What is Jim Harbaugh doing right?
 

He has a quarterback who's not the most skilled guy in the world.

He's got some high draft picks in the front seven on defense.

His best player is an inside linebacker.

He's got a pretty good running back.

He's got a very good wide receiver who's not the most savvy guy on the block. (You can apply that to either Crabtree or Moss, I suspect.)



Is this sounding familiar? And if so, why are the 49ers winning while the Chiefs are...the Chiefs? What's he doing differently?

He knows what hes doing and hes not shoving brisket in to his mouth 24/7?

Scott Pioli and lackey Romeo Crennel

His team is good in the trenches on both sides of the ball. You can do basically anything when your offensive and defensive lines are dominant. The Chiefs lines basically suck.

Its early, but he appears to be a young Schottenheimer.

If Pioli doesn't spend the last year trying to undermine a coach and worked with him trying to take some chances with a up and coming team, we aren't having this discussion.

I was thrilled with the Pioli hire after the previous regime, but be careful what you wish for.

First off, he comes from a family of coaches. His Dad was a coach at Western Kentucky and he interned there during his NFL offseasons. Secondly, he was a successful college and NFL QB that commanded and deserved respect.

Not only did he intern at WK, his first real head coaching gig was at San Diego, which has never been a football powerhouse. He brought in good players and they bought into his program. After a few years of success, he duplicated that model at Stanford, where he brought a "Brain" school into national attention with Andrew Luck and a solid, fundamentally sound football program.

Jed Yorke trusts him. Trent Baalke trusts him. He doesn't get involved in anything other than coaching. He's a tough guy with high expectations and players respect him because they know he's been there but also that his coaching formula works.

At the NFL level, confidence is 90% of football.

he's not about theatrics. he's about results and has an infectious personality to play hard for. the Harbaugh'llers have a coaching pedigree that breeds success.

he's got 5 GOOD LBers

2 of the best MLBers currently in the game that never leave the field, ever. (this is a very rare combo in the NFL where two MLBers can stay on the field for every down, so it makes their pass defense more exotic and different looks in terms of coverage and blitzing. Unlike the Chiefs where for whatever ****ing reason we have to drop Eric Berry as an extra safety LBer. Whoever thought thats a good idea needs to be fired.)

also have a young beast pass rusher and two very good serviceable OLBers.

and he two very good ball hawking/tackling safeties with range.

What?

LMAO

What a ****ing insult.

His front 7 on D > than our front 7 on D

His defense has shown up and make those tackles which are a good way to stop the offense from advancing the ball.

His qb Alex Smith hasn't shit himself.

I just named three things for ya Rain Man.

they have crazy blocking schemes when they run the ball as well, so many shifts and so many guys pulling and knocking guys on their ass blindly to set up those traps they like to run.

I think they carry like 5 TEs and they also put offensive lineman at TE a lot too

I never thought he was all the great a QB, but he was definately hard nosed and got the most out of his limited abilities. Sounds like his football teams.

Thats why i said its early. He hasnt won anything yet. Marty won some playoff games early in his career too. I mainly meant they both have that same hard nosed style and their teams reflect that.

Yep.

That's why the Chiefs look so bad right now. Everybody in the stadium - the fans, the players, the beer guy - knows the team is being coached by boobs and run by a GM that cares more about trivial details and being right than winning games.