49ers coach Mike Singletary had a horrible debut last week. Apart from seeing his team obliterated by a poor Seahawks bunch, Singletary sent a star player to the showers, conducted a Coors Light commercial that doubled as a postgame press conference, and at halftime made a pitch for his own Preparation H endorsement.
In an interview with NFL Network, Singletary says, “I’ll tone it down.”
That’s a smart move. Because if he doesn’t he won’t last very long in the profession. Titans coach Jeff Fisher, who played with Singletary in Chicago, hinted in an interview during NFLN’s pregame show that Singletary will in time figure out what to say, and what not to say.
“As [Singletary] gets more experience,” Fisher said, “he may realize that just because you feel it doesn’t mean you have to say it and if you need to say it, do it when the doors are closed.”
Singletary also lamented the reality that the Las Vegas code no longer applies in an NFL locker room.
“We are not in the era of ‘what is said in this room stays in this room,'” Singletary told Jamie Dukes of NFLN. “I’ve seen some things in the locker room that would blow your mind. So it’s one of those things that you have to take stock, learn from and move on.”
It sounds like a concession that any efforts by Singletary to identify the person who leaked the information and deal with him won’t lead anywhere good. And it also indicates to us that Singletary will, moving forward, refrain from saying or doing anything behind the closed doors of the locker room that he wouldn’t want the world to know about.
Because the reality is that, if it’s juicy enough, someone will blab.