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Superior game plan by Ron & Co. led to ATL win

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Rivera won my respect when he benched 3 starters in the secondary and started playing the rookies. That took balls.

He said he knew he needed more speed in the secondary but it took time to coach up the rookies and in some cases time to come back from injuries. The whole staff has done a good job players that were described at many positions as the worse in the league and a team that was destined to finish 4th in their division by most experts. He has done what Fox, Payton, Gruden ,and Smith couldn't do. Win back to back division titles. And before you knock it just recognize that we had to make late season runs to do it which still makes Rivera effective winning games last in the season that have meaning. They call him riverboat because of the 4th quarter gambles. But he was a gambler since day 1 in some regards. After all he started a rookie quarterback that al the experts thought might need 2 years to even become a starter.
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Wow, maybe Ron and Co can figure out how to come up with great game plans ALL SEASON next year.

If they retain enough of the guys who know this scheme it is very likely. That way they won't be starting a bunch of guys with no real NFL experience like they did this year. Or guys who had never played in this scheme before. Hopefully we don t let great players go and replace them with backups as starters so when injuries hit your backups and projects end up having a trial by fire as they go from practice squad to starter in less than a week. If we want a consistent team we need a consistent roster with the yearly upgrades through the draft and free agency.
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If they retain enough of the guys who know this scheme it is very likely. That way they won't be starting a bunch of guys with no real NFL experience like they did this year. Or guys who had never played in this scheme before. Hopefully we don t let great players go and replace them with backups as starters so when injuries hit your backups and projects end up having a trial by fire as they go from practice squad to starter in less than a week. If we want a consistent team we need a consistent roster with the yearly upgrades through the draft and free agency.

I was thinking that the Panthers are on the cusp of owning the NFCS for years. All 7 rookies we started will not be poached by other teams because they will not be FA's. Neither will Cam or Greg or Ryan. Dickson might as maybe Remmers too. RB's on contract. Think Harper signed a 2 year contract. Davis, Kuechly, Galant staying, maybe Klein & Blackburn too. Star & Short will be here, Edwards may retire. CJ will be here too, not sure about the rest of the DT's but Gettleman tends to prefer 2 year contracts where he can. Maybe cutting Hardy :( will mean signing more of our DT's if they need to be. But I know Gettleman will not overpay for anyone to stay.

 

I'm liking Gettleman more & more.

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