Mike Singletary Signs Four-Year Contract
December 28, 2008 by David Kindervater
Filed under San Francisco 49ers
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San Francisco 49ers interim head coach Mike Singletary couldn’t have scripted this Week 17 season finale any better. Moments after his team beat the Washington Redskins 27-24 this afternoon, he signed a four-year, $10 million contract to continue as full-time head coach of the Niners. The ink is still drying as I type this. Kicker Joe Nedney, who won the game with a 40-yard field goal as time expired, was one of many players happy with the not-so-surprising announcement:
“He’s honest, intense and forthright. You have to have those qualities to bring together the chemistry of a team.”
As I’ve said in several previous posts, Coach Singletary is the obvious choice for this job. His passion and commitment to the San Francisco 49ers is obvious and I believe he will be a fantastic head coach for a long time. He’s already turned the Niners into winners (he had a 5-4 record) and I believe he has the ability to change the attitude of this organization back to the winning ways of the dominant Niners teams of the 1980s. Coach Singletary has the right to hire and fire his assistants so it will be interesting to see which staffers return, especially pass happy offensive coordinator Mike Martz.
Source: PressDemocrat.com, Photo: Newscom
