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49ers prove patience isn't always virtuous

By Ray Ratto
Special to ESPN.com

Tuesday, February 11, 2003

Say this for Dennis Erickson -- he's more than the 49ers had led us to think they'd get. And that may be enough to get the angry villagers with the torches away from the parapets and back to their homes. At least for now. After a largely clubfooted firing and cloven-hoofed search, the 49ers dropped Erickson, the mightiest Beaver of them all, out of the sky and into the third -- or fourth -- biggest chair in the building. That his name had only appeared in the "Other Possible Candidates Includ ...

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