9ers take turns throwing each other under the bus..whole article is Bold worthey

Originally posted by GhostofFredDean74:
So much for the myth of Singletary as the straight-shooting, disciplinarian and detail-oriented head coach.

Nolan Jr?

Originally posted by Afrikan:
I think that is why Singletary had that late night meeting yesterday....to make sure everyone is on the same page!


when speaking to the media that this






God, something has got to give......after this weeks practice..I think we will play much better next week.

Everyone has to be on the same page when it comes to excuses. Otherwise, outsiders will think that there's discord in the locker room.

Singletary says some stupid sh$t sometimes.

Sad thing is they are all at fault. I just hope it doesn't tear the locker apart

Originally posted by DarthNiner:

Originally posted by Afrikan:
I think that is why Singletary had that late night meeting yesterday....to make sure everyone is on the same page!


when speaking to the media that this






God, something has got to give......after this weeks practice..I think we will play much better next week.

Everyone has to be on the same page when it comes to excuses. Otherwise, outsiders will think that there's discord in the locker room.

is there like a team huddle in the locker room....

Sing - "ok Alex you go this way and say this..." "Raye you say this"... "Crabtree, dont' say anythin."

break!

[ Edited by Afrikan on Sep 13, 2010 at 10:53:21 ]

Originally posted by ads_2006:

Originally posted by GhostofFredDean74:
So much for the myth of Singletary as the straight-shooting, disciplinarian and detail-oriented head coach.

Nolan Jr?

Very likely.

In today's game, you need a head coach who strategically excels in AT LEAST one phase of the game, otherwise you have to rely on your assistant coaches to be REALLY good in all areas. Well, we have Manusky, who's a pretty good DC, but not overly accomplished yet.

On offense, we have nothing.

[ Edited by GhostofFredDean74 on Sep 13, 2010 at 10:55:38 ]

Originally posted by Afrikan:
I think that is why Singletary had that late night meeting yesterday....to make sure everyone is on the same page!


when speaking to the media that this






God, something has got to give......after this weeks practice..I think we will play much better next week.

I can't see how we're going to play better next week against the super bowl champions than we could play against a 5-11 team that started its back up LT and a WR that was out of the league the past two years and that we presumably had the entire preseason to prepare for. Seattle may be a sleeper team this year but New Orleans is legit and, frankly, I don't see how a week's worth of practice is going to make a damn bit of difference.

Wait a minute. We did win the NFC West didn't we?

I can accept this is potentially Alex Smith's last season. But from what's building up from yesterdays loss, the coaching staff is on the hot seat, and rebuilding the coaching staff will then ultimately place this franchise beneath the Rams & Seahawks.

wow.

When players start pointing at the coaching staff in the media, that is indeed a problem. It shows a lack of respect for the coaching staff... Had this been a notorious loud mouth, you could say it is an isolated issue, however this is not something you would expect from Alex. Which would suggest a couple of things.

1. The team does not fully believe in the coaching staff.

2. Alex is not able to be a leader and point the finger at himself in the media, and talk to his coaches behind closed doors. Thus, creating division in the locker room.

Sing needs to address his coaches as well. If the players sense he will sell them out, when the coaches get something wrong, how can they take him seriously as the true leader of the team?

Alex has enough he can look at in his own performance, as does the coaching staff. They don't need to be pointing at each other.

Ultimately, they all need to get on the same page and work together. And fast. Sing may never see another HC job, and Alex may never get another shot at a starting QB gig if this goes any further.

how long before this team gets it? this is so infuriating



[ Edited by darkknight49 on Sep 13, 2010 at 11:05:40 ]

Originally posted by verb1der:
I can accept this is potentially Alex Smith's last season. But from what's building up from yesterdays loss, the coaching staff is on the hot seat, and rebuilding the coaching staff will then ultimately place this franchise beneath the Rams & Seahawks.

wow.

yep, the party is over before it even started. We were the class of the division for a whole offseason.

Originally posted by verb1der:
I can accept this is potentially Alex Smith's last season. But from what's building up from yesterdays loss, the coaching staff is on the hot seat, and rebuilding the coaching staff will then ultimately place this franchise beneath the Rams & Seahawks.

wow.

I have the no sympathy for the coaching staff...well at least Singletary..... he made this bed, now he has to sleep in it.

he traded a good back up for a 7th Rd pick, just so Alex didn't have to look over his shoulder....now the team is fk'ed if Alex doesn't turn it around soon........

this same backup knows the system and the players.....so if by chance he had to come in, it wouldn't really be an adjustment........but instead Sing traded him for a 7th round Pick....lol.

now we have David Carr and Troy Smith....first year in our offensive scheme and have no rhythm with our offensive personnel.........not to mention David Carr is .

should have kept Shaun or brought in a QB who would have pushed Alex...as well as been a reliable backup, if he was ever needed to brought in.

