I don't get that vibe at all honestly and his players say the complete opposite. The atmosphere he creates for his team appears to be very welcomed. I like Harbaugh and think he deserves Coach of the Year. I would be really pissed too if I was him. I actually saw three other huge reasons during the Championship games where instant replay can be a total joke.
For one, some Ravens fans were complaining about the Patriots defender knocking the ball out. I watched the slow motion video, and luckily there was no case in what I could see. Not even when slowing it down to half a second intervals was his foot down before the ball got knocked out.
But people then started talking about NANOseconds. WTH? If they actually started looking at NANOseconds in plays, there would be a reverse or a flag on every single play in football.
Likewise, the forward progress whistle was bull, but more so the ball touching his players' knee. The on field call was correct imo, even though it clearly scraped his knee. The player wasn't attempting to touch the ball. He was obviously doing his best to avoid touching it and the ball bounced into and barely touched his knee.
That changed everything. A play like that to cost you the AFC Championship after all the work, sweat and blood you put into a season it's just not right. That's not how football games should be won, that's not what it needs to come down to, and that's certainly not what a Championship game should come down to. That's not how it should be used. They need to enforce some limits because now the refs have far too much control.
And if you're going to go that far with it with the 49ers and get THAT picky with it, then why didn't they do this for the Patriots? Which Patriots fan was NOT pissed when the Torrey Smith scored that touchdown?
Not
ONE announcer even mentioned the way that guy was dragging him by the facemask and continued to hang on to it as he dived twisting his whole body around? How in God's name do you endorse reviewing scoring plays yet NOT be able to call that blatant personal foul? HOW? How do you not even mention it?
What the hell? To sit there and show it over and over on national television on not mention a word. The silence for the announcers was deafening for me. It's like they knew.
Where is the consistency with this? How can I take the 49ers decisions seriously when you show me this on a scoring drive over and over and over, at home, at Gillette stadium and nothing gets done about it. I don't even think ESPN is saying anything about it.