Panthers have a decision to make on Rivera

[El Chingon]

The link also includes a great interview w/Darin Gantt.

 

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/01/13/panthers-have-a-decision-to-make-on-ron-rivera/

[CRA]

Let's see....Carolina was a 2 win team

Year 1 - 6 wins - were in almost every loss late

Year 2- 7 wins - were in almost every loss late

Year 3- 12 wins. NFCS champs. Were in almost every loss late

Rivera has done exactly what he was brought in to do.

[Servant of Cthululelei]

Let's see....Carolina was a 2 win team

Year 1 - 6 wins - were in almost every loss late

Year 2- 7 wins - were in almost every loss late

Year 3- 12 wins. NFCS champs. Were in almost every loss late

Rivera has done exactly what he was brought in to do.

 

 

While I agree with what you're saying, we actually weren't really in 3 of our losses late.  The 49ers game, the Cardinals game, and the Saints game.

 

But we made a huge improvement this year despite only adding to one side of the ball.  Now lets see what we can do when we add to the other.

[ickmule]

This will be interesting to watch. I think the man deserves an extension. He took a train wreck and turned it around. His job this year was nothing short of excellent. He took a team with several gaping holes and took it to a 12-4 record.

[ThunderKatt]

Unless we have a playoff repeat, then riverboat is going a sailing down the blue bayou.

[therealmjl]

He deserves an extension....period.

[Salvo]

I'm really not interested in us chasing around mediocre coaching candidates in the coming years after we just went 12-4 with an overachieving team who rallies around Riverboat.

 

He's staying with an extension

[KillerKat]

This is the wrong coach we need to make a decision on. Rivera is a no brainer. Shula on the other hand..

[PantherWake]

Is this seriously a question?! 

[Pejorative Miscreant]

If you do not give him an extension then there is an air lingering over the entire organization.  I think it deflates the team in the eyes of the players,fans, media, etc...

 

Jerry is not dumb.  He knows when to blow the dust off of the checkbook..

[carolina-chuck]

Rivera has been great this season. Turning this defense into an elite one and making us competitive each week again.

 

I wouldn't extend him quite yet, but he deserves to at least have two more years.

[CRA]

While I agree with what you're saying, we actually weren't really in 3 of our losses late.  The 49ers game, the Cardinals game, and the Saints game.

 

But we made a huge improvement this year despite only adding to one side of the ball.  Now lets see what we can do when we add to the other.

I was really referencing regular season.

We were down by 6 in the 4th against AZ, up on Buff, up on Sea. Saints game stands alone IMO. AZ snowballed

[teeray]

After not extending Fox after 2008 and allowing him to go lame duck in 2010, if we didn't extend Ron Rivera after taking a 2 win team to a 12 win team, you will never have a quality coach (coordinator or otherwise) ever take this franchise seriously again.

 

 

[KendrickPanther]

We have to extend Ron but it's a very tough situation. If we miss the playoffs next year do we fire him? No, ok so we give him one more year and he loses again, time to fire. So we have hired a new coach, he needs 2 years to build his roster, so this puts us at 2018 for a do or die season with our next coach....

 

Hiring a new coach sucks...unless you just knock it out of the park you are looking at a transition, that is why Cleveland fired Chud, they didn't want him to fail for another 2 years, they wanted to rebuild now. There is one simple way to avoid all that: Win. But winning in the NFL is hard as fug, especially when Mike Shula is running your offense.