under estimating are overestimating, Jimmy. I'm not
sure which estimating I did wrong.
I didn't think he'd agree to a penniless. Not at this point,
I didn't think you would. Right? I think at this point, you just
sit back and say, hey, it's up to you. We all know, we're all
grown-ups
25.6 two million dollars fully guaranteed as of September 10
at 4 p.m. Eastern
either caught me by then or invests you decide what you
want to do for
- I mean, how many times did they have to tell us? He's off
the team? Yeah, I don't times. They have to tell us he's gone
and he's not coming back and then
they pivot as they needed to.
You know, they couldn't have planned it any better but they
didn't plan it. That's right. Sometimes the best plans are
the ones you didn't plan. This just was perfect
for them but it wasn't what they were trying to do. But
Chris
I mean we're going to unpack this over the course of
the next two hours. Maybe the full two hours, who knows,
especially if I keep hogging the mic, but your butt
They abandoned ship on their plan, and
I am reminded, and then I will turn it over to you, for your
Victory lap, I am reminded of something. A wise man has once
told me and told me again, and again, to make sure that it
finally took root because sometimes it takes more than
once.
There are teams that will make a mistake and double down on.
Yeah, I thought it might be worse, right? Then there are
other teams and make a mistake and they say, oh s***, we made
a mistake, right?
Clean up on aisle five.
Let's let's admit it. And who cares? If people point and
laugh, at least we're not making it worse by clinging to
something that we shouldn't be doing. Yeah. Agreed. I thought
about you actually because you've been one that has always
brought that up and and you know I always think
about you and those situations where I Way to this,
are they really going to
you know bite off their nose to spite their face here in
a situation just so they don't look bad for making one bad
decision and now we're going to make two bad decisions because
we want to try to cover up that first bad decision
that's where I give Shanahan Lynch you know kudos to them.
And again I do I'm not sitting here Victory lap. I just think
it was a smart football Minds. We're thinking this I got to
think that you know, again
it made sense from too many standpoints at least from
the 49
Owners and like you're talking about, I don't think this was
the original plan. No, I think.
Hey, they love for everything to be warm and cozy and Trey
Lance's, the man and he's the starting quarterback and he
looks good and we can just release Jimmy G if we don't
trade him here in the next few days and be done with it
forever
and never have to worry.
But what happened is they evaluated the situation for
what it is, at least the way it looks on. You know on sitting
here on this side of
the TV. When you just go okay
we heard Reports training camp throughout, you know, it's not
always that great. It's a little inconsistent offense,
you know, Trey. Lance looks choppy.
Then you watch two games and
you kind of get the same feel
other than one play down the left sideline against, you
know, the third-string safety of the Green Bay Packers. So
I think when you add all that up and then you look at the rest
of the 49er football team,
not only on paper, but just what you see even from some of
the starters that did play some of the backup step. Why you go?
Oh wow. Whoa
they're talented. And some of their Stars aren't even
playing. Oh wow. They got depth across the board at all
the important positions they're there, they're arguably
the best roster and football
and that's where I think you know. Hopefully Shanahan Lynch
finally came to the realization. Wait, wait, we
can't risk it for the whole Bay Area, the 49ers fans Jed York.
All the great players we got on this team
just because we made a move to years. In the draft and we
still gotta justify it. So I thought that was, you know,
the right thing to do and it was pretty cool to see it kind of
come to fruition
yesterday afternoon, when I started to see that filtered
through the internet
and the reality is they are
Clearly admitting one mistake. Yeah, she is. Yeah. We never
should have excommunicated Jimmy Garoppolo in the first
place. And we've come to the conclusion without Trail ants
being the one who suffered, the torn ACL or ruptured Achilles
tendon that we need to be the people who have Jimmy Garoppolo
ready to go
in case of injury or
ineffectiveness. The deeper message is,
hey folks.
We may have screwed this up with Trey Lance in our haste to
rectify, a string of bad quarterback decisions
from
not waiting for Kirk Cousins and trading. For Jimmy
Garoppolo before that not evaluating Patrick, my home's
coming out of the 2017 draft or Deshaun Watson for that matter,
right? My guess is, if they had evaluated both, they probably
given my respect for Kyle. Shanahan's. Overall football
Acumen would have come down on
the side of it but we have to take Patrick my home. Yeah.
And then said No, thank you to Tom Brady, when Brady was ready
to come
home to San Mateo and San Francisco, and Santa Clara,
technically
in 2020 and then I still am convinced Chris. When they saw
the two primary examples of their QB
F UPS in Super Bowl 55 Mahomes versus Brady.
That's when they blew a fuse and got desperate
to go out and get
a guy who would take them there. And that guy ended up
being Lance. And, as of now,
There's no tangible evidence that he's ready to do it
and Kyle wasn't ready
to go into the season without something better in his back
pocket than Nate sud felt and Brock / D. That's right. And
simple, right plane. And so it and so they made they made
a nice.
Big old dish, is chicken salad.
