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Mike Singletary and reality

First he drops his pants, and now he can’t seems to make out what is reality, so says Ann Killion of the Mercury News…
“Lopsided in what way?” he said, “When I look at lopsided, I say this team went out and got the crap kicked out of it. I don’t think there’s any other team [...]

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Martz blames officials for poor play call

Really, check it out.
Criticized after the game for a bizarre choice of plays, Martz said nothing to reporters and took the heat. The team’s head coach and players took the heat, too, with Mike Singletary saying that Robinson got the call because “Coach Martz felt that there would be a cavity inside, so he made [...]

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On Mike Singletary and his balls

Yesterday, in a story on coaches taking back control of their team, we quoted a story which had as a final line, this…
“…Unless Singletary and Zorn are the only NFL coaches with testicles.”
Well little did we know that he not only has them, but may in fact be willing to show them.  From ESPN.com…
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Are coaches taking back control?

That is what Gregg Doyle of CBS Sportsline wonders.  He asks this because of the benching of Vernon Davis by Mike Singletary and the verbal confrontation Jim Zorn had with Clinton Portis.  Check out this from the end of the story…
Singletary tore into Davis, his incredibly talented tight end, after Davis picked up a showboating [...]

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In spite of loss, Singletary takes step in right direction

Mike Singletary and the 49ers lost in Singletary’s debut on Sunday.  But that does not mean that they did not make some important progress.  From Ann Killion of the Mercury News…
Singletary’s postgame performance was commanding. His voice rose to a shout at times. He was honest and angry and disappointed. After years of listening to [...]

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Just how firm is Mike Holmgren’s decision to go on Sabbatical?

I say not much.  From the Seattle Times…
So much for Mike Holmgren’s quiet motorcycle ride into that self-described “sabbatical” next year.
The exiting coach of the skidding Seattle Seahawks had a chance on Wednesday to slam the door on rumors he is a prime candidate to take over his hometown San Francisco 49ers in 2009.
Instead, he [...]

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Why Pete Carroll will not end up with the 49ers

From the Orange County Register USC football blog…
Carroll has a great thing going at USC, and it would take a perfect situation — if that — for him to leave. The 49ers job might not be as big a draw as it seems.
First, the 49ers play in the NFL (despite appearances), and winning consistently on [...]

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Firing Mike Nolan, right move, wrong time

Ray Ratto of the San Francisco Chronicle thinks that the 49er front office blew it…again…by letting Mike Nolan go when they did.  It was not that he deserved to keep his job, but that waiting would have made more sense.
The results speak for themselves, and apparently beating Seattle on Sunday wouldn’t change that. The near-universal [...]

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Might the 49ers be moving?

Check out what Forbes (via the Mercury News) had to say about them staying put.
Forbes Magazine released a list of sports’ 10 franchises that are most likely to move. Mixed in among old standbys such as the Florida Marlins and Minnesota Vikings are … your San Francisco For Now 49ers!
Now, the 49ers have made no [...]

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