Wilkes respected around the league. Will be someone's head coach next year.

[Bear Hands]

Rhule: 39 games, 11 wins

Wilks: 10 games, 5 wins

Wilks also matched Rhule's best season in like 9 games lol.  It did not take much to find better than Rhule.  IF we bring Wilks full-time, he needs to have a clear vision for this offense.  Needs to get to that next level with how strong the OL appears to be.

[TF330]

I feel like tepper will go with Wilks as the safe choice after he was very bold and very wrong with the hire of rhule. players want wilks it seems, the team seems to at least be playing 'better' although competition is questionable, and it will be way less expensive than pulling someone like payton, demeco ryans, etc. 

I like most are okay with Wilks on a 3 year deal or so with the requirement of a new OC and the expectation that Fitterer will get us a new qb to start the year

[ForJimmy]

22 minutes ago, TF330 said:

I feel like tepper will go with Wilks as the safe choice after he was very bold and very wrong with the hire of rhule. players want wilks it seems, the team seems to at least be playing 'better' although competition is questionable, and it will be way less expensive than pulling someone like payton, demeco ryans, etc. 

I like most are okay with Wilks on a 3 year deal or so with the requirement of a new OC and the expectation that Fitterer will get us a new qb to start the year

Wilks would more than likely want to pick his next QB.  He wanted to trade up for Allen in Arizona.  I could see him wanting another big armed raw talent like AR or Levis this year.

[Jackie Lee]

Gonna be tough for Tepper to ignore this kind of public support

 

[ForJimmy]

8 minutes ago, Jackie Lee said:

Gonna be tough for Tepper to ignore this kind of public support

 

As long as he can get a good OC and let him handle the offense I'm ok with it.

[MechaZain]

1 hour ago, TF330 said:

I feel like tepper will go with Wilks as the safe choice after he was very bold and very wrong with the hire of rhule. players want wilks it seems, the team seems to at least be playing 'better' although competition is questionable, and it will be way less expensive than pulling someone like payton, demeco ryans, etc. 

I like most are okay with Wilks on a 3 year deal or so with the requirement of a new OC and the expectation that Fitterer will get us a new qb to start the year

The head start is a huge advantage for him. Hire an outside coach and at least one year is going to be spent getting acclimated and rebuilding if not two. 

[poundaway]

Win the last two games.  Win two road games against division rivals with the playoffs in the balance and Wilks will have earned the job.  We've beaten these teams before so its not out of the realm of possibility.

 

[OldhamA]

7 hours ago, Bear Hands said:

Rhule: 39 games, 11 wins

Wilks: 10 games, 5 wins

Wilks also matched Rhule's best season in like 9 games lol.  It did not take much to find better than Rhule.  IF we bring Wilks full-time, he needs to have a clear vision for this offense.  Needs to get to that next level with how strong the OL appears to be.

Or maybe it's the reverse - he needs a clear vision for the defence. We need to move away from that Rivera Cover 3 nonsense:

https://twitter.com/MattHarmon_BYB/status/1607593279604019200?s=20&t=ncL1EFmvt6WDE2DmAiAnJA

Edited December 27, 2022 by OldhamA

[Mr. Scot]

2 hours ago, Jackie Lee said:

Gonna be tough for Tepper to ignore this kind of public support

 

Nah. All he'd have to do is pretend they're asking for a grass field and he could tune them out in a heartbeat

[Jackie Lee]

Didn't Rhule say the other week that he never lost the locker room? Sounds like not many took him seriously at all

 

[mc52beast]

I love Wilks, he’s from the area and really does care about his players. I’m hesitant about giving him the HC tag because he’s yet another conservative “ three yards and a cloud of dust” guy. How long will that work? Pittsburgh handled us pretty easily and that worries me.

[Mike2.0]

Question… if we want to make Wilks our next head coach and remove the interim tag, would we need to interview anyone else? 

Granted it was an article ranking the current vacancies on BleacherReport, but it said we need to interview two minority coaches for the position before we promote Wilks. Is that true?

I could understand it if we had a white interim coach, but in our case we would be promoting a minority coach. Either way it would be a token interview, something Brian Flores and among others have been complaining about in the past year.

[panthers55]

11 hours ago, Mike2.0 said:

Question… if we want to make Wilks our next head coach and remove the interim tag, would we need to interview anyone else? 

Granted it was an article ranking the current vacancies on BleacherReport, but it said we need to interview two minority coaches for the position before we promote Wilks. Is that true?

I could understand it if we had a white interim coach, but in our case we would be promoting a minority coach. Either way it would be a token interview, something Brian Flores and among others have been complaining about in the past year.

You are right. We have to interview 2 minority candidates other than Wilkes. Makes no sense but that is the new Rooney rule. 

[LinvilleGorge]

I'm not opposed to keeping Wilks. Not gonna lie, I'd rather have an offensive minded guy. But I'm not opposed to Wilks.