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49ers head coach Mike Nolan is "likely coaching his last game (1 Viewer)

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ESPN's Michael Smith reports that 49ers head coach Mike Nolan is "likely coaching his last game" against the Seahawks this week.

"Barring a dramatic change in course," Smith said on NFL Live, "The team is going to relieve Nolan of his coaching duties and replace him with assistant head coach Mike Singletary." It's not a shock after Nolan was nearly fired last offseason. Since Singletary figures to leave Mike Martz and the offense alone, the possible move doesn't have a huge fantasy impact. Oct. 20 - 3:59 pm et

 
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All I can add is thank goodness Singletary is taking over as the HC and not Martz. IMO Martz is the bozo that probably cost Nolan his job.

 
I'm all for a change but they need to find a decent replacement for him before we fire him. We should have never fired Mooch in the first place. I don't know if Singletary is fit to be a NFL head coach. He's someone everyone will respect and give great motivational speeches, but I don't know if he's fundamentally ready to be one.

 
drew726 said:
I'm all for a change but they need to find a decent replacement for him before we fire him. We should have never fired Mooch in the first place. I don't know if Singletary is fit to be a NFL head coach. He's someone everyone will respect and give great motivational speeches, but I don't know if he's fundamentally ready to be one.
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And at 2-5 its the ideal situation to see if Singletary has what it takes. The season is lost, having a head coach that can't cut it isn't going to hurt anything
 
they should beat seattle next week. if you want to fire him, fire him. why wait til next week? thats stupid

 
IMO Singletary is long overdue for a HC job.

At the same time, I always thought Mike Nolan was a class act.

Good luck to both.

(whether the story is true or not).

 
drew726 said:
We should have never fired Mooch in the first place.
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That's just crazytalk. Mooch needed to go - he just wasn't a good coach. I'm not saying Nolan is any better but just because he's not that great doesn't mean Mooch should've stayed. He was a decent coach at BEST.
 
The reason I said we shouldn't have fired Mooch was because we replaced him with Dennis Erickson. Dennis FFS, Dennis.

 
Max Power said:
All I can add is thank goodness Singletary is taking over as the HC and not Martz. IMO Martz is the bozo that probably cost Nolan his job.
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Seriously? Martz is costing Nolan his job?Yards per game: 2007: 237 (32nd), 2008: 299.4 (23rd).Points per game: 2007: 13.7 (32nd) , 2008 22.6 (17th)Personally I'm most frustrated by JTO's interceptions-in-the-end zone count. I don't think you can pin that on Martz, and I think JTO's starts are numbered regardless of who's head coach.Just my $.02
 
identikit said:
IMO Singletary is long overdue for a HC job.At the same time, I always thought Mike Nolan was a class act.Good luck to both.(whether the story is true or not).
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:goodposting: Agreed. Sorry it didn't work out for him but he's been mostly a class act (aside from last year publicly attacking Alex Smith) and I wish him the best.
 
drew726 said:
The reason I said we shouldn't have fired Mooch was because we replaced him with Dennis Erickson. Dennis FFS, Dennis.
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Just because the replacement was terrible doesn't mean the firing itself was the wrong move. Mooch needed to be fired. They made a mistake bringing in Erickson but Mooch had no business coaching the Niners another year.
 
Max Power said:
IMO Martz is the bozo that probably cost Nolan his job.
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Are you insane? Heck, Martz is probably the reason Nolan has made it this far this season. Martz is sooooo not the reason Nolan is losing his job. Martz has been a blessing for what was a horrific Niners offense.
 
Gadfly said:
Nolan is being fired because the Niners are doing so much worse than preseason expectations?
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The reason Nolan wasn't fired last year was because the offense sucked and he strictly blamed it on their offensive coordinator. Nolan was always thought of as a defensive minded coach. Last year's defense was the only bright spot about the team. Now the defense is the worst in the NFL while the offense have improved. There's no one else to blame but Nolan.
 
AnonymousBob said:
drew726 said:
The reason I said we shouldn't have fired Mooch was because we replaced him with Dennis Erickson. Dennis FFS, Dennis.
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Just because the replacement was terrible doesn't mean the firing itself was the wrong move. Mooch needed to be fired. They made a mistake bringing in Erickson but Mooch had no business coaching the Niners another year.
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I'll disagree with that strongly. Mooch couldn't get over the hump to the Super Bowl, but that was equally the GM's/York's fault. I think he did a great job with what he had, with very limited support from the pathetic front office.As for Nolan, I'm not a big fan of midseason firing, but this isn't a surprise. I am glad Singletary will be the interim replacement, because we reallyneed to get an idea of what he is as a coach. Was Nolan holding him back in motivating that defense the way it seems Singletary should be able to, or was Singletary just one more coach dragging Nolan down and showing Nolan's questionable personel decision making.
 
I for one will never understand the love Martz gets in some circles. Being forced into watching the Lions for a couple years, I got to see who Martz really was.

Great that he makes the Offensive stats look better. Can someone pull me the Turnovers per game from 07 to 08? Or how about the Average starting field position of the opposing team?

Fact is that Martz runs a high risk, high reward style Offense which IMO losses more game than it wins.

 
PFT is reporting, via Jay Glaser, that the firing is now effective immediately since the word got out that it was coming next week.

I think this makes more sense than a lot of teams that fire the coach mid-season b/c Singletary was going to be on a lot of team's interview list.

I wonder how this affects the status of O'Sullivan and Morgan? Nolan said they were the starters before he realized he was no longer in the position to make that decision.

 
FFdork said:
PFT is reporting, via Jay Glaser, that the firing is now effective immediately since the word got out that it was coming next week.

I think this makes more sense than a lot of teams that fire the coach mid-season b/c Singletary was going to be on a lot of team's interview list.

I wonder how this affects the status of O'Sullivan and Morgan? Nolan said they were the starters before he realized he was no longer in the position to make that decision.
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CBS Sportsline now officially reporting that Mike Nolan has been fired:http://www.sportsline.com/nfl/story/11049901

 
Don't forget too, that the decision to select Alex Smith over Aaron Rodgers among others was pretty much all Mike Nolan's. It was a decision that then OC (and perhaps QB coach) Mike McCarthy oddly enough, now Rodgers' HC in Green Bay endorsed, but the decision was Nolan's, and it has always been a huge mark on his record.

Nolan's a very classy guy and a great defensive coordinator but he never should have been thrown the keys to the kingdom and I don't know he was ever fit to be a head coach despite his pedigree.

 
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