WashPost story on Rivera

[Fox007]

The issue with RIvera was never about his character or steadiness it was consistency. Man had several shoulda been HoFers only one maybe two will even get in now...

I like Rivera the person but moving on was the right decision, just because this franchise went backwards like it always seems to do doesn't mean you just stick with mediocrity. 

What's going on now is different than before and we have a college coach, an unknown at gm given the power of the coach and a potentially shitty to bottom 3 owner....poo went South faster than Ohio natives moving here and then talking about how good it is up north until pressed about jobs, weather,  and why they moved here in the first place.

Edited January 9, 2022 by Fox007

[PandaMan]

3 winning seasons in 11 years says it all.  Ron’s a great guy and a mediocre head coach.  End of story. 

[JawnyBlaze]

No. Rivera was terrible. I’d rather move on, get worse but still have a chance to get better after Rhule is gone. 

[TLGPanthersFan]

We are seeing with Rhule the exact same thing we see with Hurney and Rivera. 
Tepper, who supposedly is impatient, doesn’t get rid of things that are obviously not working and it hurts the team. 
2022 season is gonna be rough. 
 

[Manna]

1 hour ago, TheBigKat said:

Nice man but if you can’t have back to back winning seasons with prime Luke, Cam, Davis, Olsen, Kalil, Johnson you’re not really an amazing coach

Truth. 

[t96]

3 hours ago, ladypanther said:

Agree ...absolutely!

 

Ron never had a good GM.  Now he is basically the boss, something that I think  is a mistake.  I would have liked to see him with a good GM here. Maybe things would have gone a little better.

 

Ron's record with Gettleman as GM (including 2017 since Gettleman built that team before he got fired) was actually quite impressive. Those results spoke for themselves, though I'm not sure they would've continued if nippleshorts was kept as the team clearly had a lot of flaws and he has done horribly in NY.

[KillaCamNewton]

3 winning seasons in 9 years lol. Went 6-10 after bringing back the majority of a Super Bowl team the previous year

[raleigh-panther]

To be fair, Ron is what, on his third string Qb

..and that third string is better than the Panthers first string 

 

[Mr. Scot]

30 minutes ago, t96 said:

Ron's record with Gettleman as GM (including 2017 since Gettleman built that team before he got fired) was actually quite impressive. Those results spoke for themselves, though I'm not sure they would've continued if nippleshorts was kept as the team clearly had a lot of flaws and he has done horribly in NY.

Have said it before: For whatever you think of them individually, as a combo they worked.

[GoobyPls]

Washington will never win a SB with Ron as a coach.

[t96]

4 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Have said it before: For whatever you think of them individually, as a combo they worked.

Yeah they did and I'm still upset Richardson fired Gettleman the way he did since nothing he did up to that point was actually worthy of firing him. '16 was rough and the Norman situation was a mess but we had made the playoffs 3 straight years including a SB before '16, then he's fired out of nowhere during training camp and he actually built a solid team for '17 as shown by our record. Made no sense then, makes no sense now. 

At the end of the day it probably doesn't matter as with Cam's injuries piling up we were likely doomed regardless but I still do wonder a bit what if JR didn't pull that crap to bring back Hurney.

[ThPantherFan]

5 hours ago, Paa Langfart said:

Does anyone wish we had kept him and simply changed GM's ?

 

I've loved Rivera ever since he was playing for the Bears.  He is a decent coach but it was time he moved on from the Panthers.  If we had better upper management at the time Rivera probably would have done much better.  Glad he's had fair success at Washington.

[ThPantherFan]

5 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

Hurney never should have been brought back to begin with

That's a true statement if ever I've heard one.

[Stumpy]

28 minutes ago, t96 said:

Yeah they did and I'm still upset Richardson fired Gettleman the way he did since nothing he did up to that point was actually worthy of firing him.

Nippleshorts was fired for his role in exposing what a piece of poo Ole Jerry was behind the scenes.

Everybody remembers Blue Jean Fridays and the creepy foot massages, but nobody ever talks about the scout (hired by Gettledouche) that JR dropped the hard R on multiple times before he quit and dimed out the entire shitshow we had going on down on Mint Street.