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NFL head coaches bark. They cajole. They scream. They order.
But Carolina Panthers head coach Ron Rivera took the opposite approach when he tried to keep his own career from sinking as well as the fortunes of a woebegone football team that hadnt had a winning season since 2008.
Rivera stopped talking, and he listened.
Rivera hosted many of his key players in a series of candid dinners after a disappointing 7-9 season in 2012.
They talked about team dynamics, delegation and leadership, and Rivera said that changed the way he dealt with the players and coaches on a personal level. But he still wasn't ready to make the leap to a regular risk-taker.
The start of the 2013 season felt familiar: Another close loss, to the Seattle Seahawks, one of the NFLs best teams.
Then, a week later, on Sept. 15, the Panthers faced a beatable foe, the Buffalo Bills.
Rivera, needing a yard on fourth down to clinch a victory late in the fourth quarter, took the conservative route. He had his team kick a field goal for a 6-point lead, and trusted his defense to hold on.
It couldnt. A Buffalo touchdown in the final 10 seconds gave the Bills a 24-23 win, dropping Rivera to 2-14 as a head coach in games decided by 7 points or less.
Rivera says that he knew his job was in danger but that he wasnt just thinking of that. Dozens of people who depend on him assistant coaches and the players he has championed were also in danger.
The Panthers had to win, or life was about to turn chaotic for everyone.
In the days after the Bills game a defeat Rivera said still causes him anguish Rivera agonized. With livelihoods on the line, he said, he knew something had to change.
And it had to be him.
The change seemed simple: Rivera started trusting his offense more, gambling on fourth downs with regularity.
But for a coach who had been an NFL linebacker with the Chicago Bears, it was not so simple. He had always been defensive-minded.
He says he knew, though, that he had to become more aggressive. If he was going to go out, by gosh, he would go out swinging.
I think that really helped me, and I think it also helped the team, Rivera said Monday. I think the guys began to realize, Hey, Coach does trust us. Coach does want us to put it all out there. And I think that was the one thing that was kind of missing from this team, that put it all out there thing.
Because if Im not going to put it all out there, why should they?
The change was so abrupt that it earned suddenly gambling Rivera the nickname Riverboat Ron.
It also inspired a Panthers team that, in turn, has inspired a region, moving from that 0-2 start to a 12-4 record, a first-round playoff bye and a hugely anticipated home playoff game against the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday at Bank of America Stadium.
Rivera, three months later, may be in line for a contract extension and a national coach of the year award or two.
None of that seemed possible after the loss to that mediocre Buffalo team.
But it was that loss, the coach said, that pushed him into a place where he wasnt comfortable but a place where he ultimately needed to go.
The groundwork for the change, though, was laid at those three player dinners in January 2013.
No more second-guessing
The Panthers hired Rivera as their fourth head coach in early 2011. He had made his name as an NFL defensive coordinator in Chicago and San Diego, and had interviewed nine previous times for head-coaching jobs before finally landing the one in Charlotte.
Carolina drafted quarterback Cam Newton three months later, and Rivera entrusted his offense to Newton immediately, starting him from Day 1.
But even as Newton dazzled, he wasnt entrusted with many fourth-and-short plays.
Riveras reputation was for coaching not to lose. When in doubt, the coach punted.
The Panthers improved, from 2-14 in the season before Rivera arrived to 6-10 in 2011 and 7-9 in 2012. But those were still losing seasons, and the Panthers were terrible in close games.
It wasnt certain Rivera would return this season. Although he had signed a four-year contract in 2011, team owner Jerry Richardson waited six days before announcing in a statement that Rivera would be retained for 2013.
If he didnt make the playoffs, though, it seemed likely he would be gone.
Rivera says he knew, even then, that things had to change. But how? The first step, he decided, was to listen.
The coach borrowed a page from the U.S. military, an organization he has always admired. Riveras father, Eugenio, served 32 years in the U.S. Army, raising the four Rivera boys (Ron was No. 3) largely on military bases.
I had always heard that when you go into a debriefing, you take the rank off, Rivera said. So I decided to do that. This was a year ago January 2013. I wanted an opportunity to hear from guys point-blank.
Rivera had a series of three dinners. The first was with a group of veteran players. Then a group of key young players. Last, he and his wife dined with linebacker Thomas Davis and his wife.
I didnt talk much, Rivera said. I just really listened to what they all had to say. I said, Hey, I need your input. There are things I need to know. I would love you guys to just be honest.
And then I listened very intently.
