Video: Ron Rivera on why he went for two

[panthers55]

That is the adage I have heard my whole life. Go for the tie at home and the win on the road. It was the right decision but not executed well.

[Billy Love]

2 hours ago, hepcat said:

Ron looks utterly defeated. This game is what happens when you give the team the weekend off after one of the most humiliating losses in franchise history. 

I have to agree with. When I heard his message to the team after the Steelers beat the absolute sh!t out them on national television..." Take few days off and get away from football" hey Ron...getting AWAY from football is what has ruined this team. Do you think Bill Belichick tells the Patriots to take a few days off after a humiliating loss? I think not. 

[ThatsJustAJ]

2 hours ago, Camvp said:

The playcall was right and was executed nearly flawlessly, if our QB could make a peewee football pass to a wide open receiver it would have worked too.

 

Fact is between this and the failure after Moore's big run, the team got Bad Cam today

357...67%

bad cam

[SwagAces9030]

28 minutes ago, poorboysrev said:

That’s what I’m screaming! If it’s the last play of regulation maybe I understand it more but when it doesn’t guarantee you squat even if you convert then it’s asinine 

It’s worthy of being fired imo. Shows Rivera had no clue of the situation.

[dave-o]

That was not the time to "Riverboat" ....  Take it to overtime for god's sake !!!

[Darvinsun]

2 hours ago, Wanderlai said:

The 2 pt play should have worked. Missed a wide open guy or Cam could have ran left for the score. But yeah should not have come to that. 

If Cam had potentially gotten hurt with the leg he is not running so that ability is out the window. At this point u trust your kicker to tie the game bc we left time on the clock with dlions having the ability to score a field goal especially how the defense was playing they would have gotten into field goal range Cam did his part by getting 6 special teams should have done their job. I see it as Ron' fault play for the tie bc really we scored too soon if they had 10 secs left in game maybe yes but once the 2point section was made we had lost already whether Cam makes the throw or not.

[Wolfpredator]

3 hours ago, Camvp said:

The playcall was right and was executed nearly flawlessly, if our QB could make a peewee football pass to a wide open receiver it would have worked too.

 

Fact is between this and the failure after Moore's big run, the team got Bad Cam today

The bad Cam  

25/37 ( four drops by Funchess that should have been caught, even so the man had a 68% comp rate) 357 Yards  3 TD's and 1 INT....think its safe to say he can have a bad throw or two in that mix when his #1 WR constantly let him down in this game.  Yes though...Cam was the problem today, so much in fact he had a 114.4 QBR.  SMGDH, do you people even listen to yourself speak sometimes?  It should never have been a 2pt conversion to begin with.  Kick the extra PAT and have your vaulted "Rivera" defense try to hold them because going for the 2pts didn't make a bit of a GD difference.  

[tiger7_88]

3 hours ago, Camvp said:

The playcall was right and was executed nearly flawlessly, if our QB could make a peewee football pass to a wide open receiver it would have worked too.

 

Fact is between this and the failure after Moore's big run, the team got Bad Cam today

HO

LEE

POO

[tiger7_88]

3 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

I support the call, but at the same time there's zero chance you make that call unless your kicker has been spraying the ball all over the place all day... which ours had.

2nd highest paid kicker in the league, man.

In a dome.

With perfectly flat turf.

And no wind.

[Silent Majority]

6 minutes ago, tiger7_88 said:

HO

LEE

POO

If by flawless he means waiting a damn eternity for wright to work his way back to the middle. That play was a cluster that got bailed out by a shitty lions defense and Cam's wasn't perfect thus giving RR and the idiot contingent of this fan base a reason to ignore the sheer fuging ineptitude that this staff deals in when the pressure is on.

[tiger7_88]

3 hours ago, charlieshort31 said:

Eat the clock at the end. Great pass for the last Touchdown and nice catch by DJ. Due to the efforts of Gano on the day I understand the reasoning based upon Graham's performance. But, live to play the next play. Probability-wise, how many times has Graham missed three consecutive kicks in a game, or two consecutive P.A.T.'s?  Great last stop by the Defense, and solid 2-3 minute drive by the Offense. 

Hell, I'm as big of a Gano critic as it comes on top of the fact that I've constantly wanted Rivera to be more aggressive, but I was *screaming* in the game thread that going for the 2-pt conversion was not a good move and we should have just kicked the damn XP.

Rivera is a goddam moron.

[Pandora's Box]

Has Ron ever took the blame for a loss?  I cant recall...

[The Lobo]

1 hour ago, ThatsJustAJ said:

357...67%

bad cam

Three TDs..Cams fault

[Mage]

In 2013, we were playing the Buffalo Bills.  It was about a 1:30 left in the game.  We were leading 20-17.  It was 4th and 1 at the Bills 21 yard line.  Instead of going for it, Rivera opts to kick the field goal (about the same distance as an XP) to put us up 23-17.  Bills drive down the field in 1 minute and win the game.  

Everyone lambasted Rivera.  And don't a single person in this forum who was here in 2013 deny it.  Everyone was pissed.  "Why be so conservative?  Good coaches go for the win!"  Like, anyone who was here will tell you that was as heated as the Panthers forum had been.  It was after that game that Riverboat Ron became a thing.

Now 5 years later, Rivera is being criticized for going for the win instead of settling for the tie/XP/kick.  Hilarious.  But people tell me they wouldn't criticize him if he went for the XP and we lost?  A damn lie.  History proves that.