Singletary fired !

[mmmdk]

Mike Singletary just got fired from the Whiners.

[mmmdk]

Defensive line coach Jim Tomsula was promoted to interim coach.

[sheepshead]

Happened yesterday

[Guiness]

Why in the world do you do that with 1 game remaining? What could possibly be the point?

I guess this is part of the NFL getting more 'Hollywood.' Teams/owners want to make a splash. But strictly from a point of view of giving your team the best chance to win, this isn't the right thing to do. There are rare instances, like perhaps Wade Phillips, where the coach has to go for the same reason a player does - because he's a cancer, but those are rare indeed.

[Cheesehead Craig]

Apparently Singletary was too intense for SF. I don't think he's all that great of a coach anyways.

[gbgary]

another sideline blow-up with a player.

[mmmdk]

Happened yesterday

...but you never posted [it]

[red]

another sideline blow-up with a player.

with a player that is soon to be his son-in-law

there is going to be a lot of open positions this offseason. hope we don't lose dom

[curtis loew]

I always saw Singletary as more of a college coach. All that rah rah stuff doesn't fly in the NFL nowadays.

[Scott Campbell]

Why in the world do you do that with 1 game remaining? What could possibly be the point?

I guess this is part of the NFL getting more 'Hollywood.' Teams/owners want to make a splash. But strictly from a point of view of giving your team the best chance to win, this isn't the right thing to do. There are rare instances, like perhaps Wade Phillips, where the coach has to go for the same reason a player does - because he's a cancer, but those are rare indeed.

I'd do it because it gives you a head start on recruiting the hot coaching talent over those teams that wait till after the season.

[Guiness]

I'd do it because it gives you a head start on recruiting the hot coaching talent over those teams that wait till after the season.

True, you can be open about the fact you are looking, and start talking to co-ordinators from teams who've missed the play-offs 15 minutes after the end of the regular season.

[Scott Campbell]

True, you can be open about the fact you are looking, and start talking to co-ordinators from teams who've missed the play-offs 15 minutes after the end of the regular season.

I meant that you can start talking to Cowher or Gruden or any of the other unemployed suspects immediately.

[Fritz]

I confess that I thought Singletary was going to be a very good NFL coach. Maybe he still will be, ala Belicheck, but he may not get another chance. I liked that rah-rah in-your-face intensity, and I thought his teams would be tough and mean.

I was wrong.

[swede]

The best coaches I've known personally are tougher at practice than they are in games.

During a game, while on the field or court, the players have work to do. It's sort of pointless to harass them while they are working.

If they didn't learn what they were supposed to learn during practice the responsibility falls back on the coach. Being loud on the sideline is a poor substitute for teaching and planning properly during the week.
The only coach excused from this is Vince Lombardi.

Vince Lombardi's players said he was pretty much worthless during games. He yelled unhelpful stuff and blustered and fussed and worried on the sidelines. It was the way he prepared his team week to week and game to game that made him such a genius.

[AtlPackFan]

I confess that I thought Singletary was going to be a very good NFL coach. Maybe he still will be, ala Belicheck, but he may not get another chance. I liked that rah-rah in-your-face intensity, and I thought his teams would be tough and mean.

I was wrong.

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