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It's official. Mike Singletary has signed a four-year contract to remain as 49ers head coach for 2009.
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Mike Singletary told his players to take one hour out of their days today to focus on football. I'm not one of Singletary's players, but since it looks as if Singletary is going to be around for a while, I figured I'd better follow his directive.
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Mike Nolan has spent a lot of time the past two days on the phone, speaking with friends and family and many of his former players.

Nolan was fired Monday after going 18-37 in 3 1/2 seasons as head coach. Today, he was gracious enough to return my phone call. We spoke for about 15 minutes, and covered such topics as what went right and what went wrong.

Ultimately, he said he did not disagree with the decision to fire him because he understands his job was to win football games. He said he will be rooting hard for Mike Singletary to "make up the difference and do the things we couldn't do and win some games."

Here is the complete transcript of Mike Nolan's exit interview.

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