Originally published Monday, October 27, 2008 at 12:00 AM
Print49ers flop in coach's debut
In his first game since becoming interim coach, Mike Singletary yanks a player out after an unnecessary-roughness penalty.
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San Francisco's Mike Singletary is in his first head-coaching job. He played in the NFL in the '80s and '90s.
Vernon Davis says he was pulled after a "bad call."
SAN FRANCISCO — Mike Singletary's first Sunday as a head coach at any level turned into a nightmare that needed no sleep to haunt him.
The 49ers Singletary inherited after Mike Nolan was fired on Monday stumbled and bumbled and accommodated the Seahawks at Candlestick Park in a 34-13 defeat that left the fans booing in mutinous harmony.
If that weren't enough, Singletary, a Hall of Fame linebacker, kicked tight end Vernon Davis off the field at the end of the third quarter for picking up an unnecessary-roughness penalty in retaliation against Seahawks free safety Brian Russell.
When Singletary ordered Davis out, Davis reportedly responded, "What? What? What?"
"You don't want to hear it," Singletary said.
Singletary later told an attentive press corps that he would not "tolerate players that think it's about them when it's about the team."
He added, "I would rather play with 10 people and just get penalized all the way [down the field] rather than play with 11 when I know that right now that person is not sold out to be a part of this team."
Davis was giving his version of the incident in an informal news conference held down the locker-room hallway.
"I tapped the guy on his chin," Davis said. "I didn't mean anything by it, but they called a flag. I didn't take a swing at the guy. We didn't exchange words or anything like that. I really think it was a bad call."
Davis said Singletary "won't tolerate anything."
"He's the head coach," Davis said. "I have to do anything he says to do."
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