Ancient Arizona cardinals Head coach Steve Wilks was hired as a defensive coordinator for the New York Jetscompared to multiple.
Wilks will work with the New Jets head coach Aaron Glenn, who has just released a mandate with the Lions of Detroit as a defensive coordinator. Wilks was the Arizona Cardinals head coach in 2018, where he posted a 3-13 file and was dismissed after the season. This record is tied (with the record of Vince Tobin and Dave McGinnis in 2000) for the worst in the history of the 1960s Cardinals.
The cardinals granted the seventh most per game (26.6 points) on 32 teams under Wilks.
After his mandate with Arizona, he was hired by the Cleveland Browns to be their defensive coordinator the following year. The Browns abandoned the 13th most authorized points per game (24.6 points) with Wilks in its only 2019 season with Cleveland.
After a year far from the coach in 2020, Wilks was the defensive coordinator of the Missouri Tigers In the ranks of the college for the 2021 season. His defense ranked 113rd of the records of 130 FBS teams, granting 33.8 points per game.
After this chapter, he returned to the Carolina Panthers – where he was assistant head coach and defensive coordinator in 2017 – to be their game coordinator and defensive secondary coach. Five games in this season, he was hired as a temporary coach and went 6-6.
After this campaign in 2022, he went to San Francisco to be the defensive coordinator of the 49ers. They granted the third more points per game to 17.5. He was dismissed after the season and spent 2024 as a volunteer advisor at Charlotte University.
Wilks inherits a defense of the jets who abandoned the 13th point most per game in football (23.8) in 2024. However, they allowed the third plus of football yards (5,334 yards). He replaced the defensive coordinator (who was also acting head coach in 2024) Jeff Ulbrich in New York.
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