Jim Harbaugh Approval Rating: Getting An Early Idea
by David Fucillo on Oct 14, 2011 1:30 PM PDT
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PrintThe past couple years we had an approval rating post for head coach Mike Singletary. Through good and bad the approval level went up and down like a roller coaster. We have not yet had such a poll for Jim Harbaugh in part because he was just starting out and most people generally approved of the hiring.
Five weeks into the season, Harbaugh has the 49ers at 4-1 and heading into a big matchup with the Detroit Lions. I wanted to get the approval rating to give us an idea of where we are at during the good times. I don't think the season is on the verge of falling apart (knock on wood), but if the 49ers do start to lose some games here and there, I'd like to know where the approval rating peaked, if it has in fact peaked yet.
As we started to do last year, we are going with a 1-10 scale since that gives us a bit better idea of how people feel about Harbaugh. My guess is virtually everybody would say yes in a "Do you approve of the job Harbaugh has done" type of poll. However, seeing how many people give him a 10 versus a 9 or 8 is a little more valuable.
Please feel free to include a comment as to why you voted the way you did.
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Harbaugh is on track
I think most fans expected him to come in and win the NFC West (I know, big deal). But beating the Eagles and thrashing the Bucs well exceeded my expectations. I now understand the talent was there, it just needed direction.
I don't think that was expected at all
by hammystyle on Oct 14, 2011 1:51 PM PDT via iPhone app up reply actions
9
Because it still can and will get better.
- Thank you SF Giants for an incredible 2010 season and painting the City orange & black!
You gotta bring ass to get ass.
but it said to date.
that one loss knocked him down to nine?
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by HUNGRY HUNTER on Oct 14, 2011 1:53 PM PDT up reply actions
I voted 9
I wouldn’t say that loss knocked him down to nine. I would say that some of his decision making and play calling was questionable early in the season though. I feel he has been solid for the last three weeks or so and as SpurredOn said, he can and will get better.
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by Haggardninja on Oct 14, 2011 2:16 PM PDT up reply actions
I voted a 9 as well
Partially, because of some questionable play calling/decisions early in the season(first two games). But largely, due to the tight reigns on Alex, I for one would like to see a little more passing, 19 passes in a game(all be it, just the first 3 quarters)… Yeah, I’d like to see how much confidence Harbaugh really has in Alex, so we can really gauge if Alex will have a future with the franchise, or if he’s just the stop-gap for Kaep. There have been moments where he’s loosened Alex’s reigns but only a few and always after the game has started, usually in the second half, I think it would be interesting to see what Alex can do right from the get-go of a game. I’d also love to see even more of Hunter, but I suspect both of my requests will be answered with time. As do I think the team will continue to get better and more polished.
As a geologist, I talk to rocks. And they talk back, and they are telling me, "This year the San Fransisco 49ers are going to be some Gneiss Schist!"
Rated him an 8 so far
Harbaugh is doing a tremendous job. He’s definitely gotten off to a good start, but it’s still to early in the season to be handing out 10’s. Rated him an 8 to leave some room for improvement throughout the season……and also the fact that I don’t want him hunting me down to kick me in the shins!!
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Harbaugh doesn't like praise
provide criticism…and he’ll just get better and better!
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If we bean Detroit...
it’s a 10 for sure! There’s no better game plan than to just simply make the other team GIVE UP! Physical play and confusing schemes.
caaaaaaaaaaaan you diiiiiig it!?
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This is so funny
I just posted ESPN’s head coaching approval rating on Twitter. Jim Harbaugh is third behind Bill Belichick and Mike McCarthy.
And, I wont blame Harbaugh for the Morgan injury. Go 100 percent all the time or go home. That is a cop out if you ask me. At 4-1, he has to be given a 10.
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by nocal81(Vincent) on Oct 14, 2011 1:49 PM PDT reply actions
look how many votes the niners got, way more than anyone else
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by HUNGRY HUNTER on Oct 14, 2011 1:56 PM PDT up reply actions
That's what happens when you are balling!
