I am enjoying SF's collapse way too much.

[football karma]

Total dysfunction right now but they have a pretty easy schedule the rest of the way SD and GB are the only opponents who look to be very good right now left on their schedule. If they fix some of the issues they could easily go 8-3 the rest of the way, I just don't think singletary is the guy to make those fixes.

I am thinking the same thing. The issue for the 49ers is one of consistent play.

I don't doubt the 49ers will play well against SD and GB -- but will they play well (particularly on the road) against everyone else? History suggests that in a game @Carolina, or home against Denver or Tampa, or @St. Louis they just play awfully.

In some ways the 49ers are like the mirror image of the Cardinals thus far: the 49ers play well against good teams but lose the close games, and just lay down against not as good teams. The Cardinals beat the teams they are supposed to and win close games, but get whacked by good teams (N.O. notwithstanding).

 

[THESMEL]

Sing Sing cares, I respect that and I can't let go of his playing days, good coach bad coach? they all have their pluses and minuses but nobody ever played harder consistantly than Mike S.

He coaches hard too! He makes the NFL more interesting. but The Cards will step right on his throat as we head to the playoffs. just as he would! Sing will make a news conferance and thank us for beating them senseless, again.

but We still have a bucket full of problems to deal with, in our locker room and on our field, great win but it was ugly and outside the box. we need to grow up and act like a championship football team from here.

nothing could be finer than to beat up on a Niner- mon-day morn-ing!

 

[MrYeahBut]

I love the fact that Shaun Hill, the 9ers castaway QB torched the Rams 44-6 yesterday

 

[conraddobler]

I love this thread, there's nothing like good ole fashioned kicking a bitter rival when it's down.

I suggest we don't just kick them, we buy a whole ship full of salt and some sandpaper to rub it in good.

They are the most arrogant fan base on the planet, it would take 20 years of futile losing to work them back to normal and I hope they get it.

 

[seesred]

Where are all the news people now that predicted Niners gold at the end of the rainbow. I'm very happy about their record in fact I'm elated. The next best thing is our Cards to kick their butts when we play them on Monday night football!

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[Russ Smith]

I am thinking the same thing. The issue for the 49ers is one of consistent play.

I don't doubt the 49ers will play well against SD and GB -- but will they play well (particularly on the road) against everyone else? History suggests that in a game @Carolina, or home against Denver or Tampa, or @St. Louis they just play awfully.

In some ways the 49ers are like the mirror image of the Cardinals thus far: the 49ers play well against good teams but lose the close games, and just lay down against not as good teams. The Cardinals beat the teams they are supposed to and win close games, but get whacked by good teams (N.O. notwithstanding).

Exactly they play well against the good teams but not the bad ones. To a coach who thinks motivation is everything, that's the problem, they get sky high for the tough opponents and are flat for the rest.

They could easly have 3 wins right now, there are obvious changes that could help them, I'm just not sure Singletary is the guy to make them.

But their schedule is pretty soft the rest of the way so if they stop turning it over(15 so far this year) they could easily go 8-3 the rest of the way.

 

[kerouac9]

FK - Remember that that Denver game is not really a home game. It's in London. Does this team seem disciplined enough to handle the travel and disrupted schedule that that takes?

 

[MrYeahBut]

FK - Remember that that Denver game is not really a home game. It's in London. Does this team seem disciplined enough to handle the travel and disrupted schedule that that takes?

Maybe we could get English on Tour to pull a few shenanigans on them

 

[cardsloco]

Troon North...expensive & gorgeous

The Boulders, is an amazing course and the views are eye catching.

 

[AzStevenCal]

I don't believe that for a second. Go back a year ago on this board (even at the beginning of this season), and you'll see posters who were bemoaning what a good coach Singletary is/will be and how well the 49ers respond to him. I've been saying for years that Singletary is a less experienced Dave McGinnis and may someday be a good head coach but doesn't have the necessary X's and O's or administrative experience. But that was a minority opinion at the time.

Okay, so maybe I should have said it's been clear to some of us that Singletary wasn't a head coach. He's the kind of guy that might be able to get you a big win now and then (like Mac) but he was promoted well ahead of his experience. I disagree about him perhaps becoming a good head coach at some point though. I think that ship has sailed.

The 49ers wouldn't have been in this mess if some idiot owner would have taken Deion Sanders up on his claim that he was ready to step directly from the studio to a head coach position. With his mouth, his fame and his audience I'm kind of surprised someone didn't give him a chance. It would have put an end once and for all to the lunacy that simply playing the game is better head coach preparation than putting your time in as a position coach. This isn't the NBA and the Niners are learning it the hard way.

Steve

 

[kerouac9]

Okay, so maybe I should have said it's been clear to some of us that Singletary wasn't a head coach. He's the kind of guy that might be able to get you a big win now and then (like Mac) but he was promoted well ahead of his experience. I disagree about him perhaps becoming a good head coach at some point though. I think that ship has sailed.

The 49ers wouldn't have been in this mess if some idiot owner would have taken Deion Sanders up on his claim that he was ready to step directly from the studio to a head coach position. With his mouth, his fame and his audience I'm kind of surprised someone didn't give him a chance. It would have put an end once and for all to the lunacy that simply playing the game is better head coach preparation than putting your time in as a position coach. This isn't the NBA and the Niners are learning it the hard way.

Steve

In Sing's defense, he was a position coach with San Francisco and Baltimore before that. But he was a position coach for only 5 years (I think). The bigger issue is that he was a motivational speaker for a decade before he came into coaching, and was working with mostly veteran players. I think that if Singletary had decided to work his way up the ladder and plan some defenses and do the little organizational things that you have to do to be a head coach, he might have been successful, or he would have been weeded out.

Singletary was fast-tracked to a HC job before he'd put in the work required. You hear about HC candidates coming to interviews with notebooks full of their plans, who their ideal staff would be, etc. Singletary had no idea; it took him four weeks to identify Mike Martz's replacement, and he didn't last 20 games.

Like with Mac, the media overlooked his inexperience because he was a great quote an interview. Now they're pretending like that never happened, or not laying the blame at SIngletary's door.

 

[Ed Burmila]

Singletary is Dave McGinnis. That's it. He's just an overpaid cheerleader with no business being a head coach. The media fawn all over him because he gives a great interview, quote, story, etc.

The funny thing is that for a guy who's only real asset is his alleged skills as a motivator, the 9ers quit in the second half of their loss to the chiefs. They played with energy last night, but they've also had games (or parts of games) where they obviously quit.

It looks like he is dangerously close to losing the team, so what good is he? He's not an X and O's coach. That's by his own admission. So if he's not motivating the hell out of the players it's not clear how he is useful.