Mr. Scot

Is our defense also playing? They're gonna be facing a Brian Daboll led unit with a hard running RB. I'd call that more inertia than momentum.

They got new players and lost old ones in the offseason...same as us. Other teams with rookie head coaches put teams on the field that looked like they belonged in the NFL. Hell, the Giants beat the Titans and the Dolphins drubbed the Patriots. How is it that these guys can have their units ready and up to the challenge of good teams while we face a team led by a backup QB and a coach inexplicably going against his team's strengths, but look awful and lose?

I wouldn't call that "momentum".

They both had the same amount of time available this offseason. We got one big flukey play but for the most part not much till the fourth. Credit goes to McAdoo likely for finding something that worked. But even that doesn't change how horrible we looked on offense for the rest of the game, or how terrible the e defense look for the entire game.

I'm pretty sure Satan is involved on some level

I expected us to at least look like an NFL team. We didn't.

Nobody expects "perfect" in week one. We have every right to expect "competent". What we got instead was absolutely awful. And I can tell you this: If you watched many other teams yesterday, you'd have been hard pressed to find a unit that looked as top to bottom terrible as we did.

The ones who look sh-tty do. Sorry dude, but there is no spin in the world that could make what we saw yesterday look any better. This is the NFL,and unfortunately our head coach isn't qualified to coach in it.

Not if we'd have looked halfway decent... even in a loss. It's an issue now because the first half to three quarters of that game had us watching one of the sh-ttiest overall performances I've ever seen from any team, not just us. And if you're talking defense, all four quarters.

Gruden in Tampa, not Vegas

Man, that first paragraph is good.

The same thing happened to Gruden. Mike Zimmer too. Honestly, I won't be surprised if it starts happening to more "authoritarian" types with younger players. The info is out there to read about.

Biggest worries about a coaching search... - David Tepper needs to stay the hell away from the entire process; I seriously doubt he will though, which sucks because when it comes to football, everything he touches turns to sh-t - If he insists on a "splash hire", things could go really really bad; we'll go out and waste money on a big name whilr likely missing out on a much better option - a lot of attention will be given to uoung offensive coaches which means some older, more experienced (and frankly better qualified) coaches could be passed over Qualifications and experience matter, but too many get caught up with the hot name. That's why a lot of people who go looking for the next Sean McVay instead wind up finding the next Joe Brady.

Same. Addressing the premise of the question though... Black coach? Sure. Bieniemy? Eeehhh, not so much

If it really were just a power struggle with the ownership, I wouldn't have any issue. The reasons things started going downhill in his fourth year was because, as mentioned, a load of his players absolutely hated his guts. In Harbaugh, you're basically getting offense minded Mike Zimmer on steroids.

The problems we have aren't something that free agent acquisitions can solve.

Yeah...it wasn't just the loss. How absolutely terrible, uncoordinated and unprepared we looked on both sides of the ball is way more worrisome than the final score. I mean, if you want to throw a "what if" in there, I'd be tempted to go with "what if the defense didn't lay down like a welcome mat for their running game"

Not really a fan of going with defense either but that's where some of the best candidates are probably going to be coming from. Them and Bisaccia, of course...

Demeco Ryans is interesting. Jonathan Gannon too. Flores I'm honestly not that certain of. I think fans overrate him somewhat. I like Dorsey (and he's got the Greg Olsen endorsement) but it still seems too soon for him.

Fair point In all seriousness, Rhule is capable of saying things that sorta kinda make sense in his pressers. And heaven knows he can give a motivational speech. Having good players, giving rousing speeches and employing assistants who take care of the true legwork is enough to be successful at the mid-tier college level. In the NFL? Not so much

Possible. Remember he was supposedly a shoo in to get one of the jobs this year (Vikings I think) and then suddenly they just said "eeehhh...no". Harbaugh tried to claim that it was his decision but most people saw that as bullsh-t.

Gruden won a Super Bowl too. It's what happened after that... Basically, if you want a guy who can be successful for maybe three or four years, Harbaugh works. If you're hoping for something longer than that though, you might be disappointed. And if he doesn't win a Super Bowl in that window (like he didn't in San Francisco) youll have wasted your time.

Rhule is very closely tied to Snow. Wherever he goes, Snow goes with him. And anytime you hear him talk about Snow, Rhule always credits a large share of his success to him.

In the course of your career experience, you've probably met one or two management types who can randomly spout off some really smart sounding statements. Yet they don't seem to be terribly successful, and you find yourself wondering why. The reason? While they might sound smart, but they might not really be smart. They know the right things to say and all, but in their mind they haven't actually put it all together. That's the impression I get of Matt Rhule.

I see zero possibility of Matt Rhule firing Phil Snow