Rivera would not be specific about what he learned but said the dinners served their purpose.
It opened my eyes up about a lot of things, he said. One thing I found out: As the head coach, you dont see everything, and not everybody tells you everything.
Rivera also had lengthy talks with Richardson, new general manager Dave Gettleman and former NFL coach and announcer John Madden all of whom helped him, too.
Rivera didnt want to name the players he took to dinner, except for Davis. But wide receiver Steve Smith said it was apparent that a different, more confident head coach arrived for training camp in Spartanburg in July.
He is not the same Ron Rivera that came in that was a defensive coordinator, Smith, a 13-year veteran, said in a recent interview. Now hes a head coach. I think he understands that. He accepts it.
And I dont believe hes second-guessing himself anymore.
The Buffalo fiasco
Rivera was more confident, but he was also still sticking to his defensive roots.
Through the first 34 games of his NFL head-coaching career including the 0-2 start in 2013 Rivera went for a first down on fourth down less often than every NFL head coach save for one: John Fox, the head coach Rivera replaced in 2011.
Rock bottom arrived in that 34th game, in Buffalo.
With 1:48 left in the fourth quarter, the Panthers led 20-17 and needed a single first down to run out the clock. On third-and-5 from the 25, fullback Mike Tolbert ran for 4 yards.
Carolina faced a fourth-and-1 from the Bills 21. Buffalo was out of timeouts.
Rivera could leave his offense on the field, and a single yard would clinch the game. Or Rivera could kick a field goal the more conservative choice and then hope his injury-riddled defense could hold the Bills, with a rookie quarterback and only 1:38 on the clock, without a touchdown.
Rivera chose the field goal.
Ive thought about that over and over, the coach said of the fourth-and-1 choice. I still see all of it. I still see the play bouncing outside with Michael Tolbert, not getting the first down, and then kicking the field goal.
I still think about it.
Buffalo took the ball and quickly drove 80 yards down the field, scoring the winning touchdown with two seconds to go. Rivera was heartsick, realizing his decision had been too timid.
Fans were irate. An unscientific online poll at charotteobserver.com asked whether Panthers owner Jerry Richardson should fire Rivera immediately.
There were more than 8,800 responses in 24 hours, and 83 percent of the respondents said yes.
The loss, Rivera said, was the turning point.
I needed to realize that playing conservative, playing close to the vest, playing by the book sometimes youve just got to throw all that away, he said.
He first started thinking about coaching with a higher degree of risk on a team bus ride after the Buffalo game, then cemented that idea on several late-night drives home the following week, he said.
He watched college and pro games live, giving himself mental repetitions on kick-or-go-for-it decisions.
Said Rivera: Every time now theres a third-down situation, I start thinking, OK, Its third-and-8. If he gets 2 yards and they are on the 40, what would I do? Would I go for it?
The change wasnt apparent immediately. A 38-0 victory over the New York Giants didnt require many gambles, and the bye week followed.
But at Arizona, on Oct. 6, Rivera gambled on a big fourth down against Arizona. The risk failed when Brandon LaFell dropped a perfect pass from Newton, and Carolina lost again, falling to 1-3.
We were at the crossroads, Smith said. It was going to go one of two ways. We were either going to fight our tails off and see how it shook out, or this ship was going down, and it was going down fast. And heads were going to roll.
It was make or break for the players and for the coaches.
Breaking the mold
With his job on the line, Rivera stayed with his new approach.
The Riverboat Ron nickname bloomed when he went for fourth-and-1 twice in the first quarter the next week, against Minnesota. Carolina made both, and won in a blowout.
Newton, who had long lobbied for more risk-taking, recognized the change as significant. I think he is kind of breaking his mold to a degree, Newton said at the time, and giving the whole team confidence with him.
Rivera started repeating the mantra touchdowns, not field goals, to his offense, and he backed it up. Carolina went for it on fourth down 13 times during the season, making 10. That conversion rate of 77 percent was third-best in the NFL.
A fourth-and-10 gamble from the Panthers 20 late in a last-minute win over Miami was Riveras most audacious. A Newton pass to Smith for a first down was voted in an Observer poll of 16 Panthers players as the most important play of the season.
Rivera made another more subtle change, too, to show he still trusted his top-flight defense. When the Panthers won a pregame coin flip, Rivera would defer his choice to the second half. That would put his defense, ranked No. 2 in the NFL, on the field first, to set the tone.
The trust and confidence Rivera gained in those dinners a year ago, with some spurring from the loss in Buffalo, was translating to the field.
