That was just awesome. Told him to grab his shit and go home.
No idea what kind of a coach he can be but if he surrounds himself with excellent coordinators and he just plays the motivating/disciplinarian role (ala Bill Cowher), he will turn that team around. I'm sure he's ready to kick Mike Martz' ass up and down the field too as Martz is trying to run his offense (albeit a good one with the right personell) with those shit WR's on SF's offense. Thats part of the reason Osullivan has turned the ball over so much.....no sustained drives with running plays, too mutch catch up with too many passes. I'm sure this will be changing in the weeksahead so it will be interesting to see what comes first....Martz dismissal or the end of the season.
No idea what kind of a coach he can be but if he surrounds himself with excellent coordinators and he just plays the motivating/disciplinarian role (ala Bill Cowher), he will turn that team around. I'm sure he's ready to kick Mike Martz' ass up and down the field too as Martz is trying to run his offense (albeit a good one with the right personell) with those shit WR's on SF's offense. Thats part of the reason Osullivan has turned the ball over so much.....no sustained drives with running plays, too mutch catch up with too many passes. I'm sure this will be changing in the weeksahead so it will be interesting to see what comes first....Martz dismissal or the end of the season.
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/nfl/20...ost-game-press-conference-and-it-was-a-doozy/
Mike Singletary’s debut post-game press conference, and it was a DOOZY
Posted by Tim Kawakami on October 26th, 2008 at 6:22 pm | Categorized as Uncategorized
He shouted at times. For a split-second, he looked close to tears. He preached, exorted, apologized, made promises and said that he was accountable for this.
Summary: Mike Singletary’s first post-game press conference as 49ers coach was an all-timer and made his buddy Mike Nolan seem like a tiny little footnote.
Nolan was a serial blatherer who seemed to couch his emotions in weird cryptic circles–I never knew what the hell he was trying to say and I’m not sure that Nolan did, either.
Singletary’s point was crystal clear. His emotion was raw. Most of us there felt like we were either at a revival or a rock concert. It was something.
Here’s the transcript…
–MIKE SINGLETARY POST-GAME NEWS CONFERENCE/
Before you ask any questions, I want to say this: No. 1 is I apologize. Apologize for the start. I don’t really…
It’s like this: Today was good for me. It was good for me because sometimes you take a step back and you look at it and you think, ‘Hey, you know what? I’m here, it’s on, we’re going to make it work. They’re working hard, they’re doing this, they’re doing that. We’re going to go out there and it’s going to change right now.’
It will change. But I’m not trying to tell you something, it’s going to change—it’s not like that.
But I want you to understand where I’m coming from: It will change. And it will change because they want it to change. Not because of me. It will change because they want it to be champions.
But right now we’ve got to figure out the formula, our formula. Our formula is this: We go out, we hit people in the mouth, No. 1.
No. 2, we’re not a charity. We cannot give them the game. That’s No. 2. And No. 3 is we execute, from the very start of the game to the very end of the game. That did not happen.
I do not apologize about… You know what? I’ll go ahead and take some questions.
-Q: No, you’re going good.
-SINGLETARY: No, no, you don’t want me to go much further. Go ahead, ask your questions.
-Q: What happened between you and Vernon Davis?
-SINGLETARY: Vernon… It was something that I told everybody at the very beginning of the week. I would not tolerate players that think it’s about them when it’s about the team.
And we cannot make… we cannot make decisions that cost the team. And then come off the sideline and it’s non-chalant. No. You know what? This is how I believe, OK? I’m from the old school.
I believe this: I would rather play with 10 people and get penalized all the way until we’ve got to do something else. Rather than play with 11 when I know that right now that person is not sold out to be a part of this team. It is more about them than it is about the team.
Cannot play with them. Cannot win with them. Cannot coach with them. Can’t do it. I want winners. I want people that want to win.
-Q: What did you tell Vernon before he left the field?
-SINGLETARY: 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 to go out on the field. Simple as that.
-Q: Is Vernon still your starting tight end?
-SINGLETARY: Well, we’ve got to think about that.
-Q: Did Vernon talk to you after the benching?
-SINGLETARY: He wanted to talk to me. I told him he did not want to talk to me. I said, ‘I assure you, you do not want to talk to me right now.’
