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Mike Kaye, Observer comment on Wilks support

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The Charlotte Observer reported in November that Wilks has internal support within the organization. That support hasn’t wavered, as the Panthers have won three of their past five games.

Despite that backing, Wilks will need to endure the rigors of a coaching search in Carolina.

The Panthers, like all other teams, need to comply with the Rooney Rule, which prioritizes external minority candidacy. Carolina will need to interview two external minority candidates before making a permanent hire or taking the interim tag off Wilks’ title.

While Wilks is a minority candidate, under the Rooney Rule he is considered an internal option. 

The search could also take some time, as coaches in the playoffs can’t be interviewed for jobs until after the wild-card round of the postseason. 

If the Panthers want to have multiple interviews with a candidate who makes it all the way to the Super Bowl, the hiring process could extend beyond January into mid-February. That timeline would push a final hire date past the major college all-star games in early February.

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Then we need to dump those supporters also after the last game. Hurney's ghost lives on still. We can and should try to do better and I am already exhausted looking into our past this year. 

Wilks does not compare well to the top candidates out there IMO. I would even rather have Reich over Wilks. We desperately need outside help or the duds brought into our front office will ruin this shot at competency yet again.  

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Because it makes sense to hire from within a dysfunctional organization--but since we are humping the first ass we sniff, lets go through the motions of pretending to look at others.  The odds that the best fit is already a Panther are slim.  Dumbassery

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5 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Regardless of reality, I would expect this to be the message from the organization as long as we're still in contention for the playoffs.

The very Panther thing to do is:

     beat Detroit. Lose to New Orleans 

That way, screw draft position and playoffs at the same time and still Hire Wilks 

the lions defense is susceptible to the run 

a veritable trifecta of Panther fandom 

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1 minute ago, raleigh-panther said:

The very Panther thing to do is:

     beat Detroit. Lose to New Orleans 

That way, screw draft position and playoffs at the same time and still Hire Wilks 

a veritable trifecta of Panther fandom 

My panthers fandom fully expects us to control our own destiny, be slated for the playoffs, then lose the final game a blow it 😂 

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I think Wilks has been coaching a "the cupboard is bare" team and has been exceeding what could be expected of him. He was asked to pilot the wreckage of the Rhule regime AND to absorb the loss of CMC in the process.

What has he done? He's given us some good games and we've lost some games pretty badly, too. We were going to lose those games no matter what, this wasn't a very good team -- there are massive holes at QB, TE, LB and DE. There's no depth and a real case can be made that coaching has had to make up for a wasted off season and first quarter of this season from HC to OC to DC. Special teams coaching seems to be pretty decent, but man we are desperately in need of a better strength and conditioning staff, and possibly trainers as well.

When evaluating Wilks, overall team win/loss performance might not be as accurate as looking at what has been done with what we have on hand. And there's that empty cupboard. In many ways it is like evaluating QBs for the draft. Everyone wants to take a big name winner from a big name program that is always at the top of the rankings. It's the surest bet, right? Honestly, the best candidate for that QB spot is the QB who came in and turned a middling program into a winner, one where he had to elevate the entire team with his performance. That's a guy who can turn around a bad team. The same can be found for HCs. 

Wilks may well be one of those guys, but he may not be the only one like that out there. Sean McDermott was one of those guys back when he came to Carolina out of Philadelphia. And when he left after our Super Bowl run because he completely elevated our defense, he showed he could build a team from the ground up. 

Maybe Wilks is the guy for us, he certainly understands the Keep Pounding mantra. But maybe there's a guy out there who is better (perhaps in Philly). It's hard to say but I think we'd be foolish not to keep Wilks as a solid candidate (barring a complete meltdown by the team in the next few weeks).

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Im still not sold on Wilks.  Like the guy, and the players seem to want to go to war for him, however I am not convinced that there isnt a better, more innovative candidate out there.  Regardless, the first thing that needs to happen is Ben McAdoo needs to be shitcanned the second the last game of the season is over.  We have some of the worst, most uninspired playcalls in the entire NFL.  Ben McAdoo is a chump.

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