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for each of his 11 wins in 38 tries), they announced that Wilks, the secondary coach and defensive pass game coordinator, would take over as interim head coach.
Wilks is now the 15th Black man to be an interim head coach in the NFL since 1990, or about 30 percent of the interim stints in the league over that time. Black coaches have gotten a chance to be a full-time head coach just 13 percent of the time over the same period, in a league where roughly two-third of players are Black.
It's a depressingly familiar situation: A white coach steers his team straight into the iceberg, and a Black coach is tasked with trying to keep it afloat for the remainder of a season, no matter how much water it has taken on.
Wilks is a highly experienced coach, as are nearly all Black coaches who get a chance to become coordinators or head coaches. In 2018, after his first year as a defensive coordinator for these same Panthers, he finally got his chance to lead a team, hired by the Arizona Cardinals. The hiring was doomed from the start. Wilks was saddled with a rookie quarterback playing behind a terrible line and an aging defense — all things that were the decision of the Cardinals general manager. And yet Wilks was fired after just one season, not the GM, replaced with alleged whiz kid Kliff Kingsbury.
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