Khyber53

How many of you were up in arms about us losing the Keep Pounding! part of our identity? I don't care if the HC comes from the offensive or defensive side of the coaching carousel. What I care about is can they lead and inspire men, can they manage resources, can they pick the right staff members and players. Can they make the executive decisions in game that can shift everything. I do want an OC who can be an OC. I do want a DC who can create a tough, gritty and punishing defense. Wilks can certainly lead, but I want to see an aggressive and adaptive OC for once and a DC that can call a game that puts the other team on their back foot and never lets up. But by all means possible, keep our O-line coach!

Gold plated. 8k.

No it looks like with the Giants OC he's looking to snag another touted "wunderkind" who still hasn't really proved himself. Some people buy a lot of gold plated jewelry because it's all blingy and irresistable.

Y'all do realize that this is just a very expensive hobby for Tepper right?

His intentions were the same when he hired Rhule.

This 100 percent.

If he'd have passed for 300 yards and won the game single-handedly there'd be a contingent saying Darnold alone cost us two spots in the draft. If we'd have lost the game, they'd have said look at what a bum he is, turning out that kind of performance when he knew his career was on the line. This has been a swamp-assed year of a football season and it has created the pissiest fan situation ever.

Well, it looked like a needed to dumb things down a bit for you. Must have slipped a notch or two on the dial. Glad to have given you something to gnaw on for a bit. What are we even arguing about again? I haven't cared enough to keep up with it.

You didn't watch much this year, huh?

I don't know, if you're going to hire a new guy to turn an organization around and create a culture of winning, why not go ahead and keep the guy who has already been doing that for 12 games? Why not take the head start Wilks has already made and let him keep building that momentum? Or you can chase another highly sought after name and roll the dice again. Sure, hand the dice to Tepper... When Wilks took over the team had already experienced an offseason and five games of injuries, wear and tear, horrendous coaching and a locker room in near revolt. Then we traded the closest thing we had to a franchise player. And somehow he turned the team into something at least competitive. Let the man finish the build, he's already set the new foundation after putting out the dumpster fire he was handed.

Sounds familiar.

Cardinals should have released Murray instead. Their former HC and former GM will find gainful employment long before the Cardinals are relavent again. Then again, it's the Cardinals, one of professional sports' most moribund enterprises.

Losers look forward to high draft picks.

College changes a man.

Well, we're all here. Might as well make a game of it. Actually, it might be good. Two coaches trying to save their jobs, two QBs trying to prove their relevancy, two beat up secondaries. Might go 87-80. Might also be 11-2. Neither team will be the same again next year.

Sure, let's go find another one of those college "football" geniuses.

Eff'em both.

Give Wilks a two year prove it coaching contract with the right to assemble his own staff and input on drafting, team building. We handed him a sunken ship in week six and somehow he was able to bring it home and keep it in contention until the end of week 17. AFTER trading CMC and releasing Baker Mayfield. And he was man enough to send Sideshow Bob Anderson packing after he showed out on the sidelines. And somehow, he made Sam Darnold at least intriguing if not relevant again. The man should get the opportunity. If we don't do it, someone else is going to and he's going to beat the snot out of us every time he gets the chance. And if you want to entertain dreams of Luke coming back to coach, it's not going to happen without Wilks in charge.

I'm sorry, but I'd rather see Wilks as coach rather than another tin pot dictator from an overly monied college program.

It's interesting to read the stats, but there's a big vacuum around them. That vacuum can be summed up with the caveat that the overall win percentage of those coaches at their next stop (0.456) is as good or better than the average for all HCs put together for the NFL in any given career span. It's tough to win in the NFL, for any coach whether they were an interim coach (who is always taking over a sinking or sunk ship) or whether they have inherited a successful program as we've seen in Tampa and New Orleans this year. Consistent winners like Belichick, Carrol, Harbaugh and Tomlin are very rare creatures indeed. Wilks being an interim here isn't a slight against his capabilities as a HC at all, contrary to what that chart says.

Poor kid, he has no reason for guilt in this, but it would still weigh heavy on a good man's soul. May both men find healing and better days ahead for them.

Each team has a sportswriter who speaks on behalf of their candidates as the field is winnowed down to the finalists. Steve's record is among the best ever. I can only think that this year our team's representative didn't make as strong of a case or some internal politicking squeezed him out. Doesn't seem quite cricket that he was there last year and not this year. And next year, won't Julius Peppers be eligible? Which one gets the better speech on his behalf?

Then don't move up. Build the rest of the team. Some folks are far too in love with college QBs.

Yeah, he's the next Ryan Fitzpatrick. We shouldn't have let him go.

That was a class act move by Heinicke there.