Jim Harbaugh, 49ers Reportedly Hire John Morton, Ed Donatell

You have a typo, you listed Hue Jackson as the Niners new head coach, not the Raiders.

STOP SCARING ME!

He was almost made his offensive coodinator at USC. Move to get more of an inside track on Pete Carrol’s offensive thinking?

The St. Louis Rams hired Josh McDaniels, fired as Broncos coach with four games to go in the regular season, as their offensive coordinator.

The team announced the hire on its Twitter feed, OneRamsWay, on Tuesday. McDaniels replaces Pat Shurmur, hired as Cleveland Browns head coach earlier this month.

Coach Steve Spagnuolo called McDaniel one of the top offensive minds in the NFL.

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and I think he put his foot in his mouth. Said there is no question that they will win the division and take their team to the playoffs. KC is getting better. Denver has Foxy now and he’ll upgrade that defense I feel. And then there’s the Chargers. I just don’t see it as a given.

We have Fangio as our DC – A coach with experience being a DC both in college and in the NFL
We have Solari and the new guy (can’t remember his name at the moment) coaching our OL (Is Ray Brown gonna be back in any capacity?)
We have the Triumvirate of Roman, Morton and Harbaugh running the offense. (With Harbaugh as Caesar)
We have Tomsula running our DLine
And we have the Smartest of the Ninja Turtles coaching our Defensive Backfield.
Did I miss anyone important? Not a bad coaching crew.
Much better than Foerster running the OL and Jimmy Raye running our offense and Vance Joseph running our DBs.

jimmy raye has just been hired to be offensive coordinator for his couch, but only on Wednesday

I’ve seen nothing but praise from everyone regarding the appointments thus far, and I’m not trying to be highly critical of them, but I think the number of colleges coaches we are going to have is, at the very least, worthy of a few raised eyebrows.

Look, I don’t want to be “that guy”, but we all know it’s a different world. Most of these guys, it seems, have varying degrees of experience in the NFL, but it’s worth pointing out if these coaches’ ultimate goal is to coach in the NFL then one would imagine you stay in the NFL as opposed to bouncing around in the college ranks, a head coaching job notwithstanding.

But it’s not their skill set that concerns me; I myself have indulged in the Harbaugh Kool-Aid multiple times, and I fully trust his ability to appoint the “right” people. But in this case, the “right people” are those that possess perhaps the knowledge to coach young players, but maybe not how to handle them.

Let’s face it: these are very wealthy young men, with large egos, that aren’t looking for a father figure. It’s different in college, obviously. The kids are right out of high school and still impressionable and controllable to a certain degree. Coupled with the fact that if they’re smart enough, they’ll listen and abide by the coaches wishes because their financial future depends on.

So, if you apply that theory in the NFL, you are going to garner a lot of resentment. Case in point: Mike Singletary. Oh sure, it worked when he got the job during the last few weeks in 2008 and I’ll even give him 2009, when we were expected to be improved but not serious contenders. But as soon as turmoil hit (Read: the losing streak to start the season) all hell broke loose.

I am not comparing Jim Harbaugh or any of the new assistants to Mike Singletary; it’s clear that they are leaps and bounds more apt to handle a professional football team than Mike was. Rather, I’m drawing the comparison in the state-of-mind of these coaches. As great as I envision the Jim Harbaugh era, there will be turmoil. The question is: Do you make players run windsprints until they puke and “rah-rah” them out of whatever situation it is, or do you continue to coach and let the players work it out like grown men?

The answer is obvious to everyone here. I just hope it is as evident to those we are trusting to turn our beloveded team around.