Tuesday is the NFL trade deadline, but it’s also Barstool Nate’s day to call in and chat Commanders with BMitch & Finlay – and this week, Nate, who was still upset about Sunday’s loss, said his call-in being Tuesday instead of Monday gave him a chance to calm down…but nothing has changed.
“I am a man of simple needs and wants: a roof over my head, beer in the fridge, and for my football team to act like a professional football team,” Nate said. “We have two of the three right now. We are not acting like a professional football team and it is driving me insane.”
The biggest problem he had was with Ron Rivera, who didn’t challenge a crucial fourth-down play in the third quarter, once again showing his lack of actual coaching ability in Nate’s eyes.
“Ron Rivera seems like a great guy, but he has no idea how to be an NFL head coach. We see it every week: he does not understand clock management or time out management, and he does not understand when or when not to challenge a play,” Nate said. “He is also the leader of the coaching staff, so he puts people up in the booth saying, ‘hey, if you see something, buzz me up, let me know if I should challenge.’ He answered the question about why he didn't challenge the most uncaught ball in the history of the NFL with ‘I didn't see the in-stadium replay?’ That’s such a sorry excuse that wouldn’t fly anywhere. Your job is to have the motions in place to be able to challenge a play when you need to, and he’s just giving this ho-hum, second-grade answer, with his face looking so stupid. Just the worst possible answer to why he didn't challenge the most challenge-able play I have ever seen, and it drove me up the wall.”
This is Ron’s biggest responsibility, Nate says, but every week, it’s a new version of ‘I didn’t know that’ or something similar, which continues to prove his point.
“Rivera is not an NFL head coach; he is stealing paychecks and I'm so tired of it every single week,” Nate said. “He single-handedly lost us a winnable game against a good team on Sunday. It’s nonsense; it’s a losing culture that Ron Rivera is bringing to this and he just has to be gone. You cannot let his stink, his indifference rub off on these guys who are giving their lives to play in the NFL. Ron Rivera is a net negative to this team, and he has no business being a head coach in the NFL.”
Sure, Ron did go 15-1 in 2015 in Carolina, but Nate still believes that was all Cam Newton – and even as JP agreed Nate presents “what a lot of fans feel,” when Finlay said “Ron’s not the worst NFL coach in the world,” Eric Nathan brought in the dagger…and gave it to the owner, too.
“Yes he is,” Nate said. “Since the 15-1 season, he has one winning season. ONE. That was a decade ago, and I am mad at Josh Harris because this fan base has been through Hell, and they need to know that Josh Harris cares about the product on the field and that he understands that the current coaching staff is failing everybody. We’ve only ever heard from Magic Johnson on Twitter, and I think they have to say something.”
And that’s when BMitch asked: what does Nate want Harris to say?
“I want him to say losing is not acceptable, what Ron Rivera is doing on the sidelines is not acceptable. I want him to hold people accountable,” Nate said. “It may be happening behind the scenes, but we have to hear it as fans.”
