I think Micheal will eat about 8 mio or more on money just to get rid of this mess.
This team is underachieving by far. Gets outcoached and manhandled but the worst thing is, they loose because of poor HC/OC choices, already 2 of the games got lost that way.
So from my standpoint, Wilks is a guy that sells well. He talked about the X and the O's that he is a guy that preffers run first, what with the intent of getting a QotF by Keim/Bidwill was great, he talked about not changing the 3-4 (at the very beginning) and how everyone of our good D would excel in his new hybrid D. He even talked about, putting the players in position to succseed and to get something done and to train O-line.
I see a quite good Pass Pro O-line, that is put in a bad situation because the OC shows his hand before the snap, when the QB takes the rains and calls a no huddle offense than gosh ... this O-line is great, how good they could be with a competent OC, is something I would look forward to see on the field. But we have old McCoy and his farm of unmotivated calls and bad plays and wrong usage of personel.
I see D Players that still are great or good but that now need to do everything top to get at least a serviceable outlook. Bucannon wasn't bad at $LB was he the best LB no, was he bad no, did he look better in the years under Bowles than under Bettcher, yes.
But the D overall isn't suited for a 4-3 and I don't know if Keim/Bidwill were so happy that Wilkes changed the D fully to a 4-3 base D that rarely uses 3-4 packages or plays with something like a poistion suited for Bucannon or Reddick(who shows that he can play, only 4 different positions in 2 years is quite a task to master)
On friday we will know more about the wereabouts of this Staff.
But IMHO Wilkes is a salesman, he sold us a 4-3/3-4 Hybrid that wouldn't change really the personel an offense that was run first and that was build to run block first and get 4.5 yards per carry or more so that our QB behind it could sling it only when there was something open. And he told us that he was a coach that would put his players in position to make a play.
Now we know:
Wilkes is indeed only a guy that does talk the talk and doesn't walk the walk, he has a 4-3 base D that isn't a hybrid or anything it's a simple 4-3D and we don't had the personel for it or did add personel for it. He didn't build a run first Offense, but an offense that can't run and can't pass, we aren't build to runblock first but to pass block first, Bradford and Rosen had sometimes 7 seconds to throw, but no route was open, that isn't working, and we are the worst team in running the ball so, we don't have a rungame at all and that does destroy any help it could give a QotF. And he isn't a coach that puts players in position to make a play, the D players abandon there positions to get the play, they have to overcompensate and they achieve it against bad QB/RB or guys that play in garbage time mode, but if someone puts the paddle to the metal they get burned.
So from my view, Keim/Bidwill got sold out like we got and they now see something totally different than they got advertised, I hope Mike goes to Wilkes on firday and tells him "This isn't what you told us you would do to this team, this is nothing alike and we can't continue like this."
