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Opinion: Rivera fails to “read the room”

In his Monday morning Zoom session with the media, Ron Rivera got a bit testy as the journalists asked him repeatedly if he was going to take any significant action to fix the ongoing defensive failings that plagued the team during the first five weeks of the season. At one point, he tried to simply cut the questions off before they could be asked.

Here is a feel for the flow of the Monday media session:

After flatly refusing to consider or discuss coaching or scheme changes, when Rivera was asked a second or third time about what action he might take, he snapped, “Boy, you guys really wanna go there, don’t you?