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
five last minus people point
We've got all our people here. At one point last year, I think we were minus five starters.
arrival chris following impact instant line teammates
Following in a long line of teammates who have made an instant impact upon their arrival as a rookie, Chris surpassed everyone's expectations but his own.
anytime came excellent hard job joe played pleased rookie
Brandon came in and did an excellent job for us. Anytime you can have a rookie come in and make that contribution, you're very pleased with the effort. Leon Joe was exceptional. He made some mistakes, but he made up for it because he played hard and he played fast.
defense either guys outside particular problem
That's not a particular problem because in our defense a lot of the linebackers are interchangeable. The outside guys can play either spot.
against beat gave job matched players steve top tremendous
You're matched against one of the top players in the league, you're going to get beat sometimes. I thought he did a tremendous job in some situations. On that one, he stumbled and gave up that play. The other one, I thought he had the ball. Steve Smith, give him credit. That was a tremendous play on his part.
chance giving guy pro talked
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.
accomplish compared needed
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.
against corner nine played safety
Basically, you doubled him with a corner and safety and played your other nine against their other 10.
depth
I would say depth there is something we probably need to look at.
defense felt finishing good playoffs prize super talked top training ultimate
As we said all the way through training camp: We felt we were a good team. We felt we were on the rise. ... We talked about where we felt we could be as a defense ? being in the top 10, being in the top five, being No. 1, finishing No. 1. The ultimate prize has always been the playoffs and getting to the Super Bowl.
call confidence cover forced full hit hold reflected
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.
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.