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Ron Rivera "Excited" to play Bears...

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Carolina Panthers coach Ron Rivera, who was let go as Chicago Bears defensive coordinator after helping guide the team to Super Bowl XLI, admitted Monday that this week's game against the Bears has special meaning.

Rivera said he harbored no ill will after being assured by Bears head coach Lovie Smith that the move in February 2007 was not based on personal feelings, but just the same, as Rivera returns to the city where he was drafted and spent 17 years as a player and coach, the significance was impossible to hide.

"It's going to mean a lot," Rivera said during his Monday news conference in Charlotte. "I'm going back to where I played my career as a Bear and started my coaching career.

"It's a tremendous franchise with a tremendous history, a long history in the NFL, great city. The city embraced me and has been great to me. I'm excited about it, I really am. I'm not going to downplay it. People says it's another game, no it's not. They're all big. But this has a little personal meaning for me because it's Chicago."

Rest of ESPN article here... Joat may be the only one that will like it. Its the Mobile version as I am currently posting from my iPhone.

http://m.espn.go.com/nfl/story?storyId=7023235

Sounds like he won't be holding back a DAMN thing on Sunday! We will dust Chicago this weekend! It's personal!

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Mcdermott territory...

I just hope it doesn't end up like the Packer game where they were just dumping it off because the blitzing was so predictable. This will by no means be an easy game. It's usually close vs. the Bears. It will be a defensive grind, unless Cam lights it the fug up (hoping).

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Y'all kill me with all this blitz blitz blitz $hit. Why blitz, and run the risk of a big play, when we can get pressure with just our front 4?

Do you know what kind of luxury it is to be able to get pressure with just 4?

I think our mix up against Jax was efficient. We should keep that sort of defensive play calling going.

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