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the exorcism of ron rivera


PhillyB

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> fantastic play clock management

> decent situational awareness

> situationally appropriate up-tempo offense

> punt coverage wasn't a flaming trash pile

the jury is still out on rhule and co. but these are vast improvements over rivera's regime. amazing that he couldn't improve in any of the areas during his decade-long tenure here.

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We looked better than expected, we moved the ball, we made adjustments at halftime, we didn't screw up the clock too much, had a good return game, still ran the ball right into the middle of the pile on 4th and 1 with 1:43 left to go in a winnable game.

Things are looking better in some areas. Others will take some time.

Rivera did get the win after five days of chemo treatments and practices afterwards. Perhaps the change was good for both sides. Ron used to be a heck of a coach, he seems to have found something in himself there. Rhule seems like he can be a heck of a coach, too and the pro game certainly doesn't seem to be to big for him and his basically college-level coaching staff.

We move on, wish the old teammates well and cheer on our new ones.

 

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1 hour ago, PhillyB said:

> fantastic play clock management

> decent situational awareness

> situationally appropriate up-tempo offense

> punt coverage wasn't a flaming trash pile

the jury is still out on rhule and co. but these are vast improvements over rivera's regime. amazing that he couldn't improve in any of the areas during his decade-long tenure here.

Most crucially for me, the defense was in disarray...but then improved somewhat midgame, despite being a young and weak unit.

Whereas when things fell apart under Ron, they tended to just keep on disintegrating.

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2 hours ago, PantherBoy95 said:

Ron won.

He did but it sure seemed like the Eagles did everything they could to give away that game. Pederson definitely falls into those one year wonder/everything goes right type of coaches. You are up 17-0 and you go for it on 4th down at midfield twice? You deserve to lose. Both of those led directly to Washington scores.

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Ron also came from years as a coveted DC in the NFL, Rhule did not

And yet for all his time here his defense ranked an average of like #18 in the NFL...

His offense ranked slightly worse

Special teams even worse than that

I’m still trying to figure out what exactly he did so well and can’t help believe the players really just had to overcome his BS

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