http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/football/nfl/02/19/rivera.chargers/index.html Will be LB coach under Cotrell.
Thats a damn good pick up...wow...this guy was coaching the defense for the bears and the Chargers got him to coach the LB'ers...thats pretty good.
hmm...i know ill prolly get made fun of for this but how come the Jets didnt look at him for D coordinator? I like Sutton but...he is no Rivera
I'm sure that he'll teach the San Diego defense how to actually play, assuming that Ted Cottrell only teaches the unit Cover 2 (the only thing he teaches well). Is this 4-3 duo going to keep the 3-4 defense?
I personally think it is insurance in case Big Teddy falls flat on his face. Rivera steps in and they are better off.
Thats like a slap in face, coaching the best defense in the league to linebackers under an infamously bad coach.
That's the risk you run when you start interviewing for head coaching positions at other teams while your team's postseason isn't over yet.
something is fishy about this, why take a demotion ( unless they are paying him more than the Bears were). There must be some behind the scenes deal where if Norv Turner falls flat on his face they will make him coach.
Nothing fishy. Ron Rivera put himself out there this year and tried to get the Dallas job and then, when that didn't work out, the Charger job. He got neither. Chicago then looked at a situation where their D-coordinator was looking for other jobs during the postseason and probably will again next year. Also, they look at Chicago's horrible defensive play-calling in the Superbowl. They figure they might as well move on sooner rather than later. Rivera, on the other hand, couldn't get a D-coordinator job because there were none left. The Dallas and SD head coaching vacancies happened too late in the game. So Rivera will do this for now, be a D-coordinator next year somewhere (hopefully not NY), and then try again in the head coaching market (and probably fail again).
No one lets a coach go just because he was looking for a promotion. It is either about the money, or about ego's. The truth is probably both.
Really... the guy who's Defense carried his team to the Superbowl has to answer to Ted Cotrell... the guy who destroys defenses...
Lets see.... The Chargers have run a 3-4 in recent years. The Chargers 3-4 talent is SICK. Cotrell is a 3-4 coach, and is considered a good one. Rivera runs a 4-3/Cover 2. Put it together. Looks to me like Rivera cared more about his big chance to be a head coach than anything else when it was all said and done, and it showed during the Super Bowl.
