All right, so Trey Lance. Now,
the guy, the 49ers three weeks ago today wisely making him,
the guy, and it has only been three weeks since they told
the world. Basically, Jimmy, garoppolo's not going to be
here
Trey, Lance is the guy. What's the biggest challenge for Trey?
Lance, from your perspective, in making this, a judgment
didn't play much last year, didn't play much at all in
2020, at North, Dakota State. What's the biggest adjustment
for him? Well,
let me just say this first off, I, uh,
Am I really love the kid and like even the how he answers
things there? And I really believe him in the fact that he
puts pressure on himself and he's not worried about
the outside noise. Like hey, he wasn't my favorite quarterback
coming out in the
draft. I mean, I had him like the fifth guy I had to do
an interview with him, right? And sometimes, you know, the guy
knows and he's kind of mad at me. And it's, he can't even be
himself because he's I didn't give them a respect. He
deserved. He was one of those that I could tell, he didn't
care. He was like, it's alright
I'm confident myself. I'm going to show you. Oh you Chris Simms
that you're wrong and you know I'm going to make you eat crap
and I love that about him and that's where I do root for him
100% but I think all you got to do
and and I would say is it to me it's just the consistency and
accuracy that is what's going to be the big thing that we
need to see from him. And all you got to do is watch
the Green Bay
preseason game last week.
You know, again made some nice throws, I get that but to me
the biggest Telltale sign is Listen to Tim Ryan. What he
Saying throughout the game. I mean, he probably said it six
times in the first two drives of the game.
Hey, the guys got town. He's got big arm,
he's a great leader. He can run,
but you know, the one thing we questioned. And course, Tim
Ryan's out there at practice every day, watching them is,
can he consistently
put the ball on the money into a tight window? Like, hey, you
saw throw their hands into the flat,
the ball. He can lose control of it at times to a degree. And
we saw that last year, too, so that will be the big thing
I look at, I know, We could throw the bomb
and I know he's going to make some big plays,
but on Third and seven.
Can he thread the needle, you know, in between two Defenders
and hit the receiver on the run and all those type of stuff
that make difference in a winning and losing a game?
That's what that's what I want to see
and it's that middle of the field stuff, right? Didn't you
always criticize? Jimmy Garoppolo is it what is it?
It's not the middle of the field of the it is and it's
a they don't roll the ball. Yeah they throw the ball in
the middle. The field. That's wait. Yes. And to me with the trail
and see this is where it might. Not be as consistently
accurate, but I
think with him, they can be more dangerous because you
gotta you gotta defend more of the field as you we talked
about all the time with great, quarterbacks great,
quarterbacks make you defend everything
and you got a quarterback now
who can throw the 20 yard out route and put it on a line
drive and do something that way. And if I was Shanahan and
greasy and that group out there, I would air on having
more of those plays,
you know? Oh okay. He was a little off Target. The ball
went out of bounds, you know, but those are those are easy.
Easy to see they develop Darwin over the middle of the field.
As you can imagine, Mike, sometimes it's a play-action
pass and you come up and you go
well there's three six seven guys in front of me
with their hands up and I can kind of see the linebackers
behind them and now I got to thread the needle in there and
I'm not sure if I'm really seeing everything that could be
hard on a Young quarterback. So I hope that they kind of take
that approach may be a little bit more often
with this guy as compared to Jimmy Garoppolo, who wasn't
great throwing the ball down the field or outside
the numbers. It can be hard on a veteran quarterback in
the Super Bowl. When Chris Jones is freaking you out. And you don't
see guys
that are open when you still have a chance to win the game,
100%. Yes. Right. And you know, there was some moments there
that, you know, I just Jimmy Garoppolo, he, I'm sure he'd
want them back and we could go back and watch that game and
we we could go watch 56 plays in the last few drives of
the game where you just go. Whoa, if this throw is made or if he
made the right read here, the Niners are going to win
the Super Bowl. It's gonna
be over, but the chiefs made the plays Chris Jones got hands
up to knock the ball down. Because yes, teams were
expecting that ball over the middle quick because that's
what Shannon did with Jimmy Garoppolo. And
I don't think it's going to be quite as predictable with this
crew here now,
and when you're talking about throwing outside the numbers
that's where that laser is going to
serve him. Yeah. The best, right? Because you cover a lot
of ground when you throw that 20-yard out that is a long
distance for the football to cover and it's got to get there
quickly because that window.
Is going to close you, give the corner a chance to jump on it
and he's going to have it before your receiver does.
And like you said, hey if you fire it in there and it goes
out of bounds so be it a lot less likely to be a disaster
than a ball. Starts getting batted around exactly right and
somebody ends up with it in their hands and off they go.
Right. Exactly. Right. Or or like? What we saw you know last
year a few times where you know he throws the ball so hard over
the middle that even his own receiver is like defensive and
it you know it
hits this hands and
Pops up in the air.
Those are
the that that's that's something about those throws
are get comfortable learning to see the field when you hear
the things, hey, the game is slowing down.
That's where, you know, hey maybe week seven week 8. Okay,
he's playing, he's seeing the field good. Now we can start
maybe throwing some of these balls into Titan Windows, over
the middle a little bit more, but
I just think with,
man their team, it's one of the best lines in football.
One of the best tight ends in football.
You got Debo Brandon, I uke
and the kid gray that we saw.
Catch the 70-yard touchdown who ran for three at the combine
from SMU. This stable of running backs they have and
then the genius of Shanahan
to me where. Yeah, there might be some things that are
a little more inconsistent at the quarterback position, but
I think what we're both saying. Is
there going to be more dangerous? I don't give a damn
that, you know, the, the six-yard throw over the middle
might not be as consistently as good. I just think with
the talent they have and then his skillset
Shanahan and Company will devise something that's going
to make them a more dangerous football team, as long as he
can stay healthy. And as long as he doesn't, you know, try to
be Brett Favre and fit too many balls into Tight Windows and
turn the ball over that way. And that's where I just look at
the 49ers as a as a Super Bowl Contender, 100%.