Also nice to hear about your take on 49er OC Roman. They may as well wait until the off season, for continuity’s sake, if nothing else. The coaching fraternity accepts all, winners and losers (statistically that’s about 50-50), as brothers. Indeed, when a losing coach, a real loser, changes jobs and becomes a real winner, those losses are looked on as “the learning process.”

But you witnessed the Walsh era. He lost a lot of games, especially early. He made the most of being unpredictable. The 49ers are conservative and predictable.

Field position is important, obviously, but it’s more of a bi-product than a cause of play selection. Usually it’s points that win the game.

Harbaugh and his crew have been outcoached in recent games. Largely the other teams have figured out how to defend the 49ers, and how to beat the Niners’ superior defense. Harbaugh hired all those assistant coaches and he has final say in what they propose.

This is nowhere more evident than in his dogged determination that Kapernick should start the next game. That crummy play where the Rams scored should not have been called by Roman and should not have been approved by Harbaugh. Further, you can be sure Alex Smith would not have lateraled the ball as badly as did Kapernick. There was the signal that Kapernick is not yet equal to being an NFL quarterback. Harbaugh needs to sallow his excessive self pride and get back to Smith.