free agency. I remember one year the team had something like 18 former first round picks and of course a lot of those were players they got in free agency and I believe we didn't make the playoffs. I loved coach Shula but he had a lot of bad drafts and plenty of free agents miss tho he did well with some of them like Irving Fryar and Keith Byars.
As far as him coaching in today's NFL.......his style would not fit with the way players are now imo.
Shula was definitely an old-school coach, but Bellicheck has been described the same way.