49ers completely obliterated the then San Diego Chargers.
That's the last time, the 49ers won it. And now, they are going
to try to get back there with a new starting quarterback. His
Trail ants in the aftermath of the news that Jimmy G era is
over
Trey, Lance is the guy. Here's Lance talking about his new
role in San Francisco.
Honestly, the only difference I was hoping you guys would stop
asking about it. All the time,
but not for me. It wasn't really like a moment, anything
like that.
I mean, I've been excited. I'd been prepared a thought, you
know, preparing to play. Since the day, I got here, the day
I got drafted, so I'm obviously excited for this year.
But like you said, nothing's really changed
this whole offseason
No, I know it kind of said it tongue-in-cheek, but it's
always our fault, isn't it? We're asking the questions that
the fans want answers to, and where the butt holes, where
the butt holes for asking the questions that are obvious,
the 49ers go out and invest three first-round picks and
the second-round pick in a new contract. When they have Jimmy
Garoppolo who took him to a Super Bowl and almost won it.
And we're jerks for being curious about who's going to be
the starter. And when
it's just
Obviously, little things like that. Rub me the wrong way
Moss. Yeah, I see. I see. That's okay. I mean it's just
like it's like to it. It's like to uh
saying he doesn't listen to the noise
but he's aware of it. If you don't listen to it, then you
shouldn't even know about it. If you truly don't pay
attention to it.
They're all liars. Of course they pay attention to it and
they're like I know I know they pay attention to it. I want
such
a tight end on the Rams
you know go like this at practice
because a reporter had said they had alligator arms
at one point during the last game of a dropped pass
like they all know,
you know. So I'm just saying like it, whether it's their
reading it or somebody is sending it to them, whatever.
Like they know what, What is generally being said about
them, whether it's positive or negative, it just just, that's
just the landscape
that we all live in today.
I think they try to act like they don't because they don't
want us to realize the influence and power that our
words and our opinions truly do have over them because they do
become aware of them. And they do provide motivation and
coaches will make them
aware of it because they want to press the buttons on these
guys, to get them to play better. So we won't know until
Trey, Lance is playing on a regular basis, whether he will
be better than
Garoppolo my big concern. If I'm a 49ers fan is durability.
They fell out of love with Jimmy G because he can't stay
healthy. Well, in the limited time trade lands played last
year. What happened
knee injury against the Cardinals
finger injury against the Texans?
Can he stay healthy? And that would be the ultimate irony.
I said this yesterday and I don't want to put any type of a jinx
on trail and but as they're sitting around waiting for
a quarterback to suffer a season-ending injury. So
there's a market, all of a
For Jimmy G. There's a chance that, that injuries going to
happen to the guy who is replacing Jimmy G, and they may
need Jimmy G,
they the injury, they're waiting for may happen on their
own team. So again I've crossed the line into full-blown Jinx
mode by saying that but
we don't know what's going to happen
and
the I assume they would want to keep Jimmy G if that and it may
be it may be he's gone. By the time they get to the point
where they need an
Replacement, but that's a big question.
Will he be durable? We played at North Dakota State Sims made
the point yesterday. The last guy from North Dakota State who
was a top draft pick Carson Wentz at the quarterback
position, he had durability issues to
you're not going through the SEC or the Big Ten.
You're not even at the F
BS level. So you're getting hit by bigger and stronger and
faster guys. Your body may not, hold up, SIMs made another
great point. He was the safety.
They was recruited as a safety, he played Safety
and He's got kind of got that safety mentality so his own
safety pun intended, goes out the window when it's time for
him to avoid contact. That's another thing is going to have
to learn.
They're going to happen. We have to keep the guy healthy.
Then they weren't able to do it with Jimmy G and that's going
to be a real question. I mean Grumble had to learn that too
right? I mean that we three game against Kansas City and 18
where he like Bulls
into Defender unnecessarily.
That's one of the reasons
why we now have Trail ants because Jimmy Garoppolo
was not healthy for that.
Teen season. So yeah, look, I think that throughout
the offseason. It's been pretty clear that the 49ers wanted to
move on from Jimmy Garoppolo to Trail and some
and I was at the owners meeting down there in Palm Beach in
March and listening to Kyle, Shanahan talk. It was pretty
clear to me, at least that
they had moved on at least in their minds from
Jimmy Garoppolo to Trail. And so
I feel like now that it's like, you know, Shanahan's come out
and said like, yeah, it's traced. Team we would have seen
Jimmy Garoppolo moved a long time ago if he hadn't had
the shoulder surgery
but he did. So you know the Colts weren't an option for
him, right? Because they wanted somebody who was going to be
healthy throughout the offseason program.
