Singletary: There's no Vernon in Team

Thank you Mike Singletary!  For those of you who love the dynamic of professional sports and the drama that surrounds it, this one's a beauty.

  

Last Week, the San Francisco 49ers fired their Head Coach in Mike Nolan and ushered in their own Defensive Coordinator Mike Singletary as his replacement.  The same Mike Singletary who won Super Bowls with the Bears, who is arguably the best middle linebacker to ever play the game, and who is a real old school football guy.  

Singletary was to usher in a new era and new culture in the Niners' dressing room.  In his debut as Head Coach on Sunday, Singletary's team got destroyed by a mediocre (at best) Seattle Seahawks.  However, that was not the top story coming out of that game.  Instead, an incident between Coach Singletary and Multimillion Dollar ″Franchise player‶ Tight End Vernon Davis did just that.  The incident which took place on the sidelines definitely stole the show.  Duging Singletary's playing days, this type of altercation would have gone virtually un-noticed by the nearly everyone, but not in today’s media driven game.  

Vernon Davis (as seen above), took a very selfish unsportsmanlike penalty during the 3rd Quarter of Sunday's game when he faced washed a Seattle defensive back following a tackle.  Singletary, in his right mind, did not like the penalty and walked over to Davis on the bench to talk about it.  Davis, allegedly, cut off his new coach and said: " I don't need to hear it.."  Singletary, allegedly, walked away without saying anything, most likely to let Davis cool off.  He later returned to discuss the incident and once again Davis cut him off and said: "I said, I don't want to hear it.." Which sparked Singletary's legendary short fuse, the result of which was Singletary sending Davis to the showers making sure that he brought his helmet with him.

Check out Singletary’s brilliant post game press conference:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4hl776tNTg&feature=related

Let me reiterate how ridiculous Vernon's behavior was in this circumstance.  He is a player, Singletary is a coach.  Coache's coach players...  Players listen to coache's, even if they don't want to.  There are no if's, and's or but's regarding the structure of that relationship.  Vernon Davis has done nothing special since his arrival to the NFL.  Davis shot up the draft board to be drafted 6th overall, to many onlookers' surprise, because of his freakish athletic ability which he displayed at the pre-draft combine.  However, simply being able to test spectacularly well in specific drills and in the weight room does not make you a good football player.  Anyone who's watched NCAA football knows that there are hundreds of very athletic individuals capable of doing crazy things in testing...  Yet only a few of them make a significant impact in the NFL.. Why?  Because they have the mental capacity and fortitude to display character and discipline in a very violent and emotional game. So to hear the under achieving/overpaid Davis tell his Hall of Famer coach that he quote: doesn't need to hear it, is absolutely ridiculous.  Big ups to Singletary for his already legendary press conference, to which he will no doubt add to in the not so distant future.