Is Harbaugh an excellent HC who can't win the "BIG GAME?"

....I dont normally engage in the emoti's...but this so encompases my feelings about this thread...it expresses how I feel more strongly than words ever could.

Originally posted by BayArea:
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Third times a charm. If we get one trophy in the next ten then harbs is our annointed god. We were praying to make the pkayoffs and he got us to the bowl. In my eyes he can do no wrong. We got a snarling hell hound for a coach and i love him.

Clearly he is far superior to the trash we had around here for years and years. No real complaints. It's just getting over the hump which we all really want to see someday.

Originally posted by pdizo916:
I'm just glad that we're finally in big games again.



But also, his players are not executing. The Superbowl rests on the players, not the coach....

Maybe so. But it's the coaches responsibility to have them prepared to execute properly.

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:

Originally posted by fropwns:
I hear you, but I just don't believe you can discount the fact he improved from year one to two. Harbs will get us one, don't worry.

Yes he did improve. But the unprepared, slow start to the Super Bowl concerns me. 6 - 28. They are not that much better than us. There was no reason for us to be that unhinged early in the game. How can you not be ready for the Super Bowl? It's the biggest game of your life.

Why do people fail the Bar exam? Why does it take multiple conferences to select a Pope? Why did it take Ford so long to bring back the beloved 5.0 Engine? Why is it that Pam Anderson just won't stop banging Rock Stars? Why is it that Jordan failed, repeatedly, against the Pistons, but finally broke through later? Why does a student that studies 150 hours prior to the biggest standardized test of their life bomb the MCAT? But the next time they take it, destroy the thing? Why is it that Kirk left the shields down against the USS Reliant? Why is it, right now, as I sit at the airport, over an hour and half early for my flight, that nobody is boarding the flight ahead of me for LA (ultimately Japan)?

I think you are looking at the problem to simplistically. The fact is, nobody, coaches, presidents, generals, professors, or others in positions of authority control everything. To believe that is true is to assume a level of power that no man possesses. There is no doubt the Niners stumbled out of the gate during the Super Bowl. And Harbs deserves a good measure of the blame, but there was more to the failure than him.

Good question! I was wondering the same thing because even when he played for the Colts he only made it to the AFC Championship and could never win the big game. I mean, there's no question that we ALL love him and he's a great coach considering what we had in the previous 10 years.

My concern is, do we have a a Bill Walsh as our HC or do we just have another Marv Levy/Marty Schottenheimer? (<-- however spelled)

My goodness, how can this even be a serious question?

This is silly talk.

Originally posted by Chico:
Good question! I was wondering the same thing because even when he played for the Colts he only made it to the AFC Championship and could never win the big game. I mean, there's no question that we ALL love him and he's a great coach considering what we had in the previous 10 years.

My concern is, do we have a a Bill Walsh as our HC or do we just have another Marv Levy/Marty Schottenheimer? (<-- however spelled)

It's looking a lot like Marv Levy at this point.

In his first year we made it to the NFCCG. In his second year we made it to the superbowl. Yes we lost both but it was progress from one year to another. Before Harbaugh we would have just been excited to be above .500. Lets not question his ability to win big games because he can. As another poster said...in the playoffs, every game is BIG. Lets not forget, Roman and Fangio call plays majority of the time so it doesn't always fall on Harbaughs shoulders even as the HC.

i think he'd have to lose the next SB we're in before this conversation can start in earnest.

No way, he took a team that was in the dark ages for ten years and brought them to the NFL Championship game. This past year he took a second year QB that never started a game and just missed winning a Super Bowl. Along with Trent Baalke he has built a team that is capable of contending for years to come. If he had won the SB we would not be having this thread. How did the Ravens come up so big? So Ray could ride off into the sunset with his second ring? No way, my answer is that this Raven team knew it was going to be blown up and the players were playing for their professional lives. Witness how the team was dismantled so quickly. Harbaugh will get there again and again.

No way, he took a team that was in the dark ages for ten years and brought them to the NFL Championship game. This past year he took a second year QB that never started a game and just missed winning a Super Bowl. Along with Trent Baalke he has built a team that is capable of contending for years to come. If he had won the SB we would not be having this thread. How did the Ravens come up so big? So Ray could ride off into the sunset with his second ring? No way, my answer is that this Raven team knew it was going to be blown up and the players were playing for their professional lives. Witness how the team was dismantled so quickly. Harbaugh will get there again and again.

He did it the first year with Alex and Kyle is Williams fumble cut us short then this year with a ten game starter and a 109 yard KO return buried us in the super bowl. Players gotta make plays too.

San Diego, back away from the keyboard, turn on a light in your dark room, and give your negativity a rest for one day at least.