View Full Version : Bears fire R Rivera
F Angelos
02-19-2007, 02:36 PM
Asked for a big raise and got the axe according to John Clayton
RockyMRaven
02-19-2007, 03:18 PM
Link??
crowdog89
02-19-2007, 03:49 PM
Here's the link...
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2771399
festivus
02-19-2007, 04:22 PM
SD could sure use a skilled DC with playoff experience.
BlackOutD
02-19-2007, 05:41 PM
That's rediculous!!!!
highwater
02-19-2007, 05:58 PM
Dumb move by the cheapskate Bears, who will eventually regret this. The guy has been a head coaching candidate this offseason, but they don't want to keep him around as their DC?
If they also lose Lovie Smith at some point soon because they are too cheap to keep him, this team will go in the tank really quick.
PurpleRulz
02-19-2007, 06:01 PM
Ed Reed was calling us a "bad organization?"
purplepoe
02-19-2007, 06:03 PM
Dumb move by the cheapskate Bears, who will eventually regret this. The guy has been a head coaching candidate this offseason, but they don't want to keep him around as their DC?
If they also lose Lovie Smith at some point soon because they are too cheap to keep him, this team will go in the tank really quick.
Well, I dunno.
IMO, the Bears D is more a reflection of Lovie Smith than Rivera. Smith is a defensive guy.
And why hasn't Rivera landed one of these jobs the last 2 years?
The Bears D is good. But let's remember who they play. The NFC North is a joke. Hell, the NFC as a whole is.
Yes, the Bears are cheap when it comes to coaches. But if they're gonna be cheap with one, I say be cheap with Rivera and lock Smith up.
PP
F Angelos
02-19-2007, 10:41 PM
Update: Rivera hired as SD's linebacker coach. According to J Clayton he asked the Bears for a raise from $450,000 to $900,000.
PurpleRulz
02-20-2007, 01:16 AM
Update: Rivera hired as SD's linebacker coach. According to J Clayton he asked the Bears for a raise from $450,000 to $900,000.
Wow! Could Rivera be the heir apparent at HC if Turner stinks this season?
TBOERaven16
02-20-2007, 06:25 AM
They didnt want to give him the raise because he will most likely land a Head Coaching job next year. There is said to be up to 8 vacancies after next season so look for Rivera to be hired rather quickly along with our beloved Rex. :grbac:
21xxxv
02-20-2007, 07:44 AM
I feel that the organization felt that Rivera's pursuit for a promotion trumped the teams progress during the post-season. He landed in San Deigo, and probably is making close to the same $ there.
OldBay
02-20-2007, 08:45 AM
What 8 teams will be letting their coaches go?
jonboy79
02-20-2007, 09:02 AM
Update: Rivera hired as SD's linebacker coach. According to J Clayton he asked the Bears for a raise from $450,000 to $900,000.
I'm sure they hired him just to fire him, when they could have just hired Ron Rivera Now....
What I am noticing, is the trend of 1a and 1b coaching staffs. It has been mentioned that Turner was picked becuase essentially he was the only offensive candidate left, and they had already chosen their deffensive Guy.
Dallas has Garrett, along iwth Phillips, Dom Capers in Miami, etc.
highwater
02-20-2007, 01:53 PM
Talk about a rapid decline -- this guy was (apparently) a serious head coaching candidate for several teams, and now all the sudden he's a linebackers coach? WTF? In fact, wasn't San Diego one of the teams that interviewed him for the HC job? And then they don't even offer him the DC job, which was also vacant? Pretty strange sequence of events.
Was Rivera considered a minority candidate? If he was, maybe that's why he got so many interviews. I wonder how serious a candidate he really was for some of these jobs.
festivus
02-20-2007, 02:21 PM
Talk about a rapid decline -- this guy was (apparently) a serious head coaching candidate for several teams, and now all the sudden he's a linebackers coach? WTF? In fact, wasn't San Diego one of the teams that interviewed him for the HC job? And then they don't even offer him the DC job, which was also vacant? Pretty strange sequence of events.
Was Rivera considered a minority candidate? If he was, maybe that's why he got so many interviews. I wonder how serious a candidate he really was for some of these jobs.
I bet Turner & SD already have their DC picked out, and just haven't finalized arrangements yet. I'm curious to see who it will be. . .
highwater
02-20-2007, 02:24 PM
I bet Turner & SD already have their DC picked out, and just haven't finalized arrangements yet. I'm curious to see who it will be. . .
Actually it's already been announced -- Ted Contrell, who I think used to be the DC with the Jets, and wasn't even in the league last season. So Rivera is going to the linebackers coach, working for a DC who didn't even have an NFL job last year? I just think it's a little weird.
jonboy79
02-20-2007, 03:16 PM
Here is what happens when you lose your job after every other opening has been filled... you get forced into taking a one year back step before youi shuffle forward. Part of Why Turner was brought in was that he was an offensive guy who had a defensive Coordinator in mind that both he and AJ Smith were comfortable with, thus the whole coaching staff would be set up and secondary to AJ Smith. Then Rivera gets fired... SD has virtually no coaching staff so could use a little veteran leadership and bningo. One year step, he'll be back at the forefront next year, or not, a la Fassell.