I just with Lance. It's like I give them the benefit of
the doubt because I guess I just have that kind of belief that
Kyle Shanahan can do pretty much anything with QB. I saw
him make Brian Hoyer,
a viable quarterback
in Cleveland like that was crazy.
And then they made Johnny Manziel, come in there, and
then the 2014 Browns were drilled. But anyway,
I think that they're going to be all right. As long as Trail
ants can stay healthy and you know, who knows? We may be in
a Patrick Mahoney situation where it's like, you know, okay? Like
what are they really doing? Why are they replacing Alex Smith,
but then you see this guy, you're like, holy
crap, I don't necessarily know that we're going to see that,
but I think that Lance is going to be okay.
Yeah, with Mahomes there was enough in the 2017
preseason. And enough gushing legitimate gushing. Not just
predictable stuff
about Mahomes in practice in 2017. That, that I think a lot
of us were ready for what was coming with. Lance. We'd
endlessly enough weekend to Denver the finale against
Denver, but he played in 17 as well like
that, right. You know,
you got to see a little bit of it. Yeah.
Trey Lions had a big throw in the preseason last year.
I think it was a busted coverage or something like
that, but but still, he had a, he we've seen a little bit but
we still need to see.
A lot more. And so did the 49ers and credit to them
for abandoning this ruse of? Maybe we'll keep both guys,
the thing that Jed York was trying to sell for the past two years
and remember, it was earlier this year, Steve Young, sat on
the bench for four years. Yada yada it know, it's time to move
on to Trail and that's why they
trade it up and that's why they have him.
And Jimmy Garoppolo is going along with this plan
that he's just going to hang around, come and go as he
pleases wait for an opportunity to be traded somewhere Trail.
Ants talked yesterday
as well on his Russian ship with
the former starting quarterback of the 49ers.
Yeah. So, what's up to Jimmy the last
yesterday he was in here on Tuesday,
first physical? So, yeah. I mean,
it is what it is. It's nothing weird at all. Like I said, I've
never had anything I could possibly say. It's bad about
Jimmy. I mean, he's been a big, bro, to me since the day I came
in
he could have made things hell for me honestly last year.
He didn't he help me out with everything.
So I'm super excited to see him healthy. Super sad to see him
throwing again and super excited to see what he does.
It really is strange. They're basically keeping him away from
the team and he's okay with it. If he wanted to force
the issue, he could, but I think he's realized that for now, his
interests are aligned with the 49ers because if there is that,
that,
uh, oh, quarterback gone for the year, not only do
the 49ers, get a good trade recovery,
he gets something closer to his 25 million
if there's a team that's all of a sudden desperate for
a starting quarterback. But at some point, Point at some
point, he's going to want out
and maybe as soon as that last preseason game is played.
That's when he says, I want out. Don't hold me up until
the absolute last minute before my salary becomes fully
guaranteed because I'm on the roster as of Week 1, I think
one that cuts at the latest, when the cut 253 happens,
that's when he's going to be gone.
Yeah, it's interesting to Mike.
Jimmy Garoppolo is not,
you know,
he's not one of the worst quarterbacks in the league,
right? I mean like I think if I'm being like at worst, he's
a top 20 QB. I would probably put him in the top half
of quarterbacks out there. I mean, he's been to the NFC
championship game in two of the last three seasons. It least,
right. And they went to the Super Bowl obviously in 19. So
it's not like he's terrible.
There are teams out there
who would absolutely
Lutely be upgrading if they got themselves Jimmy Garoppolo, but
it's also that right now you can be like, well, do we really
want to do that and put ourselves in that contractual
situation? When we have somebody that could start? And
if we're
not that good, then maybe we get a better job pick. But if
we get Jimmy Garoppolo, then we're going to be better and
maybe we're not going to be in the sweet States for, you know,
a quarterback like a CJ Stroud
who's coming out, you know, in next year's draft.
So I it's a weird situation and I guess We're going to kind of
wait for that injury, but like,
I don't know, like,
do the Texans want to go in there with Davis Mills?
I understand why they would know the Falcons really want to roll
with Marcus Mariota and well, you got Desmond router behind
them. So, I guess, I understand why they would,
it's weird,
we haven't heard anything in the past few days. About teams,
trying to get Jimmy Garoppolo
what occurred on Tuesday. I think sends the message to
anyone out there who had been Been waiting who had been
reluctant to offer anything significant just make us
an offer
just make us an offer, now's your opportunity and it's
combination of getting a deal with the 49ers and a deal with
Garoppolo
because no one's taking on a 25 million-dollar total
compensation commitment. But there's been nothing no talk.
