Since we have almost reached the merciful end to yet another lost season, the sentiment around my abode is, what now? Do we burn the fucker down and start from square 1? Or do we try to rejigger the front office together from the scraps of a misbegotten group?
Here’s what we got:
OWNERSHIP
Denise DeBartolo York Co-Chairman
John York Co-Chairman
Jed York CEO
John M. Sobrato Co-Owner
Mark Wan Co-Owner
Gideon Yu Co-Owner
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT
FOOTBALL OPERATIONS
Trent Baalke General Manager
Paraag Marathe Chief Strategy Officer and EVP of Football Operations
BUSINESS OPERATIONS
Al Guido President
Hannah Gordon General Counsel
Brano Perkovich Chief Investment Officer
Scott Sabatino Chief Financial Officer
Patty Inglis Executive Vice President
As much as that OWNERSHIP group needs to be jettisoned, we have no reality scenario where that happens. Stripping Jed of his toy would be most excellent, but I don’t really think Daddy and Mommy Dork will usurp the young drooling one. Sobranto Wan and Yu (aka Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe) are not on my radar and I have no idea the pull they have within the front office machinations. Which is a problem in itself.
The EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT team is where we need a whole new group. Baalke has turned from Exec of the Year to Doormat of the Decade as he has overseen the mass exodus of talent from the team while wasting stockpiled picks on ACL guys, shitty punters, and little help to the team’s roster. Paraag seems to be the biggest fly in the ointment. His stink has been all over the team going back to the Nolan days when he was supposedly helping with red flag rulings. He famously challenged and unchallengeable look at a field goal and it cost the team a game, IIRC.
The BUSINESS OPERATIONS group? Who knows? Al Guido sounds like the right guy for the job if you are building a parking lot in Trenton New Jersey, but running BIZ OPS? Fuck it. Anything associated with the big stink coming out of 4949 Centennial Blvd. should be canned.
I’ll deal with the coaches later.
Forty Niners Forever 
It is my opinion that the one person most responsible for our current situation is Jim Harbaugh. He saw the demise of talent coming and didn’t want his legacy hurt so he scorched the earth to get his ass out of here. He said he felt the 49ers left him. I feel he not only left us but did as much damage as possible on the way out. It was to make him look better. He is an egotist, zero doubt about that.
I like the idea of the Shanahan combo next but I liked Ericson, Nolan, Singletary, Harbaugh and Tomsula. I am definitely not the person to ask who should be our next coach. I just hope if he is as good as Harbaugh he is sane.
Jesus, Bergs. You are all over the place. Harbaugh was Harbaugh. Of course he saw the shit that was about to come down. He didn’t see Borland and Willis retiring, but he certainly had an inkling that some of the guys would be jettisoned, like Gore, Culliver, etc.
However, Jed and co have made stupid decision after stupid decision since they tied their balloon to Baalke back in 2014. Sure, he’s part of it, but Baalke has been drafting shittily before during and after Harbaugh’s tenure. His shitty drafting is WHY they stopped talking to each other.
Jed stepping on the Gase hire, and the latest carousel with another coaching staff is yet another indication of a clueless front office.
In other words, Harbaugh’s effect on the team is long gone. This is a fresh new stink.
Eric, you are right. The Pats have a front office that does its job very well.
But the buck starts and stops with Belichick. He runs the draft. He makes all the personnel decisions as well as the coaching. Without him, there’s no dynasty. . . .
that could be true but someone clearly can judge talent. and all that matters is that everyone else gets out of that persons way. the biggest problem is getting enough leeway to show that you CAN judge talent. it’s not always obvious (see oakland). and of course, how do you prove you can judge talent until you actually do? whatever, the jed/john/denise need to find someone who can do this. and best of luck to them.
Happy new year, folks! Glad to see this one end.
Fucking Buwwlit is willing to give Jed the benefit of the doubt if he fires Chip? Gee, where do you draw the line, skippy? 7-25 is what? Progress?
Now there’s someone a few bricks shy of a load.
Happy New year all. We just finished our move off the rock and now am back on the west coast. Not in CA but in OR. And it’s fucking cold right now. Totally agree on finding a someone who can spot talent. It probably will take some time (and a lot of luck) but I am not gonna give up on the team. I would be thrilled if we could actually draft a promising QB and WR. That would be a good place to start.
Cool! Yeah these winters have been clear and butt cold lately on the west coast. A hard rain is coming.
Yeah, for all the naysayers, everyone was in the same state of mind in 2011.
Even my rosy scenario had us as the WC at 9-7 and one playoff win.
Parity is the coin of the realm and it takes massive stupidity to be consistently bad. Hello Cleveland.
But here we are again of the precipice of the great abyss with no clue what the 3 stooges (Dr. Dork, Denise, and Jed-boy) are going to do. Let’s hope it is to hire a competent guy to run the football side and let them be.
Getting rid of the Yorks would be the best move. They are totally clueless when it comes to football. Jed is a weak leader at best. His “win with class” mantra is so childlike it’s laughable. At press conferences he looks out of his element. Basically he should be in charge of counting paperclips and leave it at that. The evidence is clear, the Yorks really don’t have a clue about hiring anyone for football. How can they hire good people when their record in this matter is so poor?
High points of this season are the two victories over the pathetic Lambs. That’s it!
so i guess the hot rumor is firing both baalke and kelly. i’m not saying that the chipster is the best thing since buttered toast, but why not let the new GM make that call? it’s all fine and good to say “fire that guy”, but who are you going to bring in to replace him? unless you stick with gamble, you’re going to have to take a flyer on some junior GM and elevate him. Who does that guy have in his circle of trust that he can bring in as a new head coach? and it’s not like this is a dream job situation anymore, so getting people to return your call might be harder than you think. yes, there’s only 32 of these jobs but i would think long and hard about coming here with the state of the FO etc. And who does this new head coach have in HIS circle of trust that he can persuade to come here as the OC and/or DC? by the way, i would look long and hard at our current DC (who’s name escapes me, that’s how much impact he’s had). But again, you only fire him if you know that you can get someone better. i hear the ryan brothers are available :).
Baalke has been fired. Is Chip next?
Can Cleveland pull this off?
no
What I want to see is better draft picks, quit taking players that are hurt or recovering from an injury!! Balke has to go, that is the bottom line! He has done crap 💩 with the draft!!
Agree Kevin!
Sick and tired of the “PROJECTS” program under the Balk regime, with the ACL career ending injuries and the wasted picks due to that fucking dumb mindset which has set this organization back even farther!!
Only the weasel that is Pete Carrol call’s a T.O. with 2sec left before halftime expecting the 49ers to punt? when they could just take a knee like they did!! He’s such a douchebag, but it was funny to see Sherman having to return from the tunnel to get back on the field in case they did punt. Carrol’s motivate was probably just to piss off Sherman..
This is the other thing I don’t like about the Niners. And this has been over the last 10 years, when they get behind in the game they continue to run the ball. Look at Seattle, they went straight to the pass to score and score quickly!! Why oh why is there such love for the running game? It gets them no where!!!
The things we think we know. It was Baalke who blocked the Case hire not Jed York apparently:
Gase*
Kelly fired too.
Here we go again…
“The 49ers plan to hire a coach-general manager team that will work together, a source told CSNBayArea.com. York and Paraag Marathe, the team’s chief strategy officer and executive vice president of football operations, are expected to lead the search to fill both positions.”