Tons of LOLs here.lambeau said:
What a bunch of entitled whiners. 49ers and their fans are still spoiled by the Walsh era. Twenty-nine other teams didn't win the Super Bowl from 2011-2013 either.
2014 49ers: Harbaugh's Pleated Pants Parade
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Eh, the losses were pretty excruciating. They lost the Kyle Williams game, the Super Bowl on a bad call, and then blew a winnable game against the team who dominated the Broncos in the Super Bowl. Obviously lots of playoff losses are razor thin but I don't hold it against them.Super Nomario said:
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Still, Harbaugh had them in position to win each of those years. There are a lot of head coaches who can screw up with even the most talented roster. I mean, look at San Diego during the Tomlinson days.
They were excruciating losses, but I don't see killing Harbaugh for them.
The Lucchino drive-by is an awesome calling card for the next coach you'd like to have in there.
Even if the Michigan leaks are pissing them off (they obviously cannot not trade him to MI), just stay classy.
The Lucchino drive-by is an awesome calling card for the next coach you'd like to have in there.
Even if the Michigan leaks are pissing them off (they obviously cannot not trade him to MI), just stay classy.
I have always disliked Harbaugh but at this point I find myself rooting for and sympathizing with him in the whole saga. Football involves a ton of luck. Harbaugh had his team one play away from winning one Super Bowl and one play away from getting to two other Super Bowls. You can't expect to do better than that. To suggest that the team underperformed its talent during the 2011-13 window is ridiculous.
Plus, if you want a reason why the 49ers regressed and the rest of the league caught up, look no further than the first four rounds of Baalke's drafts in 2012 and 2013. Out of nine picks, Baalke found one meaningful contributor. He had great drafts in 2010 and 2011 but the talent pipeline dried up after that.
AJ Jenkins - Bust
LaMichael James - Bust
Joe Looney - Backup
Eric Reid - Solid starter
Tank Carradine - Bust (so far)
Vance McDonald - Bust (so far)
Corey Lemonier - Backup
Quinton Patton - Bust (so far)
Marcus Lattimore - Bust
Plus, if you want a reason why the 49ers regressed and the rest of the league caught up, look no further than the first four rounds of Baalke's drafts in 2012 and 2013. Out of nine picks, Baalke found one meaningful contributor. He had great drafts in 2010 and 2011 but the talent pipeline dried up after that.
AJ Jenkins - Bust
LaMichael James - Bust
Joe Looney - Backup
Eric Reid - Solid starter
Tank Carradine - Bust (so far)
Vance McDonald - Bust (so far)
Corey Lemonier - Backup
Quinton Patton - Bust (so far)
Marcus Lattimore - Bust
To be clear, I'm not arguing that they should blame Harbaugh but rather than being frustrated and feeling like the team should have done better is understandable. And whether justified or not the coach often gets the blame for perceived underperformance. That's all.
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Yeah, this is what I'm saying. The playoff losses were frustrating, but expecting that another coach would do better is crazy to me, and smacks of entitlement.dcmissle said:
I kind of hate those "click to see the next item" format articles anyway, but I see why they did it here: after all, it's super-dumb if you read a paragraph saying Harbaugh played Aldon Smith when management didn't want him to (which is messed up, to begin with - if you want to suspend him, suspend him; why handicap the coach by telling him a player can be active but you don't want him to play that much?) and then the next paragraph says that Harbaugh had no input on defense. Putting the click in between breaks it up much more nicely. #9 is hilarious, too: "Waaah, he didn't throw his players under the bus!"
After reading this and the Kawakami piece, it certainly seems like the dysfunction, as in all dysfunctional organizations, starts at the top.
I don't agree with Harbaugh being so stubborn with Roman, who I think is a pretty subpar OC, but the organization looks absolutely horrible right now after the players' reaction today and his farewell PC. It's pretty clear the Niners front office launched a hit job on him all year with the national media (reminds me of the Sox behavior back in the day with people who leave). If they end up replacing him with some Baalke/Parcells crony and struggle next year, there's going to be hell to pay from the fans.
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Har-bungled? Jim Harbaugh tells San Jose radio station his breakup was - shockingly - not mutual.
"I was told I wouldn't be the coach anymore," Harbaugh said. "And then ... you can call it 'mutual,' I mean, I wasn't going to put the 49ers in the position to have a coach that they didn't want anymore. But that's the truth of it. I didn't leave the 49ers. I felt like the 49er hierarchy left me."
Ouch. Glad to have him out of the league, but the league is poorer for it.
"I was told I wouldn't be the coach anymore," Harbaugh said. "And then ... you can call it 'mutual,' I mean, I wasn't going to put the 49ers in the position to have a coach that they didn't want anymore. But that's the truth of it. I didn't leave the 49ers. I felt like the 49er hierarchy left me."
Ouch. Glad to have him out of the league, but the league is poorer for it.