I had to be here. So I was, I was here for the that reason, but
I don't know. I was just trying to get my body, right? Like
I was saying getting the shoulder right? I felt very confident
out there and I knew that was ready to roll. I just can't
figure out where it was and things kind of fell into place.
I
these last couple of days really just right before it all
happened.
Jimmy Garoppolo yet, another NFL quarterback whose neck is
approaching Takeo Spikes. Thickness, that's something
that Sims and I have noticed this year, Chris aerys, II,
Peter Sir,
Trevor Lawrence has a Takeo Spikes neck. Now Lamar Jackson
Takeo Spikes neck. Look a little look at Jimmy Garoppolo
we can pull up the frame of
it. He's got this big, giant thick tree, trunk neck. I don't
know what these guys are doing
to create that kind of a neck, but he's look at it.
It's it's it's to half Klick away from Takeo Spikes. Anyway,
I was doing radio somewhere this week and the host said,
you know, we we were all saying Jimmy garoppolo's, not going to
be back in San Francisco. You were saying it. I was saying
it. We're all saying, how do we get it so wrong?
We got it so wrong because that's what they told us.
They told us, he wasn't going to be on the team.
This is one of the most stunning turns of events I can remember.
They Exile him from the team.
He's basically got a free membership at the San
Francisco. Oh, 49ers gymnasium to show up and work out. That's
all that he was doing in the month of August. He wasn't part
of the team. He doesn't have a play book. He's completely
disconnected from the locker
room and now all of a sudden he's staying put and as I've
said all week long, Peter,
I don't think they planned it, but they couldn't have planned
it. Any better to get to a point where Jimmy Garoppolo had
no other options even if they'd cut him, no one was paying him.
Six and a half million dollars.
There was no good situation out there for him to step right in
and add to his resume. He We're going to hurt his case for free
agency next year. Even if he doesn't play this year, he's
got a pretty strong. Closing argument from 2021. It was
the best spot for him,
and it was the smart thing for both player and team to forget
about the past and find a way to work out, a future that did
may include him. Playing,
may include him standing on the sidelines,
may include a little bit of both. Who knows, who knows how
this is all going to play out, but
he's, he's still going to be wearing. Ying the red jersey,
and the gold helmet this year which
of all the crazy stuff that can happen in any given season.
That's, that's right up there among the craziest
Mike, I think you know there are three distinct tributaries
off this story. Number one,
this never happens if they have ultimate faith in trail. He's
just doesn't, I don't care what they say about. We want to have
insurance,
you know what? All this. I get it and obviously they are
a better team
today
with having
a much better backup quarterback.
In Jimmy Garoppolo. Okay, so that's number one. But number
two,
you know, I think one of the other things Kyle Shanahan this
is going to be a 60 years as head coach of the 49ers,
right? Every time he has failed.
He is fat or every time the Niners have failed. It's
because their quarterback depth was crummy,
and they did not have the ability to backstop.
A good quarterback with another good quarterback, and I think
that was in their mind, but
doesn't it? Also say something a lot to me about something
I wrote about Mike,
this was, this was the story that I did out of the 49ers
training camp
with Kyle Shanahan, definitely being worried
about how Trail ants
who would only thrown In 89 passes
in football games
since he left a medium-sized High School
in the state of Minnesota,
which is not the Cradle of quarterbacks, by the way,
but I'll read this to you,
okay?
This is from Kyle, Shanahan. What I visited with him two and
a half weeks ago
about Trey, Lance and everything being put on his
shoulders.
Okay?
Is tray ready to take it on his shoulders? He shouldn't be he
hasn't gone through it enough.
What sucks is when you're learning how to play and you're
not there yet, how do you not get worse? Sometimes
when the pressure is on you
and you need to go through.
The Growing Pains.