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by nocal81(Vincent) on Oct 14, 2011 2:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Miami fans must be hating life right now haha!
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I remember the days leading up to Harbaugh's signing...
the fans at Phinsider were talking so much trash, haha.
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The Eagles have talent and still suck.
Blaming the coach is perfectly rational, regardless of how many deep playoff runs he’s made in the past.
We don't need 8 in the box. We have 52 in the box.
They’ve had a pretty stiff schedule, too.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 14, 2011 2:39 PM PDT up reply actions
And they have the talent to be the type of team that makes a schedule tough.
Anyone who lets an Offensive Line coach decide how to use Nnamdi Asomugha, and fails to correct the problem even when it becomes obvious, deserves to be given a low rating.
We don't need 8 in the box. We have 52 in the box.
and allows his team
year after year after year to enter the season (this one worse than any other) without any damn linebackers
by Sigelvictory on Oct 14, 2011 2:43 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m not praising the job he’s done this year, or excusing it per se. There’s plenty of room for criticism. That is a team that I would expect to see back in the race as their schedule evens out, though – particularly in such a goofy division.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 14, 2011 2:44 PM PDT up reply actions
But Andy Reid has been a great coach, or at least coached a great team, for many, many years.
This season has started bad, but to blame Reid to the tune of a <15% approval rating after he’s proven himself time and time again is a bit absurd. Castillo, yes. Reid, no.
Reid is responsible for Castillo.
Promoting an o-line coach to DC is a very preventable mistake. In fact, I see little reason to blame Castillo when no reasonable person would have thought he was the right person for the job. If I get hired as a rocket scientist, who should you blame when the rocket ship blows up? Me, or the idiot who hired me?
We don't need 8 in the box. We have 52 in the box.
by these3words on Oct 14, 2011 2:44 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
agree. rec
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by I'm Friends With Merlin Olsen on Oct 14, 2011 11:02 PM PDT up reply actions
10 = perfect.
He’s not perfect… not yet and kinda far away from it. He will get better. And if he gets better, then that means there is room for improvement which equals … not a “10”.
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The poll says 10=great
and he’s been great so I gave him a 10
by smileyman on Oct 14, 2011 2:42 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Should we have a new poll on the poll ?
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rec smileyman... bullseye
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by I'm Friends With Merlin Olsen on Oct 14, 2011 11:03 PM PDT up reply actions
10 in my mind is flawless (or near that)
10 has always been perfect on most any poll… maybe it the generic word of “great” should be considered to be changed. In fact, there should probably be a word attached to every number. Otherwise it’s just a bunch of numbers that really don’t say much…other than a number.
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flawless...?
what is the flaw on harbaugh? one play against the cowboys and we are 5-0 he puts us in every game every week. at worst nine….no flaws.
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by ninerfan1964 on Oct 15, 2011 8:03 PM PDT up reply actions
10
There’s always room form improvement, but to have the team playing this well this soon after the lockout is quite a feat. Kudos to him, his staff and the players for buying in.
by hammystyle on Oct 14, 2011 1:51 PM PDT via iPhone app reply actions
This vote is wrong, Fooch ...
… there needs to be an option “I have Actually Fallen In Love With Him and Now I Want To Marry Him and Spend The Rest Of My Life With Him.” In the absence of that option, I went for 10.
by LondonNiner on Oct 14, 2011 1:51 PM PDT reply actions 3 recs
that is what Alex Smith said.
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by HUNGRY HUNTER on Oct 14, 2011 1:54 PM PDT up reply actions
lol
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by I'm Friends With Merlin Olsen on Oct 14, 2011 11:04 PM PDT up reply actions
100
Harbaugh has been the best thing to happen to the Niners in almost a decade.
