Steve Young on KNBR

Originally posted by area49:

Originally posted by WillistheWall:

Originally posted by area49:

Originally posted by WillistheWall:

Originally posted by area49:

Originally posted by WillistheWall:

Originally posted by area49:

Originally posted by WillistheWall:

Originally posted by area49:

Originally posted by sincalfaithful:

Originally posted by area49:

Originally posted by binary2nd:
Steve Young is awesome. The Yorks are not. I think a lot of fans are close to giving up on this team.

We all know what happens then.

I knew you're trolling self would be feasting on the offseason activities. Isn't it time to play xbox?

I love how, when I suggest that it would be a good thing for the 49ers to go to LA, it's trolling, but when SD49er does it, no one seems to care.

And I prefer PS3.

lmao you would. 360 all the way

Meh. To each his own. I'm considering getting a 360 so I can play ME1 and some of the other big name exclusives.

In any case, way to ignore the double standard I pointed out between me and SD49er.

It's because SD49er posts about other stuff besides 9ers to LA and has admitted in the past IIRC he would like it because he lives down there. Not to mention he is always negative so a lot of people have tuned him out. You incessantly post only about it and make up stupid reasons other than just admitting it's selfish. And if you want to say you want them there because they'd be closer to you or whatever, go ahead. But don't try to make up all these bs excuses and convince us who 95% of us dont live in LA that it's our best interest that our favorite team move somewhere that we don't like. That's insulting to our intelligence and annoying.

Actually, I live in the Bay Area. Sunnyvale, to be precise. I'm just more interested in seeing my team win than I am in adhering to bulls**t regional alliances. And I'm convinced that the only way for that to happen is for the 49ers to go to LA.

dude it won't matter if the 49ers go to LA or not as long as York still makes s**tty decisions. The Raiders wound up flopping in LA because they couldn't win for a while and they made bad decisions. The 9ers aren't going to be any different. You could put this team in the Taj f**king Mahal and they would still be bad because the coaching would be bad, the drafting would overlook studs like DeSean Jackson in favor of busts like Chilo Rachal, and the QB wouldn't play well/be developed right.

The Spurs didn't need to play in LA to win 4 championships, the SF Giants didnt need to move to LA to win their first championship, and the Pats didnt need to play in NY to be better than the Jets and win 3 chips and make another superbowl. Last I checked playing in LA hasn't helped the clippers be a good team. It has to do with your Owner/FO/coaching/QB/Rest of your roster, in that order. Winning comes from a structure built from the top down, full of smart people in their field. You do not win because you play in a big city. The York family will still be more similar to Donald Sterling than the Buss family or the Krafts whether they move to LA or not. And that's a fact.

Fine. What if Phil Anschutz or Ed Roski or Magic Johnson owned the team? Would you then embrace the Los Angeles 49ers?

No because I don't embrace the Lakers or Dodgers or Trojans so why would I embrace the LA 49ers? I don't care for LA sports teams period. That's not changing no matter what.

That's okay. There are millions of fans waiting to take your place.

Just like there were millions of LA fans waiting to take Oakland fans places? Yeah I think we all know how that worked out for the Raiders.

That was a great interview. I agree with Young and we should go back to the same identity as our glory years. I don't think he said to go back to WC offense but use the resources in what ever offense we install. Our identity in the pass was so suceessful that many teams use it now a days.

For example, if we hire Harbaugh he doesn't run WC offense but he can instill the idea of Walsh into his offense. The players can watch old film of Walsh and understand the complexity and the idea of it.

That is what Young is talking about and I totally agree with him. As long as we find what the 49ers are trully then in my opinion we are going to start having success again. Please Jed I really hope you make the correct pick in GM and Coach.

Originally posted by WillistheWall:

Originally posted by area49:

Originally posted by WillistheWall:

Originally posted by area49:

Originally posted by WillistheWall:

Originally posted by area49:

Originally posted by WillistheWall:

Originally posted by area49:

Originally posted by WillistheWall:

Originally posted by area49:

Originally posted by sincalfaithful:

Originally posted by area49:

Originally posted by binary2nd:
Steve Young is awesome. The Yorks are not. I think a lot of fans are close to giving up on this team.

