Originally posted by AB81Rules:
I have to disagree with Logan, he was out of football for 3 yrs, and was last a RBs coach. Chryst did crap for Kap as QB coach, I don't see him doing great things, maybe good things. Mangini had one of the worst Defenses as DC. Forester was a terrible OL coach for us when he was last here.
The only coaches I'm ok with are Lewis and Pendgrast. The rest are failed OC, DC, and HCs. Chryst and Mangini were bottom of the barrel guys IMO. There were no one else out there that would take the job, they got turned down by numerous guys.
I fear we are on track for sub 500 seasons for the next 10 years, until Jed realizes he isn't cut out for being an Owner or CEO, he surely isn't Robert Kraftm at least he would never fire Belchick like Jed fired Harbs. He held a grudge, and let that ruin a great thing we had with Harbs. No way would Paul Allen fire Carroll, as much of an ass he is, Carroll is a damn good HC.
Also I believe Chyst was in charge of redzone offense if I remember correctly reading that.
I don't like seeing you this way, man. I know you've been down on the team's moves for a while, so I'll try to hit your points and see if you can see something positive:
Logan has a better history than Harbaugh of developing QBs, if you figure that he helped develop Matt Ryan (Ryan's best college season), he developed Jeff Blake and David Garrard for the NFL at ECU, and he got pretty significant improvement out of at least two NFLE QBs. His explanation of how to beat Seattle's defense was proven correct by the Pats, and HaRoman never even tried it.
Mangini was only a DC for one year, and NE had 3 more guys on IR that year than we did this year, even after Ty Law retired (most of them on defense), and the DB turnover was insane (10 guys started at DB, IIRC). The job he did didn't light up the stat sheet, but it minimized damage done by a huge decrease in talent, and allowed the Pats to continue winning games. His failings as a HC illustrated leadership deficiencies, which is why he's not a HC anymore. Even the players in NY and CLE who hated his guts say he's the smartest football guy they've ever spoken with.
I see the position coaches with coordinator and HC experience as a great thing. While they might not have been great HCs, you rarely get a shot as a HC unless you're a badass coordinator and/or position coach. The fact that most of these guys were so successful at
what we are asking them to do now that they got a chance at HC says thay should still be great position coaches.
Foerster stunk because Nolan and SIngletary are idiots on offense. They took a ZBS guy and made him run and coach up a power scheme on the line. That's like being mad when a WR sucks at pass blocking.
Chryst was not the first choice, for sure, but the red zone coordinator stuff is overblown Cohn Crap. HaRoman called the plays, with other coaches researching specific situations and drawing up plays for them. Geep drew up a lot of RZ plays, which encourages me actually. We had a lot of creative, deceptive plays in the RZ that got guys open in limited space. Unfortunately, we rarely saw any of these plays used more than once (that's on the play caller, not the play designer). Because Harbaugh was the go-between on playcalls, it's impossible to discern which calls were on Harbaugh and which ones were on Roman, but that doesn't matter: those guys are gone. There really isn't much reason for ex-49ers to support Tomsula and Chryst, but they have, which should be encouraging. Guys like Boldin are way too good of football players to worry about any repercussions from speaking freely, and they also sound excited to be back (big difference from VD holding ou last year to mentioning how much he loves Tomsula and that he will be at the first offseason practice).
I think we are well over .500 this year, as the talent should be much better, the drama is gone, and Tomsula is all about letting players do what they do best (we've been screaming for this change for years).
...... I'm not worried about the D anymore. How did I miss this.
