Jim Harbaugh: Parting ways with 49ers wasn’t mutual
By Robby Sabo
In other news (that we already knew), Jim Harbaugh reveals that his decision to leave San Francisco wasn’t mutual as previously claimed.
Divorces are sometimes explained away with lies. When a breakup occurs, the reason for the breakup must be looked at with an eyebrow raised.
In the case of Jim Harbaugh and the San Francisco 49ers, we needed no further evidence to already realize what happened.
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According to San Jose Mercury News, through a podcast with Tim Kawakami, Harbaugh is claiming that he was directly told after the season that he wouldn’t be coaching the team anymore. However, as we already know, both parties apparently decided the parting via “mutual ways” explanation would be better suited for all involved.
“I was told I wouldn’t be the coach any more,” Harbaugh said. “And then . . . you can call it ‘mutual,’ I mean, I wasn’t going to put the 49ers in the position to have a coach that they didn’t want any more. But that’s the truth of it. I didn’t leave the 49ers. I felt like the 49er hierarchy left me.”
So there you have it, the biggest piece of new news surrounding old news that you already knew was complete garbage news to begin with.
Of course it wasn’t mutual!
Harbaugh also went on to say that he was told he would not be returning after their Week 15 loss to the Seattle Seahawks.
“I wanted to finish what I started — what we started,” Harbaugh said. “And I have great fond memories of it.”
49ers have now entered dangerous waters. Instead of petulant bickering and foolish power struggles, CEO Jed York and the entire 49ers brass should’ve been counting their lucky stars they had a guy like Harbaugh to run their franchise.
This team was in shambles before he arrived. They had a motivational speaker as coach (Mike Singletary) who didn’t know a damn thing about coaching and a personnel group with no direction.
Harbaugh came in and away they went with a 44-19-1 record including three trips to the NFC Championship game and one Super Bowl appearance. If it hadn’t been for a dreadful non pass interference call during the Michael Crabtree play, the 49ers would’ve been world champs.
Colin Kaepernick was a stud two seasons ago before the league caught up with the zone-read actions (so was Robert Griffin III don’t forget). He ran and passed his way to becoming a household name. The problem the 49ers are going to realize in 2015 is that the reason Kaepernick had so much success was because of the genius of Harbaugh.
Kaepernick is dreadful pocket passer. His arm strength is fantastic but he lacks so many tools that a great thrower of the football needs to maintain long-term success. He needs extensive gameplans to make his game work, and with a clueless strategist like Jim Tomsula now running the show Kaepernick’s stock will sink faster than the Titanic after Leonardo DiCaprio abandoned ship.
It happens often with organizations. Once they start tasting success they begin to get full of themselves and dismiss the real they were successful in the first place.
Jim Harbaugh was the sole reason for their turnaround and success and now they will continue trending downward without him.
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