My Sunday 9ers column about coaching candidate Hue Jackson. Full text below: Note to 49ers: Beware of Hue Jackson. Jackson may be frontrunner in the 49ers’ head coaching search. Chip Kelly may be frontrunner. Rumors swirl. Today’s column is about Jackson, possibly the world’s biggest phony. If Kelly remains a [...]
Link to my Thursday column. Text below: Repeat after me. Colin Kaepernick is an illusion. He’s also a mirage and a pleasant dream that vanishes when you wake up. He’s all smoke and mirrors and special effects. No reality. No substance. I’m not talking about him as a person. I’m [...]
Link to my Jed York column. Text below: SANTA CLARA This is about Jed York and Trent Baalke, but first a comment on Jed. You might even call it praise. And if you’re down on Jed, bear with me. He held his annual postseason news conference Monday in the crowded [...]
Link to Monday column. Text below: SANTA CLARA What happened was they fired Jim Tomsula couple of hours after the game. Niners beat Rams 19-16 in overtime. Didn’t matter. Niners had seen enough of Tomsula. Everyone had, except maybe his wife and kids. End of The Tomsula Era. Call it [...]
Mike Florio writes Tomsula probably out, Baalke probably in. Here's the link: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/01/03/49ers-are-expected-to-keep-baalke-dump-tomsula/
Link to my Sunday column. Text below: Meaningless game, right, the 49ers’ final contest of the season? They’ll finish either 5-11 or 4-12. Bad by any metric. So there’s nothing at stake Sunday, just a bunch of players going through the motions, waiting for the Bekins man to drop by [...]
Link to my Tuesday column. Full text below: SANTA CLARA — This is about the big 49ers lie, the big Jim Tomsula lie. Almost every day, some 49ers apologist writes me about Jim Tomsula. I’m too hard on the poor guy. He got screwed with a bad roster. No one [...]
Here's a link to my Sunday column. Full text below: From the Wild Assumption File. Jed York will address the media soon. Clearly a wild assumption. For all we know, the guy’s a hologram. I haven’t laid eyes on him in a year. If he talks — one very big [...]
Link to my Tuesday column. Text below: SANTA CLARA Rarely have I seen a head coach as embarrassed as Jim Tomsula. Happened at his Monday news conference. He deserved better than what he got. Here’s the background. During the TV broadcast of Sunday’s loss to the Bengals, sideline reporter Jay [...]
Link to my preview column re: 9ers-Browns. Text below: CLEVELAND Niners vs. Browns. Browns the worst team in the NFL. Bar none. Worst record in the league — 2-10. Bar none. Maybe the Browns should be barred from the NFL. They’re that bad. Bar none. One thing you can’t bar [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.