Coach Rivera is dominating the challenge game

[MVPccaffrey]

Good job coach riverboat, who I believe leads the league with successful challenges this year, with 6, out of 10 thrown. Kudos to the guys upstairs as well with the good intel and getting it to Coach before the next play. 

Arguably without the two we won yesterday, the game would have been a loss.

[xerxes]

Calculated risk taker Ron strikes again. 

[t96]

Challenges have little to do with the head coach. They don't make the decision. Upstairs either says yes challenge, or no don't. Rivera doesn't have access to the replays so he goes by what they tell him. Was always unfair criticism of Ron's when people ripped him for challenges.

[MadHatter]

4 minutes ago, thomas96 said:

Challenges have little to do with the head coach. They don't make the decision. Upstairs either says yes challenge, or no don't. Rivera doesn't have access to the replays so he goes by what they tell him. Was always unfair criticism of Ron's when people ripped him for challenges.

I was about to comment on this....and there you were.  100% accurate.

The HC only throws the flag...the guys upstairs are the ones that have to quickly look at these plays and determine whether a challenge is warranted.  The HC does not even have a view of said plays from the sidelines.

[caatfan]

3 minutes ago, thomas96 said:

Challenges have little to do with the head coach. They don't make the decision. Upstairs either says yes challenge, or no don't. Rivera doesn't have access to the replays so he goes by what they tell him. Was always unfair criticism of Ron's when people ripped him for challenges.

That's true but you won't hear the guy with the view getting either the credit or the blame. In the same vein, when we get a great free agent pickup thanks to Brandon Beane, it's still Gettlemagic.

[MVPccaffrey]

I would imagine the HC still has ultimate discretion whether to throw, no?

[rb]

31 minutes ago, Camvp said:

I would imagine the HC still has ultimate discretion whether to throw, no?

yes, but only if he can prevent people from digging into his pocket and grabbing the red flag.

[PhillyB]

the whole crew has gotten much, much better on this front. wasn't ron's success rate for challenges like 20% in 2012? it's gotten better by the year.

[Riverboat Ron]

Truth is the refs have been missing easy calls for us thus it's not hard to have a high challenge percentage when it's obvious the call was wrong.

[nickzz]

it should be better. if i remember correctly the refs blew at least one of our challenges.

[Ricky Spanish]

Better than Sean Payton. I haven't seen a Challenger as bad as him since the space shuttle. 

[luke nukem]

10 minutes ago, Cracka McNasty said:

Better than Sean Payton. I haven't seen a Challenger as bad as him since the space shuttle. 

hi reddit.

[Ricky Spanish]

34 minutes ago, luke nukem said:

hi reddit.

Shhh, let me have steal this moment. 

[t96]

1 hour ago, nickzz said:

it should be better. if i remember correctly the refs blew at least one of our challenges.

The 4th down conversion by the Colts towards the end of the game. That was not a fuging catch, one of the worst calls I've seen in my life.