We all know what happens then.

I knew you're trolling self would be feasting on the offseason activities. Isn't it time to play xbox?

I love how, when I suggest that it would be a good thing for the 49ers to go to LA, it's trolling, but when SD49er does it, no one seems to care.

And I prefer PS3.

lmao you would. 360 all the way

Meh. To each his own. I'm considering getting a 360 so I can play ME1 and some of the other big name exclusives.

In any case, way to ignore the double standard I pointed out between me and SD49er.

It's because SD49er posts about other stuff besides 9ers to LA and has admitted in the past IIRC he would like it because he lives down there. Not to mention he is always negative so a lot of people have tuned him out. You incessantly post only about it and make up stupid reasons other than just admitting it's selfish. And if you want to say you want them there because they'd be closer to you or whatever, go ahead. But don't try to make up all these bs excuses and convince us who 95% of us dont live in LA that it's our best interest that our favorite team move somewhere that we don't like. That's insulting to our intelligence and annoying.

Actually, I live in the Bay Area. Sunnyvale, to be precise. I'm just more interested in seeing my team win than I am in adhering to bulls**t regional alliances. And I'm convinced that the only way for that to happen is for the 49ers to go to LA.

dude it won't matter if the 49ers go to LA or not as long as York still makes s**tty decisions. The Raiders wound up flopping in LA because they couldn't win for a while and they made bad decisions. The 9ers aren't going to be any different. You could put this team in the Taj f**king Mahal and they would still be bad because the coaching would be bad, the drafting would overlook studs like DeSean Jackson in favor of busts like Chilo Rachal, and the QB wouldn't play well/be developed right.

The Spurs didn't need to play in LA to win 4 championships, the SF Giants didnt need to move to LA to win their first championship, and the Pats didnt need to play in NY to be better than the Jets and win 3 chips and make another superbowl. Last I checked playing in LA hasn't helped the clippers be a good team. It has to do with your Owner/FO/coaching/QB/Rest of your roster, in that order. Winning comes from a structure built from the top down, full of smart people in their field. You do not win because you play in a big city. The York family will still be more similar to Donald Sterling than the Buss family or the Krafts whether they move to LA or not. And that's a fact.

Fine. What if Phil Anschutz or Ed Roski or Magic Johnson owned the team? Would you then embrace the Los Angeles 49ers?

No because I don't embrace the Lakers or Dodgers or Trojans so why would I embrace the LA 49ers? I don't care for LA sports teams period. That's not changing no matter what.

That's okay. There are millions of fans waiting to take your place.

Just like there were millions of LA fans waiting to take Oakland fans places? Yeah I think we all know how that worked out for the Raiders.

Originally posted by niner4life21:

Originally posted by Furlow:

Originally posted by Jcool:

Originally posted by kem99:
Ummm....I value Steve's opinions but don't both Belichek and Paytoncome from the Parcells coaching tree and somehow they managed nit to look Luke the 90s Giants? If anything, the Falcons look more like the 90s Giants offensively.

Originally posted by 49ersVic:
This is must listen, he is fired up about the GM search. He says it is important for the next head coach to send a message to the fans and organization that we are going to embrace the legacy of what made the 49ers successful, from traveling to road games, to the way the 49ers practice, to scripting the first 15 plays, to running west coast offense style formations, etc...

He says it is already hard enough to win in the league, why not use the tools that makes most of the the teams successful - Saints, Patriots, Eagles, Colts, Falcons - he says all those teams use WCO plays even though they say its their own.

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To this day, Belichick insists Bill Walsh: Finding the Winning Edge is the greatest piece of football literature regarding a franchise blueprint ever written. Belichick read the book in the nuclear winter of his own coaching career, between the disaster with the Cleveland Browns and resurrection with the New England Patriots. At a time in his life time when Belichick was forced to re-examine his basic truths about team building, he wrapped his hands around the second of several books by Walsh.

