Let's go back to my quote in the "What Will We Get out of Singletary?" fanpost where I described basically but most acutely what he will bring to the shaken franchise, the San Francisco 49ers,

 "I write as I have SEEN, heard, witnessed, and researched on Mike Singletary who is as good they come, probably the most fiercely competitive up to date, he is going to strike a fiery note when he starts singing as the 49er's new head coach. "

Indeed, Singletary has taken the microphone and he has started singing. And it's a fiery note. Davis gets both a penalty and a boot from the field for a playful poke, and O'Sullivan gets benched in place of Shaun Hill, who came in to play a better managed game.

When you turn over the ball, it becomes a thing where you become the casualty, because of the inability to hold on to the ball, or to better protect it. It draws the ire of the coaching staff and fellow teammates, because they have to feel more invincible than this, their vulnerability are exposed if you cannot protect the ball.

So  that is where Hill comes in, Singletary is giving him the chance to just to do a better job of managing the ballgame as a quarterback, O'Sullivan's play was just too errant for him to continue at this point, the message the new head coach is giving is, we have to start winning games. It is by a marked improvement in game management from the huddle.

It is true Singletary cannot continue to publicly discipline his players in front of 70,000 fans, but he wanted to send across a very clear message that he will not tolerate players that contribute to attitude that leads to losing. It's about the team, not about their own self-centered selves. The TEAM wants tickets!! Not just you, me, the rest of the team, or the newly promoted to head coach Singletary, but everyone in this room! And if you are going to be the one to ruin it for all of us, so that we cannot get our family or friends tickets, then just turn around and walk the other way out of the stadium into the desert.

Ok?

Singletary is obviously A-OK with it. He'll echo it, with a booming voice exuding a sense of authority and an old-school nonsense approach, he was embarrassed by the 49ers' pathetic lifeless performance, almost sheepish but annoyed, he laid down the law during and afterwards. It's turning into the wild west affair, and will continue to be, until his players get the message.

It's been a long time coming, that guy Singletary, from the moment he took the reins of the 49ers, if he couldn't win in his debut as a head coach, at least he was able to motivate the players in working on correcting the trend of losing and turn it into winning ways. It's on its' way.

As I said, he is old-school and that is the approach needed in any effort to turn around the misfortunes of the 49ers back into the traditional winning ways, the vision Mike Nolan brought to the team when he was hired, the torch has been passed to Singletary. The difference Singletary brings is a more tougher approach and better motivational skills needed to lift up the 49ers at some turning point. Nolan endorsed Singletary for the head coaching position, not because he will carry the team as the motivational speaker, but because he has the commanding figure to bring change and lift the team upwards back into a winning tradition. It might not happen in the first couple of games, but Singletary will keep on preaching until they all get it.

Sometimes it takes old-school mentality to stop the losing ways, and the process is painful and demeaning sometimes, the way Vernon Davis probably felt when Singletary ordered him off the field, my hope is that Davis will respect him with admiration for having the stomach to make such moves in front of all the fans and players, and learn from it. Davis knows Singletary is a hall-of-famer, and he cannot discount him despite the fact he thought that was new for a coach to ban him from the field for such an infraction (15-yard penalty for poking a player in the facemask), Davis' reaction was that it is the way Singletary coaches.

Was that a good reactionary response?

Singletary's was good, and the right one, even as people speak in hushed whispers that we don't do that to grown up men who are NFL players.

49ers, stop turning over the ball like giving away carrots, the game is not to be played as if rabbits were all over the field. It's a game where we go to steakhouses, not crawling and feeding off the garden. We have to play like real men and protect the ball, and protect the quarterback, and catch the ball, and steal it, whatever, but take possession of the ball and move the ball.

Singletary is bringing a fresh infusion of the feeling we are not a charity anymore, giving away wins. Singletary will motivate his players to earn their wins. If other teams want to beat the 49ers now, they have to keep in mind Singletary refuses the notion of being a charitable 49ers because he does not want to give any leverage to any team that looks to keep walking over their red carpet.

As long Singletary keeps his disciplining ways in check, the 49ers will respond to what he as their new head coach brings.

Let's rock. Let's play smash-mouth football, and discard our barbie dolls. It's a man's game now.

And maybe a couple of apologies to debut with.