Yay, the 49ers won.

I'll probably have more to say on this at some point, but yesterdays win was a nice reminder that the team has some real talent, that has mostly been frittered away this season by poor coaching. 

A somewhat brilliant tweet (from, I believe, Tim Kawakami) was whether in his post-game press conference Mike Singletary would say he couldn't answer why things went right until he'd "watched the film" - his standard answer all season long when things have gone wrong. I don't know whether he did or not, but he absolutely should have - and if he didn't, I hope he was asked why not.

In related news, I hate Mike Singletary.

So, I groaned when I read in this morning's Monday Morning Quarterback by Peter King that he'd named Singletary the Coach of the Week:

Coach of the Week: Mike Singletary, head coach, San Francisco.

Most people (including me) think Singletary’s coaching out the string with the 49ers. But he’s still coaching to win every game he can, and making decisions for the short term, because this team, incredibly, still has a chance to win the worst division in recent NFL history. He switched quarterbacks from Troy to Alex Smith (even though he’d grown fed up with Alex Smith by midseason), and Alex came through with the best game a quarterback has played for the Niners this year. And San Francisco routed the Seahawks 40-21.

But, like every Peter King column, I'm not going to waste too much time dissecting why this is wrong, giving credit to someone making a desperate move that happened to work out ... because Kissing Suzy Kolber just does it better:

Singletary went back to Alex Smith because Troy Smith proved to somehow be an even shittier option and the coach was rewarded with a fluky flash of competency from the guy he already gave up on once. JUST THE WAY HE DREW IT UP!

So. Very. True. Look, I'm happy that the 49ers won, conflicted over the fact that they could still make the playoffs, and reasonably sure that yesterdays win proves how bad the Seahawks are than almost anything else.

But there's no reason to give too much credit to Singletary for this move - he's yanked Alex Smith around so poorly and probably been the nail in his professional career's coffin. (Yeah, that metaphor sucks. Drive on.) He's understandably desperate for any type of a win, so he made the only logical move he had left. It worked out. Good for him.