Ron Rivera Didn't Talk To Team At All At Halftime While Down 27-3, Is He On The Hot Seat? | PMS

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Oct 7, 2023
Favorite part of the whole thing is, at halftime, the Commanders are down 27-3 at home.
On prime time, sold out building three straight times.
Magic Johnson, new owner for the Commanders, came out and said, you know, our fans are
re-energized, revitalized, we've sold this place out three times, they're excited.
The last two games, Bills at home, boat race.
Bears come into town 27-3 at halftime, boat race.
And then coming out of half, Kaylee Hartung, sideline reporter for Amazon and also a part
of NBC News, I do believe, she had a conversation with Ron Rivera about, hey, Ron, what did
you ask the boys?
This is what Ron Rivera had to say coming out of half about what happened at halftime.
Did you say to try to rally your guys?
I let them talk to each other, OK?
The guys that got to do it, the guys that go out on the field, they talked about it.
And what did they say?
They talked about doing it for each other more so than anything else.
This guy's checked out.
Come on.
He's kidding.
The only thing coaches are really, I mean, there's a lot of hats, speaking of.
Hell, yeah.
This one's pretty sick.
Good ring.
Good hat.
Uh-huh.
Makes me feel real professional.
I feel like Tony Diggs a little bit.
But the coaches wear a lot of hats.
Got to put the schedule together.
You got to deal with everything going on there.
You don't really coach as much.
But like halftime, when your team is getting buzzsawed 27-3, that's one of those moments
where coaches come out and say, hey, we got to remember this.
We got to focus on this.
Each play, each drive, there's not going to be a 24-point play that we'll be able to
have.
We just got to do one step at a time.
And Ron Rivera goes in there 27-3 and goes, I ain't got shit to say.
That's what the boys thought.
I'm very worried that Ron Rivera has lost his fastball completely as a head coach.
And with the new ownership in town with how it rolled last night, I think all eyes are
on Ron Rivera.
And I hate it because the guy played.
Yeah, of course.
The guy's coached.
He's beloved.
We've appreciated him.
But it feels like he's checked out.
I can't be the only one that's thinking that.
No, and we love Riverboat Ron.
His aggressiveness.
Love what he's all about.
How many times are they going to cut the camera to him on the sideline looking like a complete
clueless dipshit, though?
Because I'm not kidding.
Every single time he came on the screen, I believe he has the tinted glasses that go
to tense when you're in the sun, transition lenses, there it is, and it didn't seem like
he had anything to say.
And sometimes if they're looking on the field and they're waiting to hear a call, sure,
that's fine.
But there wasn't a point where they cut to the sideline.
He's talking to the team or at least making some adjustments.
I believe Michael Lombardi also said, we are watching coach malpractice live here talking
about Riverboat Ron.
Well, and what they were doing on defense with Jack Del Rio.
There's never an adjustment to D.J.
Moore doing his thing.
He goes for over 200 yards, 230 yards, three touch.
Let's not just continue to harp on how good the Bears are and how bad the commanders are.
How through for three hundred and eighty eight.
He threw for three hundred and eighty eight yards and they still just get absolutely slaughtered.
Defense got to get it figured out.
The old team's got to get it figured out.
The commanders are becoming a laughingstock again.
They are giving up a ton of points, but he's not in Riverboat Ron anymore.
So it's twenty seven three and then it's twenty seven eleven or whatever.
And then they get down and it's fourth and two on like the eleven or ten or something
like that.
And they're moving the ball.
Yeah.
And they kick the field goal.
Bluebirds from everywhere.
He might be checked out.
He's not even Riverboat anymore.
I'm worried about and magic came out.
And you know how magic he's great on X.
He's great on Twitter.
He put out a tweet that they they were playing with no passion.
He did not sound happy.
I don't know how long we're both going to be.
Yeah.
I saw Josh Harris rocking his Louis Vuitton jacket up there.
He's an interesting guy.
He was having a blast.
I don't think he's much of a public speaker, but he's going to get a winner over there
with how much money he has.
We just don't know what the future looks like.
Chicago Bears get off the Schneider first win in 15 attempts.
I saw a lot of your tweets.
You were calling out the commander's coaching practices offensively, defensively at halftime.
Ron Rivera came out and said, I didn't say a damn thing to the team.
I just go ahead and let the players talk.
What are your thoughts on last night?
Why did the Bears have success?
And what's next for the commander's pie zone?
Well, I mean, look, give all the credit to Chicago.
Eber Flus has been drowning and, you know, I mean, that program has been a mess.
They just traded Claypool to Miami for basically nothing.
They gave up the 32nd pick in the draft.
They traded.
They dumped Claypool to Miami for basically a swap of picks.
So that's been a mess.
And they needed it.
They've given up 33 points over the last 14 games on this losing streak.
And so it was a welcome sight to win.
And for the Washington football teams, I mean, there was no effort.
There was no energy from the start.
Chicago's missing a ton of players in the secondary.
They couldn't really handle it.
But once again, you know, they got behind.
Washington's defense, to me, has been so disappointing in the fact that they've not
been able to get control of any game.
They've given up over 30 points before that game.
And now they're giving up 36 over the last four weeks.
So, I mean, Rivera should be saying something.
I mean, at some point, if a guy's got 280 yards on you, don't you double him?
I mean, if we were playing in the backyard and we couldn't cover a guy, wouldn't we put
two guys on him?
You'd think.
Like, at some point, like, don't we have to take D.J. Moore out of the game?
You would think.
Yeah, I mean, and poor Sam Howe.
You realize this, Pat, Sam Howe has been sacked.
He's on David Carr trajectory of getting sacked.
Like, he is going on that pace, and he's on pace now, after four more sacks last night,
to get sacked over 90 times.
At what point do we protect him?
At what point do we say, look, we've got great receivers.
They can beat their corners.
All we've got to do is block.
But unfortunately, it didn't happen.
