In the wake of the Detroit Lions falling to 0-15, Parker was questioning Marinelli about the job that his son-in-law, Joe Barry has done as defensive coordinator.

Marinelli defended Barry’s job, saying that he personally was in all of the defensive meetings and had not qualms with Barry’s ability to do his job. After spending some time questioning the father-in-law/son-in-law relationship as it pertains to NFL coaching, Parker then crossed the line.

“On a light note, seriously, do you wish your daughter had married a better defensive coordinator?” asked Parker.

Watch for yourself:

After that question, Marinelli gave him that “If I answer honestly, we both lose our jobs, so I’ll just leave the resume writing to you” look.

I’ve been in a lot of press conferences, including a lot of NFL post game press conferences. I’ve heard a lot of bad questions. I’ve asked plenty of bad questions. But I’ve never heard someone ask something so personally insulting, relating family to business.

The Detroit Lions are a bad football team. But neither Marinelli, Barry, nor Marinelli’s daughter have had as much to do with their ineptitude as former GM Matt Millen.

It wasn’t Marinelli’s daughter who drafted wide receivers in the top ten of three straight drafts, so her choice of spouse should pretty much be off limits.

So long Rob Parker, I hope you enjoyed the experience of writing, covering NFL football, and eventually being the laughing stock of talk shows, articles and websites around the nation.

On an appearance on ESPN radio together, CollegeFootballTalk.com reports (HT: Deadspin) the following conversation:

“You tell me this,” Tebow said to Kiper during the radio exchange. “What do you think I need to do to be an NFL quarterback? You tell me that.”

Unfortunately, Kiper didn’t give Tebow a direct answer to his direct question.

“You’re just too good with the ball in your hands not to think, Could he be Frank Wycheck? Could he be Chris Cooley? That’s why,” Kiper said. “You’re too good, doing what you do, Tim, running with the football.”

First of all, Kiper has to do better than “you’re too good with the football. How about you struggle with the deep outs, you have not proven that you can take a snap from under center or perform a five-step drop, your release is too slow and the offense you play in is nothing like an NFL offense.

Tebow is good at what he does, which is be a college quarterback, but the guy is not an NFL quarterback. You can go ask my former colleagues in Phoenix if I’ve ever been wrong about college-to-NFL quarterback transitions. I spent quite a bit of time explaining to people in the past why Vince Young was not an NFL QB. Same with Matt Leinart (though I do think he has B-level or backup potential).

It’s difficult enough to make it in the NFL, but in order to have a chance, you need to have the basic skills. Being a good gimmick QB in college is not a basic NFL QB skill. Ask Timmy Chang, David Klingler, Scott Frost and Danny Weurfel how their stats translated to NFL skills.

There are two things that are true when it comes to NFL quarterbacks. One, you need to have a great arm. I don’t mean you can throw it far or you can throw it accurately, I mean you have to do both extremely well. And two, you need to know the game inside and out. You need to be able to read defenses and know everything about your offense. If you can’t do either of these, you need to be Michael Vick.

Vince Young will never make it because he doesn’t mentally comprehend the game well enough. He has great physical tools, but when you go your entire college career without having to make reads, you are going to struggle at the next level.

What happens when Tebow gets to the NFL and he’s not a threat to run. The NFL will laugh at his “running ability.” His running skills are three or four yards a carry. He’s not a big play threat on the ground, so the NFL will simply stick a linebacker on him all game and he won’t run. In college you can’t do that because A) he can throw at the college level, and B) linebackers aren’t as big or disciplined.

And before anyone tries to bring up the Wildcat formation and how good Tebow will be at it — stop. He will be good at it. For five or six plays a game, Tebow will be a legitimate threat. I don’t deny that he’s got a chance to earn a living in the NFL, but he must find something he’s good at other than being a quarterback. Be a running back, contribute on special teams, work as an H-back — any of these are better options that trying to be an every down quarterback. It’s just not going to happen.

Of this current crew of college quarterbacks, I think there are some quality NFL-caliber guys. For the first time in a generation, there are Big 12 quarterbacks who have a shot at making it in the NFL, but I’m not ready to crown them like some others are.

I’m still not completely sold on Sam Bradford, though he appears to have all of the skills. Colt McCoy is a true playmaker, but I’ve seen too much inconsistency through three years to say he’s a lock at the next level, and Graham Harrell has amazing physical skills, but like Tebow, may be in for a shock when it comes to playing NFL style football (no shotgun, getting sacked, etc.).

