All right, more on Stafford. Because
as in the same division, the Jimmy Garoppolo situation
continues to be unresolved. People are starting to make
the connection. Hey, if Stafford's elbow
ends up being a big deal, like it was for Ben Roethlisberger,
three years ago, maybe Garoppolo ends up
with the Los Angeles, Rams.
I mean, that really would be something and I think it would
take a lot from to have a Lat Adam at a minimum, he'd have to
be cut. I don't think he's getting traded to the Rams,
they would trade him anywhere else
in the league. They would trade him and give a late round, pick
to make sure he goes to that team. Instead of trading him to
the Rams, not quite as bad as the Packers, not wanting to
trade, Brett Favre to the Vikings, a of lines. But
I don't think the 49ers are handing him
to the ramped, but they may have to cut him August 30 when
the rosters go to 53. He's not going to be on the week one
roster.
And maybe if Stafford gets injured and can't play at some
point after garoppolo's available and is still
unsigned. That's the only way it's going to happen. That's
right. That's right away. That's the only way. Yeah,
garoppolo's not going to be, they've already made it clear.
Look, he's been with the team
for two weeks. He does whatever he wants. He goes wherever he
wants, he's not involved in meetings, he's not involved in
practices and he's okay with it because he and the team are
waiting for lightning to strike somewhere
and knock a quarterback out for the season.
And if not, he's going to get cut and he becomes a free.
Agent really late in the game, but his only chance of getting
anything close to 25 million is. If that lightning strike
happens, he knows that the 49ers will get a nice return
with draft picks.
And Garoppolo gets far closer to 25 than five
if it's this Vikings, Teddy, Bridgewater
Panic, our starters gone. What are we going to do? Which is
exactly what happened. Six years ago, chances of it
minuscule Chris but it's clear. Now
that's what they're waiting for. Yeah.
Yes, I think you explain it exactly right there. They're
going to wait for that and he's willing to just because of what
you said even though it's probably hard, you know, and
he's going man. I'd like to get somewhere and figure out my
life.
Well I'll, you know
do you want to get somewhere and figure out your life? Is it
worked, you know, losing maybe
15 million dollars over it and that's where he's probably,
okay. All right, I'll just wait it out, we'll see, maybe
I will, you know, get lucky and,
and get traded and be able to keep this contract.
But But yeah, it's a weird situation, it's very odd.
I mean, it's really a through the test of time or in the NFL
history. I can't remember a whole lot like this. Where
we're going? Hey,
quarterback. That went to the Super Bowl went to the NFC
Championship Game. Got replaced, still on the roster,
hanging around working out, you know, making things a little
weird there in San Francisco all together.
But there's no way like you said
that they are going to give him to the Rams
nor would it. If I'm Jimmy Garoppolo
I wouldn't want to go to the Rams either.
Unless you knew Stafford was going to be out for,
like, the year or like, 10, 12 games, something like that, you
know, other than that, you're going there and going, wait,
I'm gonna
get in, there have to learn an offense real quick. I don't
know how the hell that's gonna go and might not do good and
then,
Stanford's going to come back and make me look not good. When
he knows the offense and he come are coming around throwing
laser, so I don't think that's necessarily the best situation
for Jimmy Garoppolo either. Unless like, Stafford is
completely
out of the situation for 2022
that Lee would be the ultimate deciding factor in the Rivalry
between Kyle, Shanahan, and Sean McVeigh if McVeigh could
absorb Garoppolo. Assuming Stafford ends up being after
the you and that's a huge assumption that this point. But
I'm just
saying, the only way this happens and if it would happen,
my God, how compelling it would be, what you, what they could
do with Garoppolo. And if he could get Garoppolo to take
the rims
over-the-top you mentioned. It's kind of weird out there.
That was one of the questions. The college Hannah was asked on
Friday when he met. Reporters
about whether or not it is awkward with Jimmy Garoppolo
there and destined to soon be not there,
I don't come up with anything. I mean, it's
we have a real good relationship with Jimmy.
That's, there's no secret here of what the situation is.
I think he fully understands the situation, we fully understand
the situation. So
we make the best of it and Jim, he's out there, he's feeling
better and better each day
I still see him.
I mean we have a real good relationship. A ship with Jim
and he's done, some really good things here, so fans getting
pumped with them and our players still love him. Seeing
them, that doesn't surprise me at all. I think you have to
report, you know what, the rules of the NFL today and
stuff you have to report
so we made it the best for both. I mean,
I think, I mean of Jimmy wanted to be in every single meeting
and wanted to do everything for sure. We would let them,
I would guess that isn't what he would want. Totally. And
when we asked him, that was accurate. He didn't totally
want that. So he's just trying to get his body ready. or
hopefully, the next situation you get goes into
One of the key ingredients to this Chris is that Jimmy
Garoppolo has gone. Along with that. We talk about the Steve
McNair situation from time to time. He knew there was a trade
in place to the Ravens the Ravens and the Titans weren't
coming to an
agreement though about compensation McNair, trying to
force the issue by showing up and working out in
the offseason and risking the possibility of an injury that
would have made his 11 million dollar cap hit. I think at
the time, something the Titans would have to absorb
even if he's not able to play because he dropped a weight on
his foot or whatever may have Happened. If they had let him
in
Jimmy's there but he's not there, he's working out, but
he's not really with the team. He's not in the meetings, he's
not part of it, he's going along with it. Because again,
waiting being patient for that, lightning to strike is his best
play to get his 25 million and Chris at the risk of jinxing
trade, Lance. I don't know if I've said this on this show or
elsewhere.
