Cottrell Fired!!!!
by Schwing on Oct 28, 2008 1:03 PM PDT
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Rivera promoted...
WOW! Didn't think it would happen, didn't think it would happen at all. How happy are we?
Can't wait to see what Rivera does. Should be interesting right? Rivera came to learn the 3-4, let's hope he's got some creativity in applying pressure.
Some consolation for a horrible first half of the season.
SDSUAztec can begin watching the Chargers again!
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holy effing shitballs!
what a great effing day!
Fire Ted Cottrell! Promote Ron Rivera!
by Sam (sdsuaztec4) on Oct 28, 2008 1:17 PM PDT reply actions
Dude
Im f*ing stoked. They said it wouldn’t happen. But we believed! We had faith.
We're gonna dazzle you with our super play.
The season is saved!
Fire Ted Cottrell! Promote Ron Rivera!
by Sam (sdsuaztec4) on Oct 28, 2008 1:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Never, honestly, thought it would happen
mid-season. I am eating my crow-sandwich as we speak, but am happy to do it!
Wow
Love the showing of balls by the front office
by matthewverygood on Oct 28, 2008 1:43 PM PDT reply actions
I would like to thank sdsuaztec4 for this moment
it was thanks to you my friend.
Ron Rivera is the m’fing man!
Boricua!!!!!!
Bring back Balboa Stadium.
Thank you Thank you
I couldn’t have done it without everyone’s support. Everyone give themselves a pat on the back.
Ron Rivera. Change we can believe in. YES WE CAN!
by Sam (sdsuaztec4) on Oct 28, 2008 3:05 PM PDT up reply actions
This sucks
Front office is a joke. They cowtowed to the fans overreaction and made a choice not based on rational decision-making, but instead by emotional decision-making. The Chargers are no better today than they were yesterday. We went from one crappy defensive coach to another. We look like idiots.
Homer: Ohhhh, The Denver Broncos.
Marge: Whats wrong with the Denver Broncos?
Homer: Marge you just don't understand football.
A couple of questions for you
How was it that Rivera had so much success with Chicago for the brief amount of time he was there?
How can you discount the value of emotion on a defense that has shown zero emotion or heart since losing it’s “leader” Shawne Merriman? Does it have to be all rational all the time or can emotions play a part in this game?
I’m not sure that there are many people that think we look like idiots after this move.
If he was so successful
Then why did the Bears let him walk? And how come nobody was beating down his door to give him a DC job before this? And if he’s so good, why do his LBs suck? Emotions on a football field are fine, but rarely do emotions in business decisions bode well.
And I didn’t say “people will think we look like idiots”, I said “we look like idiots”.
Homer: Ohhhh, The Denver Broncos.
Marge: Whats wrong with the Denver Broncos?
Homer: Marge you just don't understand football.
I thought they let him walk because he and Lovie disagreed on how to run a defense.
by Richard Wade on Oct 28, 2008 6:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Correct
and didn’t somebody mention that he came to San Diego to prepare himself for a head coaching position elsewhere in the future.
Yeah
He needed experience in the 3-4, he coached the 4-3 in Chicago. He couldn’t get a gig teaching a system he was unfamiliar with so he was willing to take the LB coaching position. I think we are in for very different play calling…
"Football is a physical sport, sometimes you have a disagreement on what's going on, and you have a discussion about it." Chris Dielman
by Brian (DaBolts) on Oct 28, 2008 7:48 PM PDT up reply actions
So what I'm hearing is
You don’t know why the Bears let him walk, but it must have had nothing to do with his skills.
You don’t know why other teams didn’t want him as a DC, but it must have had nothing to do with him wanted to be a head coach.
You don’t know why his LBs, but it must have had nothing to do with his skills and everything to do with becoming a head coach.
I’m sorry, but you’ve lost me.
Homer: Ohhhh, The Denver Broncos.
Marge: Whats wrong with the Denver Broncos?
Homer: Marge you just don't understand football.
You heard all that?
The Bears let Rivera walk supposedly because he didn’t mesh well with Lovie Smith, who wanted to run a bend don’t break style defense. Smith was also good friends with Babich, their LB coach, who was promoted and now runs the defense that way. Rivera had interviewed for a number of head coaching jobs, but lacked experience in the 3-4. If you want to read that as he sucks, so be it. Rivera took the job with the Bolts to get that experience; who is going to give somebody with no experience in the 3-4 a DC position on a 3-4 team? In 2006 the Bears had a great defense, in 2007 after Rivera left; not so much.
Your last question I can’t parse.
"Football is a physical sport, sometimes you have a disagreement on what's going on, and you have a discussion about it." Chris Dielman
by Brian (DaBolts) on Oct 28, 2008 9:32 PM PDT up reply actions
I guess
those are the “facts” as you choose to believe them. I don’t think any coach chooses to run a “bend but don’t break” defense and I’ve watched a lot of Bears games pre and post Rivera and there’s not a lot of difference in how that defense is run. So if I was to draw anything from that its that Lovie Smith really ran the defense then and he still does now. So what does that make Rivera? And please stop using the “he wants to be a head coach” card. Everybody wants to be a head coach. Mike Tomlin was a 4-3 coach who took over a 3-4 without any experience. I don’t think that’s the real reason he’s not a head coach.
Homer: Ohhhh, The Denver Broncos.
Marge: Whats wrong with the Denver Broncos?
Homer: Marge you just don't understand football.
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