And more importantly, what I think has been the biggest downfall of Big 12 quarterbacks in the NFL, these guys have to prove they can beat a real defense. The Big 12 historically plays very basic defenses, which allow for very basic offenses on the other side. This leads to Big 12 QBs getting to the next level and being lost. This year may have been the most extreme we’ve ever seen the Big 12 defenses suck. That may lead to some overvaluing of these Big 12 quarterbacks, even compared to previous seasons.

Tebow has a shot to be an NFL player, but I don’t think he’s got a shot to be an every down quarterback. Mel Kiper knows this, so it shouldn’t have been hard for him to explain it to him.

The simple answer to Tebow’s question would have been, “you have to become better at the things NFL quarterbacks do. Read the defense, perform a five-step drop from under center, and execute all of the passes.” Until Tebow proves he can do these things, he won’t rise above being a second or third round pick as an X-factor guy.

Evil Chandler Bing is rarely right, so when he is, he needs to have the balls to tell it.

Cortland Finnegan and Jeff Fisher.

Fisher because he couldn’t coach his way out of a wet paper bag, and Finnegan because he may be the most undisciplined player in football, taking pride in his ability to cost his team dearly with stupid penalties.

Take this weekend’s game with Houston for example.

Finnegan had 35 yards worth of penalties, including a pass interference for seven yards, and two personal foul penalties on one fourth quarter drive, that led to what would be the game winning field goal.

Finnegan has spent the better part of this season getting flagged for stupid penalties, all the while getting praised by many for his “Pro Bowl caliber” play in the secondary. His defensive coordinator said he wouldn’t trade him for anyone. He takes pride in being an asshole.

Cortland Finnegan is reason number one why the Titans stand no chance of winning the Super Bowl. He will cost them a game in the playoffs with a stupid penalty. He’s just not good enough to make up for his stupidity.

He may be a good cover corner, when he’s not drawing flags, but the Titans would be better off with him inactive than they are with him on the field.

Reason number two they can’t win the Super Bowl is Jeff Fisher.

When a coach volunteers to lose, rather than win, when home field is on the line, you lose credibility as a coach that knows how to make the right decisions.

Again, we return to Houston. Fourth down and three to go. Two-minute warning. Kicker that is four-for-four and has great range. Ball on the 32-yard line. Down by one. What do you do?

If you are any of 31 coaches in the league, you kick the field goal. If you are playing for nothing, perhaps you run the ball with the guy averaging five yards a carry. If you’re Jeff Fisher, you throw deep with Kerry Collins.

Additionally, when you have a guy running at will against a defense that hasn’t stopped the run all year, why are you throwing the ball 33 times with Kerry Collins? Chris Johnson got 13 carries, LenDale White got eight.

Jeff Fisher coached this game to lose. His team needed to win. If they have to go to Pittsburgh in the playoffs, remember this game. Of course, they may not have to go there if they get eliminated from the playoffs in their first game.

The Titans are now officially the worst 12-2 team in the history of the NFL.

***

And while we’re at it, the Arizona Cardinals also have zero chance to win the Super Bowl, since they will not be afforded the luxory of playing against the NFC West in the playoffs. That seems to be their biggest weakness — playing against non-NFC West teams.

Just this month, ESPN the Magazine ran a large feature about remembering Shawn Taylor. Taylor was shot in a break in at his home and killed last year. NFL players continue to fear for their safety.

The NFL’s official policy is that players cannot carry guns on NFL premises’. That means when they drive to and from the team facilities, everyone knows they are unarmed. These men are walking targets and the NFL won’t let them use their legal right to protect themselves with arms.

Lost in the news this week was that Burress’ teammate, Steve Smith, was held up and robbed at gunpoint outside of his New Jersey home. Until the NFL realizes that all of their employees are targets and does something about it, we have unfortunately not heard the last story about an active NFL player getting murdered or robbed.

I’m not defending Plaxico Burress. If he wanted to protect himself, he should have gotten the gun licensed and had the proper carry and conceal permits wherever he planned to take it. Not knowing the laws of where you are puts you at the mercy of that jurisdiction. Burress doesn’t have much of an excuse for breaking the New York handgun law.

Having said that, I don’t think Burress should be looking at three and a half to 15 years either. Do you think it’s fair that Burress will likely spend more time in prison than Michael Vick?

