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| Mooch’s Head Still Called For December 4 2002 By Bryan Hersh of 49ers Paradise THIS CONTENT IS COPYWRITED, REDISTRIBUTION OF IT (including copy/pasting it to a message board, forum or bbs) IS PROHIBITED AND COULD RESULT IN LEGAL ACTIONS - feel free to quote up to 1 paragraph providing a source link to http://www.49ersparadise.cjb.net is included Despite being a win, and a Rams loss away from clinching the NFC West, 49ers head coach Steve Mariucci remains at the heart of many 49ers fans complaints. Not aggressive, lacking killer instinct, too ‘nice’: all expressions that are used to categorize the coach. I’m a Mariucci fan. I can see that he’s not the perfect coach, but I also realize that there are few that are better. Many 49ers fans who want Mooch to be ousted after this season fail to see that. They also want the team to pursue Mike Holmgren currently with the Seahawks. I’m not opposed to bring Holmgren into San Francisco again. I respect the guy, and think he’s had an excellent coaching career, be it with the 49ers, Packers and slightly less so with the Seahawks. But just like Mariucci he has his down falls. "The 49ers are not that much better than we are talent-wise," maintained Seahawks safety Reggie Tongue. "But they don't make nearly the number of mistakes we do. They play solid football when they have to. That's why they've beaten us twice and they're at where they're at, and we're at where we're at.'' Tongue’s comments are a great explanation of how Mariucci is a better coach in certain areas than Holmgren. Mainly Mariucci’s teams don’t make the mistakes of penalties and turnovers to the same extent as any Holmgren team. There are a plethora of other differences too.
In closing, I’d just like to say that no matter who the coach is of our beloved 49ers, no one will be good enough. There will always be downfalls and losses, and some may not be as good as others we’ve had in the past. But of the options above, and I know I’ll be disagreed with, but I don’t think either is significantly better than the other - even if Mariucci has beaten Holmgren three out of three times.
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