When he was finished, Belichick's philosophical foundation as a coach had once again solidified beneath his feet.

"Saying it was outstanding wouldn't do it justice. For a coach, it's a Bible," Belichick said. "That book reinforced most of what I thought as a coach. I was glad to see Bill write it and say the things he did because a lot of it was either what I was trying to do or what I believed in. Between the book, the clinics, talking to Bill and picking things up from the (San Francisco) 49ers organization, there was certainly a confirmation in my mind that this is the way to do it."

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=cr-walshinfluence073007

Add another reason to why I want Billick as our next coach...

fail. Belichik, not Billick

FAIL. Billick helped write the book. And at least spell the man's name right

[ Edited by Furlow on Dec 31, 2010 at 01:24:40 ]

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By Cam Inman [email protected]


Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh still feels the influence of Bill Walsh

Posted: 12/18/2010 08:42:17 PM PST
Updated: 12/18/2010 11:22:19 PM PST


Bill Walsh nobly sat off to the side in Kissick Auditorium, there to usher in Stanford football's rebirth under new coach Jim Harbaugh.

"I look forward to these visions of sitting around a tape projector, a video machine with Coach Walsh and talking football," Harbaugh said at his introductory news conference four years ago today.

Walsh died before Harbaugh coached his first game for Stanford. But Walsh's fingerprints made it onto one final football program, an inspirational link that hasn't been forgotten since his July 30, 2007, death from leukemia.

"We have a picture of him in our football office," offensive coordinator David Shaw said. "Every day, I pass by it, and I miss him. The influence he had on offense is great. The influence he had on my life is great. The meetings I had one-on-one with him were priceless."

Such testimonials are commonplace about Walsh. He had a wonderful zest for life, as well as for football, of course.

Sandwiched between two tours of duty as Stanford's coach (1977-78, 1992-94) was his revolutionary decade (1979-88) with the 49ers. That off-campus sabbatical resulted in a Pro Football Hall of Fame career with three Super Bowl wins to kick off a dynasty. His West Coast offense altered the NFL landscape, as did his practice regimens and minority-hiring crusade.

One of Walsh's final displays of "genius" came when he helped athletic director Bob Bowlsby select Harbaugh, who inherited a 1-11 program.

"There've been times, all through my four years here, I felt Coach Walsh has been watching over the program," Harbaugh recently said. A couple of days later, he reiterated that quote and apologized if it sounded too sappy. (Nope, not if you knew Walsh.)

Stanford has skyrocketed to elite status. It takes an 11-1 record into its Jan. 3 matchup against Virginia Tech in the Orange Bowl in South Florida. This is Stanford's best season since Walsh guided the 1992 team to a 10-3 mark and its own trip to Miami, where it beat Penn State 24-3 in the Blockbuster Bowl.

"I was just thinking of those times," said Shaw, a receiver on that 1992 team. "The biggest thing is the way Bill prepared us mentally, physically and emotionally to go down there, (to) think of it as a business trip and show who we are to the nation."

Stanford ranks fourth in the Bowl Championship Series. Harbaugh won the Woody Hayes Award as the nation's top coach. Quarterback Andrew Luck became Stanford's second straight Heisman Trophy runner-up.

Four years ago, Bowlsby was new to the Farm and sought advice from Walsh, who returned to Stanford's athletic department in 2004 after being foolishly phased out of the 49ers' front office.

"He and I spent a lot of time talking about the viability of Stanford football going forward, and whether or not that job could be done and done successfully," Bowlsby said. "He talked from his perspective of what made him, John Ralston and Ty Willingham successful at Stanford. As it got down to the end, there were some elements of risk hiring Jim. He hadn't been a head coach at our level."

But Harbaugh got the nod over James Lofton, who played on Walsh's initial Stanford team that reached the 1977 Sun Bowl. Harbaugh followed through on that vision to meet with Walsh, doing so 16 to 17 times in the ensuing months.

