The 49ers’ 35-year-old CEO said he was humbled by this past season, and that the failures of 2015 rest squarely on his shoulders.
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York said that he is willing to spend whatever it takes to get the team back to championship caliber, but will spend it wisely.
The 49ers fired Jim Tomsula afterpromoting him a year ago from defensive line coach, andBaalke has ruled out in-house candidates from this year’s search.
Colin Kaepernick, who led the 49ers to the Super Bowl in his sophomore season in the league, continued regressing this season.
He said he saw the planes flying banners critical of him over Levi’s Stadium.
But he also made it clear the York family ownership is here to stay. Looks like there may be real substance to the rumors about Tomsula working behind Harbaugh’s back after all. Did the two parties actually “mutually part ways”?
“We have a clear understanding of what we want”, he said.
Nor will they be, it seems. Unfortunately, it would have been better for the team to lose out to all of its division opponents and get the No. 4 draft pick, but Tomsula showed his ineptitude right up to the very last minute and got the W. What did York learn from that dud of a hire? Monday’s was York’s first press conference since Tomsula’s hiring. More notably, York sparked a firestorm of criticism when he apologized to 49ers fans at the end of a 2014 Thanksgiving Night loss to the Seattle Seahawks. After a year where York shied away scrutiny, his assessment was that he was too public. He acknowledged that he’d learned a lot in a challenging year. “I’m disappointed for the players because of the work that they put in, especially over the last few weeks”. The context? Bowman said Baalke told him to “just keep working and we will get it right”. It’s ultimately a distraction.
“I’m not going to make any decisions on players”, he said. “We took a step back from our ultimate goal of winning a Super Bowl”. Kaepernick, who was demoted in November after his struggles, said “continued pain” in the thumb caused concern but he did not know the extent of the injury until undergoing an MRI exam last week. “More than I could have ever imagined”.
Now Tomsula, who was 6-11, including one game as an interim coach in 2010, is out as well. I wish I had better news. The team ended the season 5-11.
The New York Giants, Philadelphia Eagles, Miami Dolphins and Cleveland Browns are going to have new head coaches, they’re going to need to find assistants to fill out their staff. In came Jim Tomsula, who was in the organization for seven years but never a head coach.
“I ve seen Trent build a championship-caliber roster”, York said. “And I’ve done both”, Baalke said.
READ: Who will be the 49ers’ next head coach? Will the next head coach be like Harbaugh – stubborn, headstrong, but a victor? The players, as always, were there to answer questions about the game, the season, the direction of the franchise. “Today we won a game, let’s give him some praise for that”.
“Jim Harbaugh’s a good football coach”, York said. Tweets and soundbites don’t win Super Bowls, and contrary to York’s conjecture, they can’t lose them either.
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According to reports, some of the candidates include New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton and Stanford head coach David Shaw.
