A little Steve Wilks news

[CRA]

9 minutes ago, 4Corners said:

Yep. IOC and FIFA corrupt as hell. 
 

im convinced most NFL owners are probably guilty of something if the government “really” wanted to investigate them. 
 

NCAA is one of the worst organizations in the world. College sports full of garbage and plenty of reasons to not like college athletics. 

I mean if you actually knew the inner workings of Bama over the last 20 years? It would have more drama than Game of Thrones.  Sports on all levels is crazy.   Especially pre NIL.  But even the NIL era is going to be wild. To be a fly on the wall basically of any major sport org. 

[Mr. Scot]

7 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

How did he do before Carolina?

Not as good as Frank, If we're being honest.

Now that said, I never did put the majority of the blame for that disaster on Wilks. Having success under Bidwill and Keim probably would have taken divine intervention.

[Mr. Scot]

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[mrcompletely11]

3 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Not as good as Frank, If we're being honest.

Now that said, I never did put the majority of the blame for that disaster on Wilks. Having success under Bidwill and Keim probably would have taken divine intervention.

The “leader of men” style coaching is out dated and doesn’t work in 2023.   

[Mr. Scot]

2 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

The “leader of men” style coaching is out dated and doesn’t work in 2023.   

That arguably depends on your skill in the hiring area.

If you can find the right people to do the nuts and bolts type jobs, then that leadership style might still be effective.

That said, Wilks was a big fan of Al Holcomb as a DC, so it would seem he might not be appreciably better in that area than his former boss (the one currently in DC) was.

[Martin]

10 minutes ago, CamWhoaaCam said:

It's amazing people think Wilks is not HC material when he had the players backing him and put life back into this franchise when he took over.

 

1 failed opportunity with the Cardinals means he should never get another opportunity.

 

Meanwhile we hired a losing coach who was fired. Nobody said Frank didn't deserve the job.

 

Never change Huddle.

We’ll Frank had a winning record, but who cares about facts these days

[Aussie Tank]

18 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

The “leader of men” style coaching is out dated and doesn’t work in 2023.   

They must want Ron back 

[Basbear]

steve out here snitching like hes the lead on first 48.

[tukafan21]

6 minutes ago, Martin said:

We’ll Frank had a winning record, but who cares about facts these days

And did that while having to navigate the sudden retirement of Luck and working with scraps from the QB market.

he did that, look what Rhule did in the same time frame.

There is no comparing Reich’s past to Wilks past, night and day. 
 

Look, I’m not knocking what Wilks did for us, I just don’t see him as a good HC in today’s NFL.

[Smithers]

This is the riskiest Steve Wilks has ever been as a football coach 

[Carolina Cajun]

9 minutes ago, Martin said:

We’ll Frank had a winning record, but who cares about facts these days

On top of that, the sentiment that "nobody said frank didn't deserve the job" has the attention span of a goldfish.  TONS of people were HIGHLY critical of Reichs hiring.  I remember because I'm older than 6 months old.  

[Mr. Scot]

4 minutes ago, Aussie Tank said:

They must want Ron back 

I had (still have) a load of respect for Wilks. Heck, I liked Rivera too.

But with both of them, there came a point where I just said "this isn't working".

[Basbear]

 

[CRA]

4 minutes ago, CamWhoaaCam said:

So how do we judge Wilks if he only gets 1 opportunity?

 

 

 

I think what works against Wilks the most is what he represents.  He is an old school defensive HC.  If every job was vacant today and everything even, most teams aren’t eyeing that.   It naturally limits opportunity.   

If I owned a team I would prefer offense.  And if I wanted old school.  I’d go the Frank route.  Because he at least is offensive.   But my preference would be young and offensive. 

Now if Belichick or Tomlin happened to be interested? I’d be willing to put aside my preference.  But they got crazy resumes.