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Jonathan Stewart to discuss the Matt Rhule era and interim Coach Steve Wilkes at 8pm tonight on the C3 Panthers Podcast

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42 minutes ago, TheCasillas said:

any quick hits worth sharing?

Most of it was on Steve Wilks, the kind of coach he is, the kind of man he is, and the kind of intensity he brings. Mentioned how he looked forward to his locker room speeches and he thinks he could be the guy for Carolina. Also mentioned that he thinks that bringing in Wilks and Holcomb was planned for this very reason which would go with the rumor Wilks wasn't necessarily a Rhule choice. You could hear the excitement in his voice. He talked some about Rhule and the locker room, but nothing extremely negative about the man. Thinks he's a great college coach but transitioning from college to the pros is completely different, recruitment vs FA, and his staff just didn't have enough experience. 

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I'm not sitting on the edge of my seat for it...  unless the C3 guy can being something out of Stew with what he has already shared from his source, it's likely to be very benign, safe, and boring...  everything I've seen from Stew on IG while Rhule was here was tip toeing around the actual issues.  I love Stew, but he clearly didn't want to step on any toes and I bekieve has some loyalty to Tepper because he helped him get into a post-career track, IIRC...  so everything he said was generic, "guy have to play better...  I dont think any one person is the problem...  I hate to see a gut lose their job," etc.

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9 hours ago, SmokinwithWilly said:

Most of it was on Steve Wilks, the kind of coach he is, the kind of man he is, and the kind of intensity he brings. Mentioned how he looked forward to his locker room speeches and he thinks he could be the guy for Carolina. Also mentioned that he thinks that bringing in Wilks and Holcomb was planned for this very reason which would go with the rumor Wilks wasn't necessarily a Rhule choice. You could hear the excitement in his voice. He talked some about Rhule and the locker room, but nothing extremely negative about the man. Thinks he's a great college coach but transitioning from college to the pros is completely different, recruitment vs FA, and his staff just didn't have enough experience. 

That would make me think Stewart wasn't the source on their prior story.

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The only reason Tepper felt he could fire Rhule was because he already knew that he had Wilkes and Holcomb ready to take over if Rhule failed. I wondered why Wilkes tookt he role he did and stayed despite not agreeing with Snows's schemes and his college approach. I wouldn't doubt Wilkes  and Tepper talked quite a bit and this makes sense now. Maybe intensity and urgency is what we need to get over hump as everyone wants to say. I know one thing, I really hate the losing. I am tired of everyone else righting their ship at our expense.  Going to games and hearing other teams chanting and happy as we trudge out once again losing in the second half.  

 

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The only reason Tepper felt he could fire Rhule was because he already knew that he had Wilkes and Holcomb ready to take over if Rhule failed. I wondered why Wilkes tookt he role he did and stayed despite not agreeing with Snows's schemes and his college approach. I wouldn't doubt Wilkes  and Tepper talked quite a bit and this makes sense now. Maybe intensity and urgency is what we need to get over hump as everyone wants to say. I know one thing, I really hate the losing. I am tired of everyone else righting their ship at our expense.  Going to games and hearing other teams chanting and happy as we trudge out once again losing in the second half.  

 

Yup, there actually wasn't anyone to take over HC last year if he wanted to fire Rhule. Wilks/McAdoo/Tabor are experienced enough that they probably already had a plan B setup for when Rhule was eventually canned. Also I kinda believe the Wilks/Snow argument stuff, and I don't know if there's been a situation where your "secondary coach" can verbally dispute with your college coaches favorite DC and not get fired immediately

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48 minutes ago, Jackie Lee said:

Stew also says they brought Wilks in just in case they ended up in this situation with Rhules trajectory going downhill

So...just curious.   Tepper said the HC gets to pick his staff.  But no way that Rhule hired a guy that was set to replace him.

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