-Q: Did he argue with you on the sidelines?
-SINGLETARY: He just said, ‘What? What?’ What?
-Q: Who is your starting QB?
-SINGLETARY: We’ve got to think about that, too.
-Q: Was it your decision or Mike Martz’s to make the QB change from O’Sullivan to Hill?
-SINGLETARY: It was my decision.
-Q: Did Martz disagree with you about it?
-SINGLETARY: Well, I think Mike knows me enough right now going through this week that we did not talk about it.
-Q: Why did you make the QB change?
-SINGLETARY: I thought that… it’s just one of those situations where you feel like you’re going in the game and you want the best opportunity to win.
You want the guy that, if a quarterback is going and he’s not playing well, he’s just not in that rhythm… after a while his teammates can get frustrated. And some coaches can get frustrated.
Rather than going there, just say, ‘You know what, let’s make a change and we’ll re-visit it later.’
I think right now Shaun Hill today in that situation will give us a better chance of winning.
-Q: How did Shaun Hill play?
-SINGLETARY: I thought one of the things that I asked the guys early in the week was to manage the game. I talked to the quarterbacks early in the week: All I’m asking you to do is manage the game. You don’t have to go out and win the game. Just manage the game.
If we’re going to win, we’ve got special teams, we’ve got defense, we’ve got other parts of the offense that can click and work. Give us a chance. Let’s just go out there and manage the game and let’s go.
-Q: Is this game an indication that this will be tougher than you thought?
-SINGLETARY: I’ll put it this way: If something like this is going to happen, happen now. And not on national television. We’ve got between now and that time, when we play Arizona, to correct some things. And it’s not so much the play, but it’s more of a mindset.
And still having a chance to find out who wants to win. Who really wants to win. Sometimes you have guys that it’s been so long that we’ve been unsuccessful that sometimes it’s like a bad relationship. You don’t know when it’s going to turn again. And after a while, you become a part of the problem rather than the solution.
I want guys that are solution-oriented. Starting with myself. I’m not going to try and make something work when it doesn’t fit. And that’s really the bottom line to me.
-Q: Why take JT O’Sullivan out with less than a minute in the half instead of just making the change at halftime?
-SINGLETARY: Because Mike Martz said, ‘Mike, if we’re going to take him out. Instead of waiting ‘til the second half, why don’t we allow him to get in, get in a rhythm, get a feel for it, so that in the second half he’s not just fresh off the bench.’
-Q: Can you explain your defense?
-SINGLETARY: All of a sudden, boom, they come out in a split backfield, one of the linebackers missed a guy underneath. Fullback runs for a touchdown. It happens again. Quarterback scrambles around, fullback, touchdown.
You know what? We cannot play like that. I just talked to the player and he said, ‘Coach, I promise you, it’ll never happen again.’ I know that. But it happened today.
We will get it. We’ll deal with it.
-Q: Why did you go for it on that 4th-and-6 instead of trying the FG? That’s when JT threw the pick-six.
-SINGLETARY: I turned to Mike (Martz) and I said, ‘Mike what do you think?’ He said, ‘I’d like to go for it.’ Of course, I knew he’d say ‘I’d like to go for it.’
I looked in his eyes, I said, ‘Let’s go. Let’s go.’ We’ve got these coordinators and they’re doing a good job. Greg’s over there, racking his brain trying to find the right calls. Sometimes it’s not the calls, it’s the way it’s executed.
Mike Martz, I’m very blessed to have him as a coordinator. Guy that you can turn to, been there, done that. And when he tells me, ‘Mike, I want to go for it.’ Sometimes I might say no. Probably most of the time. But at that time I felt, you know what? I want to support what he feels. Let’s go.
-Q: Seemed like you were in a 3-4 defense more than 4-3 today. Are you more of a 3-4 now?
-SINGLETARY: It was just a matter… if you would break down the film, you’d see that we played both. We were 3-4, we were in ‘over.’ Just depended on what personnel they were in.
We’re going to be somewhat of a paradox for a little bit until we figure it out.
-Q: What was your message to the team after the game?
-SINGLETARY: I’m going to say this about that: I’ve always been a firm believer… it’s nothing like it was anything magical or anything. In all honesty, you probably do not want to hear it.
