3 CHEERS for Mike Singletary!!!

[WEIRDWOLF]

Did anyone here his press conference today. That, in my opinion is what the NFL needs! He laid it out there and made it clear. This is a TEAM sport. Man, I might just become a SF Fan if he is made head coach for good!

Killion: Accountability and honesty are apparent in Singletary's regime

By Ann Killion

Mercury News Columnist

Article Launched: 10/26/2008 06:20:27 PM PDT



The end result was another disaster. But the Mike Singletary era is already a 100 percent U-turn from the Mike Nolan era.
Accountability. Honesty. Action.
On Sunday Singletary, in order: 1. benched J.T. O'Sullivan, who was having another disastrous performance. 2. sent Vernon Davis off the field for acting like an idiot. 3. apologized for the team's performance.
After three-plus seasons of window dressing, blather and finger-pointing it was startling.
If anyone thought the 49ers were going to vastly improve in one week, that was crazy. But if anyone was concerned that the coaching change was just going to be a case of slipping a Hall of Famer into the head coaching suit, we found out right away that wasn't the case.
In an embarrassing, potentially season-finishing 34-13 loss to awful Seattle, Singletary showed that he is not going to just sit back and spout platitudes and clichés. That he's not going to pretend everything is fine while his team is collapsing around him. That he's not going to blame the players and absolve himself.
"Before you ask any questions I want to say this," Singletary said when he entered the post-game press conference. "Number one, I apologize. I apologize for the start."
The Mike Singletary era has lasted for exactly 60 minutes of football, but it already has a defining moment, something you'd be hard pressed to find in the previous regime. With 49 seconds left in the third quarter,
Davis caught a pass. At the end of the play he had words with defender Brian Russell and reached out — right in front of the official — and slapped Russell on the facemask. He was flagged for unnecessary roughness, wiping out the gain and putting the 49ers in a second-and-18 hole.
Singletary yanked him off the field. When Davis came off he headed toward Singletary then tried to run a 10-yard out to avoid the coach, who walked down the sideline to meet him with angry words. Davis met with the classic teenager pose — arms outstretched, mouthing "What? What?"
Davis went to the bench. Singletary also went there for more words. A few minutes later Singletary sent Davis to the locker room. Davis headed off and Singletary yelled at him to come back and get his helmet.
"I will not tolerate players that think it's about them," Singletary said. "We cannot make decisions that cost the team and then come off to the sideline and be nonchalant.
"I'd rather play with 10 people and just get penalized, rather than play with 11 when I know that right now that person is not sold out to be part of this team.
"I told him that he would do a better job for us right now taking a shower and coming back and watching the game than going out on the field."
When Davis tried to talk to him after the game, Singletary said, "Vernon, you don't want to talk to me right now. You don't."
Most coaches would say it was between the player and the coach, a misunderstanding, a blah-blah-blah. Singletary was mad. He was honest. He failed to be fluffy.
At the end of the second quarter Singletary made the call to yank O'Sullivan. The quarterback, who is in descending spiral of awfulness, fumbled on the 49ers' first drive. He turned the ball over twice more — leading to 10 Seattle points — and was sacked three times. The crowd had turned on him. Singletary had seen enough.
He told Mike Martz he wanted to put in Shaun Hill. Martz — an emphatic supporter of O'Sullivan didn't argue.
"I think Mike knows me enough right now, going through this week, that we didn't have to talk about it," Singletary said.
After one game, we all know something about Singletary. He's a real change.

[jeff]

That is why I think he should of been a head coach along time ago !
That is football....... emotional.

[rjackson]

.........NFL today!!! No-one approaches the game like that!!! Fellas I must say from here to the end of the season I will be rooting for the San Fran. As much as I hate that franchise from the heart breaking year of the catch being a Cowboy fan and all, this had to to be one of the better momemts in football since Dennis Green's outburst. However this one had meaning and it came from a guy who played with his heart every single down when he played. Vernon and the rest of these young kids better take notice!! My man Mike Singletary!!!!

[Coach K-LO]

Man, that is Fire!!!!!!!!!!!

Glad that he finnally gets his turn....FOTH will be happy with his team next year if they keep him, and they should....it may not be what the 49ers was expecting, but they will be better for it!!

[mantaraydre]

The great mike still making tackles. Every org needs a kick ********** coach like that. We live in a world where the inmates run the asylum. These multi millionare babies think they are above the coach and nobody can control them. he is a student of mike ditka who will break your ********** also. I love the jimmy johnson, hank stram, vince lombardi,mike ditka, bill parcells,lou holtz,joe-pa coaches who are not playing with you. I ONLY WISH HE WOULD HAVE TRIED AND GOTTEN SMART WITH SINGLETARY. HE IS STILL THE SAME LINEBACKER WHO WILL KNOCK YOUR HEAD OFF. ON THE FIELD, IN THE LOCKEROOM OR IN THE PARKING LOT .


ONE SIDE NOTE, I don't if anyone brought this up but did you hear what the female reporter on the field asked him before the game.

" SO I HEAR YOU GOT A CALL FROM YOUR MENTOR BILL WALSH TODAY'

WHAT IN THE H E DOUBLE HOCKEY STICKS IS GOING ON ??????????

FIRST OF ALL HE IS A BEAR.
SECOND OF ALL, HOW IN THE WORLD COULD SHE NOT KNOW WALSH PASSED AWAY A FEW YEARS AGO.

RIGHT AFTER THE QUESTION SHE LOOKED AT HER NOTES AND SAID OH WAIT WHAT'S WRONG. SINGLETARY STOOD THERE HORRIFIED.

HOW DO RECOVER FROM THAT HORRIFIC MISTAKE


MANTARAYDRE

[rastahaze]

The 49ers have needed tht kind of kick my in my ****** type of coach for years. Walsh and Seifert had a little type of fear and still were able to have fun and win Super Bowls. Once the York's took over the team went soft, this is the first move they hve done that may come back with a good return. They must have went and spoke to Eddie the former owner and asked him wht he would do. This looks like something he would do.

Mike Singltary if anything has shown the other owners in the league he is more than ready to lead their franchise. When the York's named Mike the new coach had wanted to wait until his first game to really give a comment. I see good things for the 49ers if he remains the head man. Toughness is back in the bay area and it wears scarlet and gold.

That was perfect!

Other coaches have said and done some similar things, but coming from a legendary "TEAM" player like Mike, there is simply no way to argue with what he said.

His words will reverberate through ALL levels of football.

So far, I love this guy as a coach as much as I did when he was a player!

[NEW CASTLE HiTMEN]

Man he is a kick a## ask names later kind of guy. Mike Singletary for PRESIDENT! The Tali-ban would FEAR him. Bin-Laden would hide even deeper in the mountains and the terrorists in Iraq would nickname him Fire Eyes!

[Coach Rip]

WE can have some old school coaches with some ******** PASSION!

We have raised a generation of coddled little babies, I see it the whole way down to the midget level, and teaching them in high school.

I'll be pulling for the 49ers too, just because of Singletary (sp).

[detroitchild]

I was a big fan of his as a player and now I'm an even bigger fan as a coach. About time someone stood up to some of these guys. If anyone can get in their grill and get away with it it's Singletary.