Keep it up?
On the sideline, Rivera never loses his composure. His stoic sideline demeanor was dismissed by many fans as too passive when the Panthers were losing but now is regarded as necessary calm in the face of chaos. Winning does that.
Said Rivera: One of the things I learned from my dad, with him being in the military, is that when all hell is breaking loose, they are going to look to their commanding officer. And you have to maintain a certain decorum. Because they are all looking to you.
In the past few weeks, they have seen Rivera backing away from Riverboat Ron.
It has worked: After going 2-14 in games decided by 7 points or fewer during the first 34 games of his Panther career, Carolina has been 5-0 in such games in November and December.
Against New Orleans Dec. 22, when Rivera punted late in the game, Rivera heard scattered boos from the home crowd.
But the Panthers stopped the Saints, got the ball back one last time and scored the winning TD.
At Atlanta Dec. 29, in a game Carolina had to win to get a first-round playoff bye, Carolina punted with a 21-20 lead. But the Panthers defense came through, and Carolina won again.
So the question remains: In his first playoff game as a head coach, against San Francisco, could Rivera gamble on a fourth down like the whole season depended upon it?
Rivera answered immediately.
Most certainly, he said.
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Had the great Shen & Zhao returned and skated cleanly in Sochi how would they have done. Could they have defended their title even.
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Had the great Shen & Zhao returned and skated cleanly in Sochi how would they have done. Could they have defended their title even.
Unless Volosozhar and Trankov skated the entire time on their butts, there was no way they could lose gold, especially with the way the judging for Sochi was.
I voted silver but only because V/T were foreordained. I prefer S/Z by a million miles, and who's to say that if they had competed against V/T for a year or two they wouldn't have figured out how to beat them? But that is probably truer of 2003 or 2007 S/Z than 2010 S/Z, let alone hypothetical and ancient 2014 S/Z.
If they skated clean they would be 4th behind S&S. In higher reality to how they would probably skate given their ages and time away from amateur skating more likely a 8th place finish.
I actually think they would have won, since V&T weren't totally clean, but maybe I'm being too optimistic about the judging. They definitely would have beaten S&S for the bronze, if clean.
S/Z have better choreography, performance quality, and innate qualities that make pairs teams special. They even have big throws. However, I don't know how they would have fit in 2014. If we're taking their 2010 selves into 2014, I can see them winning silver. V/T are still cooking, but their elements are perfect for COP scrutiny. S/Z's not so much since they developed in a program that was still a developing pairs program in the 1990s. They had to touch-and-go and did not have the benefit of coming from a federation that has a rich history of pairs skating. However, they had already beaten S/S before (and a clean S/S) and S/S skated pretty badly in the Sochi LP.
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I voted GOLD! They are the best pair ever so it is impossible to deny them if they skate cleanly.
Are the 9 people who voted 4th on glue. The Germans fell twice and you think they would beat a CLEAN Shen & Zhao. The Germans have never beaten a clean Shen & Zhao in any program ever, even when they were clean themselves. They arent in the same league.
In 2010 S&Z beat a clean S&S in the short program by only half a point. In 2014 V&T beat a clean S&S in the short program by four and a half points. So V&T are already out.
Probably they would have a good shot at silver, but who knows. Stolbova & Klimov received blatant overscoring like all the Russian figure skaters. The Germans would probably be favored politically over Shen & Zhao unlike 2010 when S&Z were.
Clean? They would have been on the podium for sure, likely an easy 2nd. Those who voted 4th or lower are certainly on glue
They weren't clean in 2010 and won the OGM. They were also scored nicely and keep in mind that this was before all the PCS became inflated the past 2 years.
There also wasnt much competition in 2010. S&S were 2 time world champions but not as strong a team as 2011-2014 still, and they were having their worst season ever in 2010, even losing to Pang & Tong who they dominated the remainder of their careers. This time there would be huge opposition to face with a dominant V&T, and a now many time world champions S&S.
I don't think S/S made much of a case of being a stronger team going into 2014 than they were going into 2010. Yeah they have that inconsistent throw 3axel which seems like a desperate attempt to get one over V/T, but everything else seemed more or less the same (maybe some regression going on).
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Remember in 2010 S&S lost to Pang & Tong all 4 times they met. They were in a huge slump that year and not skating well at all, which make it ridiculously easy for S&Z to just coast to their much deserved and long awaited gold in 2010.
