Rivera post-game presser

[lightsout]

If you haven't seen it, go to the team site and watch that poo. First off, it's a 7 minute video. Ron doesn't come in until around the 4:15 mark. So, a 3 minute presser. He looked defeated, angry, and somewhat confused.

The basic run down of the presser was this.

"They did some good things. Credit to them. We made mistakes, they didn't. We turned the ball over and didn't take it away from them enough. If the pass to Ed isn't tipped, that's an 8 or 9 yard gain, but it was tipped. We missed an opportunity on the 4th and 1, but unfortunately we didn't have any timeouts left. We didn't kick the field goal before half because of cross wind. We gotta do a better job as coaches putting these guys in positions to win."

Basically, he said things, but really didn't say anything substantive. JUST ONCE I wish he would say "our playcalling on offense was abysmal. We failed to adjust and help the players out. We will talk about it as coaches and fix it because it is not acceptable". I WANT to believe that Ron thinks that after games like this, but something tells me that is not the case.

EDIT: Rivera also said "you can't beat good teams kicking field goals". He says this with a straight face while he NEVER gambles and tries to convert a 4th down inside of field goal range.

[Proudiddy]

Saw a clip on NFLN, and he did catch my ear when he repeatedly said, "you dont beat good teams by kicking FGs."  And he sounded extremely angry, which i was hoping was directed at Shula. 

[SeoulPanther]

5 minutes ago, lightsout said:

 Rivera also said "you can't beat good teams kicking field goals". He says this with a straight face while he NEVER gambles and tries to convert a 4th down inside of field goal range.

Well that's stupid. You can beat 'good' teams with FGs. Buffalo is a good team. Lots of games between excellent teams are low scoring. So that's nonsense. Mind you not attempting to kick at all or missing FG's while simultaneously not scoring TD's. This is a superb method for losing.

[LinvilleGorge]

I'd have to go back to the game thread and find it, but I commented at some point that it looked like Ron just wanted to run off somewhere and hide. It's because he did. It was like when Coach Klein was looking at Red Beaulieu in The Waterboy. Same damn thing.

[General_Purr]

I felt like him and cam were digging towards Shula not putting players in position to adapt during the game

[raleigh-panther]

It will take a lot for the Ron and Mike show to leave town

 make no mistake, one will not go without the other 

I'll tell you something else, that defensive backfield is bad and the linebackers wow

i am really sad tonight.  

Hard leaving the stadium listening to Eagles fans

 

[PantherNation123]

Serious question.  What does Ron bring to our team?  Sure, he is a "positive" coach who let's the players "be themselves".  But he lack of courage in decisions (when his job isn't on the line) is just infuriating.  I honestly don't know of a coach (oustide of McAdoo) who is more worthless.  It starts and ends with him.  The decision not to kick a FG at the end of the half because of a "crosswind" is just outrageous. Instead, we will throw a pass over the middle which is far more likely to be returned against us.

[Carolina Mike]

Watched the video (waited like 4+ minutes before it actually started). 

Dang I didn't realize the gale force cross winds tonight! 

[LinvilleGorge]

9 minutes ago, SeoulPanther said:

Well that's stupid. You can beat 'good' teams with FGs. Buffalo is a good team. Lots of games between excellent teams are low scoring. So that's nonsense. Mind you not attempting to kick at all or missing FG's while simultaneously not scoring TD's. This is a superb method for losing.

Might could've beaten Philly with FGs tonight too trying the long one right before half and then only being down 2 instead of 5 late in the game and maybe dialing up intelligent play calls instead of all out bombs near FG range with over 3 minutes to go on the clock.

[TheSpecialJuan]

meh

[rayzor]

you can't beat any team unless you put points on the board any way you can feasibly get them.

the coaching staff screwed the pooch and they aren't going to own it.

toss the whole lot of them out.

[Toolbox]

The thing that pissed me off the most was the insistence of shula to pitch the ball to stewart and to keep handing it off to him when he clearly sucked ass.. THe motherfuger cannot adjust to save his life.

[rayzor]

47 minutes ago, Toolbox said:

The thing that pissed me off the most was the insistence of shula to pitch the ball to stewart and to keep handing it off to him when he clearly sucked ass.. THe motherfuger cannot adjust to save his life.

adjust to what the defense is doing and adjust to compensate for areas that you aren't doing very well.

i think he finally started changing a few things up and taking stewart out of the equation towards the end, but it was way too late and didn't adjust the play calling.

we don't have a power run game. we are power run game wannabes. quit living under that delusion.

[CatTower]

Stop blasting the decision to continue with the run game.  Did ya'll not see how bad Cam looked in the 4th quarter when the Eagles didn't have to defend the run at all?  Almost every pass was an interception.