Ron Rivera firing and which head coach could be next, plus our Week 14 preview
Inside The Huddle
Sky Sports
4.4 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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And of course look ahead to Week 14.
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| 0:00.0 | Go Inside the Huddle with Sky Sports, Neil Reynolds and Jeff Rimbaud. |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome to Inside the Huddle, our weekly chat about all things NFL. |
| 0:20.0 | Very pleased to be joined by Bucky Brooks, former NFL player and NFL Scout. |
| 0:24.6 | And my partner's back. |
| 0:26.6 | My regular podcast partner is not on the end of Skype, not on the end of a phone. |
| 0:31.6 | Thank you, Jeff Reinbold. |
| 0:32.6 | It's good to have you guys here. |
| 0:34.6 | And we're going to talk big news right at the start of tonight's show with our second head coach firing of the season. |
| 0:42.6 | Jay Gruden has already gone from the Washington Redskins. |
| 0:44.6 | Feels like a long time ago already for that. |
| 0:47.0 | But Ron Rivera, who's been very established as an NFL coach. |
| 0:51.3 | Bucky, let's start with your thoughts. |
| 0:53.5 | You're surprised at this move? |
| 0:55.0 | I'm not surprised because he'd been there for a long time. |
| 0:57.8 | And it really goes even back to when the owner took over, David Teper took over, |
| 1:03.1 | he sat patiently for a year and a half and just kind of watched things play out. |
| 1:06.7 | He changed everything on the business side and installed his own leaders to kind of revamp the business. |
| 1:11.6 | But the football side, he kind of left alone, just kind of watched it play out. |
| 1:14.6 | He comes from the Pittsburgh Steelers where he was a minority owner, and he understands the importance of stability. |
| 1:20.6 | What he wanted to do is see if Ron Rivera could have a level of success that merited an opportunity for him to extend his coaching thing. |
| 1:29.1 | Back-to-back seasons, they have underperformed. He wants to get his own guy. And he wants to reshape |
| 1:33.7 | the front office and the vision that he has success on Wall Street on. So you can see a lot of |
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