GM McCloughan (possibly) stepping down????

Originally posted by GEEK:

Originally posted by niners94:
An organization can't win with this type of instability. He needs to stay. Everyone needs to stay! Can't we go one off season without some sort of massive change.

Originally posted by GEEK:
Good, and here's why:

#1. McCloughan doesn't come from the background of a vertical offense. He comes from WCO teams. Seattle and Green Bay as the top recent teams he's worked for before the 49ers.

#2. McCloughan was given GM powers because Nolan was doing bad as a head coach and he may have left for other opportunities. He was in a position of high leverage to earn that GM title.

#3. People credit McCloughan for drafting Gore and Willis, but it actually occurred under Nolan's tenure as the lead guy for personal decisions.

#4. Under McCloughan's power, we've drafted the following players in the first three rounds:

2008
R1: Kentwan Balmer (Backup, potential bust)
R2: Chilo Rachal (borderline starter, needs to step up his game)
R3: Reggie Smith (Backup, injured plauged, potential bust)

2009
R1: Michael Crabtree (no brainer pick, good job)
R2: Traded Away
R3: Glen Coffee (bust in his first year, backup player to Gore for right now)

And our free agency activity hasn't really been stellar outside of Justin Smith and Takeo Spikes. You got guys like DeMetic Evans, Brandon Jones, and now David Carr to secure depth at the 3rd or 2nd string level. That doesn't really make a 7-9 team jump to 10-6.

#5. The trading of Shaun Hill and the treatment of the player was basically the nail in the coffin for him. You take a player that is loved in the locker room and admired by the coaching staff, and trade him...without even notifying him directly. That's classless and Nolanesque.

In order for teams to be effective, owners must trust management, management must trust players, and players must believe in the other two. This is how the Patriots did it, and this is how the 49ers did it in the 80s and 90s.

With McCloughan's track record and inactivity in free agency and the draft to give Singletary a fair shot in 2010, while teams like Seattle and Arizona are gearing up to pose another threat for the NFC West crown, this is a necessary move.

Just give him this one last year. Then blow it up if failure comes upon us again. We're so close.

how about mooch? and he hasnt stepped down yet, has he?

Carmen Policy was a lawyer, not a GM

AAHHHH!!!! HORSE s**t!!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally posted by SnakePlissken:

Originally posted by wysiwyg:

Originally posted by smashmouth51:
talk about green on St. Patty's Day, is Scotty running off to the Jets. This better not be a "follow in your father's footsteps" deal. a la firing Mooch on the phone because we lost a playoff game. No coach waiting in the wings. Just baaammmm you're gone Mooch and "oh sh!t" 2 hours later when he realizes he doesn't have a replacement coach. What a f-in douche move.

Well Walsh was fired like 5 times by Eddie, who was quite the hothead

Jed doesn't seem as impetuous

Maybe he is?

It runs through the bloodlines from what I've heard, Jed even said one time (himself) during an episode of Chronicle Live that he had planted his fist through the wall inside the owner's box during that Philadelphia Eagles loss at home in 2008 (the loss that pre-dominantly led to Nolan being fired during the bye-week, after the Giants loss).

COOL

Poppa York yes , but maybe not Jed ??

Policy was just a name i threw out there that would have been nice to have.

Carmen is not a football guy. And he would cost tons of money. That would not fit the York's plan.

Thank God! He really does answer prayers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/03/18/agent-says-mccloughan-isnt-resigning/

Agent denies rumor of MCloughan stepping down

Originally posted by teeohh:
this would have been a better idea, AT THE BEGINNING OF THE OFFSEASON



geek you're right, but the timing is just horrible

I think Jed York wants to give Singletary all the power to make the team he wants to make - physical run offense with an efficient passing game.

LG and RT are the main upgrade areas, and we have yet to resign depth along the O-line.

The inactivity and the draft strategy of McCloughan prob. rubbed Singletary the wrong way, and he discussed it with York. They met with McCloughan, he wouldn't budge, and the rest is history.

Comcast SportsNet is reporting that McCloughan's agent states he isn't stepping down (source - twitter)

@CSNAuthentic: Scot McCloughan's agent and attorney told Comcast SportsNet that he is not considering stepping down as GM of the 49ers. #49ers

Is this a smoke screen? It's hard to think that MM would post the original info if it was unverified...

from pro football talk


In response to a report that 49ers General Manager Scout McCloughan is contemplating the possibility of resigning, McCloughan's agent says that McCloughan won't be stepping down.

"Scot McCloughan is not resigning as General Manager of the San Francisco 49ers," Peter Schaffer told us by phone moments ago from Colorado. "I have no idea how that rumor got started."

Of course, this doesn't mean that all is well between the 49ers and their General Manager. It only means that, if a move is going to be made, it won't be a voluntary separation. Instead, the 49ers will have to terminate McCloughan -- and unless they terminate him for cause they'll owe him the balance of his contract

I really think Scot has an offer with another team, maybe a team he's always wanted to be with. He's either using it as leverage or he really wants to leave.

Singletary will be able to pick his own Gm mark my words!