Albert Breer: Could Ron Rivera make sense on the Patriots coaching staff?
On Thursday’s edition of Zolak & Bertrand, Albert Breer of SI and MMQB explained why Ron Rivera could make sense on the Patriots coaching staff.
Rivera has been through some rough ownership situations…
Albert Breer:
Especially when Jerod Mayo said, and he said it to me and I know he said it to other people, that he wanted to be sort of a walk around head coach, like a CEO head coach. A guy whose kind of troubleshooting the fundamentals and the big picture issues with the team. If you want to be that and then you got to 1st year DC, and you’re not really helping as much on that side of the ball, it would make sense to add another voice on that side. I actually have a name for you guys here. Ron Rivera was interested in doing something like that for someone in the offseason. I think he would have been a good name. Again, say what you will about his head coaching record. He’s been a head coach in two different places, right in Washington and Carolina. In both places, he sort of had to put out a dumpster fire ownership situation, right? He was in Carolina when the Jerry Richardson thing happened and had to be the bridge head coach from one ownership group to the Tepper Ownership Group, which now we know what that’s been. He was there in Washington through the name change and through the Dan Snyder thing. Why not bring someone like that aboard?
Scott Zolak:
He’s made his he’s made his money. He’s sort of stamped his name. He probably doesn’t really want to be a head coach again given where he was in life, what he’s overcome.
Albert Breer:
And he can be super helpful, right?
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