Mike Singletary Approval Rating, Victory Edition

They won, but they were embarrassing in the process with all the penalties.

There are enough things he’s done right to help mitigate how poorly this team has performed to keep him from getting a 1 or 2. Add the win in the mix and I’ll say a 4.

If you would have asked me before the Raider game I would have said a 2.

He’s done an OK job. Some dumb mistakes, for sure, but he corrected some, too (Jimmy Raye much?).

I support him and the team. I personally think he is on his way and the team needed all this adversity in order to finally beat the Nolan era out of them. If anything the players believe in themselves which i never saw during Nolan, so that is a win. Now they just need to be consistant.
Also for some reason, and this is completly my hope/opinion, i see in 4-5 years an NFL Network top 10 comeback seasons epison where this will rank in the top 1-2. Although it might not come soon enough to save his job… so i can easily see me being wrong too. Time will tell, and after 7 years of suck i can wait a little longer i guess.

Polls from 1-5 are usually MUCH better than polls 1-10, especially for qualitative stuff like “is Sing doing a good job”?

1-10 starts to obscure things…. what’s the difference between a 6 and a 7 in a 10 scale? much harder to tell between 3 and 4 in a 5 scale. You usually end up get a lot of “muddle” in the middle if you have too many numbers.

I think in the future, a 1-5 poll for these things would give a much clearer picture of what’s going on.

Need to see more positive plays, less turnovers on offense, and get Dixon some touches the guy seem to get first downs and touchdowns. We have to keep teams guessing!

Coach Sing is a good motivator, but he seems to be lacking something…don’t know what it is. I can say that he’s done a better job than Nolan or Erickson as our HC, seeing as he did lead our team to 8 – 8 last season. We’re on the cusp…it’s just, discipline, i guess. Penalties and turnovers. Get rid of those or at least minimize them and who knows? Maybe we can earn a wild card spot…

Singletary considerably RAISED the expectations of this team. Mike Nolan had a .327 winning percentage. Do you want that type of coach?

These clowns in Phoenix are always bashing Singletary, it’s almost like THEY ARE OBSESSED WITH HIM! They compare him to Ken Whisenhunt constantly (who’s pretty crappy to tell the truth).

Singletary DESERVES at LEAST a 9/10 and you guys are just hilarious. I’m sorry many of you do not understand the simple way the NFL approval ratings work.

This is really simple stuff. Really.

reasons:

-underachieved with a much more talented team than the record indicates
-constantly tried to stick with an offensive philosophy that wasn’t working
-for a coach that is clearly not an Xs and Os guy, does a poor job keeping the team disciplined (as seen by a million penalties)
-continued problems getting proper personnel on the field
-continued problems with game and clock (and TO) management

for winning 1 game!

We knew that was Sing would be learning on the job. But he has been learning way too slowly (if at all, in some respects) to be a successful NFL HC.

There are several reasons why he ranks low on my count and should be let go at the end of the season barring a miraculous regular season finish and post-season success.

Sing lacks the temperament to be a HC. Too emotional, volatile for a game of inches and milliseconds where a cool head is needed for rapid tactical decisions. He handles all players like they are linebackers.

He has shown poor judgment in choosing coaching staff and has had to dismiss several of them over a short span. Note that a major knock on his earlier lack of success in HC interviews is that he did not have a ready list of potential staff members.

His strategic approach to the game is badly flawed. The ball control, make-no-mistake offense and dominant, overpowering defense and winning with a few point advantage leaves very little margin for error. However, with rookie starters and league parity ensures that it is difficult to play mistake free football for 60-minutes. So teams have to take risks more. Sings approach will lead to 8-10 wins even with a very good team.

His game time management skills are questionable at best. He shows poor ability to make half-time adjustments.

He does not realize that his defensive mindset puts him at disadvantage in a offense-driven league and insists on interfering with offensive game planning, Seifert used to that and the players did their best to get him out of the room. We know how much success Seifert had after he was put in change of the Panthers. I’m now convinced that only the rare defensive coach can be a successful HC in the NFL.

I apologize for the long post, but I’m really disappointed in SIng after having supported him all through last season.