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The last 3-4 years
You can see the team taking shape. Sing completed it with the 2 linemen he drafted last year. It sucks he didnt know crap about putting them in the right place to succeed, but Im glad he turned VD’s career around.
Now it’s Harbaugh’s team, and what he’s doing is what I had hoped for with Sing. Physical with an F
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Norm Sloan
"We have a great bunch of outside shooters. Unfortunately, all our games are played indoors."
Weldon Drew
That's one thing
It’s not a knock, but Harbaugh was fortunate that there was a deep talented team with young blue chip players who fit his schemes.
So maybe it’s one thing to keep in mind, but I just really look at it as a double bonus for the 49ers and the fans.
by hammystyle on Oct 14, 2011 2:03 PM PDT via iPhone app up reply actions
Exactly
So many high 1st round picks on this team it was furious to see them not used the right way.
"I hate it! It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air."
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Weldon Drew
Having VD and Walker really helped his case. I love the 3 TE sets
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9
I would have given a 10, but deducted 1 point for the Morgan injury occurring when the backups should have been in the game getting experience. Other than that he’s been awesome. The playing this season is night and day from last year with essentially the same players.
The 49ers only dressed 4 WRs for that game
and the play called for 3 on the field. Getting Kaep experience with a 3-WR set required having one starter on the field.
We don't need 8 in the box. We have 52 in the box.
FINALLY!
someone brought that up! Everybody seems to hate on Harbaugh for the move, but it made sense to have Morgan in at that particular time. If it were Crabtree, it’s a completely different story. People seem to be overlooking the bad that came of the outcome and not the circumstances of the play at that time.
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+1
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by I'm Friends With Merlin Olsen on Oct 14, 2011 11:05 PM PDT up reply actions
As long as Harbough keeps applying pressure to "bury" the opposition...
his approval rating with me will remain as A+
I Love Harboughs attitude of “take no prisoners”
I gave him a 9 out of 10..
…. because I’m a mean old grouch who can’t stand the thought of people get too big for their boots by getting 10 out of 10
Ha
A) I don’t think Harbaugh will quit working because of your grade.
B) Harbaugh is always “too big for his boots”. His confidence knows no bounds.
by hammystyle on Oct 14, 2011 2:14 PM PDT via iPhone app up reply actions
To those sayig they didn't vote 10 because there's still room for improvement
there is always room for improvement. The ‘72 Dolphins had room for improvement. I don’t think voting 10 means you believe Harbaugh has literally achieved perfection.
We don't need 8 in the box. We have 52 in the box.
by these3words on Oct 14, 2011 2:03 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
9
…-1 for taking the points off the board against Dallas. Don’t blame him about Morgan. Injuries can happen anyplace at any time. Unfortunate reality of the game.
I think he will always go for the kill the rest of his career. (see TB game)
This
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by OffensiveInterference on Oct 14, 2011 4:23 PM PDT up reply actions
10, easily, I expected to be picking top 5 with all of the new changes across the board.
Give Harbaugh his props. He made some rookie mistakes, but that is expected. He still is better in his first season as Singletary was in his second.
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He's absolutely shattered my expectations for the season
up to this point. So I had to go with a 10.
In hindsight I maybe would’ve went with a 9 for factoring in the Morgan injury, the non-challenge on the Crabtree touchdown and not taking the penalty in the Dallas game. But I’m actually okay with each of those decisions as well given the circumstances at the time. Either way, GREAT JOB JIM! And thanks for being our head coach!
10
I couldn’t be happier with the way this season has gone, and that all stars with Harbaugh!
Now if he asks, tell him I rated him a 4…I don’t wanna get kicked in the shins, that’ll hurt!
by djs9989 on Oct 14, 2011 2:18 PM PDT via iPhone app reply actions
7
Harbaugh has his vest, NN has it’s patience, and I have my cautiousness in publicly expressing any optimism regarding the 49ers over the last decade. 5 games is too small of a sample scale.
