Wilks ain't it

[top dawg]

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. 

 

[Mr. Scot]

Maybe not, but way too soon to know

[PhillyB]

4th string qb starting, i'm not judging him off this 

[Carl Spackler]

What did he do that you didn't like? His quarterbacks are USFL-tier, his OC should've never been hired and all but one of the WRs will never play another down in the NFL after here.

[Sean Payton's Vicodin]

He sucks ass as a HC. No one could say why he was good besides pointless platitudes like "he's a leader of men" or "he embodies keep pounding". Weirdest huddle crush I have seen in my time posting here.

Edited October 16, 2022 by Sean Payton's Vicodin

[Smithers]

Yeah - he is worse than Rhule/Snow unfortunately.  Which makes me throw up to even type.  At least we will have the 1st pick

[Carl Spackler]

Worst OC, worst QBs and 3 of the 5 worst WRs in the NFL playing out there. I thought guys still tried. Hard to tell when Walker/Marshall/Smith try, because they suck either way.

[MillionDollarCam]

Wilkes

[t96]

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.

[Carl Spackler]

Just now, Smithers said:

Yeah - he is worse than Rhule/Snow unfortunately.

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.

[TheBigKat]

He’s Mike Singletary laughable of a coach

[frankw]

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.

Edited October 16, 2022 by frankw

[Pimpdaddy]

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...

[Smithers]

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