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Ron Rivera is too scared to be a great NFL Head Coach

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Growl Grand Master

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This is something I don't have to tell you, but perhaps this is the game will be the catalyst of his finish here in Carolina. His innate fear has been a recurring theme throughout his tenure here,

In the build up to this game, Ron Rivera sat most of his marquee players to let them heal up, rest, ensure he wasnt putting their life after football in jeopardy. This eventually culminated in sidelining the Panthers best offensive player in what is a playoff game in every sense of the word (lol at preparing for the wild card) apparently before he even had a chance to test himself out on the grass. Rivera had his mind made up. Olsen, afterall, is a quality young man with  promising career after football.

This was the complete opposite of the opponent this week, who pressed as many players as possible into service this week.

At halftime of the game, sideline reporter Erin Andrews had a chance to speak with both coaches. Ron Rivera's words to Andrews were:

"we just need to relax, calm down, execute."

Opponent Sean Payton's words?

" we really need to step our energy up, this game is for the division!"

If this feels familiar, it should.

At halftime of the 2013 NFC Divisional Playoff, Ron Rivera took an identical approach versus fiery contemporary Jim Harbaugh. The second half results spoke for themselves. A defeated and quiet Panthers team immediately began to be blown out by a prideful, gloating, fired up SF Niners team.

Fast forward a few years, similar situation, same approach, same results.

Ron Rivera simply doesn't have the guts to coach with the big guys.

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None of our coaching staff is going anywhere. We already have enough wins go guarantee a non losing season.

I bet you we lose to Vikings, win out, get a wild card, lose 1st round. That will be considered progress from last season and no one is going to be fired unless they have multi losing seasons in a row

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2 minutes ago, X-Clown on 1 said:

Almost a minute to go in the first half and two timeouts and he kneels on it...then he proceeds to just let NO kneel the game away at the end with a timeout in his pocket.  Does he have any fight in him whatsoever?

oh yeah I forgot about this.

 

Getting a field goal and some offensive momentum there completely changes the dynamic of the game.

 

Ron Rivera asked himself "yeah, but what if it goes wrong?"

 

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9 minutes ago, 0115 said:

this board is so biopolar. people take a Xanax and chill

Over the past several weeks, I've been told that I needed to be optimistic because we had a winning record and we were beating bad teams  My response has been that I didn't believe we could beat good teams. I wanted to see how we'd look against a team like the Saints.

Leading up to this game, I still harbored a hope that I might be proven wrong.

No such luck.

We're not good enough.

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Ron Rivera's response to us entering into a big game was to completely transor the offense into a shell.

Where was the trademark reverse? Where were the long passes on a bad new orleans secondary with your long strider back in the lineup.

 

Rivera is only willing to employ such plays when we play bad teams, which says something about him in and of itself.

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