Now, our offense has been efficient yet wholly underwhelming (before the last 6 quarters, of course), and our defense hasn’t really outschemed anyone (before the last 6 quarters, of course). Maybe the team had the talent, and only now, on a fairly level playing field (no offseason) are they able, alliteration aside, to compete in a competent and confident manner. As the armchair critic I so highly hold myself up to be, I shall award a passing grade of no less than a C, until more sustained domination (read: controlling the game, vastly outscheming ones enemy) has occurred. I feel I have not been too harsh.
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by TryAndCatchVD on Oct 14, 2011 2:19 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
Harbaugh actually
prepares well, watches film and understands what he’s seeing, and ensures the team is detailed, rather than talking about those things which singletary loved to do. Not to bag on sing, but it became apparent after a while that he had serious shortcomings with regards to game analysis and match preparation.
Meanwhile, over @ Pride of Detroit, everyone is swimming in koolaid…..
We are going to smash those fools
I understand they are happy about their team, and they should be, but damn they counted this game as a W after they beat the Bears last Monday
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indeed.
some of the more intersting things i’ve read are that our run game is average, alex smith is worse than romo, our secondary isn’t a threat against their passing game, we are unable to drive down the field and score, and that their D-line will hurt us all day. some are actually predicting a lions blowout by 20+…..
Well, the readers mostly are, but the posters seem to have a very rational head on their shoulders.
Just read a really good article on there going over the Niners and Lions statistics. If you’re going solely by stats, the Niners have the slight edge (and more than slight, if Football Outsiders is to be believed). The Niners also win the eye test. I think it’s pretty obvious to most the Niners are a slightly better team, but the fact that this is in Detroit makes it about as close a game as you could ask for. I think many experts realize this, but fans will be fans. Give them their moment.
8
Love what Harbaugh has done so far. I never would have expected the 49ers to be 4-1 at this point. The meltdown against the Cowboys is worth a deduction, because we really should have won that game. But, I know it’s greedy…
Also, the injury to Josh Morgan was preventable…
Also… I’m trying as hard as I can not to get too excited just yet…
10
I was expecting a 4-12 season. I seriously doubt we lose the next 11.
Justin Smith is something else. 100% Effort! 100% Class!
"I was just running toward the ball," Smith said. "The guys in front of him were making him slow up a little bit. I just went for the ball and, luckily, it was there."
You Gotta Love His "keep the pedal to the metal" mentality....
or have you already forgotten Nolan and Singletary conservatism thereby allowing teams to continuely come back and Beat us in the second half of games.
Harbough is smart enough to recognize NO MATTER the score, you have to be aggresive and you have to finish (bury) the opposition.
Maybe a minor adjustment to his thinking would be in the 4th quarter when ahead by say 3 T/D’s he could sprinkle in some 2nd stringers here or there….but continue to go for the kill!
Had to go with a 9 because he still has room to improve. He's not perfect yet.
If you’re not getting better, you’re getting worse, right? He hasn’t “arrived” just yet.
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by Drew Kerr on Oct 14, 2011 2:30 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
ok i see what your saying....
if you looking for a week fail…you havent found it. give them a break!…if they beat the s..t out of detroit then you say 10? if you do we wont care then. if they lose? then you got our goat. take a week off and say (i told ya so….) and get you props fool. either way in my mind im sorry i wasted 3 mins reading you. a rook coach…..really?..give him that much perfection this season? just enjoy what he has done….your treating it like last yr.
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by ninerfan1964 on Oct 15, 2011 8:14 PM PDT up reply actions
10 - 2 = Great 8
He had a 10 before the cowboys meltdown and the josh morgan injury. Im not arguing that we had to stop being agressive, but it should have been kyle williams or ginn out there at that point in the game. also for not using hunter/dixon more and delanie walker in the 1st 2 games. Nice to see him get production from the rookies and reinstall faith in our existing talent, beat the lions and i’ll give him an 11!