And I have to,
I have to applaud them. Real Applause. Not not sarcasm or
golf clap. Real Applause for recognizing that. It was what
They needed to do now, whether it was best move for Jimmy, G
remains to be seen, you know, I hear from a lot of people
throughout the course of the day yesterday. Why did you me
do this? Why did he Force his way out? Why didn't he show up
for practice and say, hey you got a deal with me? Pull
the Steve McNair that. Yeah. Why did you wait
so long? You know, what were these choices at this point? Yeah.
What options did he really have jacked lie?
Right. That's the point. I think is, you know, they waited
the period of time
where, you know, you said it, right? They excommunicated him
to wear. Okay? You practice on the side and Do that? No, you
don't have to come to meetings but of course they didn't want
to take that risk of, oh yeah, him getting hurt and practicing
and then they have to pay
him 25 million dollars.
And then, at the same time, Jimmy G is happy with that,
because he's gone. Well, okay, fine, that's good. Well, maybe
there's a situation around the league. That'll arrives here
through training camp.
That makes sense for me.
And I can go somewhere and be the starter
and as time went on we saw, you know, little by little that
those chances were falling by the wayside, we thought. Oh
maybe
And if DeShaun Watson gets hurt or I mean, get suspended for
a full year and then okay, it's only 12 games and they're
standing. Pat with Jacoby were said, they didn't want to
confuse things there
and then you start to look at it and go.
Okay, so where else, where where else are we going here?
And, you know, I know we talked about Texans and Seahawks
yesterday and I honestly think the Texans want to see what
Davis Mills
is. I doubt. They're banging down the door for Jimmy G.
So I think, when you add all that up and then
wait, the guy we got Jimmy Lance
is not where we were hoping he would be.
Then
that's where you got to make a tough decision. And yeah,
you're going to take some some heat for people going. Hey, why
did you trade three first-round picks to get this guy to go to
pick number 3.
Well yeah, listen, they had an eye on them, obviously Shanahan
liked him. You know, does it look like it was worth all that
assets right now? Know it doesn't. But that doesn't mean
the stories written yet.
We don't know. I mean, He could surprise us all and Shanahan's
game planning and stuff and you know slowly but surely
the training wheels come off a trail ants and
Midway through the year. He could be awesome, we don't know yet.
But either way I think again the intelligence got in the way
or thankfully got in the way
of like what you're saying the ego,
the worry about all the other things that are out there in
the NFL sports and media world. The criticism we're going to
take because we did this for Trey Lance, Okay. Blah blah,
blah.
Up it's football. It ain't perfect. So you deal with it
the best you got you got a team that's really damn good. And
now you got
a great insurance policy with Jimmy Garoppolo
and look, we had been hearing for months that they didn't
know what they had in trail and of course they didn't know what
they had. You don't know what you have in a Young quarterback
until he plays I was on 95 7 the game last week and they
think I've got some trail ants bias. No,
we don't know what he's going to be
until he is the week in and week out starter. We don't know
how effective it will be. We don't know how durable will be
and we don't know how he we'll deal with enough film being
generated, so that defensive coordinators can specifically
come up with game plans aimed at
taking away, what he does best and forcing him to do things
that he doesn't do well and he never gets better at them and
then he's done
we don't know that we know that for any of the guys
right? Until they start playing that's when you find it out. So
Chris I remember last year and I've credited you for this on
radio stations from coast to coast including
York and Los Angeles even though I never go to either
place again saying that it was the Chargers preseason game
last year. Jimmy G struggles, Trail ants goes in and your
read on Kyle Shanahan even though he doesn't talk to
anymore because you got a big mouth and you're in the media,
the worst possible combination
you recognize that Kyle was disappointed. That Lance didn't
sees his opportunity. Then yeah, that the window was open
in that preseason game and he
and he bashed his head into the frame right? And
at because it was so
A weird last year, remember, they're making us think, oh,
there's going to be a trail ants package when there was
until there wasn't right. And then he was just kind of tucked
aside and forgotten about and yeah, they don't know what they
have, they don't know
what they have. He started a couple of games because of
injury
that's not nearly enough for them, to know what they have
because there was nothing in those games that made us. Say,
hey, there's an X Patrick my homes, so
that now they they
now they're going to find out what they have. Yeah, they're
gonna find out event that they find out. They don't have what
they thought they had. They still have Jimmy G.
Yeah, it really is a great outcome for them.
