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Troubling comment from Rivera

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i am seriously fighting the urge to call for a house cleaning on this team this offseason. i'll admit it. i thought Rivera had an epiphany last season. i thought with him and our young core of talent, we could contend this year. i was even duped into believing that the team the Panthers fielded Game 1 was good enough to run away with the division. I'm not willing to give up hope yet. But i am close. this team needs to win next week and put the Saints back in their place. if they dont, i'll probably stop following the team until after the season ends.

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I guess I'd just hope Rivera wouldn't have to use press conferences in front of cameras and the media to pitch to Gettleman that we need help at tackle. The lack of productively at the tackle position could be seen coming from a mile away before this season even started. In pre-season they were terrible and they are terrible now. I'd hope Rivera could walk into his office and sit down face-to-face and tell Gettleman what we have currently at tackle is not sufficient. 

 

Yea I think we all hope that they have the type of relationship where there is a mutual respect and they can work together. Maybe they do and Rivera just really believes in Bell and Chandler. If that's the case I hope Rivera pulls his head out of his ass and admits that they need outside help, but then again maybe Gettleman is completely running the show.

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i am seriously fighting the urge to call for a house cleaning on this team this offseason. i'll admit it. i thought Rivera had an epiphany last season. i thought with him and our young core of talent, we could contend this year. i was even duped into believing that the team the Panthers fielded Game 1 was good enough to run away with the division. I'm not willing to give up hope yet. But i am close. this team needs to win next week and put the Saints back in their place. if they dont, i'll probably stop following the team until after the season ends.

 

Wasn't that supposed to be the case this weekend against the Seahawks??

 

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This past draft class couldn't have been better for us to address our need of offensive weapons for Cam. We got 1! O-N-E!

Donte Moncrief went off today, Allen Robinson had another solid day again. We keep saying "this offseason we'll do it" well we've said that too many times and nothing has seemed to change.

 

I try not to get bitter about the draft because of how large the pool is and chances at success for certain picks....but the one I'm still pissed about is letting Dave Bakhtiari slip past us because we wanted Edmund fuggin Kugbila.  

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No one accused Rivera of being smart and the more he talks and coaches the more people see how stupid he is and how terrible of a HC he is...sure he knows how to be a DC but he is/has been in way over his head as a HC.....we are finding out why he was passed over for a HC position so many times.

 

 

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No one accused Rivera of being smart and the more he talks and coaches the more people see how stupid he is and how terrible of a HC he is...sure he knows how to be a DC but he is/has been in way over his head as a HC.....we are finding out why he was passed over for a HC position so many times.

 

I'd hate to say it but that could be true.  We were his 9th HC interview in his career.  9th!

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i am seriously fighting the urge to call for a house cleaning on this team this offseason. i'll admit it. i thought Rivera had an epiphany last season. i thought with him and our young core of talent, we could contend this year. i was even duped into believing that the team the Panthers fielded Game 1 was good enough to run away with the division. I'm not willing to give up hope yet. But i am close. this team needs to win next week and put the Saints back in their place. if they dont, i'll probably stop following the team until after the season ends.

 

I won't stop following the team, but ya dude, I wanna Keep giving Ron a chance, but I just can't anymore. Rivera Is just Rex Ryan to me now. Without a sick nasty OC, I don't think this team will go anywhere with him as the HC. I jumped off the Rivera train last year and he pulled me back on, now... I'm off man, for good,  unless he shows me something. I think he just caught lightning in a bottle last year.

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@FootballMaestro... i dont remember. show me the quote. i honestly dont think i said that. i knew i would be going to the Saints game so i doubt i would have said that i'd stop following the team after todays game...

 

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You were talking about the need to 'put New Orleans in their place' next weekend.

 

So I said to you, 'shouldn't that had been the case this weekend'?  Lol. Cause I sure know, a lot of us knew Seattle was overrated and struggling, so wanted to put them in their place to.

 

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Just watched his press conference, something even more troubling stuck out to me:

When asked about the play of Bell and Chandler, it was basically "well, they did the best they could."

Unfortunately, Ron, their best isn't getting it done and is probably the second biggest reason behind Shula we have now dipped under .500. This isn't peewee football. This is the National Football League. "Best they could" just shouldn't cut it at this level. Something has to be done. Bring in competition, trade for a young tackle with upside. Bring in a veteran that has declined. There has to be upgrades elsewhere that can be had at a relatively affordable price.

RON RIVERA IS NOT THE FUGGING GM DUDE.

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