Man how is today Harbaugh's fault? Teams go through ups and downs during a season. Defense struggled mightily early in the year, now they're figuring it out and starting to play much better. But now the offense has hit a bump they gotta work through--it's all about putting it together at the right time.
For Tucker, his history earned him the right to have a long leash--now yes, this HAS to be the end of it, but Harbs wasn't wrong to give him as long as possible to figure it out.
On Keaton Mitchell: A RB coming back late in the season off an ACL tear you can't expect to be full speed (to my eyes he didn't seem all the way back yet, but who knows) And...we don't know how he's feeling after the first few weeks. Decisions like that are difficult to criticize because we aren't in practice or the locker room...we legit don't know.
And btw, for a thing that's definitely on Harbs that got better: Did you notice how few penalties we got? I counted 3 for maybe 15-20 yards (just eyeballing). That got much better.
And overall for Harbaugh, remember: Harbaugh at the most has one more year, and he's gonna be out. And depending on how this season goes, they may make a decision sooner than that--I can't see them extending him at this point. Hey...maybe he can announce his retirement and we send him off the right way