All right, big problem
for the San Francisco 49ers coming off of that Thursday
night game, when Jimmy Garoppolo through a couple of
ugly interceptions and Kyle, Shanahan kind of defended him
kind of, didn't, you know, it's a shame
week. 16. The three best games were played on Thursday
and Saturday and the rest of the games weren't very good.
But the Thursday night game between the 49ers and
the Titans was a great game and it may be the last time we see
Jimmy Garoppolo for a bit.
Jimmy Garoppolo has a chipped bone and a tour.
In ligament in his thumb according to Chef T
and also NFL media has chimed in on that as well.
So
there's an issue and in the second quarter of that loss to
the right Titans on Thursday. There's a video of him holding
his fingers. He walked back to the sideline.
Let's check it out.
There's Jimmy Garoppolo with the old Throwbacks, the white
on white. I like that gets thrown down. I was surprised
that wasn't a roughing to push, so, Used to seeing
roughing the passer for anything. That's mildly
aggressive. I'm surprised it wasn't in there. He is checking
out the thumb to his credit, he kept going, but he had a couple
of of interceptions.
Now one came before that. Yeah, that's right. Another one came
after that and
it's Trey, Lance time. If Jimmy Garoppolo can't play. And there
have been, plenty of 49ers fans, wishing and hoping and
praying that they could see what Trey lands has. And
think the fact we haven't seen him extensively so far this
Or maybe an indictment on the decision, to take him, instead
of the other quarterbacks. They could have had after they moved
up to number. Three, will find out. We'll find out. If he's
ready.
Kyle Shannon was saying yesterday, how he's
he's look, great. He's had the,
the consistency and practice. He's been around and Lance is
ready to go, and we'll find out. They've got
to keep it going. It helped them last night, the Saints
lost, but they still have to keep winning if they want to
get into the playoffs. Yeah. No, that's right. I did get
a little gift last night certainly with the Dolphins
winning and helping them out.
Go to where, you know, you'd think they'd have to really
screw it up here. Not to make the playoffs me interested like
with the Jimmy Garoppolo situation. Yeah,
I mean a chip bone,
you know, you can maybe play with torn ligament. My don't
know in the thumbs. That's got to be tough. I mean again
the thumb is is it a pretty important finger there
as far as gripping the football and controlling the football
again, maybe if it's the right ligament maybe you still can
apply pressure and throw the ball effectively enough. Like
you said, I mean, You know, again, I know he threw
an interception after the torn ligament and thumb injury,
you know, they're in the third quarter that set up the easy
touchdown for the Titans but made some other good throws to.
So I think today and probably be the day or tomorrow, where
we get to gauge of like wait,
maybe through and practice.
All right, then I'm hopeful that there could be, he could
play on Sunday. You know, that was the first interception. We
saw a thumb was fine. You know, here's yeah. Here's a mr. Use
check. But again, at that point there and he's healthy.
So you can't really tell now that's a wobbler down
the middle and that is after the injury and that was a bad
decision and throwing everything.
But yeah, I think Mike, I think today and tomorrow be the day
where I Look to go. Wait, did he do we get a report that he
was out there at least throwing in Pre practice and doing some
stuff if we don't get anything.
I'm going to be thinking we are going to see Trey Lancer. Sure
this weekend.
Get the Houston Texans coming to town on Sunday and then
a trip to LA to take on the Rams, a team that Kyle Shanahan has
owned over the years. So, winning the next two games are
real possibility, but
the automatic check of the box
for the Texans,
we found out. Yeah, they're the team that couldn't tag straight
that they have, plenty of reasons to bamboozle, not like,
because
I don't know how I understand the argument. You're developing
Davis Mills.
You're developing other young players. I don't know how much
carry over there really is because teams are so
dramatically different from one year to the next and I suspect
is going to be a lot of changes.
So whatever progress is made
in late December and early January this year.
I don't know how much of it
is going to lay the foundation
for next year for the Houston Texans.
We've discussed in the past how beneficial it is
to have a high spot. Not just in round 1
but 2 3 4 5 6 7 it carries into the rest of the
Rounds of the draft. So
they have won some games here,
down the stretch that we didn't expect them to win. And now,
they could give the 49ers, everything they can handle, and
especially if it's trade, Lance,
and especially if he struggles,
maybe the 49ers find themselves in a fight. But either way,
they are very much alive in San Francisco and they are very
much a team that the other franchises in the playoffs.
