His new deal pays out 6 and a half million in fully
guaranteed base. Salary 19.1, 2 million, less than what he
would have made. Now
these responses he would have made it they were going to cut
him they never going to keep him around one week at a time
I thought there was a chance they would let the salary become
fully guaranteed and just pay him 1.42 million per week.
Holding out the possibility of a quarterback getting injured,
elsewhere or Trail ants, being the guy who gets injured or
Trail ants, being the guy who just completed
Lee craps the bag and or down his leg, but that's a
big price to pay. And actually someone explain to me last
night and I haven't thought of this even though the salary
doesn't fully guarantee until September 10 at 4 p.m. Eastern.
As of next week, they owe him
week one, they owe him. One point four, two million, right?
So there was another deadline in there that I had missed,
I set out the deadlines over the weekend as of Monday
he does have one point four. Two million
in hand earned labor has your day right? After Labor Day
you're on. Yeah, you're on the roster, heading into Week 1,
it's actually Tuesday, I think,
when the you you earn your paycheck for that week
even if the rest of it isn't guaranteed at that point. So
so they were a week away, thereabouts from owing him.
Minimum 1 point, 4 2 million and I say that because
what four times that is what they got him for the whole
year. Now, that's not a bad deal and I have to wonder Don.
Yeah. Well, hey,
Couldn't you got the got a little bit more than six and
a half million under the circumstances. And this all
comes down to and Chris, they have used this against him.
I've said this all off season long,
they have a full and complete read on his Personality. Yeah,
which includes on one hand, ghosting everyone, right? Not
returning phone calls and texts, but it also includes
a very strong desire to never rock the boat. He doesn't like,
confrontation,
like George McFly. He doesn't do well with confrontation. And
so, so he just said, okay, okay, they are from six and
a half million. Hey Jimmy, we're going to you, you're taking
a 19-point 12 million dollar haircut. You
okay with that? Yeah, okay,
sure okay. And and they, they
Again by playing it out the way they did, they enhance
the opportunity and the possibility was going to agree with it, but
they've got this guy pegged. They knew he was going to take
it. They wouldn't have offered it. If they didn't know he was
going to take it. Yeah, it got him for six and a half million
for the full year.
Which is somebody said he's gonna be Highest-paid backup
quarterback. Their backup quarterback is nothing more
than six and a half million. Yes, he's got a play to make
some of
the rest. There's 99 million more up to nine million more
in
roster bonuses, and playing time incentives. Which you got
to be on the field. You got to be in uniform. That's the next
question.
When do we see him in uniform?
What is he is for week? 10
days. He just gives he just guy who stays home
or is he guy who's standing? In there and number 10.
Well there you go that's where that's where I think. You know,
you talk about the deadline for next Tuesday with the money.
I also think there was a deadline in their brains going
after what we saw this last weekend, betray Lance we got to
get him out here and get him practicing. He's got to take
some reps. I think that's moves. The other thing that
I came to like they got to do it now because
you know, we've been talking about the whole Steve Young Joe
Montana thing. Well, you know, Steve Young has been on
the sidelines, not practicing. So Needs to get out there. I know
he's Jimmy Jean, he knows the offense, but
I don't care who you are. Like we talked about, you gotta get
some reps and get playing here in case. They need him early on
in the year. So I would think that was part of the process to
to like Okay so let's stop this
on the side training.
We gotta get him practice in and ready to go in case.
Something does happen to Trey Lancer. If Trail Ends doesn't
play well, we can lean on Jimmy G
and I think that was probably the big reason there
and then when you talk about the money aspect of
yeah, it's late.
The game. You know, there's not a lot of great options maybe
I don't know again. I don't know who he could have squeezed for
more money right now but he certainly wasn't going to find
a team that has a talent and then know the system
and all those type of things
that he does in San Francisco.
