Originally posted by jacklegniner:
Originally posted by Young2Rice:
Originally posted by cciowa:
Originally posted by SunDevilNiner79:
Anyone that doesn't give Harbaugh an A+ is crazy and obviosuly the recent success has lead them to forget the years before Harbaugh came.
what we did before Jh means nothing when you grade him for this year. he has been outcoached in more games this year than last year, he made a terrible number one draft pick and did nothing to address the lack of depth on the defensive line, and offensive lines,, he bungled the kicking thing so he goes from an A last year to a B this year. what we were before he came to us means nothing to me as I compare him from last year to this year
How has he been outcoached in more games then last year? But for two Akers' misses, we are 13-3 again.
He doesn't make the final call on drafts, Baalke does. Yeah, they collaberate, but ultimatly its on Baalke, not Harbaugh.
Again, the roster issues aren't on Harbaugh. Plus, our Dline and OLBs are all injured (Haralson, Tukuafu, Dobbs, Fleming etc...). Thats not anyones fault really, just NFL bad luck.
His kicker f**ked up in the middle of the season due to injury and there weren't any real replacements. His options were limited.
The positives JH has done SEVERELY outweigh the negatives. Two straight years in the NFCC after a decade of no playoffs, made Alex Smith a good QB, turned Kaep into a superstar and had the balls to make the switch.
Harbaugh > NFL
Jumping in late here but when Harbaugh took over his first year he went 13-3, but that was against a 3rd place schedule since singletary's Niners went 6-10 the previous year. So in Harbuagh's 2nd season, it shouldn't be a knock that he lost more games. He is now playing a first place schedule and will always play a first place schedule as long as we keep winning the division. Things looked weird this season but he won the division, got the 2nd seed in the playoffs, returned to the NFCC and won and made the hard call to switch to Kaep when almost everyone doubted him. EASY A. (As a reference the Atlanta falcons for the past 3 years have gone 13-3, 10-6 and 13-3 but all those regular season wins aren't paying off and their roster isn't getting better).
As far as roster and depth... We don't have many holes on the team so pretty much we were drafting for depth in almost every position. The glaring need after last years NFCC game was the wr position and the entire zone hated Crabtree. The draft is more GM than coach but they felt like speed is what they were lacking on the team. Jenkins and James were the first 2 picks and James is looking like a great pick. Jenkins has done nothing but neither did Kaep by the end of his first year. Give him time to develop. Crabtree showed everyone that he's the real deal but not every player develops over night.
You can't predict injuries either. If we had drafted depth at the Dline and instead Goldson or Whitner got hurt we would be thin there as well. There's only 53 men on the rosters but I would say that we have the most talented roster from top to bottom in the league.
Get outa here with these rational thoughts!
Good post.
