Ron Rivera called his players together to deliver the "tough news" of his cancer diagnosis on Thursday night and by Saturday morning ripped into them for a practice that didn’t meet his standards.
The 40-hour swing from revealing he had cancer to yelling that practice wasn’t good enough exemplified Rivera’s desire to get back to work even with the difficult challenge ahead. Doctors told the 58-year-old coaching could take his mind off the chemotherapy procedures needed to get rid of the treatable form of skin cancer."We’ll find out a lot more about ourselves," said Rivera, who is in his first season with Washington.
Veteran linebacker Thomas Davis, who played under Rivera for several seasons with Carolina, figures the seasoned coach will handle cancer treatments with the same aggressiveness he shows on the sideline or the practice field.