Originally posted by hondakillerzx:
u guys were totally fine with harbaugh the last 3 years that he had us going deep into the playoffs. u dont think the management openly trying to trade him before the season and second guessing him every step of the way, 15 players on IR, the off the field b******t in the offseason and all the suspensions had anything to do with this season? those are really the only things that changed this year, tell me again how that stuff is Harbaugh's fault? call me a homer if you want but I think you are all wrong about this situation being harbaughs fault. he took singletary's exact roster and turned them into winners when singletary could barely squeeze out half a dozen wins with them and turned Alex Smith into a winner when everyone else gave up on him.
Here's basically what it comes down to. The offense under Harbaugh has been a huge liability since 2012 (2011 was a surprise season to damn near everyone). If you don't see that, you're blind. Every time the offense has been put into a pressure situation with the game on the line, we've screwed it up (usually by forcing something to Crabtree).
I have a damn good feeling that this was brought up to Jim in the off season, probably having something to do with Roman and Jim didn't agree with it (we know how loyal he is to his coaches and players).
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Expanding on what I posted above. I'm going to take a guess and and say that there's a disconnect in offensive philosophies between the front office and Harbaugh. Jim's offense is based on what he ran in Michigan back in his playing days with Schembechlerr (who was a damn good football coach). However, in football today, you need speed. Today's defense's aren't anywhere close to the defense's that Schembechler faced. They're bigger, faster and they hit a hell of a lot harder. You need to be faster on offense to counteract that. Speed is the one thing we don't have on offense. Our WR's are slow and we're not really fast at the RB position.
[ Edited by linkboy on Dec 20, 2014 at 11:23 PM ]