Among the things he discussed:
--There has been no decision whether to promote receiver Dominique Zeigler from the practice squad, but it is something the club is serious considering for Monday night's game against the Cardinals.
--Adam Snyder will start at right tackle. Jonas Jennings will likely be available for the game. He would be the backup at both tackle spots.
--As far as cutting down on the number of sacks in the second half, Singletary said he'd like to get the run game going better and use play-action to slow down the opposing pass rushes.
--He said playing on a Monday night is an experience that starts Sunday when you're able to see all the other teams playing. Singletary said players run the risk of getting over-excited for the game. They have to maintain their calm before the storm, he said.
--As written about earlier today, the 49ers have a new banner up in front of their locker room. It reads:
49ers formula for success
1. Total ball security
2. Execute
3. Dominate in the trenches
4. Create great field position
5. Finish
"It's not a new flavor of the month," Singletary said. "It's not, 'I think this is it; it sounds good.' No, this is what we have to do in the second half of the season to be successful and give ourselves a chance to compete at the highest level."
Are those five things Singletary felt the team didn't do in the first half?
"Obviously, we didn't do a lot of things right in the first half, so you try to sit back and reflect and capture those things that you have to do in the next half of the season to give yourself a chance to get back in it."
He added, "It doesn't mean anything until it gets into the hearts of the players. And that's what we're driving home."
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And here is Part III of the series I wrote for RealClearSports.com on the 49ers.
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Why is Nolan on the NFL Football Channel acting like he knows something about QB play? He was a failure at drafting and running his team. Pull the Hook!
I hope Coach Singletary does well.
Great stuff at RealClearSports, Matt. I hope that's not the last entry; I'm waiting for the "but there's hope" entry!
Great read on the Realclearsports, Matt. Depressing but true. Hopefully Jed can follow his uncle's footsteps and slowly restore this once great franchise.
As for Monday's game, I'm excited to see what Morgan and both Hills can do. I will be watching the line play closely as well.
Singletary's formula for success sounds superficial. I don't think his formula helps players translate what they can personally do. It's like saying:
1) Score more points than the other team
2) Do not turn the ball over
3) Run for a lot of yards
4) Defend the end zone
5) Do a good job
From the title of your RCS series, I thought you might start the chronicle of the Niners downfall a bit sooner. Walsh just sort of bailed without having set up how the team would carry on after he left. That left the job to Seifert who, like Nolan, had no clue about offense. His meddling led to the alienation of Holmgren and the premature replacement of Joe Montana with Steve Young. Young, though more physically gifted than Montana, never had is predecessor's mind or discipline. He failed to learn or execute the offense and our edge over the rest of the league was lost. Bad drafting and management by Dwight Clark and Carmen Policy greased the skids. Then came Mariucci and the Niners had a coach who was not capable of getting to the Superbowl and who had the temerity to ignore Walsh's suggestions. The organization rallied when Walsh returned as GM, but he walked away again and left us with Donahue. Bill Walsh deserves his revered status in the Bay Area, but he wasn't perfect. His lack of an exit strategy hurt. Eddie D also let us down by letting his irresponsible actions give us the Yorks.
49ers formula for success
1. Total ball security
2. Execute
3. Dominate in the trenches
4. Create great field position
5. Finish
6. Get into public spat with player
7. Do a "Dennis Green" moment after game
8. Pull down undies at halftime
9. Find the "Leaker"
49ers formula for success
1. Total ball security
2. Execute
3. Dominate in the trenches
4. Create great field position
5. Finish
6. Get into public spat with player
7. Do a "Dennis Green" moment after game
8. Pull down undies at halftime
9. Find the "Leaker"
Sorry for the double post! LOL, don't hit refresh when you are on the "your comment has been submitted" page!
drsgrosse, Bill Walsh also tried to bring Gene Upshaw to the 49ers to work along side with Donahue. For some reasons, Gene Upshaw decide not to join and we left with Donahue alone. Instead of finding a replacement for Gene Upshaw, Bill thought Donahue would be good enough to manage the 49ers alone. This decision trigger out a lot of effect on this poor 49ers today.
Bill Walsh did not bail on the 49ers. He spent 10 years and was burnt out. He gave us 3 Super Bowls and the team that won the next year was his team. It was Bill Walsh who built the 49ers. It was John McVay who ran a great head office. The organization is a shell of what it was. It was the Yorks who pushed Walsh out when he came back in. Gary Radnich tells the story of Bill Walsh calling him up to lighten up on Mooch because it was the York's fault and the Yorks were bad owners. For the life of me I don't know how any 49ers Fans can stand the Yorks. They have ruined this franchise and after this year they will be 2-8 as owners.
I think you mean Gene Washington. --Matt M.
The idiot whose idea it was to allow Mike
Shannahan to talk to and ultimately take the Denver job is who I have a beef with.
