executive privilege here and deviate to a topic that's
mentioned in Peter King's football morning in America.
Yeah, it's this whole Jimmy G timeline with the 49ers and
obviously, there was that that quick eruption of, oh, Jimmy, G
to the Jets
on Friday night when people were concerned about Zach
Wilson, but that's what the 49ers are waiting for right
that season-ending injury somewhere, that opens a trade
market for Jimmy G. But
Peter King talks about, you know, the cut. 2:53 is coming
up in a couple of weeks and we've tried to break this down.
Will they keep him beyond the cut? 253,
will they hold him all the way until
just before the start of the regular regular season? Would
they dare to keep him into the regular season in the hopes of
being able to trade him? Eventually? All depends on how
stubborn they are. But Chris, what caught my eye was
something that I missed
until I saw it in
Peters. Column today
the report from Mike silver now at the San Francisco,
Chronicle, that after Jimmy Garoppolo got his big contract
in 2018, he basically went AWOL but not not that, look, yeah,
In that stage, the offseason
you're not allowed to meet,
you're not allowed to have players in the facility unless
you're rehabbing injuries. There are very clear rules on
what can and can't be done.
But I think coach is kind of like the idea of being in
communication
with
it happens. Franchise quarterback, you're all in.
It's a 12 month a year job. There's no offseason for
a franchise quarterback and apparently there was some
dismay than in 2018. After he got his money he just
disappeared know until it was time to show off for the
offseason program. Mike you've heard me allude to
Ooh, this before I've said this even on Dan Patrick, I believe
a few weeks ago, I even think I said it to Colin Cowherd. You
know what
this is, this is the thing,
this is this is weird and this is not Kyle, Shannon, Kyle
Shannon again, and he were friends, he don't talk about
the 49ers. He didn't tell me this, I know so many people out
there in San Francisco. Kyle can keep track of it, track of
it.
I've heard this from players X coaches. There
he goes off the radar, all the time,
all the time. Nobody can get in contact with them, but his
first year in offseason there. That's when I was made aware of
it. I'm not going to name the player I was
at, but I was at an event and the player who is
a long-standing player. With the 49ers was like, I can't get
the quarterback to call me back. I've called them every day for
a month. You hear it from everybody. I've heard it from X
coaches who have moved on and
just gone. Yeah, it's weird. You know,
they're the the organization's tried to reach out to him times
and and explain things to them and they can't get ahold of
them to the point where I think they've had it like drive to
his house
and knock on the door and be like, our hello. Are you alive?
Are you there? So, yeah, I mean, I think that that's why
there's the 49er fan base. That wants to know, why are we
getting Jim rid of Jimmy Garoppolo? I think there's more
than just the play on the field at hand here. And yeah, I think
a lot of the NFL knows these stories a little bit
and I think that's why maybe, you know, we've had some teams
kind of dragged their feet, And not sure if they really want to
go all in on the Jimmy Garoppolo trade,
well, and
hardly ideal for that to be coming out now. Because again,
other positions you can get away with it quarterback
position.
It's harder to justify, it's harder to reconcile and
as somebody who is attached to this damn thing 24/7, I can't
imagine not getting back to someone. I hear that excuse
from time to time from people. Well yeah,
I mean it's one thing if
if you're not in the public Acai and in the media and
dealing with people, all the time, how do you not respond to
your text messages? How do you not return, phone calls? How do
you just ignore people
for weeks, and months at a time? It doesn't mesh with
the life that Jimmy Garoppolo has chosen, if you want to act that
way, you're in the wrong line of work, just like if you're in
the meeting, you're going to
act that way you're in the wrong line of work.
That's what's so weird about it.
After they've given you,
you know, a market setting contract 27 and a half.
In a year and you're just going to disappear on them. That's
a tough one.
And it makes me wonder why they stuck with them for as long as
they did. Yeah. Well, I think there was no, like, we like, we
did the way if we take ourselves back to that time,
right there was the
desperation of the.
Well, we're all in 10.
We got to make something happen,
they got and traded him,
okay, he got some the field, the
things are all good. It's new,
you know, he gives them a little life at the end of that
first. First year with Kyle Shanahan and they're getting to
know him in the process. But you know, probably don't know
him all the way. Apparently to
to the way. You know, we're hearing about these stories here,
but yeah, this is something that's kind of been percolating
through the NFL and
it's funny that it is all kind of came out here. So publicly
as of late, you know, like like I said, I'm not trying to Pat
myself on the back. I've alluded to it before and it was
always a little like, man, nobody really seems to care
that I just said that.
But now, you know, With Michael silver Peter King writing about
it. There's they're certainly everybody to know about it.
I will say this, say what you will about Kirk Cousins, but
there's never been any suggestion that he ignores
the coaching staff for weeks and weeks at a time
in the offseason. Well, like you said, it's odd. It's just
odd. Quarterbacks are not wired that way. Quarterbacks are
like, oh like oh wait, my wife's calling,
but there's a guy on the team calling to
be quiet. Wife, let me talk to the team guy.
I don't worry about my wife right now.
Oh, coaches call him.
Let me get on the phone.
Coach. I mean, you know how I would have been Jon. Gruden was
calling me in Italy on my honeymoon, our honeymoon,
right? Why not about, why are you coming back? And we're
back. Exactly. Right. So
that is very odd
and you know, the think the Tom Brady's in the Peyton,
Manning's of the world or anybody else. That way
certainly are always on call that way and ready to discuss
football or what it takes for the organization to be better.
And it's not not,
you know, usual practice by a quarterback for sure.