And
remember when
DeShaun Watson gets the
no indictment in that Friday in March
immediately. We started the breathless reporting about this
teams, interested in that teams, interested in that teams
entered,
I mean there has been nothing. There hasn't been a single team
linked seriously
to Jimmy Garoppolo
at any point in this offseason
that to me, is stunning. Yeah, we
report that the Seahawks talked about it.
Will you talk about a lot of things
II just wonder whether there's no one out there? That feels,
any compulsion whatsoever to try to trade for the last year
of his contract. And they've all just sat back and said
we're content to wait for him to be cut
and then we'll see if we can work out a deal.
And if we can great and if we can't create, but somebody's
gonna end up with a guy who can be a pretty good quarterback.
I mean,
top 20 is still better than 12.
There's still other guys out there that are worse than you,
which would say if you if he's a top 20.
Back there should be at least 10 teams
that are looking at this saying, hey maybe this guy
is better than we. Have I keep coming back to Miami.
I've been reluctant to write this because I really don't
want to deal with to and on
but I think he's better from what we've seen body of work.
He's better right now than to
a no look at this. He knows the offense that former
49ers assistant Mike McDaniel has brought to Miami
I think it's a good argument
but I don't think that
they would want to do it because you want to see how to
it can do in that offense and figure out, you know, if you
want to move on to Tom Brady next year. So
I don't know. I like that. That's one of those teams where
I'm like, yeah, I see why they would do it, but I also see why
they wouldn't do it. I mean, you still did invest
a first-round pick in that guy and Mike McDaniel has been
very, you know, effusive in his praise of to a tongue of Isla.
Oh my God, what would Tyreke he'll do.
If you replace the most accurate quarterback in the NFL
with Jimmy Garoppolo who Tyree, he'll suck, couldn't hit
Emmanuel Sanders down there on a post route, so in the Super
Bowl. So I mean, I don't
know what they do then.
Well,
I
look if Garoppolo had delivered the way that he could have and
should have,
he would still be the guy
and they would had a hell of a mess.
If Garoppolo had made it
to the Super Bowl
last year. Then they'd have been stuck with him for another
year.
And now we see, we see where Garoppolo I'm rooting for
the guy. I just cuz, I believe
he you mentioned the Sanders pass. He could have won a Super
Bowl in, didn't just like Jared Goff if he would have seen
Brandon Cooks sooner than he did. And he should have seen
him because they ran the same day. I'm playing the first
half. They.
I'm telling you.
They ran the same play. Oh boy. This is like pulling up Haile
Mariam 1975. But look, he's open now now. He wasn't wide
open. It wasn't like the Super Bowl three. When was it,
was it Roger or they ran the trick play. And Earl moral just
didn't see him. I mean, he wasn't running completely
uncovered, but the throw was there to be made
and I think Tom, Brady would have made that throw,
frankly. So anyway,
that may have been the moment where they decided at some
point. They're gonna have to make a change. And then he had
the ankle injury week, two of the 2019 season, they just
decided between the durability and the ceiling. And
we got to move on, but it doesn't mean
there's no place for,
we'll see, we'll see. Yeah, but it is so odd to me,
that there's been nothing
because there's an agenda for Jimmy G,
you or the 49ers,
if there's any interest at all,
you want it out there
to try to get somebody else. Interested.
It's, we see it all the time.
You want everybody to come to the table? Hey, we got this
team interested. Hey, we got that tea. Mr. Today, even if
you don't name him, four teams are interested in, Jimmy
Garoppolo. There's usually report like that there has been
nothing, it is
Miles. Yeah. No it totally is. I mean, if
you were to put some money down today,
right? What where would you say that he ends up?
I still feel like he's gonna end up with the Texans. I think
Nick is Stereo is sitting back head low mouth shut, he drafted
the guy now.
Do they really? I mean look, I know, Davis Mills was better
than they expected last year. The question is, do they really
want to explore what his ceiling is or do they want to
try to win nine or ten games this year
II? Don't know. I don't know. And
the other possibility. Somebody, somebody said
I don't know if it was Sims or who
the Cowboys would be a,
just a place where
I can go and be the backup
behind a quarterback, who possibly will get injured
and then I could play.
And if I get to play some,
then I become a free agent next year. And I go somewhere else
and have a chance to be a starter until the team that
signs me drafts. A first, rounder
mean, that's the Mitch true Biscay model he disappeared as
a back. A cup for all of 20 21 and he ends up being
the starter in Pittsburgh until they drive Kenny Pickett. Now,
who the hell knows what's going to happen?
And that was what, Jimmy G right back in the spot that he
was in last year, where he's the starter, but they've
drafted a guy in round one. So, who knows what's going?