Then you have the media jackasses who are treating this like a murder case. I saw one idiot on ESPN this week saying that this is worse than anything an NFL player has done before. Really? Worse than Michael Vick? Rae Carruth? Ray Lewis? O.J.?

The media and the city of New York are going overboard on this. Yes, what he did was wrong and he deserves punishment. But putting Plaxico Burress in jail for three years effectively ends his NFL career and will put him in an unemployable state at 34 years old.

I’m not saying that the law should make an exception based on who committed the crime, but they shouldn’t make him an example either. When your mayor is holding press conferences to say that an NFL player should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and he’s facing “three and a half years in the slammer,” you are not treating him like anyone else. That’s what making an example of someone is all about. Michael Bloomberg wants nothing more than to send Burress to jail for a few years so that the thugs in his city learn a lesson. That’s not justice.

And while I’m on the topic, John Feinstein of the Washington Post completely missed the point on this story. Living in the most gun-fearing city in the country, Feinstein apparently only understand sports statistics, as he wants sports to completely ban all of their athletes from carrying guns, and oh yeah, while we’re at it, abolish the Second Amendment.

I don’t want to get all political on you, but every study in the history of studies shows that allowing guns prevents crime, not the other way around.

Example A: Washington D.C. enacted a virtual ban on handguns in 1976. Between 1976 and 1991, Washington D.C.’s homicide rate rose 200%, while the U.S. rate rose 12%.

Example B, from Harvard Law: “…a series of studies by John Lott and his coauthor David Mustard conclude that the issuance of millions of permits to carry concealed handguns is associated with drastic declines in American homicide rates.”

The sooner Feinstein understands this simple statistic, the sooner he can stop writing idiotic things. (Having said that, he’s a fantastic sports writer — as long as he sticks to sports, apparently).

Ask Shawn Taylor’s family if he was better off not being allowed to own a gun. Ask Darrent Williams’ family the same thing. Ask Steve Smith if he wants to start packing.

It’s a dangerous job being an NFL player. Not only on the field, but off. Banning athletes from carrying guns may cut down on athletes getting arrested, but I guarantee it will increase the number that are killed off the field.

The NFL and the media need to pay more attention to the Steve Smiths of the NFL if they want to understand the Plaxico Burress’ of the NFL. Professional athletes are sitting ducks to criminals. Yes, some of them are thugs themselves, but many of them are not. This doesn’t mean that they should not be afforded the same constitutional rights that the rest of us have.

Telling the world that this group of 1700 men with average salaries in the seven-figures is not allowed to arm themselves is an invitation to take them by force. Would the NFL rather have this or less arrests of guys shooting themselves in the leg?

The NFL averaged over 52 points per game this weekend, the highest average total in over 20 years. This season, the NFL is on pace to set an all-time mark for points per game, edging out last season and 1983.

From ESPN.com:

“An average of 45 points have been scored in NFL games this season. If that holds, it will top last season’s average of 43.4 and the record average in the 31 seasons of a 16-game schedule: 43.7 points in 1983.”

While the high scoring games are all fun to watch, nobody is asking why there are so many points. Well, as we’ve pointed out many times this season, the officiating of NFL football games has reached an all-time low in quality. Penalties are called at far too high of a rate, and they are far more impactful now then they were in the past.

The reason penalties are the cause of this surge in points the last few years is that every point of emphasis and new rule is put in to help the offense and hold back the defense.

If you recall, the points of emphasis in the past few seasons have been defensive holding, illegal contact and roughing the passer. All of these are huge penalties that get called far too frequently.

The illegal contact rules in the NFL are the main reason there are so many points. When you are not allowed to touch a receiver, you can’t cover him. When the receiver initiates contact and a penalty is called on the defense for illegal contact, you are just encouraging receivers to push off, and that’s exactly what they do. It is impossible for a cornerback in the NFL to cover a receiver well with today’s rules and penalties.

The other penalty that has a direct impact is the increased roughing the passer calls. You’re simply just not allowed to hit a quarterback anymore. There is no oversight, and the referees are just flagging anytime the quarterback is hit and not sacked. It’s downright pathetic, and if it’s not changed, will be the downfall of the NFL. People won’t stand for fixed games and they won’t stand for over-the-top penalty calling. That’s what the NFL is now — over-the-top penalties, leading people to believe that every game is fixed.

