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Vanguard83 · 02-02-2022, 01:24 AM

I would encourage you to watch / listen to todays Purple Daily with Alex Boone on Youtube.
Did anyone else catch it?

Wow!

Some amazing insight, wants players to bring family to practices, reduces meetings, encourages player input, motivational, can elicit the best from players, Boone says Zimmer and Harbaugh ENTIRELY different....

I was hopeful (but not optimistic) for Harbaugh, but after watching that podcast (Hope the Wilfs saw it) any hesitation I had about him is now gone.

Again, of you have any hesitation about Harbaugh, listen to Boone

V83

02-02-2022, 01:32 AM

Watched it and thought it was very good/informative! B)

02-02-2022, 01:36 AM

That’s interesting because Boone didn’t have glowing things to say about him when he left San Francisco.

02-02-2022, 01:51 AM

Quote: @claykenny said:
That’s interesting because Boone didn’t have glowing things to say about him when he left San Francisco.

I linked a story with Boone's comments from 2015. While they arent glowing not exactly anything that raises red flags.

If the bitch is he worked his players and expected the team keep putting in the work regardless of "getting over the mountain ". I see a bigger issue with Boone thinking that's bad than Harbaugh's expectations.

Sounds like Boone was content with goodness not greatness. Perhaps the shift in his stance is from maturity and realizing it takes that sort of drive to be great.

https://www.nfl.com/news/alex-boone-jim-...0000486519

02-02-2022, 01:58 AM

Listening to the Boone podcast...he's pretty glowing about how Harbaugh relates / deals with players.

02-02-2022, 02:17 AM

The excitement and buzz for Jim Harbaugh is all based on the 2014 NFL version of the man. That is 8 long years he has been out of the league. People change in 8 years and certainly coaches change in 8 years. The league has changed, the players have changed, players attitudes have changed, rules have been changed over the last eight years. If Harbaugh signs with the Vikings, which could be a huge mistake, there is no telling what version of the coach Jim Harbaugh they are signing. The version he was last season in college may not be the version needed to win in the NFL today.

02-02-2022, 02:22 AM

You lost me @ Alex Boone...

02-02-2022, 02:25 AM

Quote: @Greylock said:
The excitement and buzz for Jim Harbaugh is all based on the 2014 NFL version of the man. That is 8 long years he has been out of the league. People change in 8 years and certainly coaches change in 8 years. The league has changed, the players have changed, players attitudes have changed, rules have been changed over the last eight years. If Harbaugh signs with the Vikings, which could be a huge mistake, there is no telling what version of the coach Jim Harbaugh they are signing. The version he was last season in college may not be the version needed to win in the NFL today.

I wonder how long it would take to shift and adjust from working with college players to professionals. I also wonder if he has anything fresh and innovative for the pro game. Did the time away help? There are a lot of questions.

02-02-2022, 03:01 AM

From 2017-2020 Harbaugh, or at least the team was sleepwalking. Unlike Zimmer, I don't think Harbaugh will have a problem with relating to players. I think he is very stubborn in his approach to the game, and slower to adapt than he was when he was at Stanford or getting his start with the 49er's. Where he'll be different than Zimmer is that he'll be very hands off on game day.

I don't see where the team is creatively different than what we're used to seeing. Again, who will he attract as his staff? He better not bring Pep Hamilton with him. Fangio might be a hoot.

02-02-2022, 03:10 AM

Quote: @Greylock said:
The excitement and buzz for Jim Harbaugh is all based on the 2014 NFL version of the man. That is 8 long years he has been out of the league. People change in 8 years and certainly coaches change in 8 years. The league has changed, the players have changed, players attitudes have changed, rules have been changed over the last eight years. If Harbaugh signs with the Vikings, which could be a huge mistake, there is no telling what version of the coach Jim Harbaugh they are signing. The version he was last season in college may not be the version needed to win in the NFL today.

I’ll flat out admit that I’d like to see harbaugh in purple. What I can point out is our other 2 finalists are a guy who doesnt even call his own plays and a guy who has had two cracks at the bat and instead of winning 2/3rds of his games he’s won 1/3rd.

Time might have passed but if you build a team through the trenches and have decent QB play you’ll do just fine.