In a results-driven league such as the National Football League, you’re only as good as your last performance, regardless of the position you have, whether as a player or coach. Apparently, the San Francisco 49ers feel the same way as the league as on Monday, team head coach Mike Singletary on Monday announced Alex Smith [...]
Early on at Reliant Stadium, where the Houston Texans hosted the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday, it appeared that their game would be a rout. Steve Slaton had his running legs back and Matt Schaub was exacting damage to the 49ers’ secondary – all of this in the first half. But after replacing starting quarterback [...]
A question that has been answered for at least this week was whether the San Francisco 49ers, in their Sunday game against the Arizona Cardinals, would miss rookie holdout wide receiver Michael Crabtree. Quarterback Shaun Hill guided his team on an 80-yard drive midway through the fourth quarter, enough for San Francisco to squeak past [...]
Niners coach Mike Singletary was reported to be torn between Shaun Hill and Alex Smith as who to go with at starting QB, but that decision now has been made, as the coach has decided to go with Hill as his opening day started vs the Cardinals September 13th.
Singletary made the announcement before [...]
It looks as if it’s going to take Mike Singletary a bit longer to pick his starting QB, this despite a clear difference between how well Shaun Hill has played over Alex Smith:
Coach Mike Singletary said Sunday that he has yet to decide on Shaun Hill or Alex Smith after reviewing film of the 49ers’ [...]
Matt Maiocco of the Press Democrat reports that the Niners will be going w/ Shaun Hill at the starting QB spot on Friday night:
Coach Mike Singletary announced Shaun Hill will start the game. The smart money was on Hill to start this game all along. After all, he is the guy who finished last season [...]
The QB decision for the Niners for their preseason opener may not be made till as late as Thursday:
Coach Mike Singletary might wait until Thursday before deciding on a starting quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers’ exhibition opener against Denver. Shaun Hill and Alex Smith have been fairly even through the first 10 days of [...]
There’s a new sheriff in town when it comes to the 49′ers offense, and that man is 63-year-old Jimmy Raye. He’s the clubs new offensive coordinator, and he’s ready to get the Niners offense turned into a unit that can be good at both running and passing. He said as much at the [...]
The 49′ers are hoping that they will have a much more efficient offense in 2009, and one position that has to be settled early for coach Mike Singletary and the club is that of quarterback. The weekend mini-camp showed a little glimpse of what is going to come down in July at training camp, [...]
From: AP
No time is too early to start the 49ers’ seemingly annual quarterback competition – not even a few hours into the first day of the first minicamp of Singletary’s tenure. With the first game of 2009 still more than five months away, Singletary has begun evaluating whether Alex Smith, Shaun Hill, Damon Huard or [...]
