Is Ron Rivera an NFL Top 10 Coach?

[rayzor]

ESPN lost all it's credibility when they rated John Fox # 10.

i don't give him credit for it, but he has coached two different teams that made it to the superbowl and managed to make it to the playoffs every year with the broncos. of course crappy division and made it the first year without a winning record and then the next couple bc he won the peyton manning lottery. #rightplacerighttime

[rayzor]

Drop Tomlin and Coughlin, but no, RR is not there yet.

hard to argue with multiple SBs

[rayzor]

i need to see more than one year of success. back to back winning seasons, please, for me to be fully on board with riverboat ron. i like riverboat ron, but i fear ron docking the boat this season. i need to see to believe.

[SgtJoo]

[thefuzz]

hard to argue with multiple SBs

 

I look at it as who would I want as my coach this year if I'm an owner.

 

 

Tomlin had/has the best culture/system/heritage/owners in the NFL.

 

The Giants aren't far behind.

 

 

I wouldn't want either on my sideline.

[Growl]

Do you know what I would give for a sports station that actually broke down the game and taught about actual football rather than perpetually compiling idiotic and consistently stupid, biased, and pointless "rankings," overrated/underrated blah, lists, predictions, blah blah blah.

[maddog1945]

Top 10.....NO!

 

Top 20..........last year yea!!

 

But that was only one year.  Needs to put some years together that are successful!!

[micnificent28]

I can't say that he is. What had he done to prove that he is?

[emhoward]

Rivera has his obvious strengths and weaknesses. He is not a strategist, he is a motivator. He may not out-think other coaches, but his players will play for him. Rivera needs to surround himself with the right people in order to truly be effective. The biggest question is, is Shula that guy?

I agree that he's more of a motivator, but he's pretty good at defensive strategy.

[duke11693]

He was ranked like 23rd in a recent ESPN insider poll

[TheCandyMan]

Rivera may not be a Top 10 coach yet, but they messed up #10.  I don't see how you can place a guy who got absolutely obliterated in the Super Bowl with a Hall of Fame QB and the player stable he had at no. 10, but I guess "it is what it is"

[WOW!!]

They have the Jags coach above him??

He's not top 10 but being after the Jags HIs a joke?? fug espn and their opinions.

15-20 is more like it.

[Lumps]

Um, Fox is better than Ron as of now like it not. Some of you guys hate him so much you can't see the truth, I don't get the hate, JR fuged this team at the end of the Fox era and Fox, while not the best coach is a good all around coach.

Ron has a long way to go before being a top ten coach, he needs to win a playoff game and at least even out his loss/winning seasons.

Honestly, I don't see this team winning anything under Shula/Rivera. Hope I'm wrong.

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[Cary Kollins]

John Fox at 10 lulz.

Without arguably the greatest QB ever the man has never coached a team to back to back winning seasons.

He's about as vanilla a coach as you're gonna find. Not terrible, but definitely not top 10.