The 49ers have been so bad for so long now, and the team underachieved so much this year that I think any outside hire would probably only consider taking the head coach job if they could pick their own staff. Maybe some of the position coaches would get a chance to stay but I think Johnson and Manusky are pretty much toast.

My only concern with firing Singletary in the middle of the season is the outside chance of the combination of: Singletary being that bad of a coach, the shake up serving as a wake up call to some of our players, and the patheticness of our second half schedule, leading the team to do something crazy like finish 6-2 or 5-3 under the interim coach and the York's getting suckered into not cleaning house at the end of the year.