Sing losing locker room? | Page 2

SJniner7 · 2010-11-25T12:38:14-08:00

With the article just posted in the chronicle, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/25/SPE41GH8MO.DTL Do you guys think the locker room is starting to divide? The losses are mounting and we could very easily finish 6-10 or so. Will Sing lose the locker room before then? It almost looks like people are starting to point fingers... Players say - not making adjustments, not attacking enough Johnson says - not executing Is it possible we get a revolt similar to how Dallas gave up on Wade Phillips?

Nov 25, 2010 at 3:17 PM

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SanDiego49er
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He already lost it and the fans too.

Nov 25, 2010 at 4:22 PM

#17

9erfanAUS
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Originally posted by Bluefalcon61:
One of the comments left by one of the readers (parodying Mike Sing):

"We tried our best to counter what they did. We even tried running Frank Gore up the middle a few times. After we realized that was not working, we decided to run Frank Gore up the middle because in my mind, Tampa Bay wasn't expecting it. By the 4th quarter, the play action and draw play up the middle with Frank Gore was not working at all. We decided, and you all can BLAME me, was that the best course of action would be to continue to run Frank Gore up the middle. Frank Gore was our best option because as the head coach, and make no mistake about it, I am the head coach, I made the decision that Frank Gore running up the middle would eventually work for us based on what Tampa Bay was doing, that is stacking 9 players at the line of scrimmage daring us to run, which we did, we answered their challenge and in my mind, did very well. We only lost by 21 points, and the playoffs are just around the corner. I really believe this and I think the players will play better next week on MNF."

LOL

-9fA

Nov 25, 2010 at 4:48 PM

#18

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Originally posted by Bluefalcon61:
One of the comments left by one of the readers (parodying Mike Sing):

"We tried our best to counter what they did. We even tried running Frank Gore up the middle a few times. After we realized that was not working, we decided to run Frank Gore up the middle because in my mind, Tampa Bay wasn't expecting it. By the 4th quarter, the play action and draw play up the middle with Frank Gore was not working at all. We decided, and you all can BLAME me, was that the best course of action would be to continue to run Frank Gore up the middle. Frank Gore was our best option because as the head coach, and make no mistake about it, I am the head coach, I made the decision that Frank Gore running up the middle would eventually work for us based on what Tampa Bay was doing, that is stacking 9 players at the line of scrimmage daring us to run, which we did, we answered their challenge and in my mind, did very well. We only lost by 21 points, and the playoffs are just around the corner. I really believe this and I think the players will play better next week on MNF."

that's definitely one of the better ones I've read so far

Nov 25, 2010 at 6:35 PM

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Originally posted by verb1der:
Originally posted by Bluefalcon61:
One of the comments left by one of the readers (parodying Mike Sing):

"We tried our best to counter what they did. We even tried running Frank Gore up the middle a few times. After we realized that was not working, we decided to run Frank Gore up the middle because in my mind, Tampa Bay wasn't expecting it. By the 4th quarter, the play action and draw play up the middle with Frank Gore was not working at all. We decided, and you all can BLAME me, was that the best course of action would be to continue to run Frank Gore up the middle. Frank Gore was our best option because as the head coach, and make no mistake about it, I am the head coach, I made the decision that Frank Gore running up the middle would eventually work for us based on what Tampa Bay was doing, that is stacking 9 players at the line of scrimmage daring us to run, which we did, we answered their challenge and in my mind, did very well. We only lost by 21 points, and the playoffs are just around the corner. I really believe this and I think the players will play better next week on MNF."

that's definitely one of the better ones I've read so far

This

Nov 25, 2010 at 6:38 PM

#20

Rubberneck36
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he lost it a while ago. He will not get it back.

Nov 25, 2010 at 7:03 PM

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carlgo
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He probably is admired by the guys for person relationships and not admired for the play-calling and such. And you would have to think that there are cliques of supporters and non-supporters.

Nov 25, 2010 at 7:31 PM

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Maybe the players still like Singletary, but they don't seem to have any confidence in the game plan or adjustments. This is worse than not liking the coach. The players didn't like Vince Lombardi, but they trusted his leadership.

Nov 25, 2010 at 7:50 PM

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Its pretty bad when we have a coach who is dumber and harder to listen to than Nolan.

Nov 25, 2010 at 9:06 PM

#24

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Singletary lost the locker room a long time ago.

Nov 25, 2010 at 9:12 PM

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Originally posted by backontop:
Singletary lost the locker room a long time ago.

Originally posted by StOnEy333:
Rod Brooks was talking the other day on his show about this. He says he is pretty close with a lot of the players, since he travels with the team as the sideline reporter. He said he hasn't heard anything about the players giving up on Sing. Nothing that he's noticed himself, or been told by a player says that Sing's lost the team.

He also said he has no idea why this is the case, since obviously there's reason for it to happen.

Nov 25, 2010 at 9:15 PM

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Originally posted by StOnEy333:
Originally posted by backontop:
Singletary lost the locker room a long time ago.

Originally posted by StOnEy333:
Rod Brooks was talking the other day on his show about this. He says he is pretty close with a lot of the players, since he travels with the team as the sideline reporter. He said he hasn't heard anything about the players giving up on Sing. Nothing that he's noticed himself, or been told by a player says that Sing's lost the team.

He also said he has no idea why this is the case, since obviously there's reason for it to happen.

I guess that is what I get for not reading any posts in this thread before posting

Nov 25, 2010 at 9:16 PM

#27

binary2nd
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They'll always play hard for Sing, they really seem to like him and want to win for him. Unfortunately, they are starting to realize that they are at a huge disadvantage in terms of strategy. Players are usually sheep though, especially guys in our locker room. If we had a guy like TO or Irvin or Young/Rice here, they would've protested the first week of training camp.

Nov 25, 2010 at 9:20 PM

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I'm just waiting till the packers game they have already gotten 2 head coaches fired lol

Nov 25, 2010 at 9:23 PM

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It's sort of the same with Alex Smith. Some guys dont "lose the locker room" but deep down everyone knows "man this just isn't working." But everyone likes the guy (Sing or Alex or whoever) that they just keep supporting him.

It's easy when when the team personally DISLIKES a player/coach (Brad Childress).

One of our exec VPs probably will get fired and doesn't really belong in his position but everyone loves the guy so people make excuses and just see the "good."

Nov 25, 2010 at 9:28 PM

#30

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Originally posted by Bluefalcon61:
One of the comments left by one of the readers (parodying Mike Sing):

"We tried our best to counter what they did. We even tried running Frank Gore up the middle a few times. After we realized that was not working, we decided to run Frank Gore up the middle because in my mind, Tampa Bay wasn't expecting it. By the 4th quarter, the play action and draw play up the middle with Frank Gore was not working at all. We decided, and you all can BLAME me, was that the best course of action would be to continue to run Frank Gore up the middle. Frank Gore was our best option because as the head coach, and make no mistake about it, I am the head coach, I made the decision that Frank Gore running up the middle would eventually work for us based on what Tampa Bay was doing, that is stacking 9 players at the line of scrimmage daring us to run, which we did, we answered their challenge and in my mind, did very well. We only lost by 21 points, and the playoffs are just around the corner. I really believe this and I think the players will play better next week on MNF."

You forgot to mention how excited you were for the players to run up the middle.