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Don Banks Panthers Article: "Waiting Is the Smartest Part"


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Pretty good read about the perseverance of Gettleman & Rivera.

 

 

It both pleases and surprises me to report that patience was the league’s biggest winner in Week 10, and that’s a refreshing rarity in the over-reactionary NFL. In today’s game, the willingness to wait for it has gone the way of the run-centric offense, but score one for resolve and persistence in Carolina.

The face of the Panthers’ perseverance is of course Ron Rivera. His Panthers are on the ascent at 6-3, in line for at least an NFC wild-card berth (and maybe considerably more), and he’s suddenly viewed as a legitimate coach of the year candidate rather than a dead man walking. See what a five-game winning streak can do for a guy?

I like it when the script gets flipped and we re-learn the value of not rushing to judgment. (And yes, I do see the irony of that statement coming from someone who writes the Snap Judgments column every NFL Sunday for SI.com). Go back and see what everyone was saying about Rivera five weeks ago, when the Panthers started 1-3 and were on the cusp of eliminating themselves from contention in the NFC South before Halloween for the third consecutive year. There was an NFL Network report, denied vehemently by the team, that Carolina was already doing background checks on potential new coaches. Everyone seemingly was preparing Rivera’s coaching obituary in Carolina, and thinking he was about to meet the same fate longtime Panthers general manager Marty Hurney met last fall: “Thank you for your service, now turn in your key card and surrender your parking spot.’’

 

http://mmqb.si.com/2013/11/13/ron-rivera-carolina-panthers/

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Taking more chances just happened at the right time for him I guess. Being a head coach is a hell of a lot more than making a fourth down call, but I'll agree that it sure can make a huge impact when it comes to momentum and finishing games. I hope folks can take it in stride when it backfires every once and a while.

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Does anyone else think there have been times he should have kicked it instead of going for it? I'm sure you'll all say no since we've been almost perfect on 4th down, but is it always the right decision to go for it?

Don't get me wrong...I love what he's doing. Just want to make sure he's making the right decision for the situation rather than just go-go-go

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Does anyone else think there have been times he should have kicked it instead of going for it? I'm sure you'll all say no since we've been almost perfect on 4th down, but is it always the right decision to go for it?

Don't get me wrong...I love what he's doing. Just want to make sure he's making the right decision for the situation rather than just go-go-go

Statistically it's almost always better to go for it on fourth and short in the opponents side of the feild. So I'm not really worried that he is go go go because IMO that's the best strategy.

Lots of research has been done on this topic, I think the "book" on coaching is being rewritten on this with the help of advanced statistics.

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Statistically it's almost always better to go for it on fourth and short in the opponents side of the feild. So I'm not really worried that he is go go go because IMO that's the best strategy.

Lots of research has been done on this topic, I think the "book" on coaching is being rewritten on this with the help of advanced statistics.

 

Yeah I get that side of it for sure.  I'm thinking specifically against Tampa and ATL.  The ATL situation was when we were up 7-3.  I remember thinking that I wanted him to take the points there because I thought it was going to be tough for ATL to score more than 10-13 against us.  

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