"I'd walk over to his office and sit sometimes for 2½ hours," Harbaugh said. "If he was being interviewed by a reporter or if players were visiting, I wouldn't say anything. I'd sit up against a wall and listen."

Harbaugh remembered having breakfasts with Walsh at a local restaurant, and watching film with him at the Stanford football office. "It got to the point I was taking notes, but I got a recorder like you (media) guys have," Harbaugh recalled.

Walsh's words still echo in Harbaugh's ears, such as: "The most important thing about a quarterback is his athletic instincts."

One of Harbaugh's first acts as Stanford coach was to recruit a star quarterback. That led him to Houston and Andrew Luck. When Luck visited Stanford in the spring of 2007, guess who greeted him: Walsh.

"We sat down in a room and he talked about a very specific part of football, nothing broad. It was about throwing while rolling out to the left," Luck recalled.

"I thought it was a little odd at the time how specific it was to a high school kid who didn't really know much," Luck added. "But I guess being at Stanford and hearing more about Bill Walsh, I wouldn't expect anything different."

Despite declining health, Walsh shared his wit and wisdom with all comers.

"Every chance he had to touch somebody's life on campus, I'd try to be there," Shaw said. "Every time, there would be a great nugget."

"He was a tremendous resource for Coach (Harbaugh) his first year," former quarterback Tavita Pritchard said. "Anything out of Bill Walsh's mouth was gold."

It was heartwarming to see Stanford's football players form an honor guard leading into Walsh's on-campus memorial. Some of those players represent this season's senior class.

"As he got ill, he gave away stuff," Bowlsby said. "One day he came in with a stack of books, mostly leadership and consulting books. One was 'The Essential Wooden.' I opened the dust jacket, and it was personally signed to Bill from John Wooden: 'Thank you for the impact you had on football and the difference you made on the world of sports.' Bill knew it was something I would treasure."

Link Here...

I think it's a great article and I wanted to share it with you guys.

Originally posted by PTulini:

Quote:
By Cam Inman [email protected]


Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh still feels the influence of Bill Walsh

Posted: 12/18/2010 08:42:17 PM PST
Updated: 12/18/2010 11:22:19 PM PST


Bill Walsh nobly sat off to the side in Kissick Auditorium, there to usher in Stanford football's rebirth under new coach Jim Harbaugh.

"I look forward to these visions of sitting around a tape projector, a video machine with Coach Walsh and talking football," Harbaugh said at his introductory news conference four years ago today.

Walsh died before Harbaugh coached his first game for Stanford. But Walsh's fingerprints made it onto one final football program, an inspirational link that hasn't been forgotten since his July 30, 2007, death from leukemia.

"We have a picture of him in our football office," offensive coordinator David Shaw said. "Every day, I pass by it, and I miss him. The influence he had on offense is great. The influence he had on my life is great. The meetings I had one-on-one with him were priceless."

Such testimonials are commonplace about Walsh. He had a wonderful zest for life, as well as for football, of course.

Sandwiched between two tours of duty as Stanford's coach (1977-78, 1992-94) was his revolutionary decade (1979-88) with the 49ers. That off-campus sabbatical resulted in a Pro Football Hall of Fame career with three Super Bowl wins to kick off a dynasty. His West Coast offense altered the NFL landscape, as did his practice regimens and minority-hiring crusade.

One of Walsh's final displays of "genius" came when he helped athletic director Bob Bowlsby select Harbaugh, who inherited a 1-11 program.

"There've been times, all through my four years here, I felt Coach Walsh has been watching over the program," Harbaugh recently said. A couple of days later, he reiterated that quote and apologized if it sounded too sappy. (Nope, not if you knew Walsh.)

Stanford has skyrocketed to elite status. It takes an 11-1 record into its Jan. 3 matchup against Virginia Tech in the Orange Bowl in South Florida. This is Stanford's best season since Walsh guided the 1992 team to a 10-3 mark and its own trip to Miami, where it beat Penn State 24-3 in the Blockbuster Bowl.