We should of made him our head coach
immediately instead of Seifert.
I enjoyed reading the series...it was a nice summary.
What do you all think of the 49ers hiring another hot Stanford coach (Jim Harbaugh)? With the limited talent he gets at Stanford, he's really done an excellent job the past 2 years.
Genghis, I agree with you. 1. Total ball security. If that is your #1 goal, then the QB should take the ball from the center and fall down. It just sounds like a reaction to JTO's errors. I hope there is more to Singletary than this list.
49ers formula for success
1. Win
The 9ers have some hills to climb they should just go Hill to Hill
I'm very glad Singletary took down that silly Nolan sign of 'Win the West.' Mike Nolan never had any goals at all as coach because he let the BIG TEAMS beat him. It's obvious with a Mike Nolan:
Win/split Zona
Win/split hurt Seattle team
Win/split Rams
Win Lions
Let Tampa Bay give you the games by not playing certain players.
Lose to the NFC East, including Redskins by big scores.
AFC: Just beat crappy teams like Cincinnati, Texans, Raiders.
We were on our way easy to 0 for NFC East/AFC East.
The schedule of the 49ers was easy to figure out my predictions: Beat Seattle, which should have been Arizona, but no matter. Beat Lions. We could beat Rams twice. If Redskins pull their players...that could be our 5 and 11 season as I foretold.
Next year if we don't fix things:
NFC NOrth, we're 1 and 3
AFC South, we're 1 and 3, win over Houston, but we NOW go to Reliant.
So far, New Orleans South
So far, Phil East
Our inept division.
Here is my 49ers for success:
All slates to be wiped clean. you play a big team, you make an effort. 34 to 13 to Seattle was NOT AN EFFORT! If you pull a Raiders like loss to Buffalo at 24 to 23, that's EFFORT!
Get rid of JTO. DOn't start him again.
Play to win the game.
One should never criticize Bill Walsh, it is blasphemous on a Niner blog. When he first left, Eddie had worn his ass out and even fired him on several occasions. Every time he came back to help, the team went on an upswing and just couldn't keep it up. Some of our biggest mistakes came when someone was too stubborn or threatened to take his advice like taking Druckenmiller over Jake Plummer and not trading Owens when he first showed signs of being crazy. Bill Walsh is the best thing to ever happen to the organization, period.
I agree 100%. To me, the decline started when the Yorks came into ownership and let the team go down the dumper. Fine examples are:
Letting opportunity go in replacing Steve Young.
Getting a terrible RB for Hearst that laid out Steve Young.
Giving K Barlow a raise, he takes a dump, then later calls Nolan Hitler.
Poor quality drafts, where you THINK the player we get has opportunity, but is labeled a bust.
Irresponsible nature to Alex Smith and doing away with WCO.
Not establishing a no. 1 Wr when T Owens left.
Not establishing a pass rusher, we replace B Young with who? Sopoaga?
Sopoaga/Franklin are JOKES on the Dline, need to be dumped.
Practiced giving games away to big teams and letting the lesser teams win their games.
What gets me is so called commitment. Where is it at? We resemble right now the cardinals of the Bidwell era, the Bengals, the Texans, the Raiders, and the Browns. It amazes me UNLIKE those teams, we have NOT had a blackout. Detroit finally got a local blackout. Rams started theirs like 2 years ago. Blackouts may not motivate teams, but how many of you are getting sick and tired of seeing bad quality Raiders/49ers in this region? Local blackouts generate A BETTER GAME for all!
Rams/Redskins/Jets, I support a LOCAL BLACKOUT.
If you want to understand the biggest reason for our decline, going back to the end of the Walsh era, read 'em and weep:
First-Round Draft Picks -- San Francisco
Year Player Pos. School
2008 Kentwan Balmer DT North Carolina
2007 Patrick Willis LB Mississippi
Joe Staley OT Central Michigan
2006 Vernon Davis TE Maryland
Manny Lawson LB North Carolina State
2005 *Alex Smith QB Utah
2004 Rashaun Woods WR Oklahoma State
2003 Kwame Harris OT Stanford
2002 Mike Rumph CB Miami (Fla.)
2001 Andre Carter DE California
2000 Julian Peterson LB Michigan State
Ahmed Plummer CB Ohio State
1999 Reggie McGrew DT Florida
1998 R.W. McQuarters CB Oklahoma State
1997 Jim Druckenmiller QB Virginia Tech
1996 No Pick -- --
1995 J.J. Stokes WR UCLA
1994 Bryant Young DT Notre Dame
William Floyd FB Florida State
1993 Dana Stubblefield DE Kansas
Todd Kelly DE Tennesse
1992 Dana Hall S Washington
1991 Ted Washington NT Louisville
1990 Dexter Carter RB Florida State
How many of those guys were great players?
