Some players even think he has handled Owens well this past week, Scott Gragg for one, had this to say: "He's not pretending it didn't happen, he addressed it and now we're moving on.” Despite these words of encouragement, no 49ers fan can truly be happy about how this situation was handled, and how the Lions clearly aren’t the focus of the team this week. This spells trouble. So what should the 49ers do about it. Or rather what should Jeff Garcia do about it?

Garcia has to step up as a locker room leader. On the field, there’s no question the players believe in him. They know he can get the job done. Garcia after all is a winner. In the locker room though it seems to be a different story. It always has been a quarterbacks job to lead his team. A great quarterback commands as much respect from the players as any coach, and keeps the team in line. He can tell a player to shut his mouth, and offense won’t be taken. Garcia needs to learn how to do this in order to be great. He needs to learn how to lead this team and keep them functioning as a group.

The 49ers have always had this leadership. Joe Montana, and Steve Young were the epitome of leaders. They kept the team in line, and as such the 49ers dubbed the motto “Winning With Class”. Somebody needs to teach that to same motto to this young 49ers squad. Terrell Owens should know it by now, but clearly he doesn’t, and the locker room leaders such as Garrison Hearst, Lance Schulters, Dana Stubblefield, and Ray Brown all are probably trying to say it, but the message is different when it come from the quarterback.