{"id":505619,"date":"2025-12-15T13:29:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=505619"},"modified":"2025-12-15T13:31:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:31:06","slug":"jets-dismiss-defensive-coordinator-wilks-after-blowout-defeat-to-jaguars","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/jets-dismiss-defensive-coordinator-wilks-after-blowout-defeat-to-jaguars\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets dismiss defensive coordinator Wilks after blowout defeat to Jaguars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Less than 24 hours after sustaining a crushing defeat to the Jacksonville Jaguars, the New York Jets have dismissed DC Steve Wilks.<\/p>\n<p>Passing-game coordinator Chris Harris will be the interim defensive coordinator and will call plays until a pernament replacement is hired.<\/p>\n<p>New York allowed 82 points in their last 2 matches, including a 48-20 defeat yesterday against the Jaguars, in which the team conceded scores on 8 of the 1<sup>st<\/sup> 9 series.<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville QB \u00a0Trevor Lawrence became the 5<sup>th<\/sup> footballer in the Super Bowl era with 5 TD passes and 1 rushing TD in a match.<\/p>\n<p>The franchise from the Big Apple had no answers, managing 2 QB hits and no sacks in a match in which Steve called for blitzes on 10 of Trevor\u2019s 32 pass attempts. But the Jags quarterback went 7-for-10 for 150 yards and TDs vs. the blitz\/<\/p>\n<p>Steve was out of the league for the 2024 campaign after serving 1 campaign as the 49ers&#8217; DC. Wilks was dismissed in February 2024, several days after San Francisco\u2019s defeat vs. the Chiefs in Super Bowl LVIII. Before that, he was Lions DC from 2021 to 2024.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Coach Glenn announced he relieved DC Steve Wilks of his duties.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Harris will take over in the interim. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WrkStpW3tH\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/WrkStpW3tH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New York Jets (@nyjets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nyjets\/status\/2000589980884775297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than 24 hours after sustaining a crushing defeat to the Jacksonville Jaguars, the New York Jets have dismissed DC Steve Wilks. Passing-game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":505621,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17056,26993],"news_category":[16703,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18406,22662],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"New York fired the DC after the loss against Jacksonville.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505622,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505619\/revisions\/505622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505619"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=505619"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=505619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}