Not trying to be snarky but
if Josh had scored the TD without injury would you still have criticized JH for leaving him in?
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I don't think anyone would have...
If you take a risk and get away with it, you probably won’t be criticized (unless you’re just wreck-less, like going for it on 4th and 26). But that’s just life.
I don’t think the Josh Morgan call was reckless, but it was still avoidable.
the eagles went for it on 4th and 26 because if they didnt get it they would have lost
also it’s spelled “reckless”
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by MichaelClutchtree on Oct 14, 2011 2:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Nine for me , could of been a Ten , but he wouldn't like all the rosey hoopla ...!!
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Ten. Harbaugh is fucking awesome. Best coach the Niners have had in a long time.
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by rise_stand_resist on Oct 14, 2011 2:37 PM PDT reply actions
He spelled it different ...!!
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….no he didnt
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by MichaelClutchtree on Oct 14, 2011 2:48 PM PDT up reply actions
7
Not giving him a 10 for sure unless we beat the Lions. Team hasn’t looked amazing, and we’ve basically only been playing really well for a game and a half.
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by MichaelClutchtree on Oct 14, 2011 2:38 PM PDT reply actions
only been playing really well for a game and a half.
Really?
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Offensively, I think this is very true.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 14, 2011 2:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Umm, disagree.
The offense has played better than 6 quarters of football out of a total of 20.
If we want to go in to a detailed breakdown, I can show you where you’re incorrect… as well as the poster above.
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I don’t require a power point on this. Harbaugh sent the offense out there with what certainly appeared to be half a playbook for three and a half games. Even when they played well, they were doing it while giving the opposition a handicap.
The gloves certainly seem to be off now, and I’m happy with that. But at the end of the first half of that Eagles game, I was convinced that the playcalling was reaching sub-Raye levels.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 14, 2011 2:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Even when they played well, they were doing it while giving the opposition a handicap.
Playing well is playing well though, is it not? Handicap, or whatever… I believe they’ve played better than 6 good quarters of football on the offensive side. It could be argued that there were good quarters in both the Seahawks and Cowboys games.
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I guess I’m thinking of it sort of in the “Business Profits” sense of things. There’s what you expect to make with good performances and good playcalling working together. If one or both perform exceptionally, you may eclipse those expected earnings, but if one or both is particularly deficient, then you’re coming in at a loss.
My feeling for those games was that the playcalling was bad enough that we were, most generally, coming in at a loss. I can see how that’s a weird argument, though.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 14, 2011 2:58 PM PDT up reply actions
6 quarters plus...
…2nd Q vs Seattle + 4th Q vs Seattle (generous) + 1st HALF vs Dallas + 4th Q vs Cincinnati (generous).
11 quarters out of 20?
Sounds about right to me…
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by I'm Friends With Merlin Olsen on Oct 14, 2011 11:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Which is pretty decent (borderline impressive) all things considered… no training camp, learning playbook on the fly, etc, etc.
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yes i meant offensively
seattle game was terrible. 13-8 with the bengals? come on
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by MichaelClutchtree on Oct 14, 2011 2:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah because the Bengals defense isn't ranked No. 1 in the entire NFL or anything like that.
/sarcasm
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hey Drew... remember earlier in the season when I told you the Bengals
Defense was under-rated?
by Sigelvictory on Oct 14, 2011 2:46 PM PDT up reply actions
No, but I will take your word for it.
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by Drew Kerr on Oct 14, 2011 2:47 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
lol
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by I'm Friends With Merlin Olsen on Oct 14, 2011 11:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Don't look now, but....
Manny Lawson, Nate Clements & Taylor Mays are part of that Bengals #1 defense
I don't think anybody has ever doubted that Clements and Lawson are
good football players. It was always about the size of the contract with those two.
Taylor Mays is barely even registering on the Bengals.
