re: How fired is Mike Smith

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Right, so changing coaches will have us start competing with the big boys?Overnight huh?

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You never know. Harbaugh took a shite San Francisco team who hadn't even sniffed the playoffs in about 10 years before he got there and had them hosting the NFCCG in his first season. You know what the difference was? They looked tougher and meaner than they had in previous regimes and physically imposed their will on opponents.

Pete Carroll had Seattle in the second round of the playoffs in his first season as coach/GM. He drafted well and his teams were (and still are) tough and nasty.

There's a reason those two played a classic NFC title game last season.