fall out of trees. He's a good
player at a position where
you know, that they're hard to find and so,
you know, you you certainly don't just give guys like that
away. And and we can, we can I guess foot the bill if you want
to describe it as that. And so,
you know, we'll be patient with that one.
You know, the saying is guys like that. Don't grow on trees
if any quarterback was going to find a way to fall out of
a tree, it would be the injury-prone. Jimmy Garoppolo.
So I don't like that metaphor very much. But I think I get
the point. The problem is
they already got a guy
that they want to develop and unless
Kyle is come up with a to quarterback offense where you
put them both on the field at the same time and make it work
that way.
This is a player that you don't need but they continue to squat
on him
because they think that
Going to lock into a trade maybe after the draft, a team.
That's targeting quarterback doesn't get the guy they want.
Let's go trade for Jimmy G or
during Camp freak injury, Teddy Bridgewater, six years later,
something like that happens. It was starting quarterback. Let's
go. Get Jimmy G. That's what they're waiting for. Yeah.
I just don't get the impression Jimmy. Geez, all that throat
about sitting around and waiting, because there's
a chance that,
when Labor Day, weekend, rolls around, and the Raw. Rosters
cut to 53.
He's gone. He's Man Without a country man without a salary
Man. Without anything. And every other team has its depth
chart set. And the budget is definitely blown by then Chris
who's going to give him 25 million dollars, who's going to
sign him to a contract that he thinks he deserves if the 49ers
squad on him all the way until
the end of the preseason. Yeah. No, I'm agreed. I mean let
alone that contract. I mean,
you know, I know there's ways to finagle and wiggle around
stuff, but Bosun, Debo Samuel, I would think, you know, money
off the books, there would help that at least make it easier.
And if I'm Jimmy Garoppolo Jama course, you don't want to be
sit there and his held hostage. Absolutely not. And to where
the 49ers, got to be a little careful to is,
I don't know. They got to make sure they don't do them dirty.
In my opinion. That's where it's a little different as
well. They keep speaking. Highly of them, the lock room,
keep speaking highly of them.
So therefore I again, if I
just feel like if You kind of do them dirty and hold them
hostage and then it's just like that. Well, we just we didn't
find a place for your work. Cutting you, you know on August
31st or whatever.
Like that's not going to like the locker rooms. Not going to
love that. It's not going to go. They're Gonna they're gonna
look at it go man. That's that's effed up. That they did
that. They did him like that. The guy who brought us to
the Super Bowl and another NFC Championship game.
That's where it's to me. Guess keeping him around. It seems
like it's more headaches and it's worked at this point and
I, you know, I'm with you and the fact that Don't think
they're going to get anything special for Jimmy Garoppolo.
Unless
something crazy happens.
That's that would be to me.
And again, I'd be one of those guys. If I'm A team out there.
I'm not trading away. A first round pick from Jimmy
Garoppolo. I'm not trading away. A second round pick for
Jimmy Garoppolo. That's not happening.
It's not you. Do you have Trail ants? You want them to be
the starter? You just told us. You think you're ready to be
the starter. We heard Shanahan say that the cop at the owners
meeting in the area here and Lynch. Say it
yesterday. A, why would you trade that away? And then to
me, you question, Jimmy G in general. Anyways, how good is
Jimmy, G?
I know, I know he's good. I know you could get to the Super
Bowl there, but he liked your team's got to be really damn
good to the 49ers team in roster is certainly one of
the best in football and they were the best team the year. They
lost to
the Chiefs in the Super Bowl.
The Chiefs just had
the best player in the league on the team that overcame it
that day. That least would be my two cents. And then I ask
myself all the time I go. Yeah. How good is Jimmy G?
He was with Wait, the Patriots, and Josh McDaniels. And then he
was, was Shanahan. Whose
want to do sell him away
every day, since after year one,
and they still make it work.
So that's where I think the league questions it
and I just don't see the worth
and Jimmy Garoppolo maybe that the 49ers seem to be so
stubbornly holding onto here
and had to talk him into trading form in the first place
when he was just months away from getting her cousins in
free agency. Remember?
Ever the quota from John Lynch along the lines of
how disappointed Kyle
was, and
it didn't really want to do this and they did it. And
there's just always been this sense of hesitation to fully
and completely embraced, Jimmy Garoppolo, and last week on
Thursday.
We haven't had a chance to talk about this Garoppolo was on
with Adam shine. He did a few other
media appearances. Right. Some reason
our invitation. God
got lost in the cyberspace, but I digress.
He said that the 2021 experience with Trey, Lance,
there was strange
and it's something he wouldn't wish on anyone. Yeah, of course,
that, that makes it hard for the 49ers to sell. This idea.
I will just keep him paying 25 million. Yeah, they'll be
happy. Jimmy's, good. Dude. He'll be good in the background
sitting there. Just getting screwed over. No problem.
I know. Yeah, that's what I mean.
I feel like Jimmy is, you know, at some point he's gonna make
life. Harlem them. I do think part of the surgery and all
that was to make hard, make it hard on them.
