...what exactly are the chances that Mike Nolan is the head coach on Nov. 10th in Arizona on Monday night? I have to admit, I live in an apartment where I have to try to "borrow" internet access right now, and I don't have TV, so I haven't been able to see the entire length of these recent games, but I've been able to watch snippets of the live game and highlights, and from what I've seen lately, the offense is actually going downhill, not improving like we thought it would.
JT O'Sullivan is now the New York Giants version of Kurt Warner- throwing terrible INTs, and fumbling the ball every time anyone even breathes on him. The offensive line looks to be quite awful- Gore has nary a hole to run through, and Jimminy Thaddeus has all of 1.459 seconds to find an open target. What the hell is going on here? And nobody can blame that east-coast BS either, because it was the same in the Pats and Eagles games, and they weren't road games. Why did Vernon Davis disappear? Why is Gore getting 11 carries again?
And then there's the real reason we should get that sweet, sweet press release on the morning of October 27th: the defense. Mike Nolan's defense. He is getting the absolute least out of a marginally talented group that I could possibly imagine. Are they great? No. The defensive line is actually pretty bad, but this defense has some very talented players, and they are a complete seive out there. Brandon Jacobs is very good, so you'd expect to give up some plays to him, but Correll effing Buckhalter? He's ok, but this defense made him look like Westbrook wasn't actually injured. Then you've got the genius move of keeping your fastest and most athletic LB on the sidelines for 2 entire games. Absolutely ridiculous.
One of the arguements I've seen Maiocco make in Nolan's defense is that he took over a team with absolutely no talent and then improved the roster quite substantially. That may be somewhat true, but if so, why is his team still woefully awful? 2-5 after 3 1/2 years is not at all an improvement, I don't care how bad the roster was when you took over. 2 straight seasons with 4 (+?) game losing streaks shouldn't be happening when you've "improved the roster".
Here's something we've never ever evveerrr seen a Mike Nolan-coached 49ers team do: win a game they weren't supposed to win. Notice what the Rams did last week? Or this week for that matter? We would have made Brad Johnson look like Tom Brady. Or what the Raiders did against the Jets? Or the Dolphins against the Pats? Or the perfect example: Chiefs over Broncos. Even the crappiest of the shytiest teams have those games once in a while where you just go "WTF? They won that game?" Have you ever seen the 49ers do that with Mike Nolan coaching them? No, no you haven't. Some may want to count that game in Seattle in '06, but if we're honest with ourselves, we'd realize that the Seahawks totally sucked that season and we were damn lucky to pull that one out.
I honestly cannot see a single reason to keep Mike Nolan. The only good news about this season is that, even at 2-5, we're still only 2 1/5 games out in the division. Maybe if the correct move is made in a couple weeks, we'll actually have a shot, since we know the Tards will do what they always do: be an utter and massive disappointment to everyone.
Mike Nolan: Wrong for the defense, wrong for the 49ers.
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