Odds Makers Think Singletary Will Get Whacked

The San Francisco 49ers may be favored to win Sunday against the Oakland Raiders, but odds makers are not giving similar love to the Niners' embattled head coach.

Mike Singletary is near the top of the list of an online sports book's pool waging on which NFL head coach will be the first one fired, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports.

Carolina Panthers coach John Fox is ranked the likeliest to get fired first, with 5-2 odds. Wade Philips of the Cowboys and Chan Gailey of the Buffalo Bills are tied for second as the next-likeliest coaches to get the ax.

And there is 49ers coach Mike Singletary in third place by himself, with 7-2 odds that he will be the first NFL coach fired this season. It's a far cry from the being the pre-season pick to go to the Super Bowl.

But the 49ers are 0-5 this season, and being winless past mid-October does not do wonders for a coach's job security.

49ers owner Jed York reiterated that Singletary's job was secure in an NBC Bay Area interview, and even declared via text message that the 49ers would still win the division.

York gives some insight to that ballyhooed text message prediction he sent to ESPN's Adam Schefter in a Comcast Sportsnet interview. "Adam asked if we were going to fire our coach," York explained, "and I respectfully said, 'Adam, we're going to win our division.'"

In other words, York was avoiding the question of whether he was going to fire his coach.

Joe Kukura is a freelance writer whose updated odds for tonight are Brown (-1½) over Whitman and Palin (-5½) over The Situation to get whacked from "Dancing With the Stars".

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