Answer: 1, for sure, Bryant Young. *Maybe* Julian Peterson, and probably Patrick Willis. 3 at most.
How many more were good, serviceable, even superior starters?
Answer: Stubblefield, when he felt like it. Floyd, until the injury. Andre Carter, when used correctly. Staley and Lawson, possibly. Lets give balmer the benefit of the doubt until next year. So 6.
How many others? 14. Some, like Stokes were underachievers we overpaid for. Others, McGrew, were total complete busts, and would have busts even in round 5, let alone round one.
When a team drafts as poorly as we have for the last 18 years, decline is inevitable. You can hold it off a while by overpaying for free agents, but sooner or later you are going to pay the piper. No one since Walsh - not Seifert (though he was a decent teacher and coach), certainly not Donahue, and not "McNolan", has been able to properly evaluate college talent and get the players to maintain a great team. Its actually far worse if you look at the lower rounds, where Walsh found Pro Bowlers all the time. We have pro bowl RB from round two, a pro bowl punter, and thats all, folks.
It begins with organization. And the sad truth is, since Walsh left after the '88 season, our organization has totally sucked. We got away with it for a few years during the Policy-Clark-Seifert years by buying free agents like a sailor on leave, but it caught up with us big time. The the whole Eddie D debacle knocked the last supports out from under the house.
The only way back is to build a good solid organization again from top to bottom. That means clearing out the deadwood, the Trigger, the spreadsheet guy, and all the York cronies. If Jed is man enough to do what needs to be done, things will improve. If not, we'll all be back watching this dysfunctional song and dance again in another 3-4 years.
Great post Grumpy Guy. We must rid ourselves of myths. Bill Walsh was the reason for our success with his ability to draft, build a team, and out coach everyone!. He brought in great football people to surround him. John McVay was simply one of the best front office people. We now have 27 year old Jed & bean counter Parathe. They are not even in the same league. Look at the coaches he had or help bring in after he left. Seifert, Shannahan, Jeff Fisher, Rhodes, Holmgren, Green, Gruden, Hackett, McKenrick, Carroll, and it goes on and on. Look at the motey crew we have now? The same goes for the front office. Steve Young said it is a shell of what it was. There is a reason we lose every year and it isn't bad luck, it's bad management. The Yorks pushed Bill Walsh out when he wanted to help!
Marco: By his own admission, Walsh left too early because he was simply burned out. He walked away without making any provision for continuity at the top. I don't know how you define bailing, but Walsh's actions would seem to quaity. yes, Walsh is the best thing that ever happened to the Niners. I don't blame him for quitting. I'm just reciting the facts. And I don't know what to make of the Radnich story or Matt's contention that York decided to fire Mariucci in a fit of pique on a plane trip. the previous November a friend of mine had the good fortune to spend 20 minutes alone with Walsh -- who was GM at the time. In that conversation, Walsh indicated that Mariucci would be fired at the end of the season and that he, Walsh, was in favor of the move.
Well, we do agreed upon was Walsh the best. The 49ers continue to win after he left so if winning the next year's Super Bowl wasn't a continuity I don't know what is. He left them with a HOF starting QB & a HOF QB backup and I don't know any other Coach who did that. Walsh was emotionally burnt out and did later regret retiring too soon after he recharged. I don't know what Eddie D did to try to keep him? They should have won another SB in 1991 if it wasn't for Craig's fumble. The rumors of Dr. York's firing of Mooch continue into mythology and I don't know the truth. What I do know is that all is not well at Centennial Blvd and hasn't been for a while.
I know Marco. Todays' 49ers are good to beat inept teams and lose to big teams. That just won't get you to a playoff or .500 to just beat an inept team.
Take next year:
NFC North: We can beat Det, MAYBE Minn., but then lose to Chicago/Green Bay?
AFC South: Instant loss to Colts, unless they continue the downwind spiral. Tenn is just too tough no matter who is the QB. Then you have JAX and Del Rio. Finally, we go to Houston.
NFC East, maybe Phil again
NFC South, probably New Orleans
Our division:
win/split Rams
win/split Zona, or 2 losses to them
win/split Seattle, or 2 losses to them!
I remamber years ago on a 49ers schedule:
Team like Seattle was always beaten down
Arizona was always success
Rams were generally 2 wins
NFC East: We used to beat Giants/Eagles/stood ground with Cowboys
NFC North: Held our own vs. Chicago/Minn.
NFC South: Used to own Orleans/Falcons/Bucs
Nowadays...one win vs. an inept team, 3 losses in NFC outside, one win vs. inept team, 3 losses to AFC, Split the NES matchups, and do poorly in our own division as it continues to look like the manure league, which is really sad.
Yeah, find that leaker and make him the wedge breaker with no pads or helmet for every kickoff and make him part of the wedge on kick return. That still sticks in my craw...