I still think he’s a good coach on the motivation side of things, on the getting players to buy into him side of things. But I think he’s still really weak on the organization and the managing of the staff side of things…which is important. But I like the guy, and I can vote whatever number I want. I’ll give him a 7, maybe it’ll send him and the team some luck!

one win and sing’s approval rating has skyrocketed? lol.
there is no way we should lose to carolina. no way.

For the reason that he improved almost every position since he has been here.

1. QB Smith has been playing better (prior to thus year) than he ever had playing under Nolan.
2. O-Line it got a lot better
3. TE VD was a bust before Sing now look at him
4. WR Do I really need to get into this
5. Defense we are dissapointed when our D is not top 5. Holding a RB under 75 yards is expected and 1 turnover a game is a horrible game.

Because he handled smith better than anyone before him. And this team isn’t as good as advertised……..more later

… but I don’t think Singletary is ever going to be a great coach. I voted 3. I wanted for him to be great, and I loved him as a player, and I love him as a guy, and I respect him as a man and a father (having read his parenting books …), but I worry that …

- He’s a one-trick motivational pony – he shouts and screams and pats people on the chest and puts them back in the game after taking them out of the game because he approves of the particular flare of their nostril and shade of their eyeball, or whatever, but he is not, and will never be, a tactician.

- He’s badly organised. The one thing he should be, as a non-tactician Mr Motivator, is organised. Yet we have penalties, we have the wrong number of players on the field, we have assistants being fired, we have players being signed then not used, etc.

- He’s a hypocrite. He is always saying he won’t shout at officials. On Sunday when Morgan (think it was Morgan; may have been Crabtree) ran the wrong route and Smith’s throw got unfairly called for intentional grounding, he was screaming in officials’ faces. I don’t care particularly if he does scream in their face – lots of successful coaches have done so – but not when he keeps making big public apologies for doing so.

- All-time great players almost never make all-time great coaches. There are exceptions but history is basically against him. Back-up quarterbacks make great coaches. Why? They watched the great ones to see what made them great, and therefore they can pass on that knowledge. Patrick Willis does not, I wager, go about his daily life trying to figure out exactly what makes him great … he just is. Therefore, Patrick Willis will never be a great coach. Neither will Singletary. I don’t actually know this about Willis, clearly, but I sure as heck am starting to think it about Singletary.

Sorry – didn’t want it to be the case. And hopefully it won’t be. It ain’t like I know anything – just my opinion. I would dearly love to be wrong. My one hope is that Singletary will realise at some stage that he has SO MUCH to offer this organisation and bloods a real coach – perhaps Johnson, who knows – and he sticks around to help the 49ers achieve greatness, just from a different office ….

coaches can only do so much, at some point you have to start pointing the finger at the players for a lot of these mistakes.

Youngest starting offense in the league is a tough thing to overcome, especially opening with 3 of 4 on the road and the two loudest stadiums in the NFL. This doesn’t include the Raye mistake which, to his credit, he corrected. A handful of rookies play regularly on special teams. This amount of youth equates to a slower than wanted start and the kinds of correctable mistakes that lead to close losses. That’s exactly what this team has done.

For the remainder of the season, can Sing and his staff help these young players improve and find a level of positive consistency? Will the OL develop cohesion while MJ continues to lead the offense toward a path of improvement? These things all impact how Sing is evaluated.

On the positive, time management has not been an issue since the first half of the first game. Replay challenges have not been an issue. The team has come out well prepared to start every game except the KC loss. The players supported the decision to fire Raye and promote MJ. He listened to his players when it came to not benching Alex. His young team showed mental toughness when trailing late in the Saints and Eagles games, plus in trying to hold the lead in Atlanta; there is no quitting on Sing, the staff or each other.

Negatives include: the perception that he is too emotional (when you win you’re like Cower or Gruden, when losing you’re too much like Ditka). His unwillingness in playing Dixon while being okay with giving reps to rookie Bowman and two rookie punt returners (Williams and Adams). The understandably unpopular decision to cut Michael Robinson which would’ve been helpful with so many rookies on the ST unit (and prevented the gain of a divisional rival). His reasoning for sticking with Rachal when Snyder at times seems more deserving to play RG.

These issues are correctable and deserving of judgement later in the season but for at least the next few games, wins are the only stat that matters, no matter how they come.

Because well coached teams don’t have 11 (or was it 12) penalties for 143 yards; especially against the FREAKIN Raiders.