I think Singletary keeps making himself look foolish. The whole thing with Davis in his first game which was preceded by the pantsless coach delivering a halftime speech to this week when his quarterback had no idea how much time was on the clock while losing 35 seconds on a spike play to not having a clue that a running play had just been called that was putting the game in the hands of their fullback and not Frank Gore.

Sure, the play call is on Martz, but as a head coach he should have done something about it. And if he didn’t know the play was called, shame on him. There was a video review right before that play so he had plenty of time to find out what play had been called.

But ultimately, he summed it up in his first game post-conference when he said he “can’t coach players that put themselves ahead of the team”. Guess what Mike, that’s gonna be about 70% of the players on your team or any other team. That’s just the way it is with NFL players. If you can’t coach them (and you said you can’t with your own words, no need to mis-interpret anything here) then you really don’t need to be a head coach.

But, I’m sure everyone thinks he doing a superb job because he’s got “that intense look in his eyes” and he yells and stomps around the sideline all game.

I saw that earlier today – I liked this quote:

Personally, the [Mike Martz] hiring excited me, but it might fall under the “shiny penny” theory of distracting people from the problems at hand.

There was also a quote from Martz about the confusion of the final seconds that made me cringe:

There was some chaos that I created on the sideline. I did a bad job there…. I just went too fast with everything and it created too much confusion. That’s my fault more than anything else…. That’s just a bad job of coaching on my part. I knew what we wanted to do. I called out two different things at the same time.

This was reminiscent of so many post-game press conferences after Rams losses. He would stand up there and say that the blame was his (usually followed by a “shoot, we’ll fix that”) but none of the core issues would ever improve. To my mind, he isn’t trying to actively sabotage his team, he’s just a terrible crunch-time decision maker. Maybe he has too many possibilities competing in his brain at once, but the output is the same as the guy who doesn’t have a clue at all.