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Steve Smith on Ron Rivera

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MHS831 Grand Master

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51 minutes ago, csx said:

I wish I didn't keep finding more evidence of how petty Smith is.

While Rivera wasn't great and had coaching flaws the true leaders of that time frame loved Rivera.

I met a few times--never liked him. I figured he might have had a bad day--but then realized that he must have a lot of bad days. Once he raised his voice at my son because my son did not understand a question when SS was signing his jersey.  I wanted the jersey to represent his encounter with a Panther great, not some small man with a bad attitude.  I told me son, "Forget it.  He was asking you what your name is (My son was about 7 and told me that he thought Smitty was going to write (my son's) name on the jersey.  He said "Dad, I thought he was supposed to write HIS name on the jersey, not mine."  I said, "He was personalizing it, writing it to you--like a birthday card."  He is now grown, and he has a steve smith Jersey that is framed and matted.  He keeps it is his closet.  I asked him, "Why not have that out on your wall?"  He said, "All I remember is an A-hole scribbled on my shirt.  I don't remember a legend or hero.  But he had a Jake Delhomme Jersey on his wall.  "Jake was great.  I will always remember that."  (Jake stayed and talked to us for about 5 minutes or more--GREAT guy.)

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4 hours ago, WarHeel said:

Is it possible for someone to regress in maturity as they age or has Steve really just been a jerk his entire life?

We've always known he was an immature jerk. We could find excuses to look past it when he was performing heroics on the field.

 

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I was very critical of Ron Rivera as a coach for a range of reasons. But Steve Smith has been playing the victim for years now and it's just not working anymore. We know for a fact that he was disgruntled from the moment we drafted Cam Newton because of his own ego. That says more about him than anything he could say about Rivera. And yes Ron Rivera had a lot of faults. No excuses for it. We were right to move on from him. But ultimately Steve Smith couldn't hold it together with that group the same as he struggled to hold it together under previous regimes. He needs to grow up and accept his own role in the last few years of his Panthers career because there are things he could and should have done differently the same as anyone else. Stop seeking to only shift blame to everyone else and evolve or just stop talking and fade away. This isn't helping anyone and it is certainly not helping his image.

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3 minutes ago, frankw said:

I was very critical of Ron Rivera as a coach for a range of reasons. But Steve Smith has been playing the victim for years now and it's just not working anymore. We know for a fact that he was disgruntled from the moment we drafted Cam Newton because of his own ego. That says more about him than anything he could say about Rivera. And yes Ron Rivera had a lot of faults. No excuses for it. We were right to move on from him. But ultimately Steve Smith couldn't hold it together with that group the same as he struggled to hold it together under previous regimes. He needs to grow up and accept his own role in the last few years of his Panthers career because there are things he could and should have done differently the same as anyone else. Stop seeking to only shift blame to everyone else and evolve or just stop talking and fade away. This isn't helping anyone and it is certainly not helping his image.

He was saying Ron hid when he was cut/traded whatever that was. 
I get being resentful, and feeling like that was gutless.  He, and Ron, neither are from the ‘breaking up with someone in a text or email is okay’ generation. That avoidance is seen as a lack of character. 


Talking about it on camera how many years later? Why? And it is all one sided he said she said stuff. As he is speaking I am thinking well I bet that ain’t the whole story. 
 

Between this type of stuff and him cheating on the wife stuff some of his shine is wearing off. 

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10 minutes ago, strato said:

He was saying Ron hid when he was cut/traded whatever that was. 
I get being resentful, and feeling like that was gutless.  He, and Ron, neither are from the ‘breaking up with someone in a text or email is okay’ generation. That avoidance is seen as a lack of character. 


Talking about it on camera how many years later? Why? And it is all one sided he said she said stuff. As he is speaking I am thinking well I bet that ain’t the whole story. 
 

Between this type of stuff and him cheating on the wife stuff some of his shine is wearing off. 

That's strange because if that's all there is then this is very old recycled news. Steve already made this claim public years ago and it has been talked about here before. Ron to my knowledge has never publicly responded so I have no idea if it's true or not. But really it doesn't matter. I mean ultimately if Ron did do that I couldn't say I blame him. Steve Smith has a reputation as a very volatile immature and spiteful person on top of a history of violence. He could have used these years since to reflect and progress as a person but it seems he has no interest in that. It's best for all involved to just not engage with him.

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I'm sure we all have a few bones to pick with people in our past but that does nothing on most cases moving forward. This podcast era is the gift n the curse. Everyone has to have the hot take but often times, it hurts your image. Steve is beloved by the heart n gut he showed on the field but he definitely  needs to just find peace somehow. He's  too grown to be out here flaming folk from years ago. 

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