Warren Sharp Explains the Firing of 49ers DC Steve Wilks
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00:03 Had the defensive coordinator for the winner extended and for the loser fired.
00:08 Like, Warren, I gotta tell you, I know that there's culpability there.
00:11 I will get to Steve Spagnuolo, obviously he's the man.
00:14 But what does it take to keep your job in the NFL, Warren?
00:19 Like this is like, I mean, you get to the Super Bowl, you come up three points short,
00:23 and then you get fired?
00:24 Like, I mean, what coach could possibly feel safe in the NFL?
00:29 >> So you're right in terms of your end takeaway, which is what coach could feel
00:33 safe. We've seen so much turnover, which is why I think it's vital as we are
00:37 starting to look to 2024 that we understand who is actually coaching these teams this
00:43 year. Because there's been a lot of turnover, OCs and DCs, figuring out who's
00:47 coaching, who's calling the plays, what their philosophies are, what their head
00:51 coach is gonna give them the flexibility and freedom to do. All that is definitely
00:55 vital. With the Steve Wilkes thing for the Niners, this is, a lot of people are, I
01:00 don't know, I disagree with a lot of people on their opinion about, well, this is
01:05 just knee jerk reaction, and he's firing because of something in the Super Bowl,
01:09 and Kyle's trying to shift blame. I don't buy into any of that. There were issues
01:14 with Steve Wilkes well during the season. And let's not forget, right, that the 49ers,
01:19 one of the things that we've talked about with this team, is they had great defensive
01:22 coordinators, in-house, homegrown defensive coaches that then they promote,
01:27 you know, D'Amico Ryan's after their head coach gets taken, and then D'Amico gets
01:32 taken. And so we're on now an outside person coming into the system in terms of
01:37 Steve Wilkes, and he just wasn't a very good fit. Kyle Shanahan had issues with
01:41 him all throughout the season, moved him from the sideline to the booth, went into
01:46 defensive meetings with him during the season. I mean, there's a lot of
01:49 discussion all throughout the year about what was going on, he called timeouts to
01:53 stop all-out blitzes. Like, there was a lot going on there. This had nothing to
01:57 do really with the Super Bowl. I honestly believe even if they won the Super Bowl,
02:01 there was a chance that Kyle would have been moving on because it just was not the
02:04 right match for that defense. So I don't think it's, I don't think he's
02:08 scapegoating Steve Wilkes at all. I just, it was a one-year thing. Steve Wilkes
02:12 wasn't the right guy for this defense and this job and for it to work with
02:16 Kyle, and so he wanted to go a different direction.
02:20 you
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