The Ron Rivera to the Redskins buzz continues to heat up. Rivera will meet with Washington brass about their head coaching vacancy Monday, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network (Twitter link). The Redskins want Rivera, and they hope to complete a deal with him on Monday, “before any other teams become involved,” a source told Mark Maske of the Washington Post (Twitter link). Maske later tweeted that there’s a “growing belief” that a deal will get done Monday, barring any last-minute complications. 
We heard yesterday that the Redskins were interested in the former Panthers coach, and the interest is apparently mutual. Washington started the year off with Jay Gruden as coach, but fired him early on. They’ve been linked to a number of high profile coaches since then, including Urban Meyer and Marvin Lewis. There was a recent report that Rivera was telling people close to him that a deal could come together quickly, and it wouldn’t be surprising if he’s Washington’s new head coach by the end of tomorrow.
Rivera had been in Carolina for the past nine seasons before being canned with a handful of games to go. Nearly immediately after his firing, reports emerged that he wouldn’t be out of a job too long. It’s going to be an offseason of change for Washington, as front office head Bruce Allen also appears to be on his way out.
The Redskins have been a dumpster fire the past couple of years, but there are some bright spots. Rookie quarterback Dwayne Haskins made major strides down the stretch, and rookie receiver Terry McLaurin looks like a star in the making. We should know more about Rivera’s future very soon.
It will be bad optics for Gettleman and the Giants if they fail to even get a meeting with Rivera.
I don’t think so. If Rivera is dumb enough not to shop himself around then the Giants are probably better off.
This is in Rivera, more then Giants. If he doesn’t wait to see if the Giants or other teams have openings it’s silly.
More of a panic move on his part out of fear of thinking he won’t land any job.
So if Washington offers him something similar to what Gruden got from Oakland,he’s stupid for taking it?
Rivera would be a great hire. Hopefully, that means keeping O’Connell in place as the OC to continue developing Haskins… but why in the world would Rivera want to work for Snyder without Bruce Allen officially out the door?
Apparently Rivera has close ties to Kyle Smith, the Redskins’ Director of College Scouting (and AJ Smith’s son; the GM when Rivera was with the Chargers). This makes a little more sense if Kyle Smith is elevated to GM in a corresponding move. One can only hope.
Don’t do it Ron!! You’re too good a HC to coach for that franchise.
I’m sure he will get better offers.
Cleveland? Or a somewhere yet to have an opening; Dallas, Chicago, Chargers, Jacksonville, Jets?
News on the openings should start coming in any minute now.
I’d rather it be Rivera than Lewis. They hire Lewis, it will be another decade of losing.
If they hire either of them atleast Redskins will know that both will stick to Haskins and not play who’s my QB this week and ruin him. They both have played Dalton and Newton no matter what unless injured.