That's right. Don't want in. You don't want the 49ers. They
are the Cults
of the NFC data team
that the established powers are not going to want to see. No.
Two percent. That's, I know we were talking about that last
week a few times. That would be the team still again. I know
again, we we saw. Yeah, they lost the game. The other night
against the Tennessee Titans, you know, I think we could sit
there and some ways and go and they kind of blew the game
against the Tennessee Titans.
And I don't think it's like crazy to go
and a lot of ways that kind of outplayed them and just messed
it up and I but it shows you just how dangerous they are.
You see there. You see the potential for their
capabilities, like we saw early on in the football game where
they can go.
Down them up and down the field and dominate and be on
the doorstep of going up 17 to nothing. But we also saw
the issue with the 49ers. I mean, the one thing is is when
the Run game doesn't you know continue to dominate and if
Shanahan doesn't have, you know, a ton of tricks up his
sleeves and a given week Jimmy Garoppolo having to carry
the team is,
it's 50/50, you know, like people like we saw a few weeks
ago and Seattle Seahawks had a good plan to slow down the Run
game of the 49ers.
Rizzo Debo. Samuel that day?
Oh, we got to rely on Jimmy.
Yeah, there were some good throws
but there was two or three throws that are just dumb as
hell. There's no other way to say it and that's why they lose
the game. And they lost the game last week because of Jimmy
G,
period. I mean, you know, he I'm mad at him ruin. My damn
Friends, Christmas weekend. God could have had a nice weekend
enjoyed Christmas Eve and Christmas with the family
instead. They lost the damn game and my friend probably
was pulling his hair out all weekend.
So yeah, I will see but like, you know, back to Trail and
stoom Mike, I'm sorry. I was rambling. There is just like
it is going to be so decision. That is to keep rambling. Well,
I just have said because I wanted to get back on point.
I just was kind of wrapping but like the
give me your heart. I know you are your natural. Jerk. We know
that but like Trey Lansing is it is interesting. Mike, you
brought it up, you know. Yeah, you traded three picks for
a guy.
He hasn't played.
He played a little bit. It was almost like, whoa, that was
crazy and wrong. Let's stash him away and let, not anybody
see him again for a while. So, let's see what kind of
improvements he has.
If he does get a chance to play
certainly and see what Shanahan can do around them,
that could be fun to watch, if he does get that opportunity
this weekend,
lost in the fact that Depot, Samuel was so awesome on
Thursday night. He had 32 yards rushing on five carries 159,
receiving yards on nine catches.
They didn't get the ball to the other night who makes
the offense, go and George Kittle. He was targeted three times on
the night, two catches for 21 yards. So the Titans were able
to neutralize them,
not Samuel. Youíll.
You take one of those guys away, and maybe that maybe
that's maybe that's the formula you have to deal with one of
them. You take one of them away and let the other guy do his
thing.
And, and maybe you can count on
some sort of mistake, at some point in the game, from Jimmy
Garoppolo. And, and I look, Kyle worked very hard. It is
postgame, press conference, not blame Jimmy Garoppolo and he's
really is kind of a strange Dynamic there and
I feel like he needs an intervention
I with it. I feel like
let me try to Play amateur psychologist here.
I feel like he's got some sort of a deep-seated fear that if
he gives up on Jimmy Garoppolo, he's going to go somewhere else
and become better than he's ever been in his career.
And that's just going to make this quarterback misadventure
that they've been on for the past five years even worse
because they said, no thanks to Patrick Mahomes. They said, no
thanks to Tom. Brady. They stuck with Jimmy G. They gave
up three, first-round, picks and a third round. Pick to get
Trail ants.
I just feel like he doesn't want to let go of Jimmy
Garoppolo. Whoa, because of that possibility that Garoppolo
goes elsewhere. I want to wear elsewhere would be at this
point because the Patriots have Mac Jones. Yeah,
but just this fear, he lands up somewhere else. Let's say Josh
McDaniels becomes a head coach somewhere and McDaniels ends up
with Garoppolo and Garoppolo ends up being better than he's
ever been in his life. Then you look worse for giving up on
the guy prematurely.
