@sus - stats can be misleading is his point. Yardage means crap this league is about winning. Harbaugh is in charge of rebuilding a gutter feeding franchise - unfortunately that is us - 8 years of suckage qualifies us for that wonderful distinction - He has to build a QB that has been labeled a bust - or come close to it if that process has to start.
He is the biggest difference something we haven't seen in a long time around here - a coach ADAPTING to the game - getting a sense of what the flow of the game was and making adjustments - not all of them were right (not being more aggressive after that roughing the kicker call was one of them) but still pushing his players when he needed too - IE coaching them - not waiting for the film or thinking Football is Defense and the other 2 phases of the games are just things that HAVE to happen.
It was a good debut. They have ALOT of work to do if they are going to play hard and compete against Dallas - they have a much better pass rush than the seahawks better blitz packages and a much more dangerous offense - but at least we have someone that actually is about putting coaching players in a way that fits the game they are playing right then - not the imaginary one they dreamed up in their little head or prayed would happen.
Seahawks suck - but the 49ers took care of buisness when the momentum shifted they didn't panic didn't press and make stupid mistakes - they would have last year or the year before that or any of the Erickson / Nowin / Simpletary years. That is the product of coaching. His coaching shows the most in Alex - he played well today and did what he needed to do to win the game - HUGE improvement.
Oh and I am flying down from Seattle for next week's game the better damn well compete.
[ Edited by Sugatis on Sep 11, 2011 at 9:51 PM ]