"I was just thinking of those times," said Shaw, a receiver on that 1992 team. "The biggest thing is the way Bill prepared us mentally, physically and emotionally to go down there, (to) think of it as a business trip and show who we are to the nation."

Stanford ranks fourth in the Bowl Championship Series. Harbaugh won the Woody Hayes Award as the nation's top coach. Quarterback Andrew Luck became Stanford's second straight Heisman Trophy runner-up.

Four years ago, Bowlsby was new to the Farm and sought advice from Walsh, who returned to Stanford's athletic department in 2004 after being foolishly phased out of the 49ers' front office.

"He and I spent a lot of time talking about the viability of Stanford football going forward, and whether or not that job could be done and done successfully," Bowlsby said. "He talked from his perspective of what made him, John Ralston and Ty Willingham successful at Stanford. As it got down to the end, there were some elements of risk hiring Jim. He hadn't been a head coach at our level."

But Harbaugh got the nod over James Lofton, who played on Walsh's initial Stanford team that reached the 1977 Sun Bowl. Harbaugh followed through on that vision to meet with Walsh, doing so 16 to 17 times in the ensuing months.

"I'd walk over to his office and sit sometimes for 2½ hours," Harbaugh said. "If he was being interviewed by a reporter or if players were visiting, I wouldn't say anything. I'd sit up against a wall and listen."

Harbaugh remembered having breakfasts with Walsh at a local restaurant, and watching film with him at the Stanford football office. "It got to the point I was taking notes, but I got a recorder like you (media) guys have," Harbaugh recalled.

Walsh's words still echo in Harbaugh's ears, such as: "The most important thing about a quarterback is his athletic instincts."

One of Harbaugh's first acts as Stanford coach was to recruit a star quarterback. That led him to Houston and Andrew Luck. When Luck visited Stanford in the spring of 2007, guess who greeted him: Walsh.

"We sat down in a room and he talked about a very specific part of football, nothing broad. It was about throwing while rolling out to the left," Luck recalled.

"I thought it was a little odd at the time how specific it was to a high school kid who didn't really know much," Luck added. "But I guess being at Stanford and hearing more about Bill Walsh, I wouldn't expect anything different."

Despite declining health, Walsh shared his wit and wisdom with all comers.

"Every chance he had to touch somebody's life on campus, I'd try to be there," Shaw said. "Every time, there would be a great nugget."

"He was a tremendous resource for Coach (Harbaugh) his first year," former quarterback Tavita Pritchard said. "Anything out of Bill Walsh's mouth was gold."

It was heartwarming to see Stanford's football players form an honor guard leading into Walsh's on-campus memorial. Some of those players represent this season's senior class.

"As he got ill, he gave away stuff," Bowlsby said. "One day he came in with a stack of books, mostly leadership and consulting books. One was 'The Essential Wooden.' I opened the dust jacket, and it was personally signed to Bill from John Wooden: 'Thank you for the impact you had on football and the difference you made on the world of sports.' Bill knew it was something I would treasure."

Link Here...

I think it's a great article and I wanted to share it with you guys.

Great read!

Steve is passionate and has great insight into pro football and the 49ers. We're one of the few teams that has an identity but the Yorks seem to want to do everything in their power to erase that identity. They are definitely the anti-Eddie D.

Originally posted by RishikeshA:
Steve is passionate and has great insight into pro football and the 49ers. We're one of the few teams that has an identity but the Yorks seem to want to do everything in their power to erase that identity. They are definitely the anti-Eddie D.

This is Jed's chance to turn that around. If he does, he'll be a hero. If he doesn't, the Yorks will lose a ton of revenue because of pissed off fans (myself included) and The League and owners will leverage them out of the NFL.

This is a business conglomerate and the Yorks are small fry. If they start to make The League look bad, there's plenty of ways they can be made to feel very uncomfortable.

