Mike Kaye, Observer comment on Wilks support

[Waldo]

It was fun. I was only a lurker back then here but that year was magical on many levels.

It's just rough now. Being bored during the season is just too damn brutal and doing it continuously is worst. I just want this season to end so we can talk about better football than I can really hope for yet. 

[bythenbrs]

2 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

All directed by David Tepper?

Be afraid.  Be very afraid.

[Panthera onca]

5 minutes ago, Waldo said:

It was fun. I was only a lurker back then here but that year was magical on many levels.

It's just rough now. Being bored during the season is just too damn brutal and doing it continuously is worst. I just want this season to end so we can talk about better football than I can really hope for yet. 

The main benchmark for this season was accomplished when Rhule was ejected from the captain’s chair since Tepper was too stupid to understand that he should have been fired at the conclusion of last season.

[Waldo]

Just now, Panthera onca said:

The main benchmark for this season was accomplished when Rhule was ejected from the captain’s chair since Tepper was too stupid to understand that he should have been fired at the conclusion of last season.

Yeah it was the climax for me this season and it's the same thing it was for me once Tepper allowed a year 3, just live game practice and a wasted year. 

I have no idea what Tepper will do but I still hope he brings in help not in house.

[Panthera onca]

1 minute ago, Waldo said:

Yeah it was the climax for me this season and it's the same thing it was for me once Tepper allowed a year 3, just live game practice and a wasted year. 

I have no idea what Tepper will do but I still hope he brings in help not in house.

Agreed, he needs to hire an outside consulting firm.

[SmokinwithWilly]

Just now, Panthera onca said:

Agreed, he needs to hire an outside consulting firm.

At this point I trust a Huddle vote more than Tepper. 

[Panthera onca]

3 minutes ago, SmokinwithWilly said:

At this point I trust a Huddle vote more than Tepper. 

As long as we don’t let The Special Juan vote.

[KatsAzz]

9 hours ago, raleigh-panther said:

The very Panther thing to do is:

     beat Detroit. Lose to New Orleans 

That way, screw draft position and playoffs at the same time and still Hire Wilks 

the lions defense is susceptible to the run 

a veritable trifecta of Panther fandom 

That would be an ideal sceniro. The Lions defense may susceptible to the run but I thought the same about the Steelers run defense and we all know how that turned out. 

[Gerry Green]

6 minutes ago, Panthera onca said:

Agreed, he needs to hire an outside consulting firm.

 

I was hoping for more of a collaborated effort. As long as Tepper is seen and not heard, we should be ok. 

[Gerry Green]

3 minutes ago, KatsAzz said:

That would be an ideal sceniro. The Lions defense may susceptible to the run but I thought the same about the Steelers run defense and we all know how that turned out. 

 

The LIons D has been improving. But they are still susceptible to big plays, and giving up scores.

 

Our D is better than theirs. Their O is better than ours. Even Steven.

[KatsAzz]

1 minute ago, Gerry Green said:

 

The LIons D has been improving. But they are still susceptible to big plays, and giving up scores.

 

Our D is better than theirs. Their O is better than ours. Even Steven.

I will be surprised if our coaching staff is good enough to game plan to take advantage of their weakness and open up the passing game if the Lions put eight men on the line to try stopping the run game, the way the Steelers did.

[TheMaulClaw]

8 hours ago, Waldo said:

His actions made him absolutely firable but Wilks was open about how bad it was and helped to oust Rhule by having an option to replace him. 

Wilks was very critical of Snow which was who proped up Rhule and then fired Snow first thing with Tepper's blessing.

Anyway you cut it Wilks was part of the internal friction during that process. Not saying he was wrong at all just something to be mindful of if they try to make Wilks part of the new HC's hiring requirements.

So you're saying he is an agent saboteur for any coach that he works with?

[Waldo]

4 minutes ago, TheMaulClaw said:

So you're saying he is an agent saboteur for any coach that he works with?

That is a bit of a leap. All coaches? It's just a point of potential friction. I hope the new HC goes in a different direction than Wilks m.o. and that is certainly an easy point of friction. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't but it sure wouldn't surprise me if it didn't.

[Gerry Green]

31 minutes ago, KatsAzz said:

I will be surprised if our coaching staff is good enough to game plan to take advantage of their weakness and open up the passing game if the Lions put eight men on the line to try stopping the run game, the way the Steelers did.

 

They run mostly Cover 2 or Cover 3. They want to get pressure from the front 4. It's a stop the run on the way to the QB type rush. LBs are iffy, and the Secondary misses assignments all the time. It is getting better, but they were the worst to start with.