And look, I I knew this at the time.
When Mary, Kay Cabot reported, the Browns are Niche. Jimmy
Garoppolo. I knew at the time
that that just means there are
assuming a short term suspension of DeShaun Watson.
They're going to feel differently. If they don't have
DeShaun Watson for the full year it's not Jacoby percept
for a full year. It can't be Jacoby percent. I'm sorry
Jacoby for a full year and lo and behold here we are now that
the Browns are wrapping their heads around the fact that
they're not going to have.
DeShaun Watson possibly for the full year. Now, they're
interested potentially in Jimmy Garoppolo
once they understand,
they may need a replacement
for weeks 1 through 17, not weeks 1 through 6 or 8.
And that happened to the Colts. Mike, Andrew Luck, walked away.
And guess who the quarterback of the cult is Jacoby percent
ends up being a starter for the Colts for a season and they
figured out that he's not the guy. So yeah, long-term he's
not the guy for them. He started 15 games for the Colts
and 2019 with seven
and eight and played, okay. But not good enough to get them
where they want to go. So yeah, this makes perfect sense for
the Browns, to pursue Jimmy Garoppolo, he's a better
quarterback. He's more a
Liz, she's done more things. Now,
how do you go to a team in the middle of training camp?
I thought Baker, Mayfield got in leg goodness gracious if Jimmy
Garoppolo gets to a team now, to expect him to come out and
start week, one is probably asking
a whole lot. He's gonna be learning names of guys and and
who they are and much less The Playbook and everything else.
They that goes into it but he is a better quarterback than
Jacoby Brissette. So
this would be the one team that the 49ers would want him to go
to. They would take anything. Probably take a bag of balls,
Mike to get. No, no, no,
nope, nope, not, wait, wait, let's stop there.
Let's oh
no,
this is what they've been waiting for. This is what
they've been with that. Now look they've been waiting for
somebody to tear an ACL but
if the Browns find out today
that that's it. No DeShaun Watson for 2022.
All of a sudden, the 49ers and Jimmy Garoppolo
are operating from a position of
Right. I firmly believe Garoppolo is go along with his
plan because he recognizes if somebody else develops,
an urgent need for a starting quarterback, he's getting
closer to 25 million than the league minimum because there's
desperation, it's what happened to the Vikings in 2016 with
Teddy Bridgewater.
We got to find a quarterback now.
And I remember Rick Spielman saying at the time, the former
GM of the team, everybody jacked up the price and
nobody's going to feel sorry
for the Browns, the 49ers aren't going to do them. Some
sort of an Insider deal
that the 49ers are going to try to take for everything they can
get. And they have to be ready to give up more
to get Garoppolo.
Then they got for Baker Mayfield, and they're going to
be paying Baker, Mayfield 10 million this year, which they
already are doing no matter what
and they're going to be paying Garoppolo
20 million this year or more.
And they got the cap space to do it. And actually if DeShaun
Watson is suspended for a full year and helps the Browns
because it tells his contract for a full year but
The 49ers, the 49ers, aren't, you know, whatever they would
take now or would have taken the last two weeks? If somebody
would have made them an offer for Jimmy Garoppolo, that's out
the window.
The moment to Sean, Watson's gone for the year and
the Browns are desperate for Jimmy Garoppolo so
I
pick, but they're going to get more than what they got for
Baker. Mayfield
But don't you feel like they want to send him to the Browns
to get him away? If they cut him, I mean there's a very good
chance he could end up with the Rams and Seahawks I just have
in my mind that they
would absolutely love to send him to the Browns as opposed to
cutting him. So I, they're rooting for this. But what if
the Browns stick firm and say, we're not giving you more than
a seventh-round pick, what are the 49ers do at
that point? Do they
think hold on and I
Hey, flash. I think they flash one of these four fingers and
I'll let the audience decide which finger that they will
flash. If the Browns do it, the 49ers will be operating from
a position of strength and they are not and they're going to
say, we don't care. If he
goes to Seattle,
we don't care if he goes to the Rams,
right? And they still have another
four weeks before they have to cut him before his salary
becomes fully guaranteed. We don't know who's going to get
injured.
How we don't know what's gonna happen with, Tom Brady. If I'm
the 49ers I'm thinking I know what. We're seeing here but
I don't know what's gonna happen with, Tom Brady, this is weird,
this is strange, this is wacky. Maybe the maybe the Bucks are
going to call us about, Jimmy Garoppolo at some point. So
my point is, my point is
in their Zeal
to.
I don't think they're going to have the level of zeal that you
think to get him to the Browns and and and move on. So he
can't land with another rival
in The Division II think that they're going to
they're going to look at this
and they're going to say boy that's a shame Cleveland sorry
you don't have Quarterback this year,
but you're not getting any breaks here when it's time to
figure out the appropriate compensation for us to fill
your urgent, need to have a quarterback this season.
Let me ask you this by, if you're Jimmy Garoppolo, how are
you looking at this? Do you? I mean, because the Rams
obviously are the best situation if they end up
needing a quarterback, that's the best situation. That's
the place that you would want to go.
If you're Jimmy Garoppolo, where do you hope to end up? Is
it Seattle? Is it the 49ers? It's a brown. What gives you
the best option
to play? Well, this season to play games, like, you don't
want to go in there as a backup because you're going to become
a free agent 20:23. So what gives you the best? Chance to
play and play well, for this year,
it's got to be Cleveland. It's got to be, we don't know what's
going to happen in Seattle. I don't think Seattle wants him.
It's not like he's been particularly good against
Seattle
over the past few years
and anybody else, it would be an injury situation in Cleveland.
He rides in on a white horse to save the season,
they have an offense that is premised on the Run. They've
added Amari Cooper, they've got some weapons, they've got
a great defense, he can go and have a decent season and then
become a
free agent and get,
you know, who knows, who knows what he would get on the open
market. But Mitchell, true Biscay was mothballed by
the bills last year and ended up being the starter in
Pittsburgh.
And it looks like he's not going to blow that opportunity.
He's going to be the weak one starter again. He's got to
prove it but it's his job to lose every indication points to
that.
So yeah, I think Cleveland makes the most sense for Jimmy
Garoppolo, but as you said
the sooner, he gets there, the better. The sooner they get
this done the better and that's the other
Wild card in all of this
at some point I think garoppolo's got a flex, his
muscles a little bit and say to the 49ers, this is what I want,
don't complicate this for me. That would be the only way that
the 49ers would soften their demands.
If Garoppolo says
to Lynch or Shanahan. Listen,
I've been playing the nice guy routine. I've been going along
with you all this time. I want to get to Cleveland. I'm going
to cut my salary in half to get to Cleveland or wherever you
want me to do.
Don't don't be ridiculous about this. This don't don't make
this into something
just to prove that you were right, all along or whatever
the case may be. I want this
help me get this so
it's not going to be easy.
Because the Browns will be operating from a position of
desperation,
but it's,
it seems like the best place for Jimmy Garoppolo Shireen II
agree with you there and we'll see. We'll see,