No, cupcake. I called your comparison invalid because there wasn't a strong comparison there.
14 of 22 starters were there 2 years later? Call Guiness! Wait, don't. That sounds like every goddamn team in the league. If I'm not mistaken Tomlin had 20 of 22 starters from the previous regime two years later. So, calling this a "similarity" is like saying "They both have fingers."
(Actually, no it's not. 20/22 is a lot more than 14/22. Tomlin inherited 91% of his starters; Harbaugh inherited 64%. A huge ******* difference.)
Took over a team with a lot of talented players? Jeepers, it sure looked like it. They hadn't topped 8-8 in seven years. Indeed, Harbaugh took over a bubbling cauldron of championship talent. QB'd by the incomparable Alex Smith. Fresh off finishing 24th in scoring. A whopping one All-Pro. That's pretty much the same as taking over a team that had gone 39-15 over the previous 3 seasons, with a SB win and three All-Pros. I don't know what I was thinking!
Wait, sorry. Your stance is that the previous coach was so awful that any coach could've stepped in and gone to 3 straight title games IMMEDIATELY. Below .500 every year to the title game in your first year, the SB in your second, another title game in your third, and in the thick of the playoff hunt in your fourth. Any mediocre coach could've done that. You don't know why; you just feel it in your bones. Well that's certainly valid. I hate when common sense gets in the way, too.
Disagreeing is one thing. Just saying stuff that doesn't align with reality because you want to is another. You say you have no idea about Singletary's coaching and whether he was good or not - well isn't that kinda the backbone of your entire effing point? That they were a poorly-coached but SB-ready team just waiting for a decent coach to come along? You say the 49ers were loaded with talent despite having 2 Pro Bowlers and 1 All-Pro. You say they were in the same boat as Tomlin when he took over. Then you want those statements to be taken as real, valid opinions?
Again, the sky is polka dotted and rains Reese's Pieces at night. Why do I say that? I dunno, but STFU, IT'S MY OPINION!!!!! Anyone who tells me, no, it doesn't... they're just douchebags and think they KNOW IT ALLLLL!!!!
And these were the vicious, sarcastic, know-it-all responses that got you all oppressed and martyr'd up:
topseed said:
Actually, they're both riding in exactly the same spot...8th position in their respective conferences.
topseed said:
They're in similar shape this year. Difference is, San Francisco has been to 3 conference championships in the last 3 years, while the Steelers haven't won a playoff game.
Idioteque said:
Not to mention they've missed big, big components of their core this year. GOOD players, too. Willis, Bowman, Aldon Smith (their three best defenders).. Iupati.. Vernon Davis.. None of that "Gilbert was out and Woodley is only 80%; THAT'S why we keep losing!" stuff.
Yes, I see it now. The vile hatred that forced poor li'l ol' you to get in lockstep with Big Brother. I feel ashamed, and I'm sure topseed does too. Just mean and snarky and hurtful. You have my most sincere 'pologies.