They've held on to Jimmy G long enough
burden hand two in the bush. They got all three
and they're going to find out if the two in the bush or any
good. Yeah and I think to your point yet they still don't
think they know what they got. You're right. They don't know,
you know and I'm sure again
I don't think this is an easy decision to want to have Jimmy
G around and have this talk and this, you know, in the locker
room and any of that for the guy that you're trying to
anoint, you know,
The new leader, your franchise and Trail Ends,
but I think the move says it all as far as
where Shanahan's mind is at
and that like, whoa, well I see potential and try Lance but
we're known will nowhere near that potential yet and he's not
in the trust tree
with, you know, decision making or
accurate throwing the football or presence in the pocket yet
to where, you know, I just watching this game, the other
night live on Amazon, Prime,
you know? I could, I feel like I could see the,
the, you know, not the panic. I don't want to say, but a little
bit of the come to life moment for Shanahan of like, oh man,
whoa,
we're still its preseason game 3 and we're still really raw,
you know,
plays like this, just no idea somebody's around in
the pocket, the other sax. He took people wide open down the field
to where I think he finally said, okay man,
I've been trying to make this work and make him the guy,
but I just can't do.
Do it anymore. I can't do anymore. I can't just go all in
on trail and I got to take a few chips out here and have
some on the side for Jimmy Garoppolo for
just in case, just in case he gets hurt,
just in case we get through four weeks and we're two and
two and the offense hasn't played well, the okay then we
need to bring in Jimmy G
and he's gonna, you know, save the day there.
So I would and again, we know that he's loved in the locker
room, you know,
guys, like I would think guys, like kiddo and Kettle and Deebo
Samuel. Even though, you know, they have respect for trail
ends. Hey,
Mike, you and I know how those guys are
and there, there are a lot of them are wired. The same, we've
met those guys. They want the ball, they want the ball a lot,
and they probably look at it right now and go. Well, Jimmy G
can get us the ball a lot and I don't know
about Trail Ends, they're going to call a run play and he's
going to miss us on the few passes. And it's just going to
be inconsistent
to where they know Jimmy G leasing get them the ball in
their hands and they can rack up stats and be the player they
want to be. So
it's A lot of factors at play here, but I do think the move
says a lot about, you know, where there where they are,
would Trail ants in the trust tree, at least right now
in hindsight, the clearest evidence of what was to come
came, when Kyle Shanahan
intended to give Trail ants to drives
in the pre season finale
and gave him three. Gave them three right coaches, don't do
that coaches, have everything planned out, they balance it in
advance. They understand the risk reward of exposing a
I had a potential injury in the preseason,
but Kyle knew that Lance needed to work and he said, so after
the game I wish I could have gotten him more. Well yeah,
knows he's not ready,
he knows he's not confident
as to whether he's ready. Yeah.
You don't want to be going into week one at Chicago,
telling yourself.
Well
let's go see what happens. You want to be confident that you
especially of all coaches? I would think Kyle wants to be
extremely
confident that his plan is going to work and there was
just enough uncertainty to get him to say I need an insurance
policy. I need to keep
Jimmy Garoppolo around
and let's get into the nuts and bolts of this. There's on
the screen, the quote from Kyle Shanahan from
Thursday night with his. I said,
well, oh, do I know. I want a penny back off of something.
You said there though? Just real quick before you start.
Don't forget your next thought here, just but I think you make
a good point there too,
you know.
The first game, the first preseason game when he played
the first drive or two, I think he played two metal, played
three in that one.
They didn't go all that great and then he hit the touchdown.
I was like, okay, get him out, we got something good. That we
got something good, this build off of that, and then I felt
like the game. The other night was
a man, not a great first drive.
Huh man? Not a great second Drive.
Okay, let's do one more,
huh? Not a good one either. And I want to go, we'll leave them
out there. Let them play again. Let's let the let's Leave
the few of the starting online and out there and play more but
I think it was to the point where he went,
huh. I'm forget, I don't know if it's gonna get better, it
might get worse.
I think that's where God to him for. He was like, alright,
let's just get him out. Let's get him out because I don't
know what's gonna happen. I don't know what's going to
happen.
As you gonna take. Another sack is you need to stare at people
and not throw the ball to them. Why they're open down the field
as you gonna miss a throw. And I think to your point he was
just like, okay
it was solid enough so let's just end it there before something
Disasters happens. At that's kind of the
feeling I got the other night watching that game. So, again,
that's totally my opinion and just what I assess from
the situation. But but I just
I kind of felt the same feelings you had right there as well.
Or maybe, if we give him one more drive, we,
we get to the point where Jimmy Garoppolo realizes he actually
has leverage in this conversation. So, I mean,
I feel like it was a little bit of there. Like what? What's,
Why Stop on that tribe? Just keep, you know, if you're going
to make a quote
after the game, right? About hey, we
we want to get a more reps and more experienced. Well,
there was a chance to do it there
but I feel like it was a little like wool.
I don't know if I really want to see it.
I'll just wait till week one so I can,
you know, have a bunch of bells and whistles, and trick plays
and Shanahan specials and I'll just kind of build it that way.
And that's kind of the feeling I got. As I was watching at
least on Thursday
night and I wanted to text all this stuff out that night,
the next morning about my thoughts with the situation but you
know, I was scared that I was going to Tweet him out and
everybody.
Going to take them on talk radio and stuff. So I waited
till yesterday morning just kind of say this
and you know thank thankfully just beat the Bell there.
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