I think I need to watch S/S closely to see the evolution of their skating. I just haven't had much motivation to care much about pairs skating since…well 2004.
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S/S also sucked most of this season, and sucked at the Olympics in the FS. It would be a farce if a clean (we're pretending here) S/Z finished behind what the Germans put out. The nutcracker program is horrible for S/S. I think that they are immensely talented, but the direction they took is not at all something that fits with their strengths. Aliona skating as the nutcracker is an awful fit. Aliona skating as the pink panther on the other hand? That's a combination that works!
But anyway, I don't see the growth in S/S since 2010, or maybe I'm just missing something.
And as for S/Z being scored generously in 2010? I don't see it at all, except maybe in the FS where they almost lost the gold. They had amazing programs, better-than-ever quality on all elements, consistency, and they had all the bells and whistles for COP. Not to mention the legendary S/Z emotional impact all packaged into one. They were easily the worlds best in 2010, and I felt they were scored according to what they put out, I didn't feel they were gifted that season (except maybe the olympic FS)
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If S/Z were competing, I doubt S/S would have attempted The Nutcracker.
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Well they wouldnt come back unless they were attempting difficulty they did in the past and able to skate it cleanly. Which is what makes this thread kind of silly anyway, as that was probably never realistic for a 40 year old male pairs skater and his 36 year old partner. What they were able to pull off in 2010 was already amazing, although at that time I wasnt surprised at all. The only way they would have come back is if the chinese fed. had begged a return as they didnt feel they had a gold contender at all otherwise, which would be the first time since 98 they didnt. Old Pang & Tong were never gold hopefuls in Sochi, they would have been happy with just a bronze, and probably werent ever getting even that.
V&T were going to be given the gold as long as they didnt do more than fall twice anyway. S&S lost to them by more than 20 points, so you can probably give V&T 2 falls, take away S&S's two, and they still win. Actually V&T missed both throws even with the score they got, so maybe more than that. I was about to say even G&G in their primes reicarnated wouldnt have a hope, but I briefly forgot they are russian too, so that changes things drastically, but as for a non Russian forget it. If the Russians were able to somehow make Sotnikova beat a clean Yu Na Kim by 6 points, how could anyone beat V&T at this corrupted event, when they were probably the actual best team to begin with.
I also wonder why S&S even went for the throw triple axel. I could understand it as a Hail Mary try of beating V&T had they gone clean to that point, but with their fall they werent going to be allowed to beat even a shaky V&T even with a quintruple throw to end landed well. An Olympic silver still should have meant something to them, given they only got bronze in Vancouver. Maybe they thought the judges wouldnt dare drop them behind S&K even with a 2nd fall. If they had a crystal ball and could see the ladies event to come, they probably would have been wiser and just done the salchow at that point.
It was definitely really silly to do the axel, but I guess that's what they wanted to do. I wouldn't have advocated for that if I were the coach.....


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This is going to be one of the hardest things you've ever going to have to do. You're going to be challenged to avoid the publicity on this case. You have to put everything out of your mind. You are going to be presented with evidence, pictures of money, to get your blood going. A 100 page indictment, over 100 witnesses in this case. You could be overwhelmed by the sheer quantity. They have a lot of quantity in this case, not quality. To do that is going to be a Herculean task. There are people in this courtroom who believe that you are not going to be misled and let the passions of other people drive your decisions. We are betting on you using your common sense.
Mr. Kilpatrick was the original target of this investigation. You are going to learn about the power of the federal of the government. Unequal power.
The pressure from the government causes some people to lie. You're going to have to think about that when you listen to the testimony of certain witnesses. Like the police officer who will say that Ferguson threatened him. These are examples of how this case is built on a foundation of nothing, of Jell-O.
Mahlon Clift, Derrick Miller.
They are going to say things that are not consistent with things they said earlier. The government will select 40 or so text messages out of 600,000. You'll be able to put them in context. Yes some of the language will be coarse. Kwame and Ferguson were active in trying to increase opportunities for minorities in Detroit-based business. When you study Kwame's record as mayor, you will see positive things happened in the city. Kwame and Ferguson were friends and are friends. The government will try to criminalize that relationship. That relationship did give Ferguson access and there is nothing illegal in that. The unfettered access the government claim took place will be shown to be inaccurate. The government will parade witnesses in here who want to see him go out of business
You're going to learn about Bobby Ferguson and the businesses he started-- he tried to get Latinos and blacks started in business.