And I you know, I think you're right. I think Shanahan and
Company know who they're dealing with. They know the man
Shanahan's great people person, that's why
Salvage, the demos Samuel situation. When we all thought
it was all gone and also I think with Jimmy Jean Mike, you
know this is a
Okay. Yeah, it's a huge haircut, like you said, he's
losing a lot of money, there's no question but, you know,
again, there's no guarantee he's going to make
much more than this anywhere else
be in this situation.
And I think ultimately
the big play for the big money is for 20 20 20. I'm in 2023,
excuse me. That that's where your,
I think the focus for him and Donny has got to be
to think about hey, this year's weird. It's a little messed up.
We'll have to take some lumps
but how can we set it up best to wear
when it becomes free agency? Next year,
people go, damn, we want Jimmy G and we're willing to pay him
30 million, a year, we're going to do it and I think he's in
the spot to do that here with the 49ers. And I think that's
ultimately
you know one of the reasons to while he'll take this hair cut
to six point five million dollars. And that's again where
the bulk of the criticism currently comes from that Jimmy
Garoppolo and or dawnia failed to have a strategy.
That would have gotten him to the market sooner. Because if
you say from the get-go of training camp, I'm not going
along with this. Gee, I just have a free membership at your
gym which is basically what it was for a month, right?
You just come up
and work out whenever you feel like it
and you're never going to be around the team
and just stay in shape and keep throwing and you can use all
our facilities but it's just a matter of time before you're
gone. If he had insisted on something more, if he had
pushed the limits of his rights, under the sea,
Yay. They may have just thrown their hands in the air. Yeah,
maybe had him at that point, right. And then he's got more
opportunity. But see, I think that he was probably humbled
and chagrined by the fact that no one was calling to trade
for, and he
wasn't healthy right at. And I'd like to think that Don.
Yeah, he's been around enough that he got
on the phone with people saying, you know,
hypothetically, hypothetically
because it would be tampering. But hypothetically, in
the event that I would have
a quarterback who is in an unusual situation where he is
the final year of his contract and he's been the starter and
he went to a Super Bowl in almost went to another
hypothetically
and he's being supplanted by
a first rounder last year that was required with
three first-round picks and a third-round pick. Hypothetically.
What would you
if I could get him? Cut
hypothetically. What would you pay him? Those conversations
happen all the time that
these deals just don't spontaneously fall out of
the sky. The plane gets landed, very carefully and there must
have been nothing out there Houston.
What would you do?
Yeah.
We're fine with Davis Mills, Seattle, Seattle. Hey, if I can
get him, cut
Geno, Smith, Drew lock, Jimmy Garoppolo you want to. If you
want to make it a three-man competition,
what would you pay and either? It wasn't enough for nothing at
all. And, so, maybe that's why he stayed the course. Because
again,
if someone does suffer
a season-ending injury,
If Zach, Wilson's injury, for example, had been a torn ACL
and not. Fortunately for him in the Jets, something far less
than that, when he had the non-contact injury in
the preseason and that it opened the door,
right? Then you get far closer to 24.2
then six million, right? And and so that, I think that's one
of the reasons why they ultimately went along. He knew
there wasn't anything out there
and maybe that's all. I'm only why he said I'm taking the six
and a half million. As you said yesterday. Why go play.
For crappy team
and you haven't had a chance to prepare yourself you undermine.
What? Otherwise was your closing argument. Exact worst
case scenario for him is he doesn't play at all this year.
Well I mean the worst case scenario is he gets a chance to
play in these horrible. But
let's assume that won't happen because
I think Kyle Shanahan will get him to where he was last year.
Yeah.
If he didn't play at all this year, hey
my haze in the barn. Yeah that's right. Where he does
play and he plays well,
And he enhances his case for free agency next year. And
that's the most important term of this deal.
No tag. Yeah. Next year, right? He hits the open market. So,
even if they
and who knows what's gonna happen?
Get to the Super Bowl with him.
