Steve Wilks refutes the media's perception that the Panthers "tried to tank this year"

[frankw]

Ya'll damn well should've known better than to trust a Will Kunkel tweet.

[Mr. Scot]

 

[poundaway]

4 minutes ago, mav1234 said:

he said the words, but he was talking about the noise around the team. The video I found doesn't have the quote, but in context it sounded like a comment on the "noise" around the team

Ok.  I'll wait for the vid of the conference.

[poundaway]

Just now, Mr. Scot said:

 

As I said, backpedal....

[mav1234]

Ok, https://www.facebook.com/CarolinaPanthers/videos/808612346900965

Check out the full Q&A, its right at the start. I took the response and subsequent questions as about noise around the team, not his view of what the org was actually doing, but others may see it differently.

[4Corners]

4 minutes ago, Wolfcop said:

What an irresponsible tweet. 

True dat but that’s the world we live in now. That tweet is going to get serious clicks and would not surprise me to be a big headline tomorrow. Wilks stepped in a big pile of crap by accident. 

[mav1234]

1 minute ago, poundaway said:

As I said, backpedal....

I don't think it was (Wilks) backpedaling, honestly. He started at the very beginning talking about how there's "Its" you can't control and you just need to go out and execute, do your job, etc

Edited December 12, 2022 by mav1234

[poundaway]

Ok, now I call BS.  He very clearly was NOT refering to outside perceptions.  He listed HC changes, players losses and that the org was trying to tank it.

[NanuqoftheNorth]

Yes, the media talking heads were speculating about the Panthers tanking early this season, but it should be obvious that Coach Wilks and the players had different ideas.  If the Panthers wanted to tank there were trades for top picks that were turned down by Carolina.  Also as already mentioned, if the Panthers wanted to tank, the best way to do that would have been to keep Rhule as HC.

[mav1234]

Just now, poundaway said:

Ok, now I call BS.  He very clearly was NOT refering to outside perceptions.  He listed HC changes, players losses and that the org was trying to tank it.

You should really listen to the full interview, because he opens the presser by talking about everything around the organization that was outside of player's control, what people were saying, etc etc.

[poundaway]

Just now, mav1234 said:

You should really listen to the full interview, because he opens the presser by talking about everything around the organization that was outside of player's control, what people were saying, etc etc.

Give me a link.  I'll watch it.  I posted mine, and it is clear he was referring to the org trying to tank it, not that other people thought the org was trying to tank.

 

[mav1234]

If you want to hear his response to judge if you think he's bullshitting, see ~7:47 for a question from (Joe Person? not sure) on what Wilks meant by the organization tanking:

https://www.facebook.com/CarolinaPanthers/videos/808612346900965 ( don't know how to link facebook vides to time stamps)

[mav1234]

Just now, poundaway said:

Give me a link.  I'll watch it.  I posted mine, and it is clear he was referring to the org trying to tank it, not that other people thought the org was trying to tank.

 

I've posted the link above already.  And I linked that tweet you posted a while ago explaining it was missing the context of the earlier questions.

Edited December 12, 2022 by mav1234

[frankw]

Weird how folks who rationalized the stupid things Rhule said are now going for Wilks throat over a lame gotcha tweet from Kunkel of all people. In other news we won today and defeated a playoff team in their house.