When Bobby was 17, his father had a heart-attack and he took the reins of his father's business. His business did not start with Kwame Kilpatrick's administration. Poppycock. It existed under 3 administrations. His company had reputation for high quality work.
Comerica, Compuware, MGM Grand, CVS- these all preceded Kwame Kilpatrick. "He has the best equipment and delivers best prices"- from John Rakolta, a government witness.
He was sometimes angry and the text messages reflect that. His employees had MBAs and were all colors and of all races.
People would create fake minority companies to get a lot more in their pockets. Ferguson had employees, paid insurance and had a lot of high quality, expensive equipment. He learned his business from the ground up.
He believed in giving back. Getting other minority businesses started. Charitable organizations.
Examine this evidence carefully. You're going to learn that services were actually provided. Ask if when the investigation did they try to hide anything or was it full disclosure.
Some will lie for personal gain or for competition reasons. Derrick Miller his version changes every time he talks.
There is no, was never any, Kilpatrick enterprise. I'm kind of moved to say something about what Mr. Crandall said. It landed on everyone. Mercado's a good man. He's also terrified man.
Mr. Ferguson and Mercado are 2 different people. What is clear is that if his lawyer is correct, there can be no conspiracy without Mercado.
The evidence is going to be very clear that while Mr. Mercado was a good administrator, there were others who did very good work.
I'm going to save us all a lot of time. Promise me something. That you're going to pause. Take one witness at a time. For the co-operating witnesses, give their testimony more scrutiny. If you're careful over the next few months and have the courage of your convictions, don't worry about the newspapers, serve justice in this case and find my client not guilty.
12:40PM So, by the lunch hour we're almost through with opening statements. We've heard from the government and the lawyers for Kwame Kilpatrick, Victor Mercado and Bernard Kilpatrick. After lunch, we get to hear from Bobby Ferguson's lawyer and opening statements should be concluded.
The defense line-up is pretty revealing . First up was Jim Thomas for Kwame Kilpatrick, then Martin Crandall for Victor Mercado followed by John Shea for Bernard Kilpatrick and Bobby Ferguson's lawyer will be last. Interesting particularly because Kwame Kilpatrick and Bobby Ferguson who face the most counts are the book-ends to defense statements and Victor Mercado, who has done the utmost to distance himself from his co-defendants, is sandwiched in the middle of them all.
Martin Crandall, Mercado's lawyer, gave the lengthiest statement clocking in at almost an hour. As he spoke, stressing vigorously Mercado's outsider status to the "circle of trust", Kwame Kilpatrick focused on taking notes.
Statements will continue at 1:30 pm.
12:30PM Shea ends. Judge Nancy Edmunds calls the lawyers to sidebar. Break until 1:30PM.
12:29PM Shea continued. At the end of the day I'm going to be asking you to return verdict of not guilty.
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For here in Hollywood, on the turf of filmmakers like Nick Ray, Robert Aldrich and Sam Fuller, was nothing less than the living musical embodiment of American film noir – a group which took the spectral underside vision of the American dream as revealed in films like They Live by Night, Kiss Me Deadly and The Naked Kiss and latched onto it the unassimilated sexual vitality of the music of Slim Harpo, Solomon Burke and Howlin' Wolf.
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Even in that early, undifferentiated surge of rock groups that announced the English rock & roll renaissance, it was easy to distinguish the Stones from the Dave Clark Five, Freddie and the Dreamers, the Kinks or the Beatles. No other group presented (or has ever presented) that eerie quality combining the hustling menace of the spiv, the coolness of the dandy and the unpredictable amorality and frivolity of the Greek gods. And from the moment they landed in America, these soul survivors of British imperialism, these half-scruffy, half-exotic exiles on Main Street naturally and exuberantly took on the role of devil's advocate for what was then beginning to be thought of as the Love Generation.
It was in 1965 that I first saw the Rolling Stones perform live on a bill with Paul Revere and the Raiders and the Byrds at a less than sold-out concert at the San Francisco Civic Auditorium. The Raiders played dressed in revolutionary regalia; the Byrds performed songs like "The Bells of Rhymney" with an unforgettable naiflike, street-urchin radiance. And then out came the Stones . . . glinting, disengaged, self-prepossessing – the visual incorporation of an idea: four expressionless lean and hungry instrumentalists, spoken for by their shining, narcissistic knight. And the words with which the poet Arthur Symons once described the famous Parisian music-hall dancer, Jane Avril, perfectly caught this idea as Mick Jagger and the Stones embodied it that San Francisco evening:
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