Aside from the band Smash Mouth, 49ers general manager Trent Baalke doesn’t seem to have much support these days.
That’s what happens when your team starts 1-6 after winning just five games last season. Former Cincinnati Bengals quarterback and radio host Boomer Esiason joined the growing chorus of those calling for Baalke’s head when he joined The Audible on KNBR 1050 Friday morning.
When asked what he’d do if he were Baalke, Esiason replied, “I’d fire myself,” then jokingly added, “and hire Jim Harbaugh.”
Esiason was also critical of 49ers head coach Chip Kelly, saying he will not be in the NFL much longer, and that his teams don’t play well enough on the defensive side of the ball to be competitive at the NFL level.
“I think he stepped into a really bad situation,” Esiason said. “You talk about the the team there and you talk about their defense…when you watch the defense play right now, you say to yourself there’s no way in the world they’re even remotely close.”
“Chip is an offensive coach, and while I do appreciate the things that he tries to do on offense, but when you don’t have a defense to support it, all of the sudden you’ve got problems, that’s what happened to him in Philadelphia and that’s what’s happening to him right now.”
Listen to the full interview below