Mike Singletary Approval Rating: International Roller-coaster edition

It was my best weekend ever! All my favorite sport teams won!

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congrats to the World Series Champions SF Giants!

for going with Troy Smith and taking the reins off (albeit late) when it counted.

He took a chance on troy smith and it worked.

He would need an amazing playoff run. With a team others felt was loaded with talent, a team that needs fan interest to build a stadium, and a playoff drought of nearly a decade, ownership would not have the patience. I see fans who want winning seasons ASAP, but many more who are fine with waiting out a rebuilding season to see some growth.
I want Sing to stay based on it takes three years to see if his roster has matured enough to fit his vision. But this is business. If you play slow grind out football with conservative D you need to win games to keep interest. I expect an offensive guru to come in 2011 that will have 28-40 point games with defense going aggressive to at least get fantasy interest, more fan interest for a pretty stadium

When a player misses his assignment, is that Coach? When a player jumps before the snap, is that Coach? The tipped pass? The missed block?

Correct me if I am wrong, but a Head Coach is responsible for the following:

1. Establishing lines of communication between the coaches, coordinators and players
2. Establishing the values, vision, goals and overall direction of the team as a whole and communicating that to each member of the team
3. Game management from the sidelines, including time management, gameday personnel decisions, interaction with the officials

While X and O’s involvement is very common, I don’t see it as a requirement and certainly not necessary to a winning team, though it can make it easier (of course, assuming the HC is any good at the X and O’s, which certainly isn’t always the case).

To me, this is par for the course- he is a first time Head Coach, and he has kept the team from falling apart in the face of an 0-5 record. You get the sense that while a lot of us have given up on the team, he hasn’t, and neither have his players.

The question, to me, isn’t what he needs to do to be back next season, but just how badly he needs to do to be canned. We need continuity more than anything else, and I truly believe we have a shot at a BW style dynasty if we can just deal with the growing pains for a season or two, remember that The Great One himself started off with a 2-14 season.

even he knows that Carr is not the back-up solution to Alex, otherwise why start Troy? I think Sing needs to get this team to win out the rest of the way if he wants to keep the job. Going 2 – 6 with the talent on our roster is just not going to cut it after we finished 8 – 8 last season. But I will say this…he’s still better than Erickson and Nolan.

he’s a pride guy, and I think that if he sensed it was coming, or that they were going to bring in a GM who would take a lot of his duties (and probably also take his game-time decision making and hand it to someone else) that he would just resign.

Is it just me?

The Niners are on their way to a 6-10 or a 7-9 season for a team that was expected by every pundit (except the Football Outsiders). The players still appear to be inadequately coached — Niners are the most penalized team in the league, I believe.

Sing continues to show that he is does not adapt to his environment. Calling up Troy Smith is not a sign of smart decision making — it’s desperation mode action. I expect Sing had considerable input into David Carr’s signing, It was a huge mistake. He is acknowledging that mistake belatedly.

This team, unlike even he Raiders, will never blow away even a college team. It plays down to the level of the opposition — a sure sign of coaching deficiency in a team where the leaders are young.

1. he has to completely reinvent himself. Totally give up reins of the offense — I am convinced that there is no chance he will ever appreciate the modern passing game the way a defensive mind like Bellichick has come to appreciate and even contribute to it. I thought he would catch up, and boy, was I wrong?

2. He has to convince a (hopefully) revamped front office with a GM that he has finally climbed to the top of the learning curve. That convincing has to be done by winning the NFC West, something he will need a lot of luck and a lot of cooperation from the other three teams.

3. He has to make the Niners game worth watching for new fans, not those of us who have memories from the 8ps and 80s, His team has continued the legacy of Erickson and Nolan in making the Niners game ugly and sometimes unwatchable. This is important for building the new stadium. He has been progressively worse in his role as the face of the franchise.

It took some guts to make the call on Troy Smith, and I give Sing some credit for that. We shot ourselves in the foot considerably less than we did in previous games, so maybe we’re getting some disciplinary issues ironed out. 5 because he’s been a 3 up to this point, but Troy Smith decision + getting a win + less stupid penalties for one week at least = an extra 2 points.

they bonded and I think it made them play for one another rather than with one another. I hope it continues and that this little break will do them some good too. However I hope Troy Smith uses some of the “off time” to get some things down, maybe timing with receivers if any stick around the area.

1 = Brad Childress

He had a good week. Good QB decision, good preparation decisions for London, less offensive penalties.

If the team can mange win the next two games against the Rams and Bucs I’ll bump him up to a 5.

I’d like to see him fired after the season, but if we miraculously finish 9-7, I’d consider giving him another year.