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Dab Like No One’s Watching

Kevin Greene

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Ron Rivera has, for the past two Carolina Panthers victories and possibly more, told his team in the locker room following the wins to “keep your personality.”

Yes, the one-game-at-a-time mantra has and will always be Rivera’s favorite refrain, but this one is just as important.

What Rivera is telling his players: keep dancing during warmups at practice during the week, keep playing music in the locker room, keep mouthing the lyrics to an Adele hit song for an Instagram video, keep celebrating touchdowns and interceptions and never lose yourself.

“There’s a great saying: Respect your opponent but believe in yourself,” Rivera said Friday after Carolina’s 33-14 dismantling of the Dallas Cowboys on Thanksgiving. “If you start worrying too much about that side of things and doing things completely the right way, I think you lose that little edge. And I think that’s something that’s been good for us is keeping that edge.”

 

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nfl/carolina-panthers/article46960515.html

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Things like this make he glad we still havr ol' Riverboat coaching the Panthers.

I remember being ready to run Ron out of town after the bad start to the 2013 season. I always thought he was an awesome person, but wasn't sure about his game management decisions and getting the team prepared to play. 

Then Riverboat was born and Rivera has really turned out to be an awesome coach. I'm so glad that our front office had more patience then the average fan.

I'm happy for Ron and glad he proved me wrong.

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The two hardest things to get in the NFL.

1. A LEGIT franchise QB (check)

2. A great head coach (check)

I have NEVER seen a coach grow as much as Rivera. Usually coaches are stubborn and stick to their guns no matter what. We are lucky to have him and THANK GOD we let him grow instead of being like these other loser franchises and giving up on him after a few years.

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2 hours ago, Castavar said:

The two hardest things to get in the NFL.

1. A LEGIT franchise QB (check)

2. A great head coach (check)

I have NEVER seen a coach grow as much as Rivera. Usually coaches are stubborn and stick to their guns no matter what. We are lucky to have him and THANK GOD we let him grow instead of being like these other loser franchises and giving up on him after a few years.

Yes! So many of us wanted him gone, including me.

And though JR let Ronnie Dangle in the wind after the 2012 season, before bringing him back. It was the best decision (or non decision) for the Franchise from that point on, along with the pick up of Dave Gettleman, JR made.

Yes, JR's patience, actually worked in his favor this time with Rivera!

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