rlkats":80znbt60 said:
And the punches keep coming crap what a year.
I live in the bay area, so essentially all of my close friends are Niner fans. I have also never been treated with anything but friendly rivalry and respect wearing Hawks gear down here, so I don't have the same loathing for the fanbase that a lot of others do (the one exception being -at- the game. Yikes).
In that light, I honestly really feel bad for my friends with what's going on. I remember feeling like this under Bavasi (I was pretty young during the Behring days so don't remember those as much, though I'd argue Behring was even worse than this). Bavasi would make all of these moves because he genuinely thought he was making the team better, and it would just tear apart the roster and farm system, and I just felt so defeated as a Mariners fan, because you knew the team was getting worse. All you could kind of do was hold out desperate hope that Bavasi would luck into something that would offset the terrible decisions he made.
That's kind of what this feels like - I feel bad that Niners fans have to watch their team let go of an extremely good coach, and now possibly an extremely good DC, while Jed York remains in charge, subtly throwing his prior HC under the bus. I hope they just promote Vic Fangio and hire an OC. It'd be the right thing to do.