pehawk":21blz3d5 said:
Popeye is a top 5 poster. Great screen name too.
Marvin is 'meh'.
Marvin, remember when I used to explain to you York would blow it up once the stadium was built? You laughed and laughed. Then, well, it happened.
Haha @Marvin
1) I don't remember the conversation (believe it or not I don't keep track of conversations with you as you appear to with me), but as such I won't say it didn't happen.
2) I don't think that's really an accurate representation of what happened. York has spent and is speding far more on coaches right now than he would have had he kept Harbaugh. In fact, at one point he was paying 2 coaches to not coach the team and another to coach. This is and never was about $$$.
Anyone who says otherwise simply isn't paying attention.
I don't really know what really happened with Harbaugh. Nobody but the two of them really do. What I don't doubt though is that York WANTS to win and will spend to do so. Anyone who makes that argument to the contrary isn't up on the facts.
The cheapest thing he could have done was keep Tomsula. After that, it was keeping Kelly. Instead he fired them after two years, had to continue to pay their guaranteed contracts, fired Baalke, and hired Shanahan and Lynch.
You can question Yorks decision making, but saying he blew up the team because he got the stadium is simply ludicrous.
And lets be real....he may have let Harbaugh go (although I'm nit convinced that's exactly how it happened), but a BIG, BIG part of the downfall of the Niners had nothing to do with blowing it up. It had to do with a rash of injuries and MASS retirements, most of which were unexpected. York didn't cut Patrick Willis, Navorro Bowman, Justin Smith, Aldon Smith, Chris Borland, or Anthony Davis. All of those guys left the team for various reasons and had nothing to do with York.
Now I'm sure you will have something to say about how I'm spinning something but the reality is that you would say that regardless, so who cares.

Jed has made some bad decisions, no question, but he isn't close to being their biggest problem and I for one am happy with the present regime.