What in the heck is going on with the San Francisco 49ers?
Feb 16, 2015 at 5:07 PM
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From the time Jim Harbaugh and the San Francisco 49ers "mutually" parted ways right after the season ended, two things happened.Pretty much nobody believed that it was truly "mutual," and people started wondering what in the heck was going on with the 49ers.Over the past few days San Jose Mercury News columnist Tim Kawakami, who has been harsh on the 49ers brass of owner Jed York and general manager Trent Baalke, has put that "What in the heck is going on with the 49ers?" question in clearer context.To sum up his interview with Harbaugh and a follow-up story, Kawakami writes that the 49ers planned to get rid of Harbaugh for all of 2014, they leaked stories that said he wouldn't be back in 2015 (those two things seemed clear already), in Kawakami's words the 49ers brass "torched the 2014 season in the process," and then botched hiring Adam Gase as Harbaugh's replacement when at the last minute they told him Jim Tomsula would have to be his defensive coordinator if he wanted the job. Gase refused. Tomsula went from defensive line coach to Harbaugh's replacement.It all adds up to a weird situation (not that replacing one of the best coaches in the NFL for a defensive line coach...
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