Mr. Scot

That all sounds cool...till you dig a little deeper. Multiple sources say 49er players really hated Jim Harbaugh The story mentions Ian Rapoport and Deion Sanders among those echoing complaints about Harbaugh.

Not deeply yet, but there's time. I'd prefer Wilks as interim but I get the feeling it'd be McAdoo. As far as getting help, the most obvious name is going to be Kevin Colbert.

It's worth asking why he was let go. And if you read the stories, it's not just because the 49ers leadership were dumb.

That's another one I wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole. Word is there's a reason why nobody will hire him.

I'm not high on the idea of Jim Harbaugh as a long-term prospect.. The "always angry / it's never good enough" persona can sometimes be successful with college kids but doesn't work so well with adults. That's what did Mike Zimmer in with the Vikings. Back when he was with the 49ers, by something like his fourth year, many of Harbaughs players had come to despise him.

A lot of the guys I thought would be really great candidates wound up getting jobs last year (Nate Hackett and Kevin O'Connell among them) The one name I still had left over from last year was Rich Bisaccia. I was starting to look up Brian Callahan but I don't know that I have enough info on him say for sure yet. I'm not a big fan of Byron Leftwich for Kellen Moore because neither has a body of work that I think is big enough.

You're not the only one asking...

Uh huh

When a team makes more of those kinds of mistakes than they should, it shows lack of preparation. And that's on coaching. Also pretty sure nobody keeps track of "should have won" anymore than they do" moral victories", "what if this had happened instead" or any other conjecture. Likewise, I've never seen a head coach get credited for games they might have won or could have won if things have just gone a little differently. If that makes you feel better about Matt Rhule, go for it. Doesn't really work for me.

I saw the story yesterday where they went and asked fifteen "team leaders" to make sure they "had Lance's back" if things went bad. I mean, if you've got to do something like that...

Ask any NFL player, regardless of how many years they've played, whether or not they'll look better with more reps or not. As far as the batted passed, that was a particular emphasis by Stefanski. He had told his D-line guys to make sure they got up in the air a lot specifically to try and do that because he expected quick drops and was familiar with Mayfield's typical trajectory. Look to me like McAdoo probably made some adjustments on the dropback to account for that because we didn't see it so much in the second half (if at all).

Oh sure. I mean who could ever possibly blame lack of practice reps for looking unprepared? Just crazy, I know

Who else is to blame for the team looking completely unprepared if not the head coach?

Is that not his own fault?

It's actually been pointed out that the snap problem was with Elflein, not Mayfield. And to be clear, we're not just talking about "a few more practice reps". We're talking about doing away with the entire dumbass quarterback competition, dispensing with the continual shuffling of the OL lineup and numerous other things that, despite the slant you want to put on this, cannot be blamed on Mayfield. The entire team that came out yesterday was thoroughly and woefully unprepared for the challenge. That lack of preparation falls on the head coach. Defend him if you want, but at this point I'd say just about everyone knows Matt Rhule is not an NFL head coach.

"I didn't." - David Tepper

Sorry but "at least we lost differently than how we used to" doesn't exactly excite me.

I'd happily have used a 2017 7th rounder for one

Yeah, that was pretty obvious. there were people arguing with me during the offseason that reps didn't matter and the way he was running camp was just fine. Haven't really heard from those people today.

We've been told that Phil Snow is capable of running the defense out of a 3-4 or whatever alignment he deems best. Have yet to see it, though...

I'm thinking Meyer might have set the mark last year.

Lady Cowboy Fan is despondent

FYI...

Rhule would never fire Snow

I mean, when you ask a guy how he's going to fix a certain problem, and he answers the question by telling you "We were ranked X in this particular stat", I'd call that pretty clear evidence that he doesn't know how to fix the problem