Mike Singletary Approval Rating, 2010 Preseason

It’s a yes/no poll because it’s just a simple approval poll. I realize there are shades of grey, but it’s like any other approval poll I suppose. The comments are for the discussion of the grey.

Just still don’t feel like he has what it takes to coach a team that can win the super bowl. I continue to root for him and the team, but the offense is still a frustrating mess that struggles to get first downs.

I still don’t really understand why Johnson isn’t the OC and Raye isn’t just a consultant.

Surely some of the moves he’s made will come back to bite him in the [site decorum]

what if the 49ers go 1-3, but turn around to finish 10-6? That’s what I can see happening based on this schedule.

1. We passed more than we ran I believe and he continously stated that he wants a balanced offense. He wants to controll the game he wants to run when he wants to run and pass when he wants to pass. The offense is not a two yards and a cloud if dust it is a physical offense.
2. Ya his time management is not the greatest but I really liked the motivational timeouts it seemed to be a game changer.
3. ST are not 1/3 of the game if I remember correctly they are about 1/5 or 1/6 of the game according to football outsiders. As long as the ST isn’t horrible as it was last year then it won’t lose us any games.

Other than the ATl game when he used up all first half timeouts and couldn’t challenge a fumble call, when did his clock management cost the Niners a game last season? I ask because I can not recall a game where his mismanagement of TOs cost the Niners a win.

20% of the game is ST. You don’t break Offense, Defense and ST into thirds.

I would say adding two run-blocking OL means the offense is being built around Gore and the running game. Smith is given the keys to the car, but with a much better run-blocking OLine, Gore is the guy that Niners want to feature. Alex Smith just happens to be the guy this season (and perhaps beyond), but Singletary definitely wants this team to run when it needs to run. The Alex Smith formation is a nice piece of the playbook, and I expect to see a fair amount of it, but I wouldn’t say the offense is built around Smith. It’s Smith-friendly, sure.

…at ILB if needed. Just his look will be enough to disable the offenses of this year’s NFC West competitors.

doesn’t seem fair to blame sing for scott MC getting let go

He did not have the authority to fire McCloughan so that’s a non-item.
Drafting Byham is bad? Why? He’s a blocking TE.
Balmer was an idiot. Coffee was never going to be great if his heart wasn’t in it.
Jury is out with Robinson.
We didn’t need a trade for Davis. We needed a better QB which was probably in the bag before Davis was released.

I’d just like to know why the Balmer and Coffee situations were upsetting? We lost a guy who made zero impact and another who didn’t want to play football. I’d think that’s good.

While the good has outweighed the bad this offseason, I still feel Sing could have done a better job.

Scott McCloghan should have been let go earlier not a couple of weeks before the draft.

This wasn’t Sing’s call. The head coach doesn’t hire and fire the GM—that’s the job of the owner.

Opting to sign a guy that hasn’t coached special teams since 1994 (Kurt S.) over one of the best special teams coaches this past decade (Al Everest) was nothing short of foolish.

Al Everest was let go because he wanted to move back east to be closer to his family—that was what was said at the time. It wasn’t a performance issue, though the whole calling a punt reverse in a must win game is nothing short of ridiculous for a supposedly great ST coach.

Trading up for Anthony Davis sucked.

Not that big a deal and there were teams who would’ve moved up to get him had we not jumped.

Drafting Nate Byham pissed me off.

You and Drew both and I still don’t get the anger. He’s done a decent job for a 3rd string TE. Made some mistakes but also made some good catches and looked ok for blocking to me.

The Balmer and Coffee situations were upsetting.

I’ll give you the Balmer. I think that Sing should’ve kept quiet and traded Balmer quickly instead of letting him sulk at home. We might have been able to get a higher pick than we got for him. I don’t know how you can blame Sing for Coffee.

Letting Michael Robinson go and citing lack of offensive contribution as a reason is ludicrous because Robinson was never given an opportunity to contribute on offense in the first place. Many people don’t know this but M.Rob was one this teams best athletes.

Robinson had opportunities last year to play at RB as well as this year during the pre-season and stunk. The dude had his chances to get reps. I get the concern here because I feel it too but for me it’s specifically the ST—the #1 guy is gone the #2 guy (McKillop) is out for the year and the #3 guy (Miller) is also gone. For a comparison that would be like Heitmann going down, Staley going down and Rachal going down.

Publicly ripping Nate Davis was idiotic and potentially cost us a draft pick (he could have been traded)

That’s his personality—honesty to the media. It’s part of who he is. Besides, I don’t think that Sing actually wanted to trade N.Davis—I think he wanted him on the ps to see if he can develop into a QB for the 49ers.

Don’t reply with a list of the good things he’s done because I know what they are and I know they outweigh my proposed negatives. I just want less negatives

Less negatives are always nice, but for me the positives far outweigh the negatives, so I have to give him a thumbs up for the pre-season.

The other criticism being aimed at him this time last year was that he was working the players too hard – that they would all be injured or not last the season. I don’t suppose we had many more serious long-term injuries last year than most other teams – Walt Harris? Any other biggies? – and the fact we won the last two games and two of the last three would not point to players flagging badly in December and early January.