Both of those penalties are automatic first downs, and both are called whenever the refs want to call them. It no longer matters if there was actually a penalty, since even hinting that there was a bad call in a game gets you an immediate $25,000 fine. There is no chance for coaches and players to speak up about the terrible calls, and god forbid someone hints that the fix was in.

There may not be a fix per se in each game, but make no mistake about it, the fix is in. Roger Goodell and friends are fixing games each week. They are encouraging offense and penalties on the defense, while fining defensive players for perfectly clean hits. They are fixing games to make them higher scoring and to protect the image of their shiny, marquee offensive stars.

Remember when baseball tried to bring more offense to the game? The results were smaller fields, watered down pitching, juiced baseballs, and juiced players. How is baseball’s image after going to “offense rules” style of play?

Does the NFL want to be baseball, or do they want to suck it up and bring back football? One way or the other, Roger Goodell is well on his way to being the Bud Selig of the NFL.

And that’s not a good thing.

For the second time this season, Romo was a stranger’s knight in shining armor, appearing as if from nowhere, out of the shadows, to brighten or help someone’s day.

This time, it was Romo inviting a homeless man to the movies. You can make all the “Romo going to the movies with a guy” jokes you want, but today, I’m not having any of it.

For all of the Jessica Simpson related reasons he gives you to root against him, Romo has to go and do something like this to win you back.

According to the Dallas Morning News, Romo invited “Doc” into the theater with him and a friend, then sat next to him:

“‘Was that Tony Romo?’ Doc asked the worker behind the counter.

It sure was. Doc, who requested that his real name not be used, hustled across the street to the consignment store that paid him to occasionally pass out fliers and requested the day off. By the time he got back to the theater, Role Model had already started.

Romo, who confirmed the story but didn’t want to elaborate, waved Doc over to sit by him and his friend. Doc sheepishly mentioned that he hadn’t showered in a few days.

‘Don’t worry about that,’ Romo said. ‘I’m used to locker rooms.’”

Apparently, Doc had no idea who was inviting him into the theater at first and passed, choosing instead to work his job of passing out fliers. When he realized who it was, he changed his mind.

Earlier this year, Romo appeared out of nowhere to help change a tire for a couple with a flat. Romo was returning home from a game with a bandaged chin before helping out that family.

Say what you want about his football skills or style, rip on him for his choice of lady friends, and feel free to dislike him for his contract, but don’t ever doubt Tony Romo the person.

I, for one, think he’s a fine football player — slightly overrated and drastically overpaid — but he is right at the top of the list of good people.

Football — and sports in general — could use a few more Tony Romos.

That’s right — those Cardinals. They’re sitting at 7-3, dominating what might be the worst division in NFL history.

The rest of the NFC West this season is a combined 7-23. Of those seven wins, four of them are against other NFC West teams. This division is so bad, I can’t even find the words to describe it.

I can only imagine the excitement amongst the 23,000 or so real Cardinal fans living in the greater Phoenix area, as the possibility exists that they will not only appear in, but actually host, an NFL playoff game.

As a young radio reporter, I covered the Arizona Cardinals beat. I was at practice every day, all of the press conferences and all of the games. I know the history of this team. I know how far from division dominance this team was just three years ago.

The Cardinals have had a winning record just one time in the last 24 years. The last time they went to the playoffs was in that one winning season. They clinched their playoff spot that year on the final play of the final game of the year. A Chris Jacke field goal led to an NFL stadium (or college stadium on loan) having its goal posts taken down. That’s a sight you don’t see in the NFL too often.

Now, this same Cardinal franchise, under the same despicable ownership, with poster boy Matt Leinart wearing a headset more than a helmet, and with marquee free agent Edgerrin James riding the pines is heading to the playoffs.

How? Are they really this good?

The answer, quite simply, is no. They are good, to be sure. They might be a playoff team in any division, but they wouldn’t be 7-3, ready to clinch. They are 4-0 against their pathetic division “rivals,” and an average 3-3 against all non-division opponents.

They got beaten all three times they traveled to the east coast, but do have three quality non-division wins. They are a good team. With Anquan Boldin and Larry Fitzgerald, they are a matchup nightmare for any secondary in the league.

They can clinch the NFC West with a win this weekend over the New York Football Giants, along with a loss or tie by Seattle and a loss by San Francisco.

That’s right, the Cardinals could be division champs with five games to spare.

