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While most coaches are being criticized for their reluctance to make bold decisions, Jim Harbaugh took a good situation and risked destroying it for the possibility of creating a great one.

In ESPN The Magazine, Tim Keown examines the San Francisco 49ers -- a team that won 36 percent of its games over the past eight years but has rebounded in a big way. The only big change this year? One quirky coach.

The underlying theme of the much-overplayed Jim Harbaugh-Jim Schwartz vaudeville routine is this: They're the same guy. They're both young, arrogant coaches who are as excitable and obnoxious as their players.