I, I just, I don't get it. I don't get it
because the outside objective observer looks at it and says
you Do better and this guy's holding back. What could be
a very special team. And I don't think that's a hot take.
I think a lot of people would agree with it. 49ers fans, get
upset because they're
they're living in the middle of it and they're stuck with it.
Right on the outside. You look at it and say, there's a weak
link here that is holding back. This 49ers chain,
100% 100%. I mean, it's, it's always Shanahan having to
manufacture, brilliant ways, to kind of make him look good.
I don't disagree with you there at all.
You know, yes, can
he run some, you know, some running offense and do some
things we go. Okay, that's good. Yes, I mean, he's played,
you know, he's seen the field and been on the field, a lot to
understand what defenses are doing. But yeah, there's a,
there's a limit to what you can expect from him and it and
that's where, you know, you look at like
the top 10, top 15 ish quarterbacks, where you go?
Okay, wait to run games not working today. No big deal,
okay. Our quarterbacks
still pretty damn good. We can rely on him to make throws and
and carry us through the day here.
You know, it's few and far between when it comes to
Garoppolo that way you can kind of trust a. Hey, he'll make
some plays and do some things.
I just hope he doesn't really do one of those Jimmy G
bonehead dumb stuff. So, you know, that's what I hope. And
that's kind of the way they've been living and you know, we've
seen it to where
every now and then, when that dumb stuff comes up, you always
bring it up. You go back to that, Vikings playoff game.
It's like, okay. Crap, it's he's throwing the ball, down
the middle and to mosh pit of people. Let's start handing it
off.
And having to deal with that is not easy, certainly not.
And I'm like, I don't know if it's a fear of that
or like what you're talking about, the fear of him, going
somewhere else, being successful,
or sometimes I get the sense of like, you know,
Lance isn't totally 100% ready. He is Ross, still,
he doesn't want to throw him out there and have them not
look good. And then people go. What the hell did you do trade
in three? Rogers for it.
But I also get the sense that like,
you know, there's there's there's a real backing in
liking of Jimmy, G in the locker room that I think
probably scares Shanahan to a degree. I don't know that I got
no inside info on that, but that's just reading between
the lines. How I feel a little bit.
Well, we know, George kit has been a very loud, right? And
an obvious proponent of Jimmy Garoppolo that may be part of it,
part of it. Also, maybe we know the Cal Shanahan wants
quarterbacks run the offense, exactly the way he wants it to
be run, you could argue. Jimmy G does. That it's just,
sometimes he makes some bad throw. That's right. That's
right. He makes the right reads.
He does everything he's supposed to do up until the point
where the time comes to consistently deliver the ball
accurately. That's where the flock kicks in. And I think
Kyle thinks through time that that will eventually iron
itself out. I don't know. I'm just trying to figure out why
this relationship continues.
Nearly a year past the point where we assumed it was going
to end when they made that big move from number 12. The number
three in the draft to get their next court. A coup.
Again. We may see on the field
extensively this week. If
if Kyle Shanahan isn't able to get Jimmy Garoppolo
ready to go. By the way, you talked about how Kyle wanted to
tear his hair out over Christmas weekend.
The Misadventures of John Lynch had Christmas Eve Mass
ecology, and help.
This was like this bizarre little,
you know, you're hanging out with your family on Christmas
Eve. And yeah, I, you know, I was checking my phone more than
I should. Apparently John Lynch was too because he was at
church. He
Accidentally and unknowingly like to tweet. This is
the tweet that came out of nowhere. There was no contact. There was
no backstory just apparently while in Christmas Eve, Mass my
family accidentally, and unknowingly like to tweet,
never intended to and remain
a huge believer in,
Jimmy Merry Christmas to everyone. All Merry Christmas
indeed. So
the truth that he liked, it was a guy looking through
the window of a plane from the outside looking in and
the comment was something along the lines of just leave Jimmy in
Nashville.
That's the Tweet
Notch, only what I like. Yeah,
right, accidentally.
