This is my Wednesday column.
Whether Jim Tomsula keeps his job next year or not, these are the top-five football sins he committed in 2015.
Football Sin No. 1: Allowing the players to set the schedule. Most of the 49ers’ problems stem from this Original Sin.
Jim Tomsula wanted to be the opposite of his predecessor, Jim Harbaugh, an authoritarian head coach. So, Tomsula became a “players’ coach.” He let his players come up with the schedule. Let them practice in the late afternoon during training camp because they wanted to work in the shade.