Maybe both
the lightning could strike with Trey. Lance, there's no.
If I mean if trade, Lance if something happens and he can't
Play at all this year.
Who else would the quarterback be if Jimmy Garoppolo still on
the tier going back to him? No no doubt Mike I think it's
a valid point. I heard you bringing up once last week in
conversation. I don't think we actually talked about this on
the show, but
but
agreed, I mean, again, the 49ers are Super Bowl team,
they're a Super Bowl team.
I mean, I'm not sure they weren't better than the Rams
really last year as a complete football team.
It's just the guy number 9.
The Rams, but the Rams over the top, I mean, plain and simple,
but this is a team that's real. It's ready to be.
It's ready to be had as far as the Super Bowl right now.
And, yes, I think your point there with Trail. And so,
I mean, hey, you know, I think you said this a few weeks ago,
we saw Trey Lance twice last year. He got hurt in both
games, Arizona hurts his knee in a collision of the goal
line,
you know, but Houston Texans, whatever week that was 13, 14
Hertz, has he hurts his thumb right? Or one of the fingers on
his hand? So
So, yes, this is a guy that's still raw
relying on athletic ability.
A little reckless, not used to speed in the NFL
used to kind of be in the
main man out in North Dakota State and be in the
one of the better athletes on the field. No question about
it. And that is, it is risky. So
I think that's probably another part why the 49ers are not in,
like some crazy rush, just to throw him out the door for
anything.
Yeah. And that would be the ultimate irony. The guy that
they trade up to draft ends up having the same durability
issues that Jimmy Garoppolo had, which is ultimately
I think the main factor that caused the 49ers to fall out of
love
with Jimmy Garoppolo. So
look
if it doesn't happen now you can keep him past August 30 if
you're willing to keep him on the roster by then though
the haze in the barn, the pre season is over. But you know
that that Teddy Bridgewater injury happened at a
Practice, not in a game. It's possible. He mostly tore
the ACL in the game. I
I can't, they had a game against the Chargers in their
new stadium like, right before that. And I can't remember
whether he took a hit in that game. I kind of think he did,
but it was almost remember when DeShaun Watson told us, yeah.
At the Super Bowl, right? That his ACL was torn.
He believed during the game against the Seahawks at Great
gamer. Real Sherman sought him out and said, that's the best
any quarterbacks ever played against us, even better than
Tom. Brady. And then it went non-contact Equity was just
running in practice a few days later.
So
my point is
by August 30.
There's still a chance. There's still a chance
that even if the pre season is over at that point and it will
be
that that something can happen between then. And when Jimmy
garoppolo's contract becomes fully guaranteed.
So I won't be surprised.
You know I've assumed all along they'll cut him
when they cut to 53.
They still can might be on the Victoria Cross. Yeah. They
still could choose to do it because the worst thing for
them is we carry him all this time. We cut him and the next
day
somebody's ACL goes kaflooey,
right? And Jimmy Garoppolo, and they could have had something
for Garoppolo. I think they'll wait until the last moment
before they owe him 25 million. And the last moment is what
the day of the day before the game go.
I need to ask when that is, it's at some point before week
one, just like in days, maybe hours before the game. Whether
it's with one of the rosters lock the Saturday before, yeah,
it's
whatever it is, they'll be keenly aware of when that
deadline is because if you are on the active, roster at that
moment, your salary becomes guaranteed as a practical
matter. There's a provision in the CBA called termination pay.
You can use it once in your
career. If you've got four more years of service and you get
cut at any point, after you are on the week one roster,
you collect all that money, you get to double dip, you get all
that money, and you can go play for someone else and there's No
offset.
I remember Josh Freeman did that with the bucks when they
cut him in 2013 it was a huge amount like eight million
dollars that he walked away with and it happens from time
to time and from time to time what also happens Chris
vested veterans get cut.
Yeah right before Week 1, right? Because the team doesn't
want to be on the hook for their salary of the whole year.
Yeah, that that's a big, that's a big part of the game.
Certainly. And then, you know, we see that every year, two
veteran gets cut,
maybe gets re-signed week to,
you know, to another
Deal. But the big chunk of change that he would have made
before they got, cut is no longer part of the equation. So
yes that's part of the song and dance in the NFL
and I can certainly see that happening.
I could see that happening to where
Jimmy garoppolo's on the street,
you know, week one may be weak to in the NFL. Oh man, week to
we're watching Sunday, game, someone gets hurt and ring ring
ring. There we go. We got to call Jimmy G
and now he's in some teams, you know, training or in some teams
locker room that that week leading up to week three.
I could see that being Being the case for Jimmy Garoppolo.