Ron Rivera
Ron Rivera
Ronald Eugene Riverais an American football coach and former player who is the head coach of the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth7 January 1962
CityFort Ord, CA
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One of the things we talked about was not giving the guy (Smith) a chance to make big plays, and he did that. You see why he's a Pro Bowler, an All-Pro.
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More than anything, you've got to accomplish something before you can be compared to someone else and we hadn't accomplished anything. It was flattering, but we really weren't where we needed to be yet.
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When you get to this point in the year, sometimes it becomes an overlooked thing because you've been doing it all year. I know coaches most certainly will focus on that the next couple weeks and prepare for the postseason.
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We've got all our people here. At one point last year, I think we were minus five starters.
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We would like to have had more pressure, but the play action kind of froze us. We stopped the run. Unfortunately, the result was they got away with a couple of big pass plays. (Palmer) threw the ball very well.
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It's not just the impact he has statistically. People talk about how they game-plan, how they attack, and you hear them talk about how Tommie was a devil to block.
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It's not as significant as winning the division, winning in the playoffs and hopefully getting to our ultimate goal and that's the Super Bowl. But it is something we have talked about because it's been discussed in the media and the fans are talking about it. It would be neat. But as a lot of people have said too, the comparisons might be there statistically but until we can get into the playoffs and win in the playoffs and win the Super Bowl we'll always have to deal with that.
front run
It's like they say, you want to be an eight-man front when they run and a seven-man front when they throw.
explosive process
It's going to be a process with him because of his inexperience. But what we really like about him is he's an explosive guy.
nature
It's football. It's kind of the nature of the game, the nature of the beast, and we'll find out.
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It's kind of come full circle. It's a confidence that someone is going to get there and hit the quarterback, and it's a confidence that someone is going to cover and the quarterback is going to be forced to hold the ball. It's all working together, and it's reflected now in how we call the game.
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It's an aggressive style of football. The biggest difference is the age. We're probably one of the youngest groups in the NFL.
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It kind of reminds me a little bit about what happened against Cleveland and Cincinnati, was giving up the big plays.
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It's a good thing there's only one football at a time. This is a very dangerous group.