BOCA RATON, Fla. – Ron Rivera was about 10 minutes into an hour interview on Wednesday when he noticed a reporter’s tape recorder two feet away from the others surrounding him at his table.
The Carolina Panthers coach promptly slid the device closer so the microphone could pick up every word he said in the noisy room full of NFC coaches attending the NFL owners meeting.
Call it his anti-Bill Belichick moment.
A day earlier when the AFC coaches spoke, the New England Patriots coach in a very deliberate move pushed the microphones surrounding him about two feet away.