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Hire him. That's what I say. Full time coach of the Niners. I have never seen the players playing any harder. Not since Seifert. Singletary knows what he's doing. He's not pretending he knows everything. If he doesn't know, he lets others do it. Like the offense, he leaves it alone.

Also, love the aggressive stuff Singletary does. Went for it twice on 4th and 1. If that were Nolan, no doubt we would have punted the ball. If you can't get a yard, you shouldn't be on the field is what I feel Singletary is saying.

Then you have to love his moves. He stuck Hill in there. Both Hills, Shaun Hill and Jason Hill. Those moves are paying off I think. Plugging in Chilo Rachal too. The o-line and d-line are actually playing better. Go Singletary.

First of all, I want to say that Nolan didn't deserve to be fired. The offense had a few big names, but didn't show up. The defense could not stop opposing teams. JT O'Sullivan started the season horrible. I think that both Martz and Nolan deserve to be head coaches somewhere, but it just didn't work with a dysfunctional group.

I can't really say if Singletary should become the new head coach of the 49ers. I'm not a fan, and haven't watched them too much. San Francisco hasn't been good in a really long time, and Mike Singletary has the team working close to full capacity, giving it their all. He values discipline and teamwork. He looks like a solid candidate to be promoted from his current interim spot. We'll find out soon.

...But just one note...After this season, many big name coaches could hit the market in terms of availability and commitment. Marty Shottenheimer. Bill Cowher. Mike Holmgren...

Well it wasn't entirely Nolan's fault. His offensive line, defensive line, and secondary weren't good. Also, J.T. O'Sullivan starting the season like last year's Rex Grossman (turnover machine) didn't help.

It wasn't Nolan's fault? Yes it was. He was never supposed to be a coach. He's not even a good coordinator. He inherited a good defense in Baltimore. Come on. And then all those wins at the end of the season? Like those mean anything. Oh look, we won a couple meaningless games at the end of the season against some crappy teams. Yeah...

What I also noticed with Nolan, he never takes responsibility. I've never heard him take it. The blame goes around, never on the coach. Also, he plays to conservatively. I remember that Rams game last year... 4th and 1... He kicks a field goal. GO FOR IT DAMNIT!!!!

Nolan only cares about his image, not the team. Good riddance. Even if Singletary doesn't work out, at least we got rid of Nolan.

As for Martz, he's a good coordinator, but I never thought he was a good head coach. He uses time outs weirdly. I just feel like he can't handle the responsibility. As for that Rams team? He inherited it from Vermeil.

Should Mike Singletary become the new 49ers head coach at the end of the season? Too early to tell. He's off to one hell of a start, He's been doing an excellent job thus far, but lets see how he finishes up the season before we hand him the job. But here are some facts.

1. Even if Singletary doesn't stay with San Francisco at the end of this season, he will have a job next year in the NFL. Many Teams have taken notice to the job Mike has done in San Fran, and even if it's not as a head coach, he will be working somewhere I gurantee.

2. Nolan deserved to be fired. 3 and 1/2 years he had to try and fix the 49ers, some coaches should be so lucky to get that much time. And with 3 consecutive loosing seasons with a 4 one most definately on the horizon, he has not shown any reason to stay around. Was it all his fault? No, but there was plenty of potential, as Singletary is showing, that Nolan never fully tapped into, nor was he able in his tenure in San Francisco.

3. Starting QB for the 49ers in 2009 will be ?? Shaun Hill is having a phenominal season, or at least his 5 games he's started, having a 95 passer rating average and completing 64% of his pass attempts, but like Singletary, he hasn't done what is needed to win the job yet. Most of Shaun's sucsess has been off of play action. Frank Gore is such a threat in the run game that Shaun has been able to use the play action pass to his advantage. And though he's done a fine job managing the game, the 49ers might look into a QB who 1 has a stronger throwing arm, and 2, can manage to win with passing attacks. With Gore questionable for sunday in Miami and DeShawn Foster having a lack luster year as his back up, Hill will be called upon to try and win this sunday's game with his arm.

Well I would blame the Refs too because of how much time there was on the clock(4 seconds until the Refs whistle blows WTF and Martz does have a goalline weakness)

the Niners ran out of Timeouts at the end and the 4 second time limit is what killed the game(plus Martz has shown his weakness after Cards game as well) Martz hardly gives the ball to Gore nowadays.

If I recall correctly, Mike Singletary doesn't do the offense. He never will. He doesn't understand the offense. He doesn't call plays. He might put in a gameplan, but he'll never call a play. The playcalling is all on Martz. So, in essence, it was Martz's fault for calling such a play. The offense is for Martz to deal with.

Also, if memory serves, Martz thought they were at the one and not the three or wherever we were at. So, if they were at the one, that would have been a touchdown. Still, Hill should have known they were at the three a spike the ball instead.
So, really, the blame can go all around.

Still, Singletary has done a really good job. To almost steal that game in Miami with no Gore. I think Hill did a good job too. Still, gotta get into the end zone. Pretty bad red zone offense. That's an area where Gore is missed.