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Wilks ain't it


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Regardless of all the obvious excuses that one can muster for Wilks' performance, I haven't seen anything that makes me think that Wilks is head coaching material. 

Game-specific coaching sounds good and actually is good for coaches that know how to do it. Game planning around your strengths and the opposition's weaknesses is smart, but playing to your opponent's weaknesses just enough to keep them in the game, playing not to lose, and especially coddling a small lead in the first half or even the third and fourth quarters when your team is struggling offensively seems to be simply dumb. It speaks to situational play calling. 

Speaking of play calling...game planning...setting up a plan to just run and screen-pass (yes I'm using it as a verb) your way through the game and expect to win. Any defense worth its salt is going to figure you out because you're making things easy for them. You should be using the run to set up the pass and pass to set up the run. You must take some shots down the field to have any credibility.  Talking about going to the well ten too many times. 

 

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He's good to continue the tank while also having gotten rid of Rhule sooner than later. Also, I never thought he was a great DC but he's a very good secondary coach and leader when not running things. Doubt he sticks around in that role under a new staff but I'd be cool with keeping him if he would and the new staff wanted to keep him.

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Honestly this is likely the truth but I have to say it's bizarre to discard the guy after his first game given all the circumstances he's inherited while as far as I can tell saying nothing about the WR you've been going to bat for going on many months now.

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3 minutes ago, top dawg said:

Regardless of all the obvious excuses that one can muster for Wilks' performance, I haven't seen anything that makes me think that Wilks is head coaching material. 

Game-specific coaching sounds good and actually is good for coaches that know how to do it. Game planning around your strengths and the opposition's weaknesses is smart, but playing to your opponent's weaknesses just enough to keep them in the game, playing not to lose, and especially coddling a small lead in the first half or even the third and fourth quarters when your team is struggling offensively seems to be simply dumb. It speaks to situational play calling. 

Speaking of play calling...game planning...setting up a plan to just run and screen-pass (yes I'm using it as a verb) your way through the game and expect to win. Any defense worth its salt is going to figure you out because you're making things easy for them. You should be using the run to set up the pass and pass to set up the run. You must take some shots down the field to have any credibility.  Talking about going to the well ten too many times. 

 

...like to see what you do with a freshly handed bag of sht...

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Just now, Carl Spackler said:

This is the worst opinion I've seen on here in a long, long time. Reconsider hitting "submit reply" next time you think this, unless you've ignored everything written over the last week.

How do you figure?  The Rams may be the worst team we have faced this year.  And our offense regressed even more and the defense got zero pressure against a terrible OL.  Rhule sucks.  But Wilkes sucks more

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