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Originally Posted by corporatejay
Apparently he's viewed as a god in Oakland....would this make them hate him? I don't much about the 49ers/Raiders rivalry (if any).
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The answer is...maybe.
Only because the Raiders are looking for a head coach of their own and the fan base may turn on Gruden if it looks like he picked the 49ers over the Raiders.
And Gruden started with the 49ers - he was an assistant to QB Coach Mike Holmgren in 1990. Not a bad job being a QB coach to Montana and Young.
The press and fans are ripping Jed York a new one today. It is going to be VERY uncomfortable at 49ers head office for a while. Unless a new coach comes in and immediately has success, it could get ugly.
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JY: Winning isn’t the only thing matters. Winning with class is what matters.
Were you not winning with class?
JY: I mean, are you not going to blast us for off-the-field stuff for the past three or four years?
Was that Jim Harbaugh’s fault?
JY: Collectively, it was all of our fault.
So why weren’t there more heads rolling other than Jim Harbaugh’s. Shouldn’t Trent Baalke have been held accountable and a mutual parting of ways with him?
JY: I think Trent and I are philosophically aligned on what we want to do with this team.
So winning with class is a huge thing. You mentioned it yesterday, you mentioned it again today. So we’re getting, maybe, closer to the smoking gun. This is a problem you had with the Harbaugh era?
JY: No, this isn’t on Jim. This is on the collective group of us. It’s equally on me, Jim and Trent.
So why was Jim the one to pay the price?
JY: He wasn’t the one to pay the price for that. This is something that we need to concentrate on and focus on as we move forward.
Man, I’m having trouble coming to grips … A listener sent me a quote from a Bill Walsh book … (Bill Walsh said): The bottom line in professional sports is winning. Everything has to focus on that product: Winning football games. Other offshoots mean little compared to being successful on the playing field. That’s exactly what Bill Walsh wrote, the guy you cited in yesterday’s press conference. You guys were winning at a historic clip and you’ve chosen to go the other way. How can you justify that?
JY: I mean you’ve asked me that, like, 17 times already. This was a mutual decision between Jim and I. I don’t know what else to tell you. If you refuse to believe that I can’t help you. I don’t know what else to say. This wasn’t an easy decision for me. This wasn’t an easy decision for Jim.
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http://blog.sfgate.com/49ers/2014/12...-what-matters/
Someone give Jed York another stadium to build because he sure doesn't seem like he doesn't know how to run a football team.
I'm resigned to another 5-8 years of futility.