Dump Rivera!

January 15, 2007

The Bears have the biggest baddest defense in football… blah blah blah.

The Bears have a talented defense thanks to Jerry Angelo. I used to be an Angelo detractor mainly due to the Roosevelt Colvin debacle. Then I wanted Angelo to pick Mike Williams instead of Cedric Benson… boy was I wrong on that. So basically Angelo screwed up once. I can forgive him for that.

What I can’t forgive is when the highest ranked regular season defense lays down in the playoffs. In the last two year Rivera’s defense has given up 54 points in two post season games. That’s unacceptable.

If you remember last year Rivera was all the buzz about being the next head coach, same as this year. I say good riddance. If he’s not hired away, I say fire him. The ONLY reason the Bears defense is any good is because they’re talented. I’ve not once seen the Bears defense win a game because Rivera put his players in position to make extraordinary plays.

Mike McMichael said when the Bears destroyed the Giant on the way to the superbowl was largely due to a different stunt the defensive line ran. McMichael & Hampton blocked toward the outside and Dent came from the end up the middle (around two guys). Dent ended that day with three sacks. Now that’s coaching.

How ’bout half time adjustment? I seriously can’t remember one game when the defense played differently the first half then they did the second half. The only exception I can think of is the Arizona game when Urlacher single handily took over the game. Again that’s talent not coaching. “Yeah but the Bears are missing Mike Brown and Tommie Harris”… SO WHAT! As great as those players are (especially Harris) that’s when good coaches are separated from the average.

How about this… how does Tom Brady continue to be so successful when his team is depleted each year more and more? Two words “Bill Belichick”. Bill schemes and coaches to put his guys in position to win and it doesn’t matter who Belichick is working with on offense or defense his guys make plays.

I hope the Bears go on to win the Superbowl. And if I’m continued to dream for a second Ron Rivera gets hired as head coach of an NFL North team so the Bears can rip his defense for 25 points a game.

January 15, 2007 | Filed Under Sports

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One Response to “Dump Rivera!”

  1. M E A N I N G L I S » Blog Archive » What happened, Ron Riveria? on February 5th, 2007 11:24 am

    [...] So after four playoff games in the last two years our vaunted defense has given up 29 pts to Carolina, 24 pts to Seattle, 14 pts to the Saints, 29 pts to Indy. Giving up TWENTY FOUR points a game in the play-offs is not the characteristic of a top rated defense and ESPECIALLY not the characteristic of a top rated defensive coordinator. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE RON RIVERA GO AWAY. [...]

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