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VERNON DAVIS MIGHT BE CRYING AGAIN

Tight end Vernon Davis famously cried after the 49ers picked him with the sixth overall pick in the 2006 draft. We’ve got a feeling that Davis is whimpering again after being on the receiving end of the Mike Singletary crazy eyes during the former Bears linebacker’s head-coaching debut in San Fran. Put simply, Singletary kicked Davis out of the game on Sunday. And, in so doing, Singletary sent a clear message to the team about what won’t be tolerated under the new regime in San Fran. “It’s something I told players at the beginning of the week,” Singletary said after the game. “I will not tolerate players who think it is about them and not the team. We can’t make decisions that cost the team, and then come off the sidelines and it’s nonchalant. I’d rather play with 10 people and just get penalized all the way until we have to do something else. Rather than play with 11, when I know that right now, that person is not sold out to be part of the team. It’s more about them, than it is the team. You can not play with them. You can not win with them. You can not coach with them, can’t do it. I want winners. I want people who want to win.” (Um, we don’t want to disrupt you, Coach, but it’s not a penalty to intentionally use only 10 players. It’s stupid, but it’s not a penalty. Carry on.) “I told him he’d do a better job for us right now taking a shower and coming back and watching the game than going out on the field, simple as that,” Singletary said. Singletary wouldn’t commit to including Davis in the starting lineup for the team’s next game, on Monday, November 10 at Arizona. He also wouldn’t commit to when he might be ready to even speak to Davis again. When the tight end tried to approach Singletary after the game, the coach told him, “You don’t want to talk to me right now.”