When the Super Bowl with him, they can't do a damn thing
about keeping him off
the open market, and that's the ultimate best case scenario for
Jimmy Garoppolo. Yeah, you're right. It is, it's all about
that. You're right. Well, why would you want to go somewhere?
And You know,
some bad team and then play
and not know the offense, but be thrust in the action and
not, you know, necessarily be on your top of your game. And
then, yeah, it hurts your value in 2023 when you're a free
agent.
And then it also,
you know, although now I can see what the 49ers, got rid of
them and it just it it would add fuel to the fire. So, here
he is in a great spot
and, you know, I think the other aspect here to is
a little like we talked about yesterday is,
you know, I know
He has the no-trade Clause,
right? Which means nothing for a quarterback and your I saw
you wrote that yesterday. You're right. It means nothing
if a quarterback is about everything for who
got a no-trade clause hello have a current times. Do we
have to say I'm not talking to the fans out there? Yeah,
the reason the fans don't understand it, there are so
many of our colleagues in the media who don't understand
that. It's meaningless.
You're not going to trade for a quarterback who doesn't want to
play for you? Exactly. Carson Wentz wasn't a bear last year.
The Bears got wind of the fact That he wasn't interested.
We're not going to force a guy to come play every. Don't want
to be here, right? Because it's not like any other position
where you say tough s***. Yeah. You want you want to get paid.
You got to show up,
you need somebody who is all in all the time to be your
starting quarterback and if another team decides, they need
Jimmy G and he doesn't want to be there, they're not giving
value to the 49ers to the guy who doesn't want to be there
with or without a no-trade. Exactly. Right. Yeah.
You're good. How many,
how many times do we have to?
I mean, almost every time. I feel like, I know, I know.
Yeah, it's really Doesn't even matter for quarterback. So much
two star players in general. If you're a star player, they have
a no-trade clause know. I don't care who it is.
I mean if it's like
I mean we can go back to Jalen Ramsey to the Rams if he had
that time was like I don't want to play for the Rams that would
have ended the deal. The Rams are going to be like way. Yeah,
we're good. We don't want him. We're going to
trade all these exits plus. Ya didn't want to be here.
Exactly. So that's star players have a no-trade clause built
into their life already. But I will say,
if we get to because of the new contract, Attract and we get to
week five or six,
you know? And again
Trey Lance is playing really good football and they're
starting to feel good about what he's doing and maybe they
feel even a little bit better about Nate. Son felt as
a backup you know at that point of the year
and maybe the injury does happen to some team, that's like,
whoa, we're damn good.
We think were we think we're Super Bowl ish, or whatever?
Now, you got real leverage in a trade with a guy like Jimmy G.
And again I mean that's going to be risky. Do you want to
risk that insurance or your own team? But if you know if
Shanahan and lets you like, they're in the right spot there
with their team, they might do that.
And that's going to make it a lot easier to get,
you know, a big-time pick from a team because of that
situation. So I think that's another positive, at least from
the 49ers angle
and this in this whole equation
and Garoppolo gets to go to a place where he thinks the table
is set for him to be successful, right? Gets more
money because he starts unlocking the
roster. Bonuses and playing time exactly because it'll
actually be playing. And even after week 8 the Tuesday after
week 8, when the trade deadline comes and goes
there could still be
a little bit of a negotiation
between the 49ers and Garoppolo to wiggle free because they're
just saving money at that point. If if they know Lance is
the guy and they're comfortable with sud felt and or Purdy,
although Purdy may not be
long for the 49ers. Now the keeping Jimmy G, but if they're
comfortable with their situation, after the trade
deadline, line is just simply a matter of,
Jimmy Garoppolo waiving, his right to ongoing compensation.
They save some money. He's going to be gone anyway after
the season. We can let him go somewhere. I'll send you know
what, hopefully if he has the opportunity post trade deadline
to do that. They won't just stubbornly
squad on his contract and they'll they'll wish him well
and let him go. Assuming they've got the trail and
situation taken care of
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