This suddenly-conventional-wisdom belief that Harbaugh is getting fired is bizarre to me. We went from this:
...to less than two weeks later, this:
echoed two weeks later...
...Despite, as MMS points out:
And yet even he's talking as if it's assumed that Jim Harbaugh will be fired.
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON? I FEEL LIKE I'M TAKING CRAZY PILLS!
The man is 43-18-1 in less than 4 years of being head coach, averaging 11 wins a year if he can win one of his last two, that's over a 70% win percentage. His success has been Belichickian. His last three years he has gone to the NFCCG ALL THREE TIMES, winning once, and only failing to win the Lombardi by the slimmest of margins. This year, with a rash of injuries that would have made the 2010 Red Sox wince, he is somehow at .500 and was only yesterday eliminated from playoff contention in a very tight NFC race. A majority of his losses have been to division leaders and/or defending conference champs (Broncos, Cardinals, Seattle x2), and of all seven losses, only the Broncos game was by an embarrassing score. His team has held it together in the face of huge adversity this year, after an incredible run of success the previous three.
Seriously, the guy is clearly a top-5 HC in the league. What in God's name has Harbaugh done to go from "Belichickian levels of trust and success" to "dead man walking" without so much as a link to a newspaper report? Seriously, could there be a dumber move that the SF Front Office could make? Why are all of you (49ers fans, I'll assume) acting as if this would be a good thing? Do you long for the days of Mike Singletary, Mike Nolan and Dennis Erickson? Seriously, the attitude that what Harbaugh has done is insufficient is practically infuriating. Yankees-fans-circa-2004 levels of arrogance. If Randy Moss catches the 2PC in the 4th quarter of SB 47, or they converted 4th-and-goal shortly thereafter, would he somehow be a celebrated hero who was just having a bad year? 90% of teams in the league would kill for his level of success and player loyalty. Who besides New England and GB wouldn't swap their coach for Jim Harbaugh?
This is madness. Where in the name of
Joe Montana's burning jockstrap did this notion come from?