While our first 4 opponents haven't been "world beaters"...

[Dex]

Isn't anyone else extremely impressed with Rivera who is notorious for his slow starts? He's had the team prepared every week despite being down key players. Cam has been incredible and I'm not taking anything away from him but we should take a second and recognize Rivera for an uncharacteristic fast start to the season. (run on sentence ftw)

[motocross_cat]

Coaching has been outstanding IMO.

Even shula.  We are playing to our strengths and thus far we cant be stopped.

[bigskypanthersguy]

Pleasant surprise for sure, though I wish Rivera would talk to McDermott about the soft zone. 

[Chaos]

True.  I think is time to give Rivera credit and dare I say Mike Shula has called some good games.

Let's see Riverboat after the dreaded bye in a tough road battle for a complete evaluation. 

[PantherWake]

Great post Dex I was about to make a thread praising Rivera too

[hepcat]

Can't wait until the Seahawks game.  Panthers have looked good against the bad teams, @Seattle is the real test.

[Daeavorn]

I too was thinking as I drove home today after the game about how well Rivera has been doing. Im really glad to see him learning from the past and improving.

[tiger7_88]

Isn't anyone else extremely impressed with Rivera who is notorious for his slow starts? He's had the team prepared every week despite being down key players. Cam has been incredible and I'm not taking anything away from him but we should take a second and recognize Rivera for an uncharacteristic fast start to the season. (run on sentence ftw)

If someone is not impressed with a 4-0 start, they're just being silly.

You can only play the opponent thats in front of you and 4-0 is 4-0.

(Oh, by the way, the Panthers opponents are 3-12 as of right now.  Atlanta's opponents who are being bragged about like they are the best thing since sliced bread?  6-9.  For some reason 3-12 is "bad" (it is), but 6-9 is redefined to be "strong".)

[Kuhndog94]

Extremely impressed with Rivera. 

Extremely unimpressed with Kurt Coleman.

[JawnyBlaze]

Today Shula was not "good" but he wasn't as bad as he usually is so I won't harp on him. Rivera thus far has been ok, not bad but not great. There's still been clock management issues and game management issues (letting teams stay in the games instead of building a comfortable lead).  He's gotten a bit better about not taking three timeouts in his pocket to end halves, though, as well as solid challenge decisions for the most part. 

[HardcoreDefense]

I'm impressed but lets see if he can prepare this team to win after a bye

[ThPantherFan]

Never had a problem with Ron.  Now Shula on the other hand.......

[tondi]

I'm just glad we got a win in sloppy conditions and don't appear to have had any major injuries. 

[Carolina Cajun]

We're 4-0 without KB, 2 quarters from Kuechly, 2 without Cotchery, no O-line depth with Williams and Silatolu injured, 2 weeks without Star, 1 week without CJ, and a weak run game.  Look at those things I just listed, I don't care who we played, we're 4-0, and getting healthy when we need to.  This team is a contender regardless of what anyone says.