Game Grades: Panthers at Bears

[rayzor]

overall the team did better than it has most of the season. couple stupid mistakes leading to INTs but for the most part well played and well coached...up until the last 5-10 minutes.

tried to protect a lead rather than doing what had been working incredibly well all game. took the foot off the gas and lost the game.

rivera and this coaching staff is not clutch at all. they can't handle the idea of success and constantly shoot themselves in the foot.

i am more than ready to move on at this point. i've seen more than enough. no one could have anticipated how bad this would be turning out. it's almost as bad as clausen at QB. most of us weren't expecting a star, more just an average QB, but what we got was the worst QB in the league.

i'm sure rivera is one of the best DCs in the league...but he's got no business being a HC.

one thing i know...i don't want anymore coordinators as HC and i sure don't want a DC as one. i didn't want one last time. i wanted an offensive minded coach. i wanted jim harbaugh.

let's get someone with HC experience next time for game management skills and let's get someone known for being consistently aggressive. chances are you aren't going to find that in a DC.

[mwright350]

I hear people everywhere going "the coaches came in with a great gameplan" and giving them a lot of credit. They made some changes under duress after Hurney was used to send a message to them that noone is safe then they poo the bed in the game when it mattered.

Here's all we need to know about our coaching staff. We have lost games this year by: 6, 2, 4, 5, and 1. Consistently losing close games is indisputably a coaching problem. A well coached team finds a way to win some of those games. A poorly coached team finds a way to lose them. The proof, as they say, is in the pudding.

[Matthias]

I hear people everywhere going "the coaches came in with a great gameplan" and giving them a lot of credit. They made some changes under duress after Hurney was used to send a message to them that noone is safe then they poo the bed in the game when it mattered.

Here's all we need to know about our coaching staff. We have lost games this year by: 6, 2, 4, 5, and 1. Consistently losing close games is indisputably a coaching problem. A well coached team finds a way to win some of those games. A poorly coached team finds a way to lose them. The proof, as they say, is in the pudding.

I would like to take this further and say, there was nothing special about their gameplan, particularly offensively. Everybody in their grandmama could see the read option offense was garbage. Any plan that leaves that out is a goldmine. Of course we will look better without it. Yesterday only further proves we have talent on this team that can go up against the big dogs in the league, but this staff is holding that back. Even the players are voicing their opinions on this matter.

[mwright350]

...Even the players are voicing their opinions on this matter.

Funnily enough this is an even further indictment against this coaching staff. If they had even a semblance of control / respect in that locker room players would not be making the statements they are.

Is there a grade below F that we can give them?

[rayzor]

I hear people everywhere going "the coaches came in with a great gameplan" and giving them a lot of credit. They made some changes under duress after Hurney was used to send a message to them that noone is safe then they poo the bed in the game when it mattered.

Here's all we need to know about our coaching staff. We have lost games this year by: 6, 2, 4, 5, and 1. Consistently losing close games is indisputably a coaching problem. A well coached team finds a way to win some of those games. A poorly coached team finds a way to lose them. The proof, as they say, is in the pudding.

winning teams find a way to do it every week regardless of how the odds may be stacked against them. losing teams find a way to lose regardless of how well they perform.

this is a losing team and the coaching staff isn't making it any better.

i'd like to know how many of those games we've lost this year were games that we had the lead in the 2nd half or even in the 4th quarter.

[rayzor]

Funnily enough this is an even further indictment against this coaching staff. If they had even a semblance of control / respect in that locker room players would not be making the statements they are.

Is there a grade below F that we can give them?

an F that's followed by "ired" instead of "ail".

[Matthias]

winning teams find a way to do it every week regardless of how the odds may be stacked against them. losing teams find a way to lose regardless of how well they perform.

this is a losing team and the coaching staff isn't making it any better.

i'd like to know how many of those games we've lost this year were games that we had the lead in the 2nd half or even in the 4th quarter.

If we had a competent staff, I bet you this team would be at least 5-2. I can say this because of the stupid read option offense we ran until it got someone fired. I wasn't surprised at all we were beating the Bears for most of the game yesterday, because I know the kind of talent we got on this team. The team didn't find a way to lose, the coaches did. In fact, if the players started rebelling against some of the calls this staff put in, we would probably end the season with at least 7 wins.

[MHS831]

The coaching grade is a bit generous.

[MHS831]

I keep checking the internet to see if Rivera has been fired. Since the gods answered my prayers about Hurney....

[rayzor]

I keep checking the internet to see if Rivera has been fired. Since the gods answered my prayers about Hurney....

nfl offices closed today.

that might be the reason.

[Davidson Deac II]

the staff came in with a great game plan and the players excuted it.

we took away their biggest weapon....Hester.

this game came down to a couple plays that didn't go our way.

if there is no shanked punt or a smitty slip........... we arn't even having this discussion.

I was thinking about this today, and I pretty much agree. Several big mistakes at the end, and the only one I really can pin on the coaching staff was that soft zone on defense. Had there been 45 seconds left, that defense makes sense. But with over 2 minutes, even our offense could have gotten into fg position with that amount of time.