Negative Harbaugh article

best play calling...double shift in the second half. Same play

U-San Diego turnaround (two Div I-AA championships), Stanford 1-11 to 12-1, two NFC W championships as well as a Super Bowl appearance. Yeah, he's "Stone Age".

"Harbaugh should have fired Roman years ago. But Harbaugh was loyal, so they went down together."

Seriously?

Dear OP -

 

  Thank you so much for dredging the internet to find someone who doesn't like Harbaugh.  It does add quite a bit to our discussion about his merits as a football scholar.  After all, any dickhead with a website / megaphone is completely and instantly credible because he has a website / megaphone.  

  In the meantime, may Harbaugh conquer all things, may he devour the souls of the disbelievers, and by God if he shall deem it so then may the man shit solid gold bricks with embossed (and appropriately branded) block M's.

Go Blue,

WolverineLake

Interesting how he ignores... you know, results.

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So who the hell is this guy and why should we care?

If he wants to blatantly ignore Harbaugh's ability to take a formerly pitiful and disgraceful franchise to a conference title game/Super Bowl three years in a row, that's his business. I'm sure he thinks Tomsula is the second coming of Bill Belichek and that Jed York is the NFL version of Steinbrenner, too.

I like how it ends the piece..  "Whos got it better than us now?"  I would say every team not named the Oakland Raiders...

And, i believe, they said Columbus was a fool who would fall off the other flat side of the earth...that's noteworthy, but for all the wrong reasons. 

Jim Harbaugh is the motherfucking pterodactyl. Its not always gonna be all puppies and rainbows. That said, the writer did preface this article with another where he listed everything he loved about Harbaugh.

I looked at the first page.  When I saw the comment JH had a pretty good running game I was done. 

When the Lions played the 49ers I saw JH pants Suh with the play calling.  Suh would penetrate to much and the 49ers would run inside of him.  It was like taking game from a baby.  Suh was helping make the hole for the 49ers.  2011 Frank Gore ran for 9.5 yards a pop. 

Did not read the article, never heard of the author and his opinion is meaningless to me. But this thread is fun to read!

This is a pissant little press apparently owned by York family stoogies. It doesn't take too much to find a stoogie to do hack jobs like this in pissant Santa Rosa. It is a beatdown place with $ from mediocre wine interests, Peanuts nostalgia, and not much else.

I hope they run a follow on in December about what 4-12 tastes like. From a beatdown pissant's perspective I bet it's some article about injuries or treacherous JH holdovers making it hard.

It's telling that this guy is still writing about Harbaugh so many months later. How many columns have you see about Hoke from the Michigan beat writers lately?

"We miss you, coach. Come back to SF," says a sad 49er fan every day.

This article sounds like the same drivel from rival fans. Anyone who has eyeballs knows he's a good coach. Three nfc title games and fixing Stanford football say that.

Sounds like sour grapes from a reporter who got his fee-fee's hurt. Seriously though, he sounds like some of the Detroit reporters that aren't satisfied unless there is chaos.

Winning?  Anybody?  Success?  Hello?

it's 3rd and 5 against mother fucking Rutgers. 3 WR. Two of them run deep routes, the 3rd runs a square-in at 10 yards. Rutgers is blitzing, sending both LBs. You don't know that before you hike the ball, but they're threatening the LOS and they end up coming. With our pass pro, someone thought a slow developing deep pass would be a good idea. We never threw deep last year even though in possession of a Funchess. So it's bad because the LBs are up at the LOS, which even if they don't come, they can't get back to cover Norfleet in the slot, who has a man covering him about 9 yards off the LOS. Seriously, run a gd slant in the totally vacated center of the field. But no, this will be a sluggo instead. Which maybe isn't the worst idea in the world, even though a deep ball in this offense is a bit lol, because maybe the DB will bite on the slant. Except Norfleet makes the worst head fake in the history of ever, meaning no head fake at all, and rounds off the go of sluggo without even looking at his quarterback. The DB had nothing to bite on, so he catches the slow and small Norfleet - who is quick in a short area so a catch and run on a slant might be a nice idea - and runs with him down the field. Seriously don't you coach your guy to sell a sluggo? Funchess is running a straight go on the outside, doesn't seem like he expects the ball, and shouldn't because he's covered and the safety is back for him. Chesson's square-in comes behind Norfleet's route and is so late in developing that it's non-existent in this play. What is that play? Gardner getting pressure from a 6 man blitz, throwing up an inexplicable toss in the middle of the field, directly to the Rutguhs free safety. Yes I can't wait for Harbaugh.

