OT: Tim Kawakami still not happy. And there was much Harbaugh lamenting.
So Tim Kawakami comes back from summer vacation and is more pissed off than before he left.
Jeezus, the negative media barrage on York-Baalke in SF just seems endless.
And the 2015 season hasn't even started yet.
But I’ve said this from last season: When York and his lieutenants began the whisper campaign to get rid of Jim Harbaugh a full year before they ended up firing him, that entire escapade–16 games of it–knocked the entire franchise off of its bearings.
York had to know that plotting against his very successful coach FOR A FULL SEASON wasn’t healthy, didn’t he? There were going to be unforeseeable complications and problems.
Every team has to deal with problems and tough personalities and the regular turmoil and atrophy of an NFL season.
Important point: It’s not at all probable that Harbaugh, in a normal, healthy franchise situation, would’ve lasted much longer than 4 seasons anyway.
But when you attack your own good coach, then deny you’re doing it, then fire him anyway, then deny you fired him by calling it a “mutual parting” and when everybody understands that’s a non-truth… you set yourself up for incredible instability.
August 12th, 2015 at 1:12 AM ^
Welfare checks are accepted at Walmart so I would expect MSU people to be infesting those places.
August 11th, 2015 at 2:54 PM ^
also said he would eat a bag of human hair. THAT is the challenge I want to see...
August 11th, 2015 at 4:28 PM ^
Same. That takes it to a new level.
August 11th, 2015 at 4:46 PM ^
Does eating human hair qualify as cannibalism?
August 11th, 2015 at 6:51 PM ^
and then I realized I had upvoted it
August 11th, 2015 at 2:29 PM ^
If this is the level of bad press that is following 49ers management into the season, and rightly so really, I can only imagine how many notches this will get turned up if the season gets off to the as-predicted slow to non-existent start. Not sure what it would take to happen or how long it would take, but York and Baalke might casualties of this shitshow they started ultimately.
August 11th, 2015 at 2:31 PM ^
How could one not fire Harbaugh when you have a guy like Tomsula waiting in the shadows?
August 11th, 2015 at 2:49 PM ^
Every time I see his name in print, I see in my head the scene from Fools Rush In when Matthew Perry is trying to find Selma Hayek in Mexico..
August 11th, 2015 at 2:32 PM ^
As a huge Lions fan, it makes me so happy that they are no longer the biggest laughingstock of the NFL.
August 11th, 2015 at 2:45 PM ^
The Lions pay stafford like a top 5 qb.
I consider that pretty laughable.
August 11th, 2015 at 2:50 PM ^
August 11th, 2015 at 3:51 PM ^
I don't think anyone is denying his potential or talent... They have both always been there. His problem is his mentality. I could never put my finger on it until this article: http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000304705/article/matthew-stafford-doesnt-want-to-work-with-qb-guru
He was the guy in junior high (college) who was bigger, faster and stronger than everyone and then everyone else caught up to him by senior year of high school (nfl). He's basically the same QB today that he was when he entered the league
August 11th, 2015 at 4:08 PM ^
Also the fastest QB ever to get to 20,000 yards.
Not a huge Stafford fan, but facts are facts.
August 11th, 2015 at 6:53 PM ^
Sure, he's no Manning or Brady, but he's decent and it's hard to come by decent franchise QBs. Look at teams like the Jets or Bills. Just endless parades of sub-par QBs. Either of those teams would LOVE to have Stafford
August 11th, 2015 at 7:12 PM ^
August 11th, 2015 at 3:28 PM ^
can somehow imagine that the 12th highest paid QB in the league is paid "top 5."
August 11th, 2015 at 10:35 PM ^
I logged in just to upvote this. People just put ideas in their heads and go along with it. Anything to support their opinions, even if they are made up facts.
August 11th, 2015 at 2:45 PM ^
Gotta love those two useful idiots. They're hilarious.
August 11th, 2015 at 2:49 PM ^
Cannot wait...16 continuous weeks of watching these guys implode on SportsCenter!
August 11th, 2015 at 2:52 PM ^
August 11th, 2015 at 2:58 PM ^
I haven't seen ESPN in years....no cable. Ordering SlingTV with ESPN so I don't have to miss key games this year.
August 11th, 2015 at 3:04 PM ^
I might have to stop calling him that. I'm sure he wouldn't sleep through a Harbaugh presser ever.
August 11th, 2015 at 3:16 PM ^
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August 11th, 2015 at 3:18 PM ^
I heard Oakland is still in play
August 11th, 2015 at 4:07 PM ^
Wasn't Kawakami kinda leading the public charge to get rid of Harbaugh? I'm amazed he didn't break his ankles jumping on and off all those bandwagons.
August 11th, 2015 at 4:20 PM ^
It’s not at all probable that Harbaugh, in a normal, healthy franchise situation, would’ve lasted much longer than 4 seasons anyway.
Let's talk in 2019.
August 11th, 2015 at 4:28 PM ^
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August 11th, 2015 at 4:59 PM ^
This statement stood out to me as well. Kawakami makes this declaration as though it's a scientifically-proven fact. Indeed, in the article he even prefaces the remark with the words "important point:
"Important point: It’s not at all probable that Harbaugh, in a normal, healthy franchise situation, would’ve lasted much longer than 4 seasons anyway."
But what the hell is he basing that on? Does now he think Harbaugh would have left the 49ers for his alma mater last season regardless? Does he buy into the "Harbaugh wear out his welcome" meme that he (Kawakami) now evidently concedes was planted by York & Co.? I realize mainstream sports journalism doesn't exactly call for careful, considered remarks these days, but it still seems Kawakami ought to supply the rationale for a statement like that.
August 11th, 2015 at 5:05 PM ^
Kawakami suffers from sportswriter ego...they basically think they are experts on all things sports and NEVER learn from failed predicitons or observations.
August 11th, 2015 at 6:50 PM ^
At least one of the local SF sportswriters seems to be cozying up to the York, Balke, and Tomsula. He has a recent story critical of Harbaugh's coaching style and postulating that Tomsula is a better teacher. It's no big deal if they want to fluff up Tomsula's reputation, but the attempt at discrediting Harbaugh in the process was unneccessary and just made it read more like something telegraphed from York to cover his ass. And it isn't really fooling anyone with more than a passing knowledge of football and the 49ers in the past several years.