Per ESPN: Rivera says Cam and Luke "have to be perfect"

[tiger7_88]

Issuing a challenge to their two best players to be even better. I don't see this as a bad thing

 

 

Again, this is looking back to college, but the more pressure that was put on Cam at Auburn, the better he performed.

[pstall]

When the word perfect is worked into the conve about your job performance that never ends well.

[Mr. Scot]

When the word perfect is worked into the conve about your job performance that never ends well.

 

I need your posts to be more perfect from here on out.

 

[@bobbyagnese]

Good. He's treating them like the leaders they need to be.

[CelibatePimp]

Nothing to see here. They have this responsibility as leaders to be better than the rest.

[CarolinaNCSU]

No real issue with what RR said. Supposed to be motivating, but I can see it being misconstrued as well.

 

 

Either way, hard to expect chicken salad with so much chicken poo around you. 

[AKPantherFan]

Puts more pressure on our 2 best players who are already under tremendous pressure.

Takes pressure off everyone else.

Ron, I hope like hell you know what you're doing.

in your meeting with them would u not have told them the same??

If u have one bad ass horse and the rest are pos would u not expect your best to beast out???

[Marguide]

in your meeting with them would u not have told them the same??

If u have one bad ass horse and the rest are pos would u not expect your best to beast out???

 

Okay, so let's stick with the horse theme.

 

Let's say you have 50 hooked together to pull something big. Maybe a beer carriage, like the Clydesdales. You put your 2 star horses in front and they are indeed wicked good. The horses behind them, not so much. Some aren't keeping the proper rhythm. Others are distracted and looking around at what is going on nearby. At the very back are a couple who can't even keep their legs under them and are literally being dragged along by the other horses. 

 

Do you think focusing your efforts on the lead horses are going to significantly improve your performance?

 

One more analogy for you. If you take a group hiking, the fastest hikers don't set the pace. The group can only go as fast as the slowest member.

 

Neither of these analogies fit perfectly for a football team, but the fact remains, you can't surround 1 star on D and 1 on O with scrubs and expect to have success, no matter how perfectly they play. I don't think the rest of our guys are scrubs, but guys like CJ and Star and Kalil need to do a lot of soul searching to examine why their play is so different this year than last.

[SlamminCamNewton]

What other QB in this league get this much pressure place on them with this little weapon?

LOL, now Brady. I'm positive Cam has more weapons than Brady at this point.

[AKPantherFan]

Okay, so let's stick with the horse theme.

Let's say you have 50 hooked together to pull something big. Maybe a beer carriage, like the Clydesdales. You put your 2 star horses in front and they are indeed wicked good. The horses behind them, not so much. Some aren't keeping the proper rhythm. Others are distracted and looking around at what is going on nearby. At the very back are a couple who can't even keep their legs under them and are literally being dragged along by the other horses.

Do you think focusing your efforts on the lead horses are going to significantly improve your performance?

One more analogy for you. If you take a group hiking, the fastest hikers don't set the pace. The group can only go as fast as the slowest member.

Neither of these analogies fit perfectly for a football team, but the fact remains, you can't surround 1 star on D and 1 on O with scrubs and expect to have success, no matter how perfectly they play. I don't think the rest of our guys are scrubs, but guys like CJ and Star and Kalil need to do a lot of soul searching to examine why their play is so different this year than last.

Understand what ur sayin, but that is not what I was sayin.

[panthers_fan_in_tx]

I didn't mind what he said here. There was another part of the interview where he seemed to be happy with us scoring 17-20 points per game though. He must not notice how bad the D has been lately