Ron Rivera Says He Felt ‘Disrespected’ by Week 1 Road Matchup vs. Broncos

September 16, 2016   ·   Joe Pantorno   ·   Jump to comments

The Carolina Panthers are just two days away from their Week 2 matchup against the San Francisco 49ers, which is also the defending NFC champions' home opener. But head coach Ron Rivera is still talking about his team's Week 1 season-opening loss at the Denver Broncos.
On Friday, Rivera told reporters he felt "disrespected" his team had to open up the season on the road against the team that beat them in Super Bowl 50, according to David Newton of ESPN.com:
Forget the fact that you're the defending NFC champs and you deserve to open up at home in front of your home crowd on opening week. We're going to make you guys relive it for five more months. That's how I felt.
So for the next five months I've got to put up with it, deal with it, answer the questions and relive it constantly over and over and over. Honestly, it became a pain in the ass.
After dropping Super Bowl 50, 24-10, the Panthers followed it up with a 21-20 loss in Denver in Week 1 when Graham Gano missed...

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