Well, it’s a new day, a new year, and a new vacancy. Jimmy (bag-of-donuts) T got the heave-ho yesterday. The Jimmy T era started with a solid win over a good team, and ended with a ‘thrilling’ OT win over a division rival. That’s the good news. The bad? Well, they were 3-10 in those other pesky games.
But this isn’t about Jimmy the fall guy. This is about the recent announcement that Trent Baalke, the architect behind the talent drain and likely the biggest source of Jim Harbaugh’s disgruntlement, was just given the green light to lead the search for our head coach.
Ahhh, well. Welcome to my nightmare.
Jed York: Trent Baalke remains 49ers’ G.M., will hire next coach
I mean, yes, lets let the guy whose draft record is fair to awful pick the next head coach.
I don’t even want to get in to the problems we had last year when Jed York apparently put the kibosh on the Adam Gase hiring because of Jed’s insistence that Gase accepts Jimmy Donuts as his DC, and not Vic Fangio.
Granted, ol’ Adam is likely thanking his lucky charms he’s not here, but he didn’t fare very well in Chicago either. Losing to the Niners isn’t a crowning achievement. Neither is going 6-10 for a team that was gunning to improve their offense. One with Matt Forte and Alshon Jeffrey in the stable. 23rd in scoring? Ouch.
Man, I dont know. I hope beyond hope we can pry Sean Payton away from N’Orleans. Worst case scenario? Chip Kelly. Naturally, this will be what happens. If so, there will be riots in Santa Clara.
Even still, a tiny part of my brain wants to see what Chip and Kappy could come up with in a crazy-ass no-huddle pistol offense. Probably we go 3 and out faster than any team in history (20 punts per game), but hey, at least it would be more exciting than this last year of BORING mundane plodding offense that was torture to watch.
Forty Niners Forever 
My fear is this is a lame duck year for Baalke and we tread water. Regardless of a coaching change. I suppose if we grow toward something it’ll be fine but it’s going to be a long off-season.
Baalke looks like dead meat.
He should resign immediately.
He does kind of look like dead meat, but let’s see what happens. Maybe he pulls a rabbit out of his ass.
We’ll know more about Baalke’s effect on potential hires once they do nail down a head coach. Everyone keeps saying they can’t get a good coach because no one wants to work under Baalke. If that’s true, he’s already toast, but if he can get someone like Payton or any of the highly regarded assistants out there, we’ll know much of that was overblown.
Either way, after York’s presser I now believe that if he chokes it this time he’s gone. It may be a long offseason, but it should be interesting.
No to retreads. God I’m sick of these guys. They hang around year after year like ghouls from the past trying to fuck up the future. They had their day. Goodbye.
Interesting in a train wreck kind of way.
And this is where Jed has to intervene. If Trent says I’m controlling the draft, no ifs ands or buts, no one but a greenie will come here to coach (see Nolan, Mike; Singletary, Mike; Bagadonuts, Jimmy).
As far as finding a coach goes, the Saints want a 2nd round pick for Payton. And money talks. Payton would take something like $9-10 mill to sign. Like a 5/$45-$50 deal.
Given Baalke’s record with draft picks, I’d say do it.
me too. Getting payton would be a real start to something. But we will probably get shanny.
How about Bozo the clown? Niners could always do worse. As for Drafts Bozo could probably give Trent a run for his money. Trent must have a bottle of hooch on draft day for all the misses.
Fuck. I’d rather have KKKelly rather than Shanny.
New thread is up.