Of course, the Cards are 3 1/2 point underdogs at home this week to the Giants, and may have to wait a week or two before popping the champagne, but even the biggest Cardinal hater in Phoenix (and there’s plenty of them) has to accept that it’s going to happen.

I’ve been too close to this team to root for or against them, but I can say objectively that what they’ve accomplished in the last few years is nothing short of amazing. Even without the sudden fall of the rest of the division, the Cardinals deserve credit. They could have just as easily put out the same tired team of aging free agents and under-performing draft picks and made this division closer, but they didn’t.

They recovered from the Dennis Green era and Bill Bidwill finally let his son, Michael, handle the important decision. Factor that in with the increase in revenue from their new stadium and the Cards have built a true playoff football team.

They’ve been the pick du jour for the past few seasons, but we all eventually just accepted that no matter how good they look on paper, they just won’t win.

Well, now they’ve done the unthinkable. The Arizona Cardinals have proved us wrong and put together a legitimate playoff football team. Congratulations to the Cards. They’ve given the people of Phoenix a long awaited, long overdue reason to pull for the home town team, instead of the quasi-home team visitors.

I never thought I’d see the day that a Cardinals home game was full of red, as the fans of the home team rooted for a division winning team.

Troy Polamalu’s score with no time left on the clock would have put Pittsburgh up 17-10, pending the extra point, but was instead taken off the board to make the NFL’s first ever 11-10 final score.

In a league that tries its hardest to avoid any links to gambling, a gambling story dominated the headlines after this. You see, the point spread was Pittsburgh -4 1/2, meaning that the non-existent touchdown covered the spread. Pittsburgh bettors all over Las Vegas thought they had a BS cover, while San Diego bettors were preparing their bad-beat stories for their friends.

Here’s how it happened.

Pittsburgh scores with just a few seconds remaining, leaving San Diego enough time for a kick return and one play. After a short pass to LaDanian Tomlinson, the Chargers attempted the new football tradition of never-ending laterals until they score. This one lasted for two attempted laterals before the ball was knocked to the ground, picked up by Polamalu and into the endzone. Touchdown Steelers.

Then, the referee went under the hood, ruled that there was an illegal forward pass, the penalty declined, and the touchdown was good.

Then, before the PAT, the refs got together once more, and ruled that the illegal forward pass hit the ground. This, by rule, makes the play dead. Based on their interpretations of what happened, the ruling was that the play was dead when the ball hit the ground.

The problem was, that the lateral that hit the ground was a legal lateral, not an illegal forward pass.

The NFL ruled after the game that the wrong ruling was made on the field and that Pittsburgh should have been awarded the touchdown.

But the really interesting part of the story didn’t become apparent until Monday.

After the league announced that the call was incorrect, there were stories all over the television and Internet about the wrong call, with many a reference to the point spread and the impact of the defensive touchdown in fantasy leagues.

Without knowing it, the NFL and the media admitted what many of us already knew and they always denied: The NFL’s success is based entirely on gambling and fantasy football.

I will say that again. The success of the NFL, particularly its TV contract and the ratings, are based entirely on people betting on games or participating in fantasy football.

The NFL denies this. They truly believe that people watch the NFL for the sport of it. The game hasn’t changed (at least not for the better) in many, many years. People are watching more now because of the drastic rise in the popularity of fantasy football and the ease of betting on games, either legally or illegally.

The NFL needs gamblers. They need fantasy nerds. It’s these people that have driven up TV ratings and have led to the success of the NFL Sunday Ticket. They know it, they just don’t want to admit it.

Have you ever wondered why the NFL has league mandated injury reports? Do you think it’s for the fairness of the game? If you do, you’re wrong. The injury reports are for gamblers. Nowadays, they’re also for fantasy nerds, but they’re more for gamblers.

If NFL gamblers and fantasy players were to boycott an entire season (impossible, I know), the league would be absolutely shocked by the lack of interest in their game. You would have tremendous interest in 31 cities, but crickets in the rest of the country.

Don’t get me wrong. There are people that love the sport and will continue to watch. There are true fans of the NFL. But over the course of a year, a league without betting and fantasy football would be a league that is deemed a failure and not worth the TV contract.

There’s not a whole lot the NFL can do for us degenerates even if and when they admit that they need us to survive. But acknowledging this dependence would be a start.

