best analysis of rivera's history of close losses

[*FreeFua*]

three grand? ye gods man you could drive a hummer up, stay in 5-star hotels, and buy club seats for under 3 grand

3 nights at a nice hotel in downtown Minneapolis. Good seats behind carolina bench off stubhub. 3 nights at the bar and partying add up pretty quickly man. The crappy Wild play the Saturday night, so we'd do that game as well.

The Jets play the Wild on the Thursday night that we've talked about doing as well.

[Sean Payton's Vicodin]

I'm suppose to drive down to Minneapolis (8 hours) for the game in a few weeks. None of my friends are panthers fans so I'm paying for hotel and tickets since its hard to convince anyone to go see the panthers. After yesterday I'm about 50/50 on cancelling the trip. Trip will cost me roughly 3 grand and I know I'm just going to be driving home pissed off.

 

The Panthers suck, Minneapolis sucks, and your friends suck for making you pay for that poo.

 

Don't do it. Just save your money.

[*FreeFua*]

The Panthers suck, Minneapolis sucks, and your friends suck for making you pay for that poo.

Don't do it. Just save your money.

LoL! yeah if they are 0-4 going into that game ill bail and just go with my girlfriend. Although it'll be cheaper, the strip club just isn't the same when your with your girlfriend.

Buddy is a pats fan and he paid for my trip to Boston for a MNF game a couple years ago so I owe him a trip. But yeah...

[Icege]

This makes me so angry.

I feel betrayed. When Rivera was hired he preached about being aggressive on both sides of the ball and he preached about making decisions based off of the personnel available as opposed to strictly adhering to a system.

 

I've grown comfortably numb already. :/

[KillerKat]

This makes me so angry.

I feel betrayed. When Rivera was hired he preached about being aggressive on both sides of the ball and he preached about making decisions based off of the personnel available as opposed to strictly adhering to a system.

 

I've grown comfortably numb already. :/

 

Rivera has become Obama

[Ace_Aladdin]

from grantland....screw espn and nfl and SI....grantland/bill barnwell is what you should be reading.

 

excerpt:

rivera, at the end of games, puts this team in a situation that is a proven losing strategy...at least here it is. he sets them up to lose. to fail.

 

and then he blames execution.

 

yah.

 

 

 

 

 

we where # 12  1st down conversion with total of 328

 

we made 43.1 % of our 3rd down attempts which is top 6

[mav1234]

 

If Rivera continues to coach his team like he's never actually seen it play, he's not going to be a head coach much longer.

 

 

We can all only hope...

[Raleighcat83]

If he went for it on 4th and 1 he should be fired. He kicked on 4th and 1. He should be fired. It's not about these individual decisions, it's about a collection of talent that a certain Denver head coach whose name rhymes with Sean Box would have had in the playoffs easily. It's about an owner that screwed over the team to send a message to the union, fired coach "Box", passed over the higher ranked free agent coaches to sign the cheap one, then held on to the guy who engineered last years disaster, now with an extra crappy OC who's basically despised by the fanbases of every team he's ever been associated with. But yeah, we should go for it on 4th and 1, as Romer (2005) showed. But that's not the main problem.

[carolinanimal]

all you need to know about ron rivera is in his presser he said that " he didnt want to make a desperate move this early in the season." that shows you his personality. 

[TheGreatestOfAllTimeCam]

No

 

Just simply no.

 

If we had went for it and failed no one would care, because Rivera would have finally shown some balls.

 

Also like the stats and common sense state....they would have likely tied the game rather than won it....so we would have had OT.

 

Yea, that guy couldnt be more wrong. I would NEVER be mad at Rivera for playing for the win at this juncture, not in that spot.... it wasn't like it was our own 21. There's nothign wrong with making aggressive mistakes... its just what this team needs.

 

Why can't no nuts ron see that. "Boys, get us one yard and we go home winners. I believe in you."

 

And thats what you tell people if it doesn't work out "I believed in my guys" say to the press. No one will fault that.

 

He's just such a sackless loser, has Rivera ever heard of testes?

[Silent Majority]

from grantland....screw espn and nfl and SI....grantland/bill barnwell is what you should be reading.

excerpt:

rivera, at the end of games, puts this team in a situation that is a proven losing strategy...at least here it is. he sets them up to lose. to fail.

and then he blames execution.

yah.

This can't be correct. I was under the impression, that it was Cam's fault! He can't win, when the game is on the line. *Great post*

[Snake]

Another wasted season. Its hard to believe Rivera is going down as the worst head coach in panthers history. Just goes to show how bad Hurney truly was.

[Happy Panther]

Another wasted season. Its hard to believe Rivera is going down as the worst head coach in panthers history.

Second Worst

[Carolina Cajun]

Yea, that guy couldnt be more wrong. I would NEVER be mad at Rivera for playing for the win at this juncture, not in that spot.... it wasn't like it was our own 21. There's nothign wrong with making aggressive mistakes... its just what this team needs.

 

Why can't no nuts ron see that. "Boys, get us one yard and we go home winners. I believe in you."

 

And thats what you tell people if it doesn't work out "I believed in my guys" say to the press. No one will fault that.

 

He's just such a sackless loser, has Rivera ever heard of testes?

 

I agree with you 100%, but I will say, also remember that on the flip side, he'll say "Our defense played well, and I believed in our defense to make the stop".  It's completely a moronic statement considering we haven't had a 2 minute stop on defense when up by less than a TD in years, but that is his line of thinking, no matter how insanely stupid it is.