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
add brought coming cut energy feed guys lead saw seemed team time
We saw the energy that Rex brought to the offense, and it spilled over to us. Him coming in was a lift, and the team seemed to feed off that energy. Any time you can get a lead and add to that lead, you can really cut the guys loose.
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.
five last minus people point
We've got all our people here. At one point last year, I think we were minus five starters.
certainly deserve field football
We most certainly look for opportunities to put him on the football field because he does deserve that.
certainly credit game guys improve missed players running
We missed tackles, it's part of the game sometimes. You have to give credit to the running back, but in the same respect, I think some of the guys that missed tackles are some of our better players and we've most certainly got to improve on that.
game lost missed personnel played
We missed Mike. We had to try to make adjustments in our personnel and to some of the things we wanted to do defensively, but that's not why we lost the game. We lost the game because they played better than us.
action ball couple pass result stopped threw
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.
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.
depth
I would say depth there is something we probably need to look at.
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.
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.
maybe
They thought they were better than we were and in some instances, some positions, maybe they were better.
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.
explosive
What we really like about him is he's an explosive guy.