Originally posted by dj43:
Originally posted by AKfanster:
No way Alex resigns with this team if Singletary is still the HC.
Singletary has proven that he will hinder any offense to the point of being ineffective, even if it means loss after loss. Look at Jimmy Raye after he was fired, there is all the proof you need. Jimmy Raye was easily the biggest Sing fan around, blindly following any and all orders. After Sing fired him, he said what we all had suspected all along. Raye was only calling the kind of game that Sing wanted, plain and simple.
It was/is Singletary's fault that the team has lost 3 games by 3 points or less
Sounds kind of familiar for some reason doesn't it? Maybe that's because the Niners are repeating history from last season, the team lost 6 games by 7 points or less. In almost every game, we saw Sing's "vision" of an offense sputter for the majority of the game. Alex is not a game manager, everyone including Sing knows that. Yet, Sing continues with his "vision" even as the loses rack up.
If you were Alex, would you resign with this team if Sing was still in charge? No way in hell......
Singletary NOT being the coach next year should be a foregone conclusion. His emotional outbursts alone should be such an embarrassment to Jed that he would want to replace him.
Also, so many observers have commented on the importance of having an offensive-minded HC in today's NFL that it would be hard to imagine Jed not realizing that should be the #1 goal of the off-season...and to get it done within 10 days of the end of the season.
But you're gonna get the same on the flip side of the scenario with an Offensive HC in a lot of cases. It's rare to have a Bill Walsh type of HC that defers to the DC. Though let's call it straight up, Coach Walsh was pretty ironfisted about how he wanted things run, but he had someone that he could confide in that he knew wouldn't soft pitch criticism. I firmly believe this is what Sing needs.
In this era of Football with everything being so specialized you won't find anyone that can handle all aspects of the team 24/7. Delegation is the key. Walsh understood this to some degree. When he gave McKittrick the Line, he told McKittrick how he expected things to be run, kept an eye on him and when he felt confident that our Line Coach knew what he was doing let go of the reigns. the Results you know.
I think that Sing is trying hard to do this but we're mistake prone it's his ass on the Line so he's not ready to let go of the reigns. He has with Manusky though. He's got confidence in Manusky.
Last year it took the players going to Sing to get the Offense to change. I don't believe that Sing is sitting there with a bullwhip ready to punch somebody's ticket if they approach him about the Offense. But I do believe that the Captains must get together and say something if they haven't already.
Sing has shown a willingness to change in the past, I do not see him ignoring his players. The man does understand Xs' and Os'. I know this from his playing days. I just think that he's trying to give his Coaches some anonymity and the ability to do their jobs. He just might have to step in somewhat though. Mike Johnson is on a short learning curve and I have to admit that his play calling is light years better than Raye's. He's just not all the way there yet.
Oh as far as Raye goes... much is being made of what he said(paraphrasing here) "I just did what he wanted"...
Well Sing wanted Smashmouth. That's true. We all heard it and there is no denying it. But Did Sing REALLY tell him to run primarily Draws? Is Frank's learning disability so bad that that's all he understands? I know for a fact that Raye did not send in Run plays over half the game plan. So does Raye expect ME to believe that Sing was so adamant to Running the ball that he only wanted Draw plays?
I rarely saw Frank run a Counter Pitch or Swing Play. I saw him run a Counter this year that was SO successful that the Defense bit on it attacked the Line and Frank got 10 free yards on the play. And only ONE time. Yet our Successful(
) draw plays we ran over and over again? Is Sing Lazy? Did he honestly tell Raye to "Run it again"?
I know some of you all think that Raye was a scapegoat and I don't blame you for feeling this way. But I just do not see Sing doing that.
Sing does make rookie mistakes. This I have not a single doubt in my mind. But I think that Raye has OCD or something. I have it. I am OCD. I straight up admit it. But even I would not run the same damned play over and over again. Raye went to the well too many times and it became a hinderance. He earned his firing as far as I am concerned.
~Ceadder
