Former 49er Brandon Jacobs back in 2017: "Harbaugh didn't know what he was doing"
Should we have headed that warning better?
September 21st, 2019 at 4:40 PM ^
But when I say it I get my account blocked lol
September 21st, 2019 at 4:45 PM ^
People get their account blocked for all sorts of weird reasons here. I got blocked once for making a joke about zone defense,(literally said ‘do not want can’t coach zone’ re campanile’s hire) after last year’s OSU debacle.
September 21st, 2019 at 5:35 PM ^
I got blocked/cancelled once for calling someone a c**t. This was during the Rich Rod years. It was probably deserved.
September 21st, 2019 at 6:21 PM ^
I got penalized a few thousand points and blocked a few days for saying that I don't personally enjoy listening to women do the play by play on football. Not that they shouldn't get jobs or couldn't do the job well (which of course they can), but that I didn't enjoy a feminine announcer on a football game.
September 21st, 2019 at 4:50 PM ^
You and UMxW are both trolls though.
September 21st, 2019 at 6:56 PM ^
Are we doing this today?? Okay. I was banned for calling a buckeye a troll. He may not have been but....
September 21st, 2019 at 4:42 PM ^
Oh you’re going to pretend now that this was a mistake all along?
No. Stop. Almost as bad as these people today trying to recast the RR era as a success story cut short.
September 21st, 2019 at 4:54 PM ^
I didnt say that.I was excited as fuck when he was hired. But Jacobs said this and it was dismissed as sour grapes at the time. Now we're seeing it.
September 21st, 2019 at 4:44 PM ^
Dude, everything sucks today and Harbaugh is definitely a problem, but Brandon fucking Jacobs is not some sort of prophet
September 21st, 2019 at 4:46 PM ^
Every real leader has people who hate him. And every fan base has people who wait until we're down and then drop a quote from someone who hates Harbaugh.
September 21st, 2019 at 5:11 PM ^
You don't have to be a prophet to know when someone isn't capable of doing a job.
September 21st, 2019 at 5:31 PM ^
True. Also true is that it's ignorant to think he's "not capable doing a job."
September 21st, 2019 at 4:44 PM ^
Lol. Just stop man. Harbaugh had been successful at every stop he's been and turned a thoroughly lost Michigan program into a solid 9-10 win program. Who cares what Brandon Jacobs thinks. Has he ever coached football?
September 21st, 2019 at 5:10 PM ^
As a coach, Harbaugh has never seen Year 5, so this is uncharted territory for him. People were excited about the promise of a higher ceiling than consistent 10-win seasons, but maybe this is just what he offers: consistently beat up on worse teams and never win anything of consequence.
September 21st, 2019 at 5:11 PM ^
Now he’s turning a 10 win team into a thoroughly lost Michigan. He’s a turnaround guy. Nothing else.
September 21st, 2019 at 5:14 PM ^
9-10 wins? Not this year.
You don't need to be a coach to know when someone isn't smart and can't do their job. That's such a stupid comment...no wonder you think Harbaugh is great.
September 21st, 2019 at 4:45 PM ^
Don Brown is also a genius. Leaving the gap wide the fuck open for a qb sneak was the plan all along!
September 21st, 2019 at 4:46 PM ^
Listen, let's not overstate Harbaugh's issues. He brought the team back to relevance, but he is not dynamic enough to take it to the next level. We also need to remember it takes time to implement a spread approach. I am sure all of us remember how bad year 1 was with RR. The answer is a power spread, but Shea is not the QB to get the job done. Way to tentative and indecisive.
Brown is the bigger issue. He is killing this team everytime he goes up against a decent team. It's on him to fix it and if he can't adapt he needs to hit the road.
September 21st, 2019 at 4:57 PM ^
Took Osborne and Bowden many years before they won a championship. But they were in the top 3 year in year out. Seemed like Nebraska was the preseason #1 team every year there for a decade only to lose a game they shouldn’t have.
September 21st, 2019 at 5:04 PM ^
Osborne would lose to Oklahoma, FSU and Miami...Bowden would lose to Miami
September 21st, 2019 at 4:47 PM ^
He’s been successful everywhere he’s been. San jose was trash before him. Brought Stanford from a doormat to a perennial bowl team and contended for the conference. Got the 49ers to the SB.
Think its clear that he’s not an elite coach now, but he knows what he’s doing to an extent. Not to the level of Meyer and Saban, clearly. But it’s not like the program is worse than when he found it.
In summation, things are bad right now. That does not mean Jacobs is correct
September 21st, 2019 at 5:14 PM ^
He’s won 11 games ONCE in his entire career. Stop acting like here’s top level.
September 21st, 2019 at 4:47 PM ^
How did he get them to the Super Bowl and turn around what was a joke of a franchise after turning Stanford into a national power? This debacle and failures in year 5 might be the end of him here, but to say he didn't know what he was doing with 49ers when they were total crap before him and a playoff team with him is pretty strange
September 21st, 2019 at 4:49 PM ^
He hasn’t won a single game he wasn’t supposed to win.
