Rivera fires an old friend

[Mage]

2 hours ago, Basbear said:

He feels like the jeff fisher replacement, 98.7 % the same.....

Fisher has become a little underrated.  Was he bad in the 2010s?  Yes without question, the game passed him by.  But he took over an Oilers/Titans franchise that just lost Warren Moon.  He turned them around just like that.  Between 1999-2003 they were AFC heavyweights and finished with 11+ wins 4 times in 5 seasons.  He also has 2 more 10-win seasons on top of that.  Rivera has never had his team as consistently good as those early 2000s Titans were.

[Panthering]

Classic scapegoat Rivera move 

[Gerry Green]

Are we going to call out every coach of a middling team that fires a coach? Or just Rivera?

 

These types of firings happen every year. 

[Billy Love]

he'll hold on to his Boo Richard Rogers

[BrianS]

17 hours ago, countryboi said:

This feels like BS, they were 5th in offense with Taylor heinicke, Wentz and a questionable running game. If anything this is on Ron for pulling the trigger on Wentz. 

Uh, no they weren't.  They were 24th in the only offensive stat that matters:  scoring.

Their "questionable" running game was actually the offensive category they ranked highest in, at 12th.

[Donald LaFell]

19 hours ago, TheCasillas said:

It will most likely be Mike McCoy

Fox and Rivera cross pollination, what’s not to love 

[TheWiz]

20 hours ago, Khaki Lackey said:

“I need a new guy to run it up the gut thrice in a row to set up a good punt.”

 I'm not sure anybody gives you the props for the pic, but Trogdor the Burninator brings back good memories. My kind of shenanigans. 

[OneBadCat]

That’s what happens when you don’t have a Cam Newton.

[TN05]

21 hours ago, RJK said:

Rivera has 3 winning seasons in 12 years as a HC. Great man but he needs to go back to being a DC 

He also has a career winning record, five playoff appearances (way more important than winning seasons), and no full season record worse than 6-10 (when he was fired here we were 5-7). The last season was the first time Washington hasn't had an outright losing season since 2016.

I get some of y'all have tunnel vision, but a team can do a lot worse than him as HC.

[KaseKlosed]

On 1/10/2023 at 5:37 PM, RJK said:

Rivera has 3 winning seasons in 12 years as a HC. Great man but he needs to go back to being a DC 

Great post with no context. 

[Icege]

Worries me greatly that Wilks' answer to the offensive side of the ball is going to be either Cameron Turner (who followed him out to ARI) or Pep Hamilton (who many fans have said has had the benefit of working with top QBs rather than molding them).

[Khaki Lackey]

18 hours ago, TheWiz said:

 I'm not sure anybody gives you the props for the pic, but Trogdor the Burninator brings back good memories. My kind of shenanigans. 

Hell yeah, man. I think you're the first person to notice it. In over a decade lol