What really happens this off season with harbaugh and the team

I guess you just have to live through it. The younger fans (and quite a few bandwagoners) can only think back to Erickson, Nolan and Singletary. So Harbaugh I guess is sort of what Bill was to us older fans (35+ in age). Harbaugh leaving is nothing compared to what I remember feeling as Bill cried in the locker room with his son after SB23. I couldn't understand why he was leaving. I was only 8 years old. Thank god for Seifert.

Originally posted by 951NINER:
I guess you just have to live through it. The younger fans (and quite a few bandwagoners) can only think back to Erickson, Nolan and Singletary. So Harbaugh I guess is sort of what Bill was to us older fans (35+ in age). Harbaugh leaving is nothing compared to what I remember feeling as Bill cried in the locker room with his son after SB23. I couldn't understand why he was leaving. I was only 8 years old. Thank god for Seifert.

I was the same age...and I can seem to also remember Seifert not being the #1 candidate for taking over as HC (older heads, correct me if I'm wrong)
Perhaps we have our Seifert in Fangio???

Originally posted by Geeked:

Originally posted by crake49:

Originally posted by 951NINER:
I'm not really surprised at the amount of fans that are so emotionally attached to Harbaugh that they just can't fathom him leaving. Whether by resignation or trade it doesn't matter. I understand why, he's a great coach and I would love nothing more than to keep him and bring in a different offensive coordinator. But as we know that is not reality.

That is not the modern day NFL. I believe that some of us older fans of team, the ones that have actually watched a Bill Walsh team play live are not in total panic. We have seen Bill leave on his terms only to be succeeded by Seifert and Mariucci. Not a bad run of coaches. Now the younger fans who by no fault of their own only remember Nolan, Singletary and now of course Harbaugh. So they just can't let go. But there is hope for another coach to come in and keep us competitive every year.

I'm old enough to remember the 70's and I can tell you that Nolan and Singletary were not the first horrible Niner coaches. There were quite a few nightmares before Walsh came along.

I'm thinking the 49ers last good HC before Walsh was Dick Nolan.... Am I right???

That's probably right, but Nolan wasn't nearly as successful as Mariucci or Harbaugh. Nolan did get the team to a couple of championship games and a few years in the playoffs. But what followed Nolan throughout the 70's was horrible.

Oh, and I have to think that if there had been this technology around in about 1980 that posters around here would be clamoring for Bill Walsh to be replaced. It didn't really look that good in his first couple years. In 1980, they would start to see a little success, but nobody would have picked them to go to the playoffs at the end of the '80 season. Nobody.

Originally posted by Phoenix49ers:

Originally posted by crake49:
I'm old enough to remember the 70's and I can tell you that Nolan and Singletary were not the first horrible Niner coaches. There were quite a few nightmares before Walsh came along.

He was talking about 49ers fans that aren't yet collecting social security.

Good one, but I'm not collecting Social Security yet.

Originally posted by Paul_Hofer:

Originally posted by lamontb:

Originally posted by SonocoNinerFan:
What's going to happen is a total effing mystery to me. Our current state is almost surreal . . . especially due to the apparent speed at which things deteriorated. It's still hard to get my mind around what's happening and why. We need to get Mike Silver in here to pick through the carcass after the dust settles.

Yea we need a in depth story of exactly what and when it went wrong

Defenses around the league caught up (and passed) the 49ers' one-dimensional offense. It didn't happen all at once. Eventually, defenses without good personnel knew well enough how to stop Roman's shareware.

I get the on the field offensive regression. I'm wondering more about the clusterf**k that is the relationship the front office and coaches.

Originally posted by crake49:
Good one, but I'm not collecting Social Security yet.

Got a pension huh?

Originally posted by Geeked:
Unfortunately, a lot of people love to eat s**t.

LOL! Reminds me of the Japanese porn mags I used to see in the navy.

Harbaugh coming back next year is wishful thinking. We, as faithful fans, need to accept and move on. We were fans before the Harbaugh era...we should continue to be fans after even though Jed York is a total db for letting him go.

If Harbaugh leaves. Pep hamilton shoukd become the head coach but retain Fangio

Originally posted by Phoenix49ers:

Originally posted by crake49:
Good one, but I'm not collecting Social Security yet.

Got a pension huh?

No. I'm a boomer. Pensions were a "Greatest Generation" thing. My parents had pensions. When they were in their working years, American corporations actually cared about their workers and the American economy. Right around the time my generation were reaching the age of working, corporations started to phase out pensions.

I think the players will go all out for Harbaugh being his last game. It should be a fun game to watch. It's a must game for AZ since they play the same time as Seattle. I'm wondering if the players will carry Harbaugh on their shoulders after the game?

Originally posted by Geeked:

Originally posted by boast:
lol at the people still holding on to the hope that Harbaugh stays.

guess what? it ain't hattenin'.

we could find better at HC & OC and i'm confident Baalke will do so. the HarRo offense is a giant turd sandwich.

Unfortunately, a lot of people love to eat s**t.

THERE SURE IS a Fair amount on here who just LOVE those s**t sandwiches ,They just can`t get enough..The Harbaugh s**t-Sandwich Express is boarding on track-1 all aboard.

What's happened seems simple to me. Jed was pissed Jim missed winning it all 2 years in a row, so he tabled Jims contract talks. As injuries mounted, Jim continued to lose, and things starts to spiral until the top blows off after the Thanksgiving game. This can only happen when both parties are stubbornly entrenched.

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