When a single play or bad call in the NFL can cause a $32 million swing worldwide, then the league should acknowledge this major issue.

And with this, more importantly than everything I just said, the government needs to accept that gambling is a major part of this country, and embrace it. There are billions of dollars a year that are bet illegally. Regulating and taxing legal sports betting online is the right solution. And add poker while you’re at it.

People are going to keep betting, no matter what. As long as they do, bookies, and offshore gaming companies will get rich. That is money that should be going into the American economy. The sooner the government accepts this, the better off we’ll all be.

Hop to it, Obama. Perhaps this can be one big bill with the college football playoff.

Here is the transcript of what followed via Awful Announcing via NFL.com:

“In a special segment on this week’s Inside The NFL, Warren Sapp answered viewer submitted questions during “Ask Warren Anything”.

Below are transcription highlights of the show.

(On rumor that Sapp is a diva on “Dancing With The Stars”)
SAPP: I’ll tell you what. I have to be honest about the diva thing. I am a little eccentric at times. I like cold water and in California they like it room temperature. And as a 300-pound man I needed a little cold water. So they gave me a big cooler and they put “Warren’s Water,” so I guess that’s where they get that from. If a big fella needing cold water is being a diva, then diva I am.

(On whether he would ever watch Keyshawn Johnson’s reality show about interior design)
SAPP: Me, watch Keyshawn on an interior decorating show? Keyshawn, I knew you were a bitch. And thanks for making it all clear.”

At the end of the show, Cris Collinsworth gave Sapp several opportunities to take back, apologize, clear up, or rescind his quote, but Sapp was having none of it. In fact, anytime Keyshawn’s name came up, Sapp got that look on his face that simply says, “don’t say that bitch’s name to me.”

There seems to be some real bad blood or dislike between Sapp and Keyshawn. It was quite shocking to hear, but quite relieving to hear someone say what they actually think, critics be damned.

If you recall, in his head coaching debut, lost amongst the Vernon Davis fiasco, was Singletary’s decision to go for a 4th-and-short inside field goal range late in the the first half against Seattle. J.T. O’Sullivan promptly threw an interception, putting San Francisco down 20-3 at the half instead of 13-6.

Fast forward two weeks, and the head coach has had a bye week to think about his bad decision, and hopefully come to the conclusion that he shouldn’t screw up basic decisions again.

Well, with just 52 seconds left to play against the Cardinals on Monday Night Football, the 49ers were on the 15-yard line, Shaun Hill hit Jason Hill with a 14 yard pass to the one-yard line. The 49ers then decided to send in a different package, allowing the clock to just tick, before Hill spiked the ball to stop the clock with 21 seconds to play.

On the one-yard line, the 49ers wasted at least 20 seconds. Now the Niners have 2nd-and-goal on the one-yard line with no timeouts. Enough time for three plays probably. Not for Samurai Mike. On 2nd down, they call Frank Gore’s number, who runs wide and falls short of the goal line, spotted on the two-and-a-half yard line. Hill and company then take their sweet time and finally spike the ball with four seconds left.

But a review of the play before meant that the spike didn’t even count, so the Niners would have to spike it again, or run a play on the referee’s whistle. The smart move here would be to spike the ball again, so that a proper huddle, play call, and look at the defense can be made. Not for Samurai Mike. Singletary had Hill snap the ball on the ref’s whistle, and promptly take one last shot at scoring.

And the brilliant play call?

How about a dive from the two-and-a-half yard line with Michael Robinson. You have Frank Gore, 217 pounds of good at scoring touchdowns, and you have Michael Robinson, 223 pounds of having six carries on the season. Who do you give the ball to? Not Samurai Mike.

Or, of course, you could have thrown the ball three times after spiking it with 30 seconds left.

Singletary may get the troops all fired up, and he may be the best coach in the league at dropping his pants. But he’s got to take the blame for two huge clock management and play calling disasters in two games. You shouldn’t have two in a season, and he’s got two in two games.

The 49ers should have left Arizona with a win. When you get tackled on the 1-yard line with over 40 seconds left, you should do more than two failed running plays to end the game. This game was mismanaged by the coaching staff, and as head coach, Singletary is to blame.

The Niners may officially have a head coach, but they should certainly count themselves among the teams that will be looking to hire a new coach next year.

Does the obligatory Singetary interview count as their token minority interview that the league requires, or must the bring in a different minority that they don’t plan to hire?