Unfortunately, I think Mays’ career is going to be short lived. I thought he could put it together on the coverage side of things, but I was wrong.
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I think most Niners fans did after that game.
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None of them are doing particularly well, though.
Clements is doing his thing as a tackle artist, but isn’t anything special on coverage. Manny Lawson has a grand total of 9 tackles in 5 games, and no sacks. Mays is a ST guy.
The Bengals are turning out to be one of the better defenses in the league.
Don’t beat the Niners up over a 13-point performance. It’s bad, but not an embarrassment, especially since the points came later in the game after adjustments were made.
Is he really here for constructive debate? That’s the question we all have to ask ourselves.
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EMBARRASSINGLY BAD OFFENSIVE SHOWING VS CINCINNATI
Nice 4th Q drive though.
:-)
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by I'm Friends With Merlin Olsen on Oct 14, 2011 11:20 PM PDT up reply actions
I hated that game but I loved it, ya know?
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Arrow up
It could level out against the Lions and they could win in an ugly game like the Bengals one, but Ill take the W any day.
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Norm Sloan
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The defense is far better than we have any right to expect
and Alex Smith is playing the best football of his life.
Those alone should give Harbaugh at a bare minimum an 8.
if we beat the lions and look good doing it (i dont mean like 48-3 again, but not like we were handed the game or it was horrible and we got lucky), he will get a 10
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by MichaelClutchtree on Oct 14, 2011 2:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Gave him an 8.
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I'd lower my 10
if someone could suggest another coach who would be an improvement over JH/would have the team playing better.
Justin Smith is something else. 100% Effort! 100% Class!
"I was just running toward the ball," Smith said. "The guys in front of him were making him slow up a little bit. I just went for the ball and, luckily, it was there."
There were no training wheels on X-11, I really don’t understand some of your arguments. Our O-line was falling apart and X was playing EXTREMELY smart, conservative, WINNING football, taking what was given to him.
For the situations we’ve been in, with the amount of preparation we had this year, Harbaugh gets a 10 no question. To say otherwise is foolish.
Who's got it better than us?! NOBODY!!!
X-11?
He plays 6 consecutive good quarters of football and now he’s a friggin’ jet fighter?
[sigh]
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by I'm Friends With Merlin Olsen on Oct 14, 2011 11:23 PM PDT up reply actions
It's been more than 6... and they've finally started opening up the playbook.
[sigh’s to the sigh]
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[and then sigh’s on my sigh that I even sighed at all because sigh’s in and of themselves are just sighfulling sighed upon… usually, or something like that]
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Okay, who gave Jim Harbaugh a 1? (takes out iron maiden)
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looks like we've got 11 lurkers from the Seahawks blog.
We don't need 8 in the box. We have 52 in the box.
…C’mon… no need for that. We can beat them without any injuries. That’s just bad karma to say something like that.
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by Drew Kerr on Oct 14, 2011 3:26 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
8
Good start with plenty of room for improvement. The Lions will be a real test, much more so than overrated Tampa Bay.
C-o-n-f-i-d-e-n-c-e.....Coach Harbaugh molded confidence & belief
into our players. They trust that their game plan will have them in position to WIN.
Unlike what Nolan, Singletary gave them, a wish and a prayer.
1
because I don’t care about regular season wins. Win in February.
ignorant thing to say...
you don’t get to play in February if you don’t win in the regular season…
by Sigelvictory on Oct 14, 2011 3:37 PM PDT up reply actions
You might as well abstain from voting
and give him an “incomplete” grade, since he has never failed to win the Super Bowl as an NFL coach.
We don't need 8 in the box. We have 52 in the box.
The poll didn't pertain to you then. It says specifically, up to this point.
Blogging is nothing more than graffiti with punctuation...
An 8 for sure nothing higher..