I mean, Kyle Shanahan two and a half weeks ago Mike was telling
us that he had real concern
about what exactly was going on. Do you think
in Cincinnati Zach, Taylor was saying that
about Joe burrow before year to
do you think that
that that anybody in San Diego or anybody with the Chargers
rather will be saying San Diego Chargers forever? But do you
think anybody would the Chargers?
A lot about Justin Herbert.
It's just,
this was about not just a lack of faith right now today
in this quarterback.
But the weird landscape of the fact that he just simply hasn't
played a lot of football.
So I think all of those,
you know, sort of
Mind melded into
what happened the other day with Jimmy Garoppolo,
Yeah, look we don't know and we won't know what trade Lance is
going to be as a quarterback until he does it week in. And
week out, especially, you know, it takes four to six games and
we talked earlier about having enough film on the Broncos
offense. Same thing with Trey,
Lance, when there's film out there. What he does. Well, what
he doesn't do. Well, they start taking away when he does well
force him into
into situations where he may not be comfortable. Can he bust
through that? Can they game plan around that? And I know
Kyle Shanahan can, but that's part of the progression, we
just don't know.
And won't know, and the warning signs are there
last Thursday night in the preseason game against
the Texans,
Shanahan gives Trail ants and extra series that he didn't
plan to give him. And then says, I'd like to give him
more. I wish we had more time to get him ready. He's
concerned. He's not ready and Sims made the argument
on Monday morning,
he made the passionate argument work. This out, 49ers to keep
Jimmy Garoppolo Garoppolo around because you don't know
what you have in trail and there's a chance that That they
don't have a guy
that can get it done after everything. They gave up to get
him, you have to be ready for the possibility that he's not
the guy busts
are everywhere in the first round of the draft and just
because they gave up ultimately three first-round picks in
the third round, pick to get
this guy. Doesn't mean he's going to be good,
it doesn't. And we haven't seen enough from him to come to
the conclusion. He's going to be good when he had chances to
play. Last year, we weren't
fawning over Highlights today after a while. Look at Trey
Lance's, the next Patrick Mahomes, we're still waiting
for Something to convince us,
he's the guy and now Peter,
whether he wants to admit it or not,
whether the 49ers can talk him
away from this mindset or not,
he's got Jimmy Garoppolo hovering over his shoulder
and,
you know, if you can't Thrive knowing that you may be on
a shorter leash than you thought,
you're never going to make it
in playoff games, super bowl or whatever. So let's accelerate,
The analysis of Trail and so let's have Jimmy Garoppolo
there. Let's have him hovering
and let's see if that Spurs Trail ants to be the guy that
they need him to be.
And, you know, Mike, I mean there's no shame in
giving a guy help
at all. No shame whatsoever but I
agree with you a thousand percent.
You know when you're told you're the guy year, the guy
year the guy
you know your safety nets are not like a backup quarterback.
They're like In essence, third-string quarterback X.
So you're the guy, you're the guy, you're the guy.
And then, you know, two weeks before the season starts, they
bring in the guy
who was the guy
for all these people who say boy this, you know, he better
be able to take it.
There's,
you know, you're going to have a lot more pressure
in your life than just this I say. Okay, that's fine. But I'm
just asking you
How would you feel
if whatever job that you do,
you finally have the guy who was looking over your shoulder?
Who was
your boss, who was doing this job
and doing it? Well, maybe not the best in the world but doing
it. Well, finally, they say okay, it's your team now. It's
your job. You do this.
And then two weeks before
your whatever it is your season, your job starts.
They bring the other guy back.
Naive to think that Trey Lance is saying, hey Kumbaya let's
go,
Mike.
He was just talking
last week about how great the quarterback room was,
you know, and how much he liked those guys. And he really
didn't deal with Jimmy anymore
and nothing against them, but he wasn't in the quarterback
room anymore
and just the weirdness of this story. Is it can't be
overestimated
and everybody who just says how, you know, no big deal,
life moves on. Well, let's see what sort of toll. It takes on
trail ends, I think it'll take some, I have no idea what
but I think it'll take some
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