Singletary continues to believe that the 49ers can get out of current funk

During Monday's press conference with the media, 49ers head coach Mike Singletary spoke on how he still believes the team has potential to finish out the next half of the season strong.

There is still a belief within Singletary that the offense is doing better. But after a four-game losing streak, it's hard to accept team success so easily.

That struck with Santa Rosa Press Democrat reporter Lowell Cohn. During the conference, Cohn asked Singletary on how he can believe that the players can turn it around.

The video can be seen here. Here is Cohn's transcript of the whole discussion.

LC: What makes you think your players can turn it around? (I also said Singletary's words to the media were quite motivating but we aren't his players.)

MS: "You know what sir, I don't know where you're from and I don't know what you really meant by that. I understand that you're not my players. I'm thankful that you're not my players. I do want to win. But let me say this, you have to know guys that you spend days with. You have to know the guys that you spend hours with. Just like you when you're at home. I don't know how much time you spend with your kids. But it's important that when things happen you have a pretty good idea of how your kids are going to respond. If you tell me that one of my kids slapped you, one of my kids spit on you, I've got a pretty good idea of who it would be, because I know them. 'OK, that was Jack, or you know what, that was Brooke.' When I think about our guys, when I'm talking about our guys, I know them. When you spend as much time with these young men and you know what they're made of you have a pretty doggone good idea how they're going to respond. Does that makes sense?"

LC: "It may. We'll see what happens."

MS: "It may? You asked me a question. I thought I responded to your question."

LC: "I appreciate your response."

MS: "Well I thank you, very much."

LC: "And I wish you the best."

MS: "I appreciate it."

LC: "But when you say you know how they're going to respond, I don't know how they're going to respond. You may know better than I."

MS: "You're not the coach. I wasn't asking you the question. You asked me the question."

LC: "You asked me if I thought you did OK with the answer."

MS: "Thank you."

LC: "My response is, I guess we'll find out. You clearly have more confidence in your players than other people may, including me, and that's why they play the games."

MS: "You're exactly right, and I appreciate that. Are you going to be here next week?"

LC: "I'm going to be here all the weeks."

MS: "Now that's exciting. That's outstanding. I'm looking forward to it. I want you to sit right here, or get a seat right here and you ask me those same question."

LC: "I'll stand up there next to you."

MS: "Outstanding. Fantastic."

LC: "OK."

MS: "All right."

Singletary seemed a little defensive in yesterday's conference and it looked like we saw a little more of it today. I think what Singletary wanted to do is to instill the core belief that the team is better than wha the record indicates. I think they are. But when a team doesn't win games that they could have won, then it gets to the point where fans, media start to wonder if the team is as good as advertised. Singletary wants us to believe that the team is going to turn things around. I think Cohn just doesn't want to wait another game to see it.

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