Is Ron Rivera a good head coach?

[rayzor]

1 minute ago, PhillyB said:

imo he stopped learning three years ago

that's what i saw with fox after his superbowl run here. he just stopped. then his message got old. i started picking up on it in '06 and by '07 i was done. the 08 season was a fluke, but ended exactly the way it should have been expected for the same reasons...why change what we do when it worked before?

i think with ron it's actually been worse. he'd learn and then he'd step back from it and revert to previous modi operandi.

[raleigh-panther]

No

simple reason. The head coach has to make tough decisions about his staff and about himself, and make course corrections quickly. he never does that it seems

he is the Executive manager on the field and when his line managers fail him over and over again, he refuses to take the needed corrective actions to improve 

firing colleagues to improve the product is not easy, but in business which this is, it must get done 

he should be doing self-evaluation  all the time, asking himself, ' how do we get better, do I need a better staff..do I need to be more involved '

Btw just like teams in business see this lack of urgency fro  leaders and stop performing, so do pro athletes  Leading is hard, very hard but you can't keep blaming the employees 

 

[juliosantos]

he sucks and always have sucked . rivera boat ron was just him desperate going for it on 4th . he lost us so many games its time to send him packing 

[juliosantos]

he never makes any changes until its almost / too late . took us long enough to start norman / turner /norwell in 2014 , took gettleman to cut cason and decoud , never benched remmers never benched byron bell , wont bench worley . 

[juliosantos]

way to conservative  its either we have a lead and blow it or were down by 14 and games over . we can never play from behind 

[bobsfoodbasics]

No

[arbnranger]

I actually consider him a good head coach. He won NFL coach of the year twice and made it to a Super Bowl. Those are incredibly difficult achievements to attain, that some...that most, never even sniff. 

Do I think he is a good head coach for us now?  I really have my doubts. 

This is the “Not For Long” league. When you stop progressing or “evolving” it’s time to move along. A new start, a new philosophy or a fresh perspective is sometimes what the team and the coach need. It feels like we’re close. 

 

[tiger7_88]

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Is Ron Rivera a good head coach?

 

[Steve_Smith_Sr.]

I do not think he is.  I think he got lucky with the COTY award due to a lot of luck and Cam having an amazing year.

Good coaches are great leaders.  He is not a leader in any sense of the word.  His coaching style is similar to what you see in the 4th quarter when we have a 6 point lead.  Timid, weak and ultimately destined for failure.

It's too bad.  I like who he is, but he is not a leader.

[arbnranger]

3 minutes ago, tiger7_88 said:

 

Never gets old ! 

[tiger7_88]

1 hour ago, *FreeFua* said:

Richardson created Riverboat Ron. Ron had nothing to do with the creation of that persona. 

Rivera took nothing away from that. He saw it as something he was forced to do and unless in that exact same situation again, that guy isn’t coming back.

 

 

http://sportsworld.nbcsports.com/ron-rivera-carolina-panthers/

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In the second game of the next season, the Panthers — having already lost their first game — were up on Buffalo by three points with less than two minutes left. They were in field goal range and faced a fourth-and-1. The options were stark. They could go for it; if they got the first down, the game would be over. Of course, if they missed the Bills would need only a field goal to tie the game.

Then, they could kick the field goal. That’s what the book says to do. Kick the field goal, go up six, and the Bills would be forced to go 80 yards in less than two minutes and score a touchdown.  Rivera barely hesitated. He had his team kick the field goal.

The Bills got the ball back, drove down the field and scored the game-winning touchdown.

Rivera could not get the decision out of his head. Nobody else in town could either. The Charlotte Observer called him out, saying it was fourth-and-1 for his future. The talk radio shows hammered him.

Two days later, he was driving home from the stadium late at night, and his mind was still on that play. The voice of John Madden was echoing: “There is no book.” Rivera mindlessly ran through a red light. Suddenly he saw the car about to T-bone him, and the next few seconds were squeals and panic and burnt rubber and heart-pumping adrenaline. The two cars had somehow managed to miss. And two lessons were clear. One: Pay attention when you’re driving. Yeah, that’s the obvious one.

But two, the big one, life is too precious to hold back and play scared.

The next week, the Panthers went for it on fourth down in a key moment. And the next week, they did again. And against Minnesota, they went for it twice. And they were winning. Suddenly, everyone was calling Rivera “Riverboat Ron.” Suddenly, the Panthers were playing the loose and free style he’d long wanted from them.

They won 12 of their next 14 games. And the players, for the first time, seemed to get what he was about — funny, driven, passionate, sober and a perfectionist.

 

 

 

 

[Marguide]

I have always thought Ron was in over his head.

Sunday's performance suggest the players may have come to the same conclusion.

[CPF4LIFE]

NO NO NO NO AND HELL NO.