Would you call Singletary's first week "awful?"
by David Fucillo on Nov 2, 2008 11:04 PM PST
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PrintWould you characterize Mike Singletary's first week as awful? I mention this because Mike Florio over at ProFootballTalk.com referred to it as such. Florio has plenty of sources, but sometimes it seems like he says stuff just to say it. I know Stampede Blue remains pretty peeved about the Marvin Harrison rumors Florio posted earlier this year through his gig at The Sporting News. Florio had some thoughts about Singletary combined with some quotations:
49ers coach Mike Singletary had a horrible debut last week. Apart from seeing his team obliterated by a poor Seahawks bunch, Singletary sent a star player to the showers, conducted a Coors Light commercial that doubled as a postgame press conference, and at halftime made a pitch for his own Preparation H endorsement.
In an interview with NFL Network, Singletary says, “I’ll tone it down.”
That’s a smart move. Because if he doesn’t he won’t last very long in the profession. Titans coach Jeff Fisher, who played with Singletary in Chicago, hinted in an interview during NFLN’s pregame show that Singletary will in time figure out what to say, and what not to say.
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It sounds like a concession that any efforts by Singletary to identify the person who leaked the information and deal with him won’t lead anywhere good. And it also indicates to us that Singletary will, moving forward, refrain from saying or doing anything behind the closed doors of the locker room that he wouldn’t want the world to know about.
Because the reality is that, if it’s juicy enough, someone will blab.
I realize many of today's athletes won't respond to crazed emotion like we saw from Coach Singletary last week. At the same time, emotion can work in a coach. Maybe Singletary won't end up working out, but I'm willing to let a little real emotion go out on display.
Again, my general point is that yes the events of last week were a little bizarre, but to say it was a horrible week is going a bit far. Maybe shaking things up is what this team needs coming out of the bye week. Or maybe the whole team needs to be put out of its misery. Who really knows?
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Singletary's unorthodox methods
Singletary is pulling some strings by unusual moves, even as sportscasters describe his actions as “in question,” I think he knows what he is doing even as he promises to “tone it down” and all he is trying to do is shake up the team (despite snickers from some players).
The pants-down deal is a stunt pulled by Singletary that was a little overboard but if Singletary backs all his stunts and talk, he will get away with this.
If he keeps losing, then he will be best remembered for the pants-down fiasco.
"We Have a God who delights in impossibilities."
I’m not sure that he does know what he’s doing, though. He’s essentially admited that none of the things he’s done were even remotely planned out beforehand. He’s been flying by the seat of his pants. These moves have not been pre-meditated and, in all likelihood, have not been done with the consequences in mind.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Nov 3, 2008 6:43 AM PST up reply actions
I think
he’s gone a little bit overboard. It’s one thing to send VD to the showers, or to drop his pants. or to have a post game tirade, or to apologize to the fans, or to call people “cancers,” but to do ALL those things on the same day is a bit much. The way I see it – each of those actions is something meant to wake up the players or shake things up – it’s kind of like wasting all your ammo in one battle to do them all on the same day. So now what? Let’s say he wants to shake things up again – what has he got left in his bag of tricks? Nothing.
Still defending Rich Aurilia, and the Niners' classic unis
who cares!?
In this day in age, it’s hard to keep secrects. Professional sports teams do a pretty good job of keeping what happens in the locker room under wraps. Whoever leaked that Singletary dropped his pants needs to be hit with a shovel! Either way I don’t care. As for his press conference, it was great because it was something new. He showed emotion that Nolan never did. He made an example of Vernon Davis who also plays with emotion. He shouldn’t do these things every week but this team needed to be shaken up. As for the loss, you can’t pin it entirely on Singletary. He did only have 2 solid days to get these guys ready.
Fans stuck in the 80's are lame. Respect the past, live in the now.
Just more anti-niner PFT bias...
Florio has always seemed to hate the Niners. He covers us so rarely, and when he does, it’s just to mock us. I’ve gotten so frustrated with it, I stopped reading PFT altogether.
dude...
most of the talking heads hate the 9ers because for the most part they are ex players/ coaches that used to get killed by the 9ers as ive pointed out before. this guy still falls into that category because his team probably used to get get pounded by them too. sall good. take it with a grain of salt. florio is a moron
Fans stuck in the 80's are lame. Respect the past, live in the now.
Conspiracy theory.
I’m sure you really believe that and MAYBE for ex-players there is a hint of truth to it. However, for writers and such, it’s also possible that they bag on a lot of other teams just for the sake of bagging on them. Readers love dramatics and all that, so it “sells.”
Yeah. I recently saw somebody say somewhere that ESPN hates the 49ers, and in their defense of that opinion, they brought up Chris Berman and Steve Young. Ummm… yeah, okay.
Fans, players, teams, everybody likes to feel like the underdogs, and it’s very easy to get the idea that you are the underdog, the unappreciated, the hated, etc. when you see the media doing its modern job – to stir controversy. Most of the time, it’s just (and justifiable) illusion.
Or you could be a SF Giants fan, in which case everybody really does hate you.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Nov 3, 2008 4:45 PM PST up reply actions
like i said...
take it with a grain of salt. you still can’t say that most of those guys don’t hate the 9ers. collinsworth, hoge, schlerith… all of those guys hate on the 9ers because they used to get beat by them. there are some exceptions like aikman, faulk, and t.davis but for the most part it is true. either way i don’t give a rip.
Fans stuck in the 80's are lame. Respect the past, live in the now.
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