September 21st, 2019 at 4:52 PM ^
And he's lost quite a few he was supposed to win! lul
September 21st, 2019 at 4:54 PM ^
At Michigan, yes.
At Stanford he has the single biggest upset of all time against USC
September 21st, 2019 at 4:56 PM ^
Andrew Luck ain’t walking through that door.
September 21st, 2019 at 5:05 PM ^
Luck wasn't the QB of the 41 point underdog Stanford team that beat USC...the back-up QB at the time was
September 21st, 2019 at 5:23 PM ^
Too bad it’s 2019 and he’s employed by Michigan.
September 21st, 2019 at 4:58 PM ^
Underrated comment of the day.
September 21st, 2019 at 4:50 PM ^
You’re embarrassing yourself
September 21st, 2019 at 4:51 PM ^
Yea. People today really need to shut the fuck up. React away but Wisco was good. Yea we were bad but still.... DONT FORGET WHERE WE WERE. Jesus. People act like were Alabama
September 21st, 2019 at 4:58 PM ^
"Where we were " was getting blown the fuck out just like this.
September 21st, 2019 at 5:10 PM ^
Wisconsin wasn't that good. It was basically an o-line and the Johnathan Taylor show for their entire offense. Any competant team is going to stack the box and force Coan to beat them.
Had Shea trusted the receivers more, they were basically mugging DPJ, Black, and Collins all game and they were still coming down with the ball.
Wisconsin is decent but our execution was awful on every level.
Wisconsin will get exposed this year big time.
September 21st, 2019 at 4:53 PM ^
He got to three consecutive NFC title games and to a Super Bowl. I’d say he had at least a basic idea of what he was doing.
September 21st, 2019 at 4:57 PM ^
I see the Harbaugh defenders finally decided to come out today. Joke.
September 21st, 2019 at 4:58 PM ^
Heeded man. Heeded. No, we should not have seen Brandon Jacobs as a prophetic being.
September 21st, 2019 at 5:11 PM ^
Jacobs was a malcontent. I live near San Francisco. I remember those days.
September 21st, 2019 at 5:13 PM ^
I think it was out of line to post this.
September 21st, 2019 at 5:20 PM ^
Harbaugh took a garbage team to the super bowl.
Not excusing anything today but no, that doesn't mean shit.
September 21st, 2019 at 5:21 PM ^
Brandon Jacobs is carefully listened too by NFL teams because he has a long history of correctly evaluating coaches.?
September 21st, 2019 at 5:22 PM ^
you don’t ‘head’ a warning; you ‘heed’ one. now quit drinking and walk away from the computer
September 21st, 2019 at 5:25 PM ^
This was said in 2017 before he lost his edge. I think Harbaugh gives himself 3 years to figure things out and then loses interest.
September 21st, 2019 at 5:26 PM ^
I'm going to be painfully honest here.
Harbaugh has a long history of pissing off players. It can't all be, "players are just mad because he pushes them hard". His history all the way back to Stanford has players saying some pretty telling and damaging things about Harbaugh. It's not just Brandon Jacobs.
Look at all the transfers out and stuff with Hudson and Sims. Like it or not, Michigan did not make it easy on either of those players and they were vocal about it. Calling out Hudson about his issues was just stupid. Yes, I know he never said his name but let's be honest, we all know who he was referring to... Players see that. They see the way their friends are treated. It pisses them off. I think Harbaugh expects loyalty that he refuses to return and it shows.
I think players don't trust Harbaugh and they are quick to quit on him. They have seen him throw their friends under the bus on transfers and they have been beaten down on the field because they were out-coached.
There it is! Like it, hate it, agree, disagree, cool... However, I think we all know something isn't right there and it starts at the top.
September 21st, 2019 at 5:28 PM ^
Based on what I saw today, I would agree with Jacob's. At JH admitted he got outcoached. He seems lost and the asset coaches are lost too. Don Brown is a fool, leaving gaps wide open. The players need a players only meeting and then tell the coaches what they think is wrong.
This team may not win 5 games
September 21st, 2019 at 6:58 PM ^
He was dead right. Crazy, but dead right.
September 21st, 2019 at 7:35 PM ^
Money Quotes:
Jacobs said Harbaugh didn’t have much of a grasp of the Xs and Os of coaching and that the assistants deserved more of the credit.
“Going somewhere where they don’t have route conversions into certain coverages was just absurd,” Jacobs said. “They’re just running routes in the defense, getting people killed. Size and strength is what they had, and that’s why they won. Let’s be real. They had great assistant coaches, but Jim didn’t know what he was doing. Jim had no idea. Jim is throwing slants into Cover-2 safeties, getting people hurt. That guy knew nothing, man.”
I hate to say it but I agree. The X's and O's have not been Harbaugh's strength.
September 21st, 2019 at 9:20 PM ^
LOL. Harbaugh has won EVERYWHERE. He goes 10-3, 10-3, 8-5, 10-3, and (currently) 2-1... I have no idea why anyone thinks he doesn't know what he's doing. Of course he doesn't appear to be Urban Meyer or Nick Saban, but there are 129 schools in the country right now without those two guys as the head coach.
September 21st, 2019 at 10:31 PM ^
Jacobs: not a savant.