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Was this year supposed to go this way?


Snake

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Rivera is talking like a coach going through a rebuilding process not one that is worried about his job and the score board. He constantly talks about young players and bringing them along. Not putting them in bad positions and them growing through learning pains. I'm reading through the tea leaves but he seems almost ok with how this season has happened and knows nothing is changing like he knew even before the season started we were going to be in a bad position and be picking early. 

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I think Rivera hopes he gets another season because Cam went on IR. He's hoping that he showed that he could still win some games with an undrafted second year QB. 

If Rivera coaches another season the team is going to completely implode and the corpse might smell a lot worse than the one from 2010.

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Are you sure you aren’t subjecting yourself to recency bias? Best way to be sure would be to go back and rewatch his pressers from the beginning of the year, was he saying these things then before everything fell apart? If not then it’s more likely just excuse making for recent craptacularness.

Also not to make excuses for him but there is a fair degree of actual truth in it. He’s stuck playing a young backup qb and a rookie LT who just came back from concussion protocol. At that point if they have horrible games what can you But talk about the growing pains of inexperience?

To be clear I’m firmly in the camp of being done with Ron, just pointing these things out.

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9 minutes ago, hepcat said:

I think Rivera hopes he gets another season because Cam went on IR. He's hoping that he showed that he could still win some games with an undrafted second year QB. 

If Rivera coaches another season the team is going to completely implode and the corpse might smell a lot worse than the one from 2010.

That’s a bold statement. That was a pretty fetid corpse.

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13 minutes ago, Snake said:

Rivera is talking like a coach going through a rebuilding process not one that is worried about his job and the score board. He constantly talks about young players and bringing them along. Not putting them in bad positions and them growing through learning pains. I'm reading through the tea leaves but he seems almost ok with how this season has happened and knows nothing is changing like he knew even before the season started we were going to be in a bad position and be picking early. 

Yea putting RG at LT (or really anywhere on the line), DJ Moore returning punts not because he can run or play it well but because Rivera and co inadequate finding someone who can simply fuging catch it, using Luke as a free safety, and having our back up RB run fly routes,  isn’t putting any player in a bad position.

Dear god let this season be this clown’s last year. He doesn’t know wtf he is doing anymore.

i will give him props for going for the FG so it wasn’t a complete blowout. 

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You know, I was watching some of the New England game yesterday and I watched as the coaches on the sideline were discussing plays and what Philly was doing to them.  They drew up plays right there on the sideline, took it to each position on the field and "taught" them the play as Romo put it because they didn't rep it at all that week in practice.  Young players aren't an excuse anymore, every team has young players...its called scheme, adjustments, understanding the current day NFL.  Things like that is why the Patriots have been so good for so many years.  I've never seen Ron or his coaching staff do anything like what I saw in that game yesterday.

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Why would anyone be surprised at this point? This scenario is exactly why many were hoping for new coaching and/or leadership following last season, not because Ron is terrible but rather because he's a known quantity and scenarios like this are all too familiar. I daresay that Hurney has even done a pretty solid job this time around but can understand the desire for a complete regime change.

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36 minutes ago, 1of10Charnatives said:

That’s a bold statement. That was a pretty fetid corpse.

The 2010 roster had a lot of players that continued to contribute for many seasons after that horrible season, some that were on the 2015 Superbowl roster. Some notable names:

Jordan Gross

Ryan Kalil

Travelle Wharton

Steve Smith

Jonathan Stewart

DeAngelo Williams

Brandon LaFell

Thomas Davis

Charles Johnson

Greg Hardy

Captain Munnerlyn

As far as a hypothetical 2020 collapse, other than Christian McCaffrey, I really don't think there are many players that will be contributing to a future playoff run. Half the roster are free agents this offseason. The team is going to look so much different next season it's pretty fair to predict that Ron Rivera would lead the team straight into the abyss the way things are trending. 

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