Riverboat Ron Presser @ 12:30P

[ed bell]

God I wish he would wear that hat and suit on the sideline with shades.

[bigdog10]

Rivera deserves a ton of praise.  I've been very critical of him, but something has clicked with him the last four-five weeks.  It was evident to me in watching him absolutely hammer the officiating crew under the 2 minute warning up 31-13.  If you go back and watch him as he is going off, take a look at the players watching his every move on the sideline.  His attitude and passion is bleeding through to the team and they are responding.

 

The players have rallied behind the gutsy calls.

 

I'm still not 100% sold on him (I need to see him make these calls in a close game), but I really appreciate a head coach being as candid as he is and also recognizing weaknesses and putting forth effort to fix them.

[fjblair]

He better not let his 4th down gambling get out of hand. Should have taken the 3 on that 14-6 call.

[Razeyfingers]

Well he added something very important to his "check list". Seems like momentum was one of them.

[RelaxImaPro]

I like how he really stood up for Cam towards the end there... and also yeah, you've got to give him credit for completely changing his entire coaching philosophy that he's known and been comfortable with his entire life pretty much on the fly.

[Semaj]

I feel that we should keep Ron. I believe he has finally learned his lesson. He has grown tremendously and it would be foolish to part ways. There was a time I wanted him fired but not now. It would do more harm to our team to get rid of him now or after the season then to keep him and allow him to grow and improve.

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[FootballMaestro]

Really good coaches have an intuition about the game (including 4th downs, substitutions, etc.). Ron tried to work too much out the book in the past. Any dolt can make decisions based off percentages. The really good coaches have a FEEL for the moment, the game, and their team!!

 

Hopefully, Rivera is getting there/this, or almost there!!??

[Mother Grabber]

Damn I can never get Panthers.com videos to play on my Mac with Safari or Chrome...

do you have flip4mac installed? the player be free. it allows you to play avi and wmv through QuickTime.

[Navy_football]

Ron is growing as a coach.

 

Shula really seems to be a flexible playcaller that wants to get the ball to his playmakers the way the want it.

 

But I don't think I've seen many posts creditting Ken Dorsey. Cam has really gotten better in his short to medium passes, and he's finally making back shoulder throws when the defender has their back turned. I have to think Dorsey had something to do with all of those improvements. He should get more credit than he's getting.