He has definitely improved this team but some his coaching calls are upsetting… Like not taking the penalty in the cowboys game instead of the field goal.. Playing Josh morgan in a murder game where he gets hurt… The eagles game when were down in first half and with less then 2 mins to go we are checking the ball down and not calling time out… Or bringing in Kap on 3rd and long when X-11 is playing awesome.. But we are 4-1… I can’t really score Harbaugh till after the Lions game, but he has got a 8 by a thread right now..
by pigskin slapper on Oct 14, 2011 3:37 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
4 wins out of 5 games = 80% (8/10)
However, I rated him a 10 because he turned Alex Smith into my new favorite player.
by aayronn.russell on Oct 14, 2011 4:17 PM PDT reply actions
I GIVE HIM A 9
Can’t give him a 10 from the Dallas debacle in the second half. Seemed to be playing not to lose instead of to win towards the end of that game, but that is just a blip on the radar. Love what he’s doing with Smith, who still can’t get the sports media to give him any props regardless of how he performs. I laugh every time I hear how he simply “manages” a game and how the only reason he is succeeding is because he is now in a system that plays to his strenghts. Doesn’t every good coach try to design plays around their quarterbacks strenghts? Montana was never slinging down field every down in the West Coast offense either, but it worked. Not sayin Alex is Montana by any means but I think guys (like deion Sanders) who still refuse to even say one positive thing about him is getting a little old. Romo and Brees throw a bunch of pics and their still amazing, Alex throws one and he’s a bum. BS.
Actually,
Kurt Warner gave Alex a lot of props this week. Also the guy with glasses (cant remember his name) from Fantasy live has been giving the 9ers props for the last couple of weeks. When we come out with a W against the Lions you can expect a whole lot of ESPN bandwagoners.
by aayronn.russell on Oct 14, 2011 4:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Pete Carroll
Probably his 4-5 dummy accounts.
must be some division rival haters
voting because Harbs has received a few 1’s.
I gave him a 10. Our record ain’t perfect and we did lose Morgan @ the end of a mop-up game against Tampa, BUT we are 4-1, a record never previously reached during the tenures of Erickson, Nolan, or Sing.
The offense is finally clicking, and our o-line…miracle of miracles, is finally Blocking.
having said that, I expect nothing less than the NFC West division crown returned to where it rightfully belongs (@ regular season’s end), w/the team that has won 5 Super Bowls
Pete Carroll, prepare to repeat these 3 words to Coach Harbaugh: What’s Your Deal?
by Doni S on Oct 14, 2011 5:05 PM PDT via iPhone app reply actions
9
Hasn’t been perfect, but been pretty close. The decision to keep Morgan in and throw to him didn’t work out. While I understand his reasoning, I don’t understand where that confidence or philosophy (or whatever you want to call it) was in the 4th quarter of the Cowboys game when he settled for a field goal instead of the 15 yards and fresh set of downs.
Can’t complain though because, so far, he’s been what this team and specifically what Alex needs to succeed.
Looking forward to this week’s game!
10 because he knows much more about football than me.
I was irritated with the patience during free agency. I questioned not bringing in a more successful Qb. I questioned the slow start and vanilla offense. But I can now see a coach that is installing a complex playbook smartly and trusting that his scheme fits the personnel he has.
by wtlichens on Oct 14, 2011 10:06 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
10
He was born to coach. Period.
I have many leather-bound books.
by I'm Friends With Merlin Olsen on Oct 14, 2011 11:27 PM PDT reply actions
I thought he was born to play quarterback for the....
….Bears, Colts, Ravens, Chargers, ….Browns, Eagles, Saints, Dolphins, Cardinals, Patriots, Redskins… ah… the hell with it!!! You win!
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No one picked 4?
Why would anyone say 2, or 3? Is there any measure on the planet that can say bringing a losing team to a 4-1 record in 4 months deserves a 2 out of 10?
Maybe they thought his job was to make sure the Buccaneers beat us last week.
Play to Win!
Justin Smith is my new hero.
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