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00:00Rams defensive coordinator Chris Shula is the hottest coaching candidate with zero head coaching

00:05experience in this hiring cycle and it shows. Teams are lining up to talk with him. It's been

00:11reported that he has interview requests with the Cardinals, the Raiders, the Titans, Giants,

00:16Ravens, and the Dolphins. A lot of teams like him, but if the Giants love him and hire him,

00:22could he be next season's Liam Cohen? I'm talking about that first-time coach that comes in

00:27and just absolutely turns things around for the better. All right, let's break down what makes

00:32Shula such an attractive candidate and we'll start with the pros and I know I'm the one that's always

00:38saying in these videos that Jackson Dart's development is or at least should be the number

00:43one priority in this coaching hire, but everybody knows defense wins championships and this dude

00:50has the defensive schemes and the defensive mind to get the most out of his personnel and players

00:56whether it be a star or a role player and he showed that this season. The Rams defense was elite with

01:04only one first round pick selected by the franchise and they had the most snaps on defense played by

01:11two free agents that they picked up for cheap. Shula turned mid and late round picks into a unit that

01:18allowed only 20.4 points per game during the regular season, which was top 10, and they were fifth

01:25in takeaways with 26. Let me show you guys how his creativity and play calling created those

01:33takeaways and these play breakdowns. All right, let's have some fun with this because this is a really

01:38great defense to watch and I think that Chris Shula is very creative when it comes to calling plays.

01:46You see this interception here early in the season by Kobe Durant.

01:54Let's rewind that back and then let's break it down because what you're going to see, what you see

02:00pre-snap is not what the play is going to end up being or the defensive call going to be end up

02:06being. Right now you got a nickel look. That means you got five DBs on the field, two linebackers,

02:13and then you have your five down linemen or you got the two edge rushers on the outside. So one,

02:20two, three, four, five, five DBs, one, two. Your interior linebackers or however you want to

02:27label them, one, two, three, four, you got your four down linemen. What we're seeing right now pre-snap

02:34or what CJ Stroud is seeing pre-snap is or what looks like some sort of single high cover three

02:43look. You got corner right here, number 14, fourth round draft pick a couple years ago,

02:49Kobe Durant. You also got your safety right here, Cameron Kitchens right here. Again,

02:57what you see pre-snap is not what you're going to get post-snap. They're in a one high look right

03:05here and at the snap of the football, this now goes from cover three to a cover two look. Safety

03:14high over the top. He's got his half of the field. This corner, he's got the flats. You see him playing

03:21outside in, eyes on the quarterback. Now what you would usually see in a traditional cover two

03:28would be this corner here, Kobe Durant playing the flats on this side and Cameron Kitchens

03:34marrying this safety playing off the hash over the deep half of the field. But what they switch into

03:42is a cover two invert or inverted cover two to where now these two guys switch responsibilities.

03:50The corner now becomes the deep half safety and the free safety or the safety here now becomes the

03:59cloud player or the flat player. And you see it right at the snap of the football runs out. It gets

04:06placed outside, eyes on the quarterback looking in. And now this corner, Kobe Durant goes over the top

04:14to play his half. You've got the eyes on this hole. You know, you got the bench route here. You've

04:20got the flat route, which is a cover two beater. But because of down in distance and because of what

04:28Chris Shula or how Chris Shula and his defensive coaches have coached these players up to not bite

04:36the cheese and jump the shallow route or the shorter route. He now gets help on this corner route

04:45that will force CJ Stroud to hang that ball up in the air and to allow him to recover to make a play.

04:54Great speed turn to get across. Great speed turn to get back in phase. And again, your eye and your

05:04baiting. This safety is baiting CJ Stroud into throwing this route. Eyes on. You see the down in distance right

05:12here. It's going to take a deeper throw to get the first down. He now falls off and he gets in phase.

05:20And now the ball is in the air and you've got two on one right here. Two defenders to make a play

05:26on this bench route or you could call it the corner route. It was a high throw. It had to be a perfect

05:31throw. He couldn't drop it in the bucket. And now you get a fourth round pick playing above his pay

05:37grade. And making a huge play on the day. There's a reason why these guys were fifth in the league

05:44or this defensive unit was fifth in the league in terms of creating take takeaways and turnovers.

05:51Huge play. Again, you didn't get the look that you thought you didn't get the look post snap that

05:57he thought he was going to get pre snap. And that comes from the creativity of the defensive coordinator.