It was just sharing my heart with them. It’s as simple as that. I just believe that things we talk about in the locker room should stay there.
We did not play anywhere near where I felt we could have played. And rather than go into the, ‘Well, see, this happened here and that guy was out of place.’ I’m not going through that.
I’m just going to apologize and just ask you guys… Just keep watching. That’s all I can tell you. And we’ll go from there. Thank you very much.
Mike Singletary’s debut post-game press conference, and it was a DOOZY
Posted by Tim Kawakami on October 26th, 2008 at 6:22 pm | Categorized as Uncategorized
He shouted at times. For a split-second, he looked close to tears. He preached, exorted, apologized, made promises and said that he was accountable for this.
Summary: Mike Singletary’s first post-game press conference as 49ers coach was an all-timer and made his buddy Mike Nolan seem like a tiny little footnote.
Nolan was a serial blatherer who seemed to couch his emotions in weird cryptic circles–I never knew what the hell he was trying to say and I’m not sure that Nolan did, either.
Singletary’s point was crystal clear. His emotion was raw. Most of us there felt like we were either at a revival or a rock concert. It was something.
Here’s the transcript…
–MIKE SINGLETARY POST-GAME NEWS CONFERENCE/
Before you ask any questions, I want to say this: No. 1 is I apologize. Apologize for the start. I don’t really…
It’s like this: Today was good for me. It was good for me because sometimes you take a step back and you look at it and you think, ‘Hey, you know what? I’m here, it’s on, we’re going to make it work. They’re working hard, they’re doing this, they’re doing that. We’re going to go out there and it’s going to change right now.’
It will change. But I’m not trying to tell you something, it’s going to change—it’s not like that.
But I want you to understand where I’m coming from: It will change. And it will change because they want it to change. Not because of me. It will change because they want it to be champions.
But right now we’ve got to figure out the formula, our formula. Our formula is this: We go out, we hit people in the mouth, No. 1.
No. 2, we’re not a charity. We cannot give them the game. That’s No. 2. And No. 3 is we execute, from the very start of the game to the very end of the game. That did not happen.
I do not apologize about… You know what? I’ll go ahead and take some questions.
-Q: No, you’re going good.
-SINGLETARY: No, no, you don’t want me to go much further. Go ahead, ask your questions.
-Q: What happened between you and Vernon Davis?
-SINGLETARY: Vernon… It was something that I told everybody at the very beginning of the week. I would not tolerate players that think it’s about them when it’s about the team.
And we cannot make… we cannot make decisions that cost the team. And then come off the sideline and it’s non-chalant. No. You know what? This is how I believe, OK? I’m from the old school.
I believe this: I would rather play with 10 people and get penalized all the way until we’ve got to do something else. Rather than play with 11 when I know that right now that person is not sold out to be a part of this team. It is more about them than it is about the team.
Cannot play with them. Cannot win with them. Cannot coach with them. Can’t do it. I want winners. I want people that want to win.
-Q: What did you tell Vernon before he left the field?
-SINGLETARY: 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 to go out on the field. Simple as that.
-Q: Is Vernon still your starting tight end?
-SINGLETARY: Well, we’ve got to think about that.
-Q: Did Vernon talk to you after the benching?
-SINGLETARY: He wanted to talk to me. I told him he did not want to talk to me. I said, ‘I assure you, you do not want to talk to me right now.’
-Q: Did he argue with you on the sidelines?
-SINGLETARY: He just said, ‘What? What?’ What?
-Q: Who is your starting QB?
-SINGLETARY: We’ve got to think about that, too.
-Q: Was it your decision or Mike Martz’s to make the QB change from O’Sullivan to Hill?
-SINGLETARY: It was my decision.
-Q: Did Martz disagree with you about it?
-SINGLETARY: Well, I think Mike knows me enough right now going through this week that we did not talk about it.
-Q: Why did you make the QB change?
-SINGLETARY: I thought that… it’s just one of those situations where you feel like you’re going in the game and you want the best opportunity to win.
You want the guy that, if a quarterback is going and he’s not playing well, he’s just not in that rhythm… after a while his teammates can get frustrated. And some coaches can get frustrated.
Rather than going there, just say, ‘You know what, let’s make a change and we’ll re-visit it later.’
I think right now Shaun Hill today in that situation will give us a better chance of winning.