Inadvertently liked
while Ian Christmas Eve Mass.
It is definitely not a Christmas Eve miracle.
I don't know why your phone is in any position where you can
be accidentally liking Tweets in Mass. So the whole thing was
a little bit bizarre. He was not get kind of happened
on a quiet Friday night and they didn't play this weekend
because they had played Thursday night. So it blew
over. But that was just kind of a
weird little twist
to everything that's been going on with the 49ers and Jimmy G.
And again, Through it all, they're capable of being
extremely dangerous. They
look like a potential Super Bowl team
and when they were
bullying, the Titans around in the first half, right?
I thought, man, you know, boy, I got this one wrong that the,
the phone, are you ready
to sell four letter words, Titans four-letter words items
or less.
And then there you were. I'm sitting there at the end of
the game. God. Oh my gosh. Look at this crap. They're gonna win
the damn football game of florio's. Going to get
the victory.
Damn you. Hurry up. Damn you.
I tweeted at one point, during the game, in my frustration
because I picked the Titans to win, and they looked so bad.
I tweeted are the Titans frauds discuss.
So, of course, when they won the game, right? I get all
the indignant Titans, fans and members of the media that it's
amazing to me, how members of the Media Group that cover
a given team. And I'm not picking on the Titans here.
It's a dynamic throughout the league. Like people are
supposed to be somewhat objective, act like they're
Exact. Like they've got a like they work for the team now and
they get indignant. They get upset. When you criticize
the team they cover, it's like you don't work for the team.
You just been assigned to cover that team by your paper. You're
still supposed to be a little objective. So, back off
a little bit. Okay, please. But it was,
it was aggressive. Thankfully, it was Christmas and that died
down pretty fast. But I wanted the Titans to win. I was upset.
I was upset as a Titan. I would be if they were getting
outclassed.
They,
I was stunned that they came back in tide that game and even
more stunned that they want it. Yeah. Well, you know again, you
know, I think that's where it goes. Back to the Jimmy G
thing. Again. That's where they need kiddo. And Deebo Samuel to
be both hitting on all cylinders and Shanahan's got to
find ways to
get them. The ball even more and be healthy at the running
back position. Because it's just, it's iffy
with Jimmy G, period, you just don't know,
you know, again, there they are, like you said it on
the doorstep of blowing the game out here. Well, we're gonna go
up 17, nothing and he throw an interception to clearly
a covered George Kettle.
And then, of course, the interception of the
Third quarter that
jump-started the Titans offense. They were huge
mistakes. They definitely were. I mean, my like I was sitting
there, you know,
for like points BET, right? I'm
I'm going oh man, you know, I'm picking the 49ers to win and
I thought it was going to be a kid'll night in the night
started and Debo, Samuel could have went on fire, and I was
like, oh no. Oh no, it's going to be a Debo night. The Titans
have taken away kidal.
They're not going to be able to take away Devo,
and this is going to be an issue.
And of course, it wasn't good for me all around.
Long losing the damn game to you that way, but
that is the big question mark with them.
There's no team in the NFC with the 49ers
where they're going to get on the field and they're going to
be like, we're going to look at it or talked about in a matchup
and go. Well. We're really worried that they physically
won't be able to match up.
They're going to be able to physically upfront, match up
with anybody. We know Shanahan and the xo's are going to match
up with anybody.
It's just is there going to be that team
that? Yes, like you said takes away a kid alone.
Slows down the Run game
to where now? Hey Jimmy.
These last three quarters. You're going to have to play
good football and you can't turn it over and cost us
the game. That's still we've been talking about this for three
years straight. I mean, it's unbelievable.
It's still the same conversation around. Garoppolo
and look, all that said
there in the six seed right now. Yeah, and if they take
care of business and next couple of weeks, they will be
fine. And we see what they do to the Rams.
We don't know what the Rams going to be playing for and
week 18. Yeah. That's the other weird bring quota. All this, we
don't have any teams are going to have their position set in
stone when the dust settles on week 17 to
the extent that they can treat week 18 as a de facto by. But
maybe the 49ers get lucky that way as well. First order of
business. So take care of the Texans, presumably they can but
we presume the Chargers could as well. So who knows what
these Texans are capable of doing?