Right now Harbaugh is one of the biggest names in all of sport...and a lot of people are going to try to leverage that by writing BS to get clicks. 

Hell, I could probably put up a page with little more than his bio and get a ton of hits. Certainly, more hits than I get for my actual business -- Hmm..there's an idea..add Harbaugh's bio to my business website  'click' :)

Eh.  This was the second of a two-part "what I'll miss/what I won't miss" fluff piece, and isn't really all that negative anyway.  I think people getting upset over it (or even giving it that much thought) are over-reacting.  The author is a football writer in the off-season.  What else is he going to write about but fluff like personal impressions of last year?

That article was almost pure fluff.  I can boil down his actual criticisms of Harbaugh here:

• "Stone age" passing game
• Conservative offense, sent the FG unit on too much/too quickly
• Took awhile to get plays off
• Arguing with officials / sideline demeanor
• Answering questions with cliches or catchphrases

Then 25% of the article is dedicated to criticizing Greg Roman (defensible criticism of Harbaugh too beause Harbaugh hired him, which is somewhat accurate I suppose).

Basically, very little was a critique of Harbaugh as a coach and read like someone upset that they didn't get their way in press conferences with Harbaugh.

Who is the author and what is the press democrat? Are these legit?

The getting the play calls in is something I had heard complaints about. That could be legit, both in terms that they should have sped it up a bit and in terms of there being legit reasons for slowing the game down.

The pass game complaints are pretty stupid. We know the San Fran offense had struggles last year, but it's not the design of the route concepts, which are essentially standard West Coast offense routes that many teams utilize all over football at both the pro and college football level. This complaint is: "they didn't work so I need to point to an excuse as to why that the reader can relate to and I can look smart for pointing out." The reality is that the offensive struggles are boiled down to play design, I can promise you that.

He gets into not going back to plays that worked. That's a common thing, and may be a flaw, but I'm not going to just take his word for it. The thing about football is that teams adjust. Maybe St Louis got burned three times on the counter so adjusted for it and now the front side run was open. Maybe the plays worked despite the defense or offensive execution (i.e. they got lucky). I'm a fan of going back to the well as much as the next guy (maybe even more so), but this seems like something that the author felt was simply easy to point out.

The personnel thing may have merit, but it's the same as the last line of thinking. You run out and do the same thing over and over and it doesn't work and people get pissed (definition of insanity). You change it to give the defense different looks and force them to adjust and play more on their heals, you're blaimed for doing too much. The fact is you can do a lot of the same things with 11 personnel or 10 personnel or 22 personnel. They have different strengths, sure, but this is one of those complaints people run with, again, when they don't really have a feel for the real reasons the offense is struggling.

Then the article falls off the rails. "James is a good football player", "Then why didn't you use him", the only appropriate response apparently is "we aren't smart enough to" or "he's not really a good player", both of which just make you or your players look bad, and therefore, are terrible answers to give.

Then he just gets salty.

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Was told "create content", thought he'd gripe about Greg Roman and how hard it was to get Harbaugh to give him juicy tidbits in a press conference so he wouldn't have to do actual journalism.

:fail:

I'm betting that if you had this reporter one on one over a beer, he'd much rather have Jim Harbaugh over Jed York. He's paid to write, and there will always be sour grapes when a winning coach leaves. Always.

Regarding clock management, I'll be watching that. We see all the gifs of JH going wild on the sidelines. Could this affect clock? We'll see.

Regarding offensive play calling, and whether JH is too conservative, I dunno. I think his conservatism did just fine. And I don't fault the calls.

Regarding JH cliches, I find that to probably be true, and to be amusing.

One overall comment on the board and how they respond to this thread. Ya know, there have been people here who loved RR. And people here who believed Hoke pooped gold. You know who you are. I myself stayed in Hoke's corner too long. Mea Culpa. Here's the thing. I'm delighted JH is Michigan's coach. But the adulation and deification has me SMH and rolling my eyes. Right now, Harbaugh can do no wrong. Soon enough, after a tough or bone-headed loss, the fickle crowd will turn. I guess that's the nature of fandom. Nonetheless, I for one think it is better to keep an even keel rather than getting too high or too low. JH isn't perfect. Neither was Bo. Nor Urban, or Saban, or Miles. But he is a good coach, and I'm looking forward to a long run, warts and all.

Wow, and all this time we thought the 49ers were successful under Harbaugh.  Who knew it was really this bad?

They are going to suck so bad next year.  I can't wait to watch that trainwreck.