If the NFL Network is on the ball, Ron Rivera, known fondly in the East Bay, will be hired as head coach of the NFL’s Washington franchise in a matter of hours.
And if Adam Schefter knows his stuff (he does) Rivera, a Cal Bear in the early 1980s, will quickly commence building his staff starting with another son of the East Bay — Jack Del Rio, a high school three-sport man among boys at Hayward High, who grew up to be the head coach of the Oakland Raiders.
Rivera, a linebacker at Cal, was the 1983 Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year.