06:03Go make a play. Now this is a wild card game that we just saw. Week one, wild card. Rams are on the

06:10road against Carolina. A play needs to be made here. You see the Panthers, again, trying to motion,

06:19trying to moving guys around. You're trying to create either numbers or some sort of advantage

06:25against this defense. This defense is showing you another too high-ish look.

06:32Or you could get some sort of, it looks like it could be some sort of cover zero. They look like

06:37they could be blitzing. Maybe not really because this corner's playing offsides. Usually they're

06:42inside. But just with all the movement that's going on pre snap, you never know. These guys are

06:48moving around. Post snap, they now get into a cover three robber look or three hole to where this safety

06:57now switches responsibilities with this linebacker. But let's watch. Let's watch the play first.

07:08Another pick by Kobe Durant. Let's break this thing down. I mean, you got to be able to confuse these

07:18quarterbacks in the NFL. You never want these quarterbacks to have some sort of advantage or

07:23or have some sort of understanding on where they want to go with the football as soon as they line

07:29up. So traditional cover three would be this corner deep third. This safety, I mean, this corner has his

07:37deep third. This safety has his deep third. This corner has his deep third. If this, this safety would

07:47have curl the flat. This backer would have hooked the curl, backer, hook the curl. This outside defender

07:56right here, which would be the will, would have curl the flat. Traditional cover three. By switching the

08:04responsibilities now throws Bryce Young off a little bit to where now this outside linebacker,

08:12this edge rusher, this edge rusher now is the force player. And we call it buzz because now the backer

08:17has the force. So now he has the curl the flat. If it was traditional, then we would call it sky

08:25because the sky, the safety would have the force. I get cover two. We call it cloud because the cloud

08:33corner, the corner, the C, he would have the force. But they're, they're switching responsibilities here

08:39to where they're buzzing it to where now this linebacker goes and plays the curl the flat.

08:45And now this safety right here now comes down, walks into this hole, walks into this robber position,

08:51and they switch positions and responsibilities. And you see a play out here. It kind of throws,

08:58kind of throws. I know he looks to the strong side first, but it throw, it's going to throw Bryce Young

09:03off when he, when he comes back side. So you see it here, you see this backer playing this heavy

09:08outside to be, to play the flats. And now you see him, you see this safety now jump down into this hook

09:15to curl, ready to rob anything that comes towards the inside, rather it be some sort of slant,

09:21shallow cross. He could help on this dig route, this backside six that's right here behind his head.

09:27They get the pressure on Bryce Young. He makes an arid throw. He makes a panic throw

09:34to try and fit it into a hole that's really not there. You got your backer here helping out.

09:41Tip ball. Here comes the pick. And now the Rams are rolling. Kobe Durant, another interception

09:48on the year. Chris Shula is in his bag with his creativity and his ability to have players who

09:59aren't stars or well-known across the league defensively step up and make some great plays

10:08and some big plays and some huge moments. If he can do that, if he can take that to being a leader of

10:15men of a defensive unit, to being a head coach and getting everybody to buy in, that I feel like

10:20he is going to have the ultimate success as a first-year, first-time head coach.

10:25But on the flip side, we got a Riverside. Let's talk about some of his cons. Obviously,

10:31it's the lack of experience. I know he's been around Sean McVay since, what, college?

10:36I know the pedigree when it comes to him being the grandson of legendary Dolphins,

10:41coach Don Shula, and the son of former NFL assistant Dave Shula. But I do not know how

10:47he's going to be able to handle clock management late in the game, disciplining players, and of

10:53course, talking to the New York media. If it all goes sour, does he have the temperament as a head

10:58coach to keep it fresh? Another con. I am always going to question if or will a defensive-minded head

11:06coach will get the most or get in the way of Jackson Dart's development as a franchise quarterback.

11:12Will you let Jackson Dart cook and throw late in a game to put it away? Or would you want his

11:19offensive coordinator to run the football and bleed the clock and be conservative? Final thought,

11:24though, because I think that this is the candidate that doesn't have the head coaching experience that

11:31I want, but I think that he is the best fit for the Giants. He's been slowly climbing the ranks within

11:37McVay's staff for years and it's about that time that he becomes the next coordinator from McVay's

11:42coaching tree to get his shot as a head coach. I also love the fact that defensively he gets the

11:48most out of his players and I think that's going to be something that not only carries over from leading

11:53just a defensive unit to leading an entire team. Joe Shane is not going to have to give up any power

12:01or duties to work with this guy because he's a first-time head coach so you're not going to have

12:07to worry about any power dynamic or struggle between GM and head coach. Chris Shula's stock

12:14continues to grow with each Rams win in the playoffs and I can see the Giants having to battle it out with

12:21the Ravens to land him.

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