Mike Singletary, Jed York and the State of the San Francisco 49ers

Only three games into the 2010 NFL season, the once mighty football house that Eddie DeBartolo and Bill Walsh built into a Super Bowl juggernaut in the 1980s and early 1990s—the San Francisco 49ers—has fallen into woeful disrepair again.

After an 8-8 finish in 2009, the seemingly resurgent 49ers elected to maintain stability in both their offensive coordinator Jimmy Raye and their quarterback Alex Smith. In the first round of the 2010 draft, they added two behemoth linemen to buy added protection for Alex Smith and to open bigger holes for their workhorse running back Frank Gore.

Hopeful fans, local sports writers and even members of the national sports media were convinced that the...

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