-Q: How did Shaun Hill play?
-SINGLETARY: I thought one of the things that I asked the guys early in the week was to manage the game. I talked to the quarterbacks early in the week: All I’m asking you to do is manage the game. You don’t have to go out and win the game. Just manage the game.
If we’re going to win, we’ve got special teams, we’ve got defense, we’ve got other parts of the offense that can click and work. Give us a chance. Let’s just go out there and manage the game and let’s go.
-Q: Is this game an indication that this will be tougher than you thought?
-SINGLETARY: I’ll put it this way: If something like this is going to happen, happen now. And not on national television. We’ve got between now and that time, when we play Arizona, to correct some things. And it’s not so much the play, but it’s more of a mindset.
And still having a chance to find out who wants to win. Who really wants to win. Sometimes you have guys that it’s been so long that we’ve been unsuccessful that sometimes it’s like a bad relationship. You don’t know when it’s going to turn again. And after a while, you become a part of the problem rather than the solution.
I want guys that are solution-oriented. Starting with myself. I’m not going to try and make something work when it doesn’t fit. And that’s really the bottom line to me.
-Q: Why take JT O’Sullivan out with less than a minute in the half instead of just making the change at halftime?
-SINGLETARY: Because Mike Martz said, ‘Mike, if we’re going to take him out. Instead of waiting ‘til the second half, why don’t we allow him to get in, get in a rhythm, get a feel for it, so that in the second half he’s not just fresh off the bench.’
-Q: Can you explain your defense?
-SINGLETARY: All of a sudden, boom, they come out in a split backfield, one of the linebackers missed a guy underneath. Fullback runs for a touchdown. It happens again. Quarterback scrambles around, fullback, touchdown.
You know what? We cannot play like that. I just talked to the player and he said, ‘Coach, I promise you, it’ll never happen again.’ I know that. But it happened today.
We will get it. We’ll deal with it.
-Q: Why did you go for it on that 4th-and-6 instead of trying the FG? That’s when JT threw the pick-six.
-SINGLETARY: I turned to Mike (Martz) and I said, ‘Mike what do you think?’ He said, ‘I’d like to go for it.’ Of course, I knew he’d say ‘I’d like to go for it.’
I looked in his eyes, I said, ‘Let’s go. Let’s go.’ We’ve got these coordinators and they’re doing a good job. Greg’s over there, racking his brain trying to find the right calls. Sometimes it’s not the calls, it’s the way it’s executed.
Mike Martz, I’m very blessed to have him as a coordinator. Guy that you can turn to, been there, done that. And when he tells me, ‘Mike, I want to go for it.’ Sometimes I might say no. Probably most of the time. But at that time I felt, you know what? I want to support what he feels. Let’s go.
-Q: Seemed like you were in a 3-4 defense more than 4-3 today. Are you more of a 3-4 now?
-SINGLETARY: It was just a matter… if you would break down the film, you’d see that we played both. We were 3-4, we were in ‘over.’ Just depended on what personnel they were in.
We’re going to be somewhat of a paradox for a little bit until we figure it out.
-Q: What was your message to the team after the game?
-SINGLETARY: I’m going to say this about that: I’ve always been a firm believer… it’s nothing like it was anything magical or anything. In all honesty, you probably do not want to hear it.
It was just sharing my heart with them. It’s as simple as that. I just believe that things we talk about in the locker room should stay there.
We did not play anywhere near where I felt we could have played. And rather than go into the, ‘Well, see, this happened here and that guy was out of place.’ I’m not going through that.
I’m just going to apologize and just ask you guys… Just keep watching. That’s all I can tell you. And we’ll go from there. Thank you very much.
I wish Singletary would implement the 46 defense. Load up the box, play man to man in the secondary, and blitz. Forget this soft zone crap.
Regarding the offense, it doesn't have the talent (WR/QB/OL) to run the Martz system. Let's go with the rush Gore, rush Gore, throw on 3rd and short, or rush Gore again.
Oh how I, as a die hard 9er, dream.
Regarding the offense, it doesn't have the talent (WR/QB/OL) to run the Martz system. Let's go with the rush Gore, rush Gore, throw on 3rd and short, or rush Gore again.
Oh how I, as a die hard 9er, dream.
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