Originally posted by 49erfaninAZ:
Our Offensive and Defensive coordinates were not the first choice from what I've read and understand. I believe coach T was but not many were happy with it. I think we have enough talent not to get blown out two games in a row. I do believe our coaching sucks all across the board. But some were happy with coaches that couldn't find a job else ware
Full disclosure...I was (am) a Harbaugh guy...wanted him when he was at Stanford and did not want him to leave. That said, I also believe Baalke is a good GM, so I wanted them to get along but understood Harbaugh is not the easiest person to get along with. When it became obvious he was going to be let go after last season and the coaching "search" ensued and ended with the 49ers on the brink of naming Gase but having that fall apart because Gase wanted to pick his own DC And would not take Tomsula on as his DC, I was willing to give the 49ers the benefit of the doubt that they knew more than I did and Baalke and York had, at least in the short term, picked the right coach with Harbaugh 4 years earlier. I was skeptical as Tomsula had to pull up coaches from his days in NFL Europe and have coaches in positions that they may not have been able to get with any other team, but, again, I trusted the 49ers knew what they were doing.
Whatever this season might have been has been complicated by the sudden, unexpected retirements and/or loss of players. Nonetheless, this was the 49ers plan and no one said they intended to rebuild. Everything they told us was that it was going to be better because Harbaugh being difficult to deal with was the real problem. So, now that we are here...my hopes for the season are exactly what they were the day Tomsula was named as HC...Either....
(1) The 49ers turn out to be right and the 2015 49ers improve under Tomsula. Given the player losses, I'm willing to call it a success if they're around 8-8, playing their best football at the end of the year, the young players are showing promise and improvement, Kaep has progressed. So, essentially, the boat has at least been steadied with the arrow clearly pointing up....or...
(2) It's a complete train wreck, grease fire of Dennis Erickson proportions...either they have to be surprisingly good, showing Tomsula can be a good HC or they need to be monumentally bad to show how flawed the post-Harbaugh plan was and the need to scrap it immediately. If its not going to be (1), it needs to be historically bad to force a significant change in the approach (which might include Baalke leaving).
Anything in between (1) and (2) is just prolonging the agony for another year or two.