MentalDisabldLst said:
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.
dcmissle said:
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.
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.
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.