We could have used Shaun Hill's noodle arm on that pass to Morgan, Moran Norris, and the first Crabtree INT.

Originally posted by Afrikan:
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/49ers-take-turns-throwing-each-other-under-the-b?urn=nfl-269273

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Looking at the quote sheets from San Francisco 49ers head coach Mike Singletary and quarterback Alex Smith after their team's 31-6 loss to the Seattle Seahawks was an interesting exercise in blame-shifting. There's no question that Smith did not play well in this game -- his performance was even worse than his stat line (26 of 45 for 225 yards, no touchdowns and two picks), but after the game, Smith had more issues with receiver Michael Crabtree(notes) and his own coaching staff.

"The two plays that stand out are the two picks," Smith said of the interceptions that were intended for Crabtree. "The first one, I don't know if that's so much chemistry, just him being quick to turn and make a play. The second one ... I'm thinking one thing, and he's obviously not thinking the same thing, resulting in the pick six. That cost us. Huge. At that point it's still a one-score game, and that takes is to, I believe, 21-6, and it hurt us. It changed the game."

Now, it's true that Crabtree had a horrible game - he caught just two of the eight passes that were thrown to him. But Smith was an absolute non-factor in any play in which a checkdown or an underneath route against zone coverage wasn't involved; there were long stretches in which you'd have to really stretch to say that he played like an NFL quarterback. Had Smith looked like Peyton Manning(notes) out there, perhaps he would have had more reason to call out his receiver. But in this case, it was an incredibly bad idea. And this may have been a response to Singletary's assertion that "[Crabtree] didn't run the wrong route. It wasn't a great throw, but it's just the chemistry. It is the timing, all of those things. Some of the passes we have, it's got to be some of the guys getting around quicker ... I think that as time went on, [Smith] started to press a little bit more, and sometimes that can happen when you try and win a football game."

Smith also took off after the coaching staff, claiming that the barrage of first-half time outs had more to do with preparation than anything else.

"Management issues like that we've got to figure out," Smith said. "They hurt us. We called three timeouts in the first half, took a delay-of-game as well - we've got to get that sorted out obviously, definitely had our issues today. I'm trying not to use (timeouts) in the first quarter especially, but we had a couple of situations there - third-and-short, field position - and I wasn't willing to take five yards. I thought I'd preserve it, take time out, collect ourselves and try to take advantage."

What's important here is that Singletary had said that all of the time outs were related to headset issues. "There were some problems," the coach said. "I don't really know what the situation is. But there were some problems with Alex's helmet. We had a similar situation last year. But when the communication can't some in and it's spotted on the headset and you already can't hear [because the crowd's so loud], it makes it very difficult. When you are in the red zone, you want to make sure that you are calling exactly what it is, and if you can't get the play - it's not that the plays weren't coming in - it was that he wasn't getting the plays because of technical issues. That's the thing that throws it off."

However, Smith completely shot that theory down after the game.

"The only time it was the headset issue, the clock rolled, they were late to spot the ball and I asked (referee) Mike (Carey) to bump the clock and he bumped it ... For whatever reason most of (the timeouts) occurred on third-and one, fourth-and-one, so yeah, whatever it is, deciding on what personnel would go in, deciding on if we would go for it, that decision has to be made.

"The refs aren't waiting around to spot the ball based on what we're going to decide to do. That clock's rolling. You've got to make that decision if you're going to go for it, then the play's got to get called. You've got to have a call ready. That happens fast. It was all in key situations like that today when we had most of the problems. It's frustrating, absolutely."

Frustrating? Wait until everybody gets in the film room this week. These reactions are understandable in the face of a huge upset loss, but all indications point to a team situation in which few people are on the same page.

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and this is what Raye said in another article about Alex..
http://www.mercurynews.com/49ersheadlines/mark-purdy/ci_16060279?nclick_check=1

Quote:
Meanwhile, Raye professed mild puzzlement about why the play calls were not being relayed fast enough from him to the sideline to Smith. Raye also said that even if the play calls don't arrive, Smith "has a run-pass fail-safe play he can call."

So Alex does have the option to call a play if need be....alot of folks were bashing Raye and Sing to let Alex call his own play if they couldn't get a call in on time.....well it seems he does have that option...interesting.

But if the QB waits for 13 seconds and doesn't get a play, then calls an "emergency" play and then the real play arrives, it is only a cluster of a different color.

The coaching staff is scape-goating. Bring back Harry Truman. For the young ones here who did not study US History, he had a sign on his desk that read: 'THE BUCK STOPS HERE." Singletary needs to put that sign on his office door...and on Raye's.

Give the players a chance. Do your job, coaches.

Instead of giving the QB an "emergency" play, how about having a list of "emergency plays" on your play sheet Jimmy Raye, and call it yourself. That is what you are being paid to do.