Rivera ready for his moment

[smitty_89]

http://www.panthers.com/news/article-2/Rivera-ready-for-his-moment/e3f52780-61fb-4ec8-8a2b-dd2eb8191e9f

A good read on Rivera and his path to getting here and his coaching style, etc. I liked this part:

"If there is one stamp that I hope I can get across, it is that if we do anything, we play hard," Rivera said. "When they put the tape on, I want them to say, ‘Boy, they play hard. This group gives them everything they can.' That to me is probably the best thing you can have somebody say to you as a coach."

[Jai.]

Good read, thanks for the post.

[rayzor]

"I like his straightforwardness," wide receiver Steve Smith said. "He's no nonsense. What you see is what you get – there are no ‘isms.'"

:lol: fox-isms, maybe?

[MrCatWalker]

I think Ron Rivera is ready, I just hope the team holding back on picking up interior d-linemen when the pot was good for the picking wasn't on him. When you are a first year coach, you are supposed to pick as many toys as you can. Now that it's basically too late and the season is starting he has to stand behind the line he put together, I just hope moving Johnson, Hardy and Selvie to the interior works if the 2 rookies and Neblett struggle.

Aside from that, I feel pretty confident that between Rivera's success as a defensive coordinator mixed with the coryell offense, I think the Panthers might be alright which means Rivera did his job.

[DeeJay]

Anytime someone mentioned fox they should be slapped in the face. it's rivera's team!

[rayzor]

I think Ron Rivera is ready, I just hope the team holding back on picking up interior d-linemen when the pot was good for the picking wasn't on him. When you are a first year coach, you are supposed to pick as many toys as you can. Now that it's basically too late and the season is starting he has to stand behind the line he put together, I just hope moving Johnson, Hardy and Selvie to the interior works if the 2 rookies and Neblett struggle.

Aside from that, I feel pretty confident that between Rivera's success as a defensive coordinator mixed with the coryell offense, I think the Panthers might be alright which means Rivera did his job.

i think our defensive front will look pretty different than what we expect it to. if we get alex brown, we are going to end up being as stacked at DE as we are at LB. i fully expect to see a couple of our DEs being lined up at DT or NT quite often.

we will probably get some help brought in at DT after this week, but i don't expect this 4-3 to look like a traditional 4-3. there's going to be lots of packages that will have us with 1 or 0 DTs in them. we'll build around our strengths which is DE and LB and S. that will make the weak areas less of a liability.

we'll have a lot more of a pass rush and pressure on the QB than many think.

[MrCatWalker]

ends are smaller and usually weaker than dt's i would rather have a solid playing the dt poosition than a de playing a dt position simply because they have to go against players that are more stout and harder to get by, it can work but the chances of a smaller frame getting between 2 fat boys is very unlikely unless they have the speed and strength. I am not sure if Hardy is that guy yet and I don't know much about Selvie.