That's why I am going to remain hopeful that Jed changes the Front Office and brings in an experienced football executive to run the show. It's in his best interest to make the fans happy because that will make his conglomerate happy. Plus, Eddie has been saying things in interviews for months and if Jed does actually listen, I think he'll get it right.

I'm probably setting myself up for a big letdown, but it's not like I'm not used to it after the past decade. I might just become an extremely casual fan as a result and if Jed's decisions f**k the team again, I might just be watching college ball until the Yorks are gone. I did something similar after Dennis Erickson was hired. Just checked the box scores and news every once in a while. At least that was only two years.

Only time will tell.

I hate waiting.

Originally posted by deminutah:
Really I couldn't care less what offense the new regime installs I just want it to work and win......

Agreed

Originally posted by Wodwo:

Originally posted by RishikeshA:
Steve is passionate and has great insight into pro football and the 49ers. We're one of the few teams that has an identity but the Yorks seem to want to do everything in their power to erase that identity. They are definitely the anti-Eddie D.

This is Jed's chance to turn that around. If he does, he'll be a hero. If he doesn't, the Yorks will lose a ton of revenue because of pissed off fans (myself included) and The League and owners will leverage them out of the NFL.

This is a business conglomerate and the Yorks are small fry. If they start to make The League look bad, there's plenty of ways they can be made to feel very uncomfortable.

That's why I am going to remain hopeful that Jed changes the Front Office and brings in an experienced football executive to run the show. It's in his best interest to make the fans happy because that will make his conglomerate happy. Plus, Eddie has been saying things in interviews for months and if Jed does actually listen, I think he'll get it right.

I'm probably setting myself up for a big letdown, but it's not like I'm not used to it after the past decade. I might just become an extremely casual fan as a result and if Jed's decisions f**k the team again, I might just be watching college ball until the Yorks are gone. I did something similar after Dennis Erickson was hired. Just checked the box scores and news every once in a while. At least that was only two years.

Only time will tell.

I hate waiting.

Unfortunately, there is no evidence that the Yorks are in any way interested in continuing the Wash tradition. I suspect they hate Steve Young and hate the whole Walsh thing.

The Niners are the York's team and their actions, such as hiring Singletary, are clear indications that they want to own it in the York way, by the Yorks, for the Yorks.

They would be in LA tomorrow if they could, owning the Niners like Donald Sterling owns the Clippers, as a rich guy's trophy business.

Originally posted by carlgo:
Unfortunately, there is no evidence that the Yorks are in any way interested in continuing the Wash tradition. I suspect they hate Steve Young and hate the whole Walsh thing.

The Niners are the York's team and their actions, such as hiring Singletary, are clear indications that they want to own it in the York way, by the Yorks, for the Yorks.

They would be in LA tomorrow if they could, owning the Niners like Donald Sterling owns the Clippers, as a rich guy's trophy business.

If they wanted to move to LA- and I have seen absolutely nothing to support this latest piece of fiction- what exactly is stopping them?

Nothing. So why hasn't it happened?

Originally posted by area49:

Originally posted by WillistheWall:

Originally posted by area49:

Originally posted by WillistheWall:

Originally posted by area49:

Originally posted by WillistheWall:

Originally posted by area49:

Originally posted by WillistheWall:

Originally posted by area49:

Originally posted by sincalfaithful:

Originally posted by area49:

Originally posted by binary2nd:
Steve Young is awesome. The Yorks are not. I think a lot of fans are close to giving up on this team.

We all know what happens then.

I knew you're trolling self would be feasting on the offseason activities. Isn't it time to play xbox?

I love how, when I suggest that it would be a good thing for the 49ers to go to LA, it's trolling, but when SD49er does it, no one seems to care.

And I prefer PS3.

lmao you would. 360 all the way

Meh. To each his own. I'm considering getting a 360 so I can play ME1 and some of the other big name exclusives.

In any case, way to ignore the double standard I pointed out between me and SD49er.

