Another name has been added to the list of defensive coordinator candidates for the Giants. As Josh Alper of Pro Football Talk writes, Steve Wilks has interviewed with the team to fill Patrick Graham‘s vacated position. 
[Related: Giants Interview Jim Schwartz For DC]
Wilks becomes the fifth coach with DC experience to be linked to the Giants. After spending more than a decade in the college ranks, his NFL coaching career began in 2006 with the Bears. The role of defensive backs coach he held there for three seasons is the same he subsequently had with the Chargers and Panthers. In 2017, he got his first DC gig with Carolina, which also came with the title of assistant head coach.
One year later, the 52-year-old became a head coach for the first time at the pro level with the Cardinals. His one season in the desert didn’t go according to plan, however as the quarterback tandem of Sam Bradford and rookie Josh Rosen was underwhelming to say the least. With a 3-13 record, Wilks was fired at the end of the campaign. He returned to life as a coordinator in 2019, serving as the Browns’ DC for one season. After one year out of coaching, he held that same title at Missouri in 2021.
Jim Schwartz interviewed with the Giants on the weekend, as the team continues to cast a wide net of experienced coaches to replace Graham. They had also previously met with Teryl Austin, as well as Don Martindale and Sean Desai for the position.
They interviewing every blacks person just to say we gave many black people chances in different positions in the organization
“waaaa waaaa” Keep crying, this dude should’nt even be getting a interview for how awful he has as a HC, stop making everything out to be racist, you make yourself look stupid.
Imagine firing Zac Taylor after his first season. I mean, Wilks won a game with Josh Rosen. Maybe he wasn’t that awful.
It came out this week that Wilks was pretty much torpedoed in the locker room by Arians coaching holdovers he was forced to keep. That, combined with roster, gave him little shot his first season.
And yes, a lot of great coaches have horrible records in year one, because they have to clean up a mess.
He had one unsuccessful season as a head coach with no QB or offensive line, so you’re saying he’s unqualified to be a defensive coordinator? Does that really seem like fair logic to you?
Are you suggesting the people they are interviewing are not qualified?
Is that what you see any time an organization in a league that is 70 percent Black has the audacity to interview more than one or even two Black coaches? Are you aware that, on the defensive side of the ball, a very large number of coordinators and coaches are Black?
That’s Brian F’s position ‘Are you suggesting the people they are interviewing are not qualified?’. Right?
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For a minute there I thought it said STEVE WILKOS !!
Wilks got screwed in Arizona. So did Rosen, for that matter. I don’t hold that job against his record at all-he got a year on a team with a mostly bad roster and a rookie QB and got fired when Kevin had a bright and shiny new idea to try. It hardly should reflect on Wilks’ ability as a coach, much less so as a coordinator.