Rivera: Missed opportunities cost us the game

[hepcat]

21 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

I won't lie. This one hurt.

Were there coaching mistakes? Absolutely. Was Rivera outcoached? You can make a pretty good argument for it. Yet even with all that, this game was infinitely winnable.

There are times when you can say things just didn't bounce our way, but this isn't one of them. While it wasn't perfect, good fortune gave us every opportunity to win this game... and we just didn't.

That stings.

Same old story from the second half of last year. It’s like that Steelers blowout just completely removed the Panthers ability to close out a game. Nothing is going to change.

[RumHam]

4 hours ago, cptx said:

I agree. they missed the opportunity to bring in a new coaching staff quite some time ago

This is an underrated comment

[RumHam]

17 minutes ago, hepcat said:

Same old story from the second half of last year. It’s like that Steelers blowout just completely removed the Panthers ability to close out a game. Nothing is going to change.

They ruined the franchise

[Mr. Scot]

I will say that even though I think his 10000th use of the phrase "missed opportunities" was appropriate today, there are still things that frustrate me about Ron Rivera.

One of them being this:

"We're going to use Christian McCaffrey and CJ Anderson as an effective one-two punch."

(no you didn't)

"We're going to take a longer look at Cameron Artis-Payne."

(that never happened)

"We're going to have someone dedicated to helping manage the clock."

(you didn't actually change a thing)

"We're going to try and do a better job of getting Christian some relief."

(not that I've seen yet)

...

Those are just off the top of my head, but I know there are more examples.

I don't know if Ron promises things and forgets them or if he's just promising things to get people to shut up about them or if he just doesn't give a sh-t. It's impossible to say.

Regardless, whatever the reason, his word can't exactly be taken as gospel.

So if it were possible to drop a note in his suggestion box, I'd say this: "If you have no intention of actually doing it, don't frigging say it!"

[CRA]

Missed opportunities? 

Dang at least Foxy would switch it up some.  Bad day to have a bad day.   He wouldn’t give us it is what it is every loss. 

[CBDellinger]

5 hours ago, Icege said:

It's like nobody here watched All Or Nothing 

You’re not suggesting he says one thing publicly and another thing privately are you?  Why would he do that?  /s

[manu4t]

5 hours ago, Knockout said:

aka outcoached

^^^^

This

my god, this