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49er player suggests Harbaugh might be 'clinically insane'

Mr. Scot

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Discussing a piece on 'Real Sports'...

Previously, when Harbaugh was still the head coach of the 49ers, (OG Alex) Boone reacted aggressively to the suggestion that Harbaugh may have worn out his welcome in San Francisco.

“I’m really kind of sick of everybody talking about my coach, especially because he’s like a brother to me,” Boone told reporters after a game in October 2014. “So if I were everybody I’d just keep their mouth shut because they don’t want me coming after them. Especially Jay Glazer, Deion, all these guys. I’m kind of sick of it. Leave my coach alone.”

Asked why reporters were questioning Harbaugh’s future at the time, Boone said, “Because they’re losers.”

Boone’s comments to Andrea Kremer of HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel become somewhat stunning in light of his past remarks.

“He does a great job of giving you that spark, that initial boom,” Boone explains. “But after a while, you just want to kick his ass. . . . He just keeps pushing you, and you’re like, ‘Dude, we got over the mountain. Stop. Let go.’ He kind of wore out his welcome. . . .

“I think he just pushed guys too far. He wanted too much, demanded too much, expected too much. You know, ‘We gotta go out and do this. We gotta go out and do this. We gotta go out and do this.’ And you’d be like, ‘This guy might be clinically insane. He’s crazy.’ . . . I think that if you’re stuck in your ways enough, eventually people are just going to say, ‘Listen, we just can’t work with this.’”

Boone dramatically changes his tune

Yikes :blink:

So is Boone right about Harbaugh being "insane" or were he and his 49er teammates just not tough enough?

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"Clinically" in this context is like "literally" in most contexts, i.e. a psychologist wouldn't actually diagnose Harbs with a serious mental illness. There's no doubt he was a notch above most NFL coaches in intensity level, but then again, relative to most humans, all NFL coaches would seem intense.

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"Clinically" in this context is like "literally" in most contexts, i.e. a psychologist wouldn't actually diagnose Harbs with a serious mental illness. There's no doubt he was a notch above most NFL coaches in intensity level, but then again, relative to most humans, all NFL coaches would seem intense.

 

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I don't know about him being insane, but I can absolutely see how his personality and intensity could wear out it's welcome.

As has been said many times, when your audience is college kids who'll all be cycled out in three or four years, you can get away with a lot.

When it's paid professional adults with guaranteed contracts who might be around for a decade or so, it's a different story.

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