Diagnosing a big problem in both our wins & loses

[davos]

I was hoping to not post this week given the situation/amount of threads trying to put things in perspective, but I see a glaring issue that we even had while winning:

This is a bipolar team that can't finish and it stems from coaching.  When our stud players have excelled and rallied the team, they disguised the coaching weaknesses that didn't actually go away last season.  

When we are up, we are way up.  When we are losing our grip, it vanishes.  There is no in between and last season as a whole encompasses what we have fallen back to doing now a single game at a time.  We are a streaky team under Ron, and when this happens, the whole team seems to lose it mentally and I don't care what anyone says, that's on coaching in my book.  

We bent a lot in second halfs last season....still had wins like 38-35, 27-23, 29-26, 41-38, etc.  But at the end of the day, Cam went ham having an unbelievable year which was like a mega-booster.  The defense played takeaway and we rolled despite rather obvious defficiencies.  

In the NFL you can't consistently win games like that.  We've been known to do this under Rivera and what seems to happen when it doesn't fall in our court is the team loses their grip.  Their grip on identity, poise, intensity, and dare I say passion.  Outside of the few 125%-ers, there's just meh out there.  They almost play like they're entitled to win rather than actually going out there and punching the other team in the mouth.  

I don't know if anyone else sees this but that is the attitude that I'm growing tired of.   There's actually some good posting going on here right now and I've seen criticism of how even great teams know when change is needed.  I'm not suggesting to fire anyone (yet) but that microscope that was heavily on Rivera from year one up until a season and a half ago should be smack dab on this coaching staff again.  

We have won with Cam in spite of coaching and it is down right getting frustrating to the point of fandome apathy.  Ron is a hell of a players' coach and I actually still consider him top-15 but the staff assembled just doesn't do it for me.  He has shown he can learn from his mistakes but this streaky attitude the team seems to exhibit and rather lackluster staff-building skill is a growing concern given we are sticking with this now at year 6 with Cam Newton, Luke Kuechly, & co.  We can't waste this time and I want a turn around but I think a hot seat situation should very well be in order.  

It helped the last 2 times he was in it.  It's unfair to everyone putting the talent we have in the system we have established IMO.   Yes, we have big holes at S, CB, DE, and OT but this is a bigger deal in my opinion.  Coaches should be able to mask deficiencies, our staff doesn't seem to and rely on the players' to constantly be at an A+ level.  

Emo drivel end.  

 

  

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