It's because SD49er posts about other stuff besides 9ers to LA and has admitted in the past IIRC he would like it because he lives down there. Not to mention he is always negative so a lot of people have tuned him out. You incessantly post only about it and make up stupid reasons other than just admitting it's selfish. And if you want to say you want them there because they'd be closer to you or whatever, go ahead. But don't try to make up all these bs excuses and convince us who 95% of us dont live in LA that it's our best interest that our favorite team move somewhere that we don't like. That's insulting to our intelligence and annoying.

Actually, I live in the Bay Area. Sunnyvale, to be precise. I'm just more interested in seeing my team win than I am in adhering to bulls**t regional alliances. And I'm convinced that the only way for that to happen is for the 49ers to go to LA.

dude it won't matter if the 49ers go to LA or not as long as York still makes s**tty decisions. The Raiders wound up flopping in LA because they couldn't win for a while and they made bad decisions. The 9ers aren't going to be any different. You could put this team in the Taj f**king Mahal and they would still be bad because the coaching would be bad, the drafting would overlook studs like DeSean Jackson in favor of busts like Chilo Rachal, and the QB wouldn't play well/be developed right.

The Spurs didn't need to play in LA to win 4 championships, the SF Giants didnt need to move to LA to win their first championship, and the Pats didnt need to play in NY to be better than the Jets and win 3 chips and make another superbowl. Last I checked playing in LA hasn't helped the clippers be a good team. It has to do with your Owner/FO/coaching/QB/Rest of your roster, in that order. Winning comes from a structure built from the top down, full of smart people in their field. You do not win because you play in a big city. The York family will still be more similar to Donald Sterling than the Buss family or the Krafts whether they move to LA or not. And that's a fact.

Fine. What if Phil Anschutz or Ed Roski or Magic Johnson owned the team? Would you then embrace the Los Angeles 49ers?

No because I don't embrace the Lakers or Dodgers or Trojans so why would I embrace the LA 49ers? I don't care for LA sports teams period. That's not changing no matter what.

That's okay. There are millions of fans waiting to take your place.

I hope they don't mind waiting for the Jaguars.

Originally posted by carlgo:
Unfortunately, there is no evidence that the Yorks are in any way interested in continuing the Wash tradition. I suspect they hate Steve Young and hate the whole Walsh thing.

The Niners are the York's team and their actions, such as hiring Singletary, are clear indications that they want to own it in the York way, by the Yorks, for the Yorks.

They would be in LA tomorrow if they could, owning the Niners like Donald Sterling owns the Clippers, as a rich guy's trophy business.

I hear what you're saying, but I think Jed has more Debartolo in him than York (forget what his last name is). He did help set up the 49ers Hall of Fame and Eddie D was the first inductee. Jerry Rice was 2nd and he made it a point to highlight the "glory days." He's not going to do it the way any of us would, he's his own man - but hopefully he at least takes our legacy (as Steve Young always puts it so eloquently) into account when considering his hires.

Originally posted by luis1985:
That was a great interview. I agree with Young and we should go back to the same identity as our glory years. I don't think he said to go back to WC offense but use the resources in what ever offense we install. Our identity in the pass was so suceessful that many teams use it now a days.

For example, if we hire Harbaugh he doesn't run WC offense but he can instill the idea of Walsh into his offense. The players can watch old film of Walsh and understand the complexity and the idea of it.

That is what Young is talking about and I totally agree with him. As long as we find what the 49ers are trully then in my opinion we are going to start having success again. Please Jed I really hope you make the correct pick in GM and Coach.

wco has and will continue to be watered down to no extent. referring to it as the "bill walsh offense" would keep it in perspective. like many others, any coach can tweak how they want while staying with it's foundation. additionally, the "49er way" of running the organization needs to be followed by both gm and jed.

steve has mentioned many times in the past that several teams are successful using the system, and here we stand in the mecca of it all not using a damn bit of it. this interview he's hit on so many points that seriously validates.