So there's there's something at play here and I think if he's
smart and a good businessman like we talked about as far as
football is concerned. Yeah. At some point, he's going to apply
the pressure and
probably say and do a few things that he normally
wouldn't do just to force his way out of town.
There is one other wrinkle. I had mentioned before that.
I noticed last night when I looked at his contract
breakdown and I don't think it's a major impediment but it
is a factor at least for now.
He had that surgery now. He did it without informing the team.
Just he shows up one day. Hey I had surgery on my throwing
shoulder after last season.
He's got and he earned this by hitting incentives during
the Super Bowl year of 2019. He's got seven and a half million of
his salary, this year, guaranteed for injury.
So they technically can't cut him
until he passes a physical. If they do,
he's got seven and a half million
that would, that would be
earned.
But it would be offset by ever whatever he would earn
elsewhere. Right? So, I mean it's not a huge wrinkle. But if
they do cut him now, he's still on the books for seven and
a half million
until he learns it somewhere else,
but I would assume
if he's cut right now, he would end up earning at least seven
and a half million somewhere else. The sooner the 49ers cut
him, the sooner he can earn the money elsewhere to offset
the seven and a half million
if they wait until he passes a physical.
Uncut and they don't owe him anything. So,
it's just another wrinkle
that
raises the stakes for the 49ers. And I think Jimmy G's
perspective. I think he's hoping they say,
wait a minute
in the
yeah.
Let's just go ahead and do this now. So someone else will sign
him and pay him the money, and they can be the ones to deal
with the tree assume that he's going to be healthy, right?
Because once they commit to pay him for this,
We're
we're we're off the hook. I think maybe that's what Jimmy G
was trying to finagle here, but they haven't bitten yet. They
still think that they're going to wait
they're going to be patient
and that they're going to get lucky
and the clouds are going to part some way somehow and
they're going to get value in trade for Jimmy Garoppolo.
I don't think it's going to happen. I think they're
eventually going to cut him. I made a bet with someone over
the weekend. Someone on Twitter that I don't know, right guy
offered to buy 10 copies of Playmakers
if Jimmy Garoppolo.
Oh is cut. If he's traded, I have to send the guy
a free signed copy of the book.
So I think it's a good bet. I'll take good tattoo face.
Yeah,
I think the guys going to Welsh, I don't know who he is,
but I made the bet I'm willing to make the bed because I think
he is going to be cut. I don't think he's going to be traded.
I think if you made me bet, I would probably go down that
line as well that I would go. Yeah, I think with all things,
you know, taken to an account. Yeah. It's going to take
something dramatic or crazy to happen.
In
for me to think he's going to get traded, like you said to,
Teddy Bridgewater type training, camp injury,
something of that nature. But even then, I think like, men,
the 49ers got to think twice about even getting that far
into training camp
with having Jimmy Garoppolo there at training camp with
Trey, Lance. Hey, Trey, it's your time to take over
the team. Hey, you know, Jimmy's here, deepest the starter Baba
Bhai. Hey, how's it taking over the team and take it over
the guys job.
That's right here
and it's just going to be cos like, why would you want to
deal that? Why would you want to put your star rookie? Her
back, even in that scenario, to start training camp to have to
answer those questions and deal with that.
And then oh, man, third day of practice Trail and so, new
starter for the 49ers man. Was he out performed by Jimmy
Garoppolo and practice today.
That's you're just
you're asking for a recipe for disaster if it gets to that
point in my opinion there and and here's here's the best
example, I can think of as to what's really going on. The
49ers went out and bought a really expensive house
and they spent a lot of money and they were
Happy with it. But then they realized the roof leaks all
the time. The furnace breaks. It's always something. There's
always something about this house and they've actually got
sick of it and they went and bought another house,
but they still have the first house
and they're trying to tell everybody how great the first
house is. So they'll come and buy it knowing full well that
the roof leaks all the time. The furnace bust the sidewalks
cracked. It's always something.
But they think that people should be lining up to buy
the house that they had to move out of for the more expensive
house. That doesn't have those problems and they don't know
yet. Haven't moved into the house. They're caught between
the two houses.
We can't move into the new house until we, we can't fully
move into the new house until we sell this house. Will
somebody please buy this house that we don't want to live in
anymore so we can go move to the other house. That's
basically where they are
and they're surprised that nobody is lining up to give
them what they want for the house that they couldn't wait
to move out of,
that's exactly what they're dealing with and they act
surprised. They act surprised that people don't want to give
them what they want for the house that they can't wait to
move out of, yeah,
right. Yeah. The you know that we all have reason to believe
that they yeah, they that
they think the house is leaky like you're talking about
there's issues. They've given everybody warnings and things
to look at and go man. I think there's something wrong with
this house. We need to check into it a little bit, be
careful here. It'll be fine
for you. Yeah, right, right. Exactly. Right? Yes, so it
can't live here no more, but I would be fine with you and
I don't know where it is or why it's like
this or whatever. But yes, they are being stubborn as hell
here. I understand where they are, you know, as far as not
wanting to give I'm away for free.
It's just yeah, I think there is a point or at least a
date where you got to be careful if he's still on your
roster. Do you really want to deal with that?