49-22-1. This is what Jim Harbaugh did his 4 years as the Niner head coach. What is his legacy? Well to me, it’s falling short. The standard is was and should be winning the Super Bowl. With Jjmbo here we went from outhouse to penthouse in one strike-shortened preseaon in 2011. In the process he turned Alex Smith from a perennial close-but-not quite guy to a 13-3 QB on a roll. But for 2 fumbles, this team is in the Super Bowl.
Next year, Harbaugh gets the team in position to win the Super Bowl. Until the game starts and they dig themselves an impossible hole to dig out of. But for a delay of game, the Niners win. Last year? Well, close but not quite again. This year started a disaster 2 months before the season started and it never got much better despite better weapons and supposed more continuity.
So, on his last day as the 49er coach, Jimbo wins game 49. Quite a legacy, and Jimbo should be given credit for instilling a winning attitude for a moribund franchise, However, he did inherit a team with a pretty strong roster, One loaded with high draft picks, and talent. For as quickly as things changed, and they were tantalizingly close to reaching their goals those 3 times, they fell short. The part I didn’t like was how Harbaugh leaned on his defense a lot of the time. Give him an early lead and he’ll sit on it. Fall behind, and he’ll grudgingly get aggressive. For all the talent they had, I think they left a lot of points on the field, and many times they were not prepared come game time.
What happens now? I have a pretty good idea that they are going to keep this shit in-house. Which means Mike Tomsula. Which means that other coaches may start defecting. Greg Roman is surely gone. The offensive coaches should be shit-canned. Well, keep Rathman (and Gore for that matter). John Morton? Seeing the ineffectiveness of the WRs for the most part, gone. The line coaches can go as we will more than likely look to change the blocking style.
I wonder if promoting Tomsula over Fangio will mean Fangio leaves. I hope he stays as he did a remarkable job with a defense riddled by injury. Harbaugh never did him many favors, and he is likely in the running as HC. Whatever they do, I hope they find someone to take this offense to a new level. For all the troubles this year, injuries played a big part of the problems, and this team still has a ton of talent. They are not in rebuilding mode,and should be considered a playoff contender when the next traiing camp breaks.
Forty Niners Forever 
I don’t know Bergs. I still think money was the biggest part of it.
That being said, I truly do not get the dynamic between he and Roman. 2 years ago there was talk of Harbaugh taking over play calling at times. Last year and this tear as well. His brother had no problem canning Cam Cam mid-stream. Why is he putting that above winning?
I get being loyal, but at the cost of your own job and the success of the team?
Holy shit. I think Bullit has lost his mind. Pete Carmichael, the guy who has coached Brees is whole career, and has been NOs OC for 6 years is a bad coaching candidate because NOs defense is 31st in the league. Go figure.
Unca- Bullit never cares about what is right, he only cares about being right. Talking to him is a waste of time. An rational intelligent conversation is just too difficult.
Carmichael is probably a good candidate. I would question his being a head coach based on that he is not the one who calls the plays there, Payton does. But that shouldn’t bother Bullit since he doesn’t think play calling matters. How can somebody think play calling matters if they are a Roman fan?
I’ve thrown some names out but I don’t know who to hire. I’ll just support whoever we do hire until it is obvious he was the wrong guy. I still think Harbaugh was the right guy sans Roman. Problem was, it was never going to be sans Roman.
Frankly I’d like to see fangio get the job and get Pete as the OC here.
Promote tomsula to dc. Get Ault here to work with Kappy
My idea for Ault was just temporary for if they fired Roman after the Seattle game. Since we kept trying the read/option run and doing wrong, I thought maybe he could show Harby how it’s done. I think I’d rather have somebody more established with the pro game for a permanent OC.
I think Fangio would be a good candidate for HC. I’m not going to say who to hire because I missed badly on Nolan and Sing.
I’m saying Carmichael as (play calling) OC, not Ault. Ault is here to work with Kappy and Pete.
Happy for Harbs and I wish him luck at Michigan. It’s a perfect spot for him and he’s probably a better long term college coach anyway.
Plus, after hearing York squirm and worm his way out of Murph’s interview on KNBR this morning I’m looking forward to seeing how the Niners brass fixes this mess…..
Whoever we get will surely understand that our division is not for the week-willed and play-it safe attitude(game plan), it will take a person with a plan and quite a bit of ingenuity. I don’t know who that is but they will have to factor in our division. I think that will thin some potential people out. It would be easy to say it’s because of the FO but I don’t see any motivated person saying that.
Shane Skov: kicked off the practice squad.
This shit just got real….
If the article on FB, alleged to have been written by young Harbaugh is legit, beating Seattle had to be the main ingredient by which Jed weighed his value.
Be it personnel, or scheme, we haven’t improved Offensive production in several years, for a number of valid reasons.
For me, it’s the lack of a passing attack married to a power running game.
Had Roman/Harbaugh found a way to balance those elements, with a legit rhythm and execution, Jim might not have been standing in front of a podium in Ann Arbor today
NJ- I think you nailed it.
All I want is harmony and balance from the FO to the team Berger.
Everyone on the same page, working together.
Why we can’t find a passing attack that works is killing me.
If our QB can’t stand in a pocket, find something that works for him.
For that simple reason, our next HC or OC, has to have a better plan for Kaep.
Get something going with the passing attack.
The more I read about this HC circus, the more I think Jed and Jim were more at odds than Trent and Jim?
There seems to be some innuendo suggesting ’49er class’ might have been directed at Jim?
Sideline tirades, off-field player troubles perhaps?
Again, I get the fact that Jed feels he’s responsible to the Fans, and his legacy to the Franchise but, PLEASE, let football people run the football team.
Trent and the HC have to get this sh!t straightened out.
That partnership is the most important pairing in the game as far as I’m concerned.
At his intro presser today at Michigan, Harbs uttered more complete sentences in 10 minutes than he did in 4 years of pressers at Santa Clara.
Niners must have a new, open position of “staff foot fetishist”. Why else would they plan to interview that known developer of QBs – Rex Ryan …
Well, like he said, he’s been dreaming of coaching Michigan since he was a child,
Rex would be a hoot for us.
He’s a character and the guys would love him.
He simply needs what we need now, an Offense to support him.
I think the minimalist approach is best right now.
Try to keep the Defense intact and find a way to marry an OC with them.
Otherwise, if they give the HC slot to an outsider, more pieces likely fall by the wayside, like Fangio and/or Tomsula.
Which ain’t gonna be easy IMO.
McDaniels makes sense to a degree, simply because of the Baalke/Parcells/Belichick connections.
But, that may not be enough for McDaniels to take a chance he passed up on last time we went through this process.
The more things change, the more they stay the same I guess?
New thread is up . . . . .
Depending on who stays and who goes, Rex as DC would be OK. HC? No.