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Why Rivera Changed After Buffalo

fieryprophet

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iamhubby1 Veteran

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When RR decided to grow a pair, he grew some big ones.

That's our Ron. When he goes, he goes all in.

 

 

I can't get past Buffalo either. I really think that is going to be what keeps us out of the playoffs. If we win on Sunday then we can all put Buffalo to bed and move on towards winning the Division.

 

You sound like Monk. Now, everyone is happy.

 

Good for Ron for opening up his mind and changing the way he works. A lot of coaches never get over that. They're too stubborn to change up what they thought was right when it wasn't helping them succeed. Before this Ron's head coaching career was pretty much dead to rights, but now we finally may have something. It looks like the guy we saw Hurney introduce as a head coach in a press conference in January 2011 has finally shown up.

You know how I know things are going pretty well? A positive post from FB.

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Why Rivera changed? His damn job was on the line. Duh what else.

Dude...you sure can spread the joy of life can't you? You must be a real treat at the dinner table.

Every Coach that signs a contract is one day closer to being fired. Comes with the job. At least our Coach is willing to self evaluate, learn, and grow. Hey, those are traits we can all use in every day life.

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Ron put faith in the defense to stop a rookie QB with no timeouts and a TD behind. I would've too. Still can't figure out how they marched on our defense that way. I really can't blame him for the FG.

It's just the way it all unfolded. They helped us get into FG range to begin with. You had to feel they were ready to throw this game away. But nooooooo.

And with Rivera being a defensive, pretty much by the book, minded coach, he truly thought he'd made the right call at the time.

Little did he know...it was a turning point in his career. He has gone from thinking he was aggressive, to actually being aggressive. And his team has bought in.

If all goes to plan. We are now in stage 2 in the building of Rome. 1st stage, play good solid physical football. 2nd stage, learn how to win and finish. We are close to the 3rd step, competing for Titles and Championships.

Rivera gots this. With help from Gettlemen. Our culture has gone from a clusterfug of WTF? moments, to things falling our way. Well...except for that pesky O-line situation.

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Holy poo, Rivera almost fuging died thinking about Buffalo.  Seems like he's seriously made a change and not just trying to say the right things.

 

That's gonna be our slogan if we make continue winning and make it to the playoffs...

 

"Remember Buffalo"

 

quick someone PM akpantherfan and tell him to make this into a banner

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Thats a really good question. My guess is that if he goes for 4th-1 late in single possession game and we ultimately lose there will be a great many around here who cant get back on the "Fire Rivera" side quick enough.

No shame in going down fighting, unless it's some retarded play action with long developing routes on 4th and inches.

All we want him to do is to NOT coach scared. If we go for the jugular but fail, it's not on Ron.

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And we lose next Sunday, you guys will be calling for his head. Life of a head coach I guess.

 

Don´t think so. RR changed his coaching mind from "play not to lose" to "play to win". People (including me) wanted his head because of his "play not to lose" attitude. Since he got rid of it he earned a lot of credit back.

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