a quarterback that you changed your mind about very slightly
slightly. It was a tight one. I'd it's only. It's of course,
it's always the tight ones and here was a 2219.
Okay, 22:19 and full transparency here because
I always keep it real. Yes. I originally had cars in when's
written down.
I ended up going. Nope. I'm going to move Carson, Wentz to
19, and Jimmy Garoppolo 20. I think it's the second time.
I've done that in my top 40 here, so far. So Jimmy
Garoppolo is coming in at number 20,
and I Feel comfortable with that too. Just so people know
or just
yes, this is something I thought about through
the weekend, right? I've had a lot of time to digest about it
digest it and
Jimmy Garoppolo. Hey, there's a
there's plenty to like about his game. Let's just start off
right there. First off. I mean one you hear about my
breakdowns, physical ability, read the field leadership
pocket. All those things. First thing is he is a tangible
leadership or effect on the football team. He's loved in
the locker room players. Want to play
for him. You know, he has the ability to lead the guys in
the huddle.
All and make them feel comfortable on a field. I think
there is something real to that and this game, you know, as far
as his play on the field,
very quick release can really get the ball out of his hand.
In a hurry people around them. He's very subtle with kind of
arm, angle changes. It's not cool. Like Alan or more homes
or just oh, really cool side arm, but it's kind
of like you gotta kind of watch in slow. Mo sometimes or rewind
it when you're watching film and go. Oh, yeah. He did kind
of drop his arm there to get it through the garden, The Tackle
hole there, and find a guy 10 yards, down the middle.
He's good at that. He's very good in the pocket. He is.
I mean, when you really watch him his sliding and moving in
the pocket, he's smooth. He knows the soft spots and where to
find them
and do it from there. And the other thing I love about his
game two is, he does not need to have his feet and the proper
positions. A lot of times to make 10 and 12 yard type of
throws down the middle of the field on the edge, of
the numbers, whatever?
Now that can go out, cause him some problems sometimes, and
we'll get into that in a minute, but he does make
a Throws where he moves in the pocket, the feet are kind of
cockeyed. Here's the bow. Samuel coming across the field.
He dropped his arm a little, the feeder, in the wrong spot
and he still hits him and throws it in a good spot and
it's accurate and and Debo, Samuel can do things. So,
that's the part. I like about Jimmy Garoppolo for sure that
he brings to the team. You've been very consistent with him.
Yep. In 2020. He was
number 20. Yep. Last year, you fell the 21
this year. He's back at 20s crazy. But very you kind of see
him as the same guy, the last three years. I do. I do. You
know, I think As though, again, you heard the positives there
and I like that,
you know, his ability to read a defense and diagnose things at
times seems very he can have pleasure, who, that was quick.
I mean, he diagnosed that figured out where he wanted to
go. The ball, got the ball out of his hand
and that was really impressive.
But yes, you know.
Again, I don't put a lot of ton of stock into last year's
ranking and looking that I kind of let the chips fall where
they may
and yeah, I think it's pretty safe to say that. I feel like
he's pretty much This at this point of his career and
and you know the negatives.
Listen, it's not a big arm. It's not power, throws are few
and far between with Jimmy Garoppolo and there's a number
of plays and yards left on the field all the time.
Whether it's him not throwing the ball, or him not throwing
the ball correctly, down the field for a cheap, power
changing type of play. Another thing that like, hit me over
the weekend when you go back and watch. You know, because
I like to watch these guys
one more time. I'm four. I'm going to talk about him.
Just let me see if something else Pops in my brain.
A lot of big-time plays and throws
that I still sit there and go.
Well, damn, if he threw the ball in the money, that would
have been a 70-yard walk-in touchdown, but it said, the guy
stopped and had to wait for the ball. And now the people are
closing on. He makes a guy minutes and it's hey, it's cool
as the 35 yard gain, but you go, man. If he just threw that,
put the ball on the money. The guy's gonna walk
into the end zone.
So there's plays like that that are left on the field to be
had. And then Ahmed I'll throw this in there too.
So many of the plays
And the great plays that we think of all look at the 49ers
move. Ah,
I know I'm sound like a hater here, I do, but they're in
Kyle, Shanahan specials. I don't know how much more we can
say it.
Whoa. This guy goes this way. This guy goes this way and
Shanahan stressed it out to where there's Debo Samuel wide
open, you know, six yards over the middle of the field because
of what Shanahan did and all Jimmy Garoppolo has to do is
come
up and go. Where's Debo? Boom! Oh, I can throw look at that.
I threw the ball to Debo Samuel. The best receiver in football
and he made this.
This great play after that
and that to me is where a lot of his good comes and I can't
give him total credit for some of that stuff. So that you
know, even though it's good. I don't go, wow, maybe like
the common fan might when they see those plays your highlights.
This is what
he needs to do. Yeah,
he needs to go, find
the next team that hires Matt Nagy.
He needs to go play for himself.
And then he needs to go Dominate, and at that point,
then you go, then you might say, right? All right. He did
it, right. But it's tough to argue with that. I mean, Kyle
Shanahan is known as an offense of Genius for a reason.
Let me go to this here. Here, Pizzo 51% of Jimmy's passing
yards, came after the catch. That is the sixth highest rate
in the NFL. So there you go. That's a good point. But let me
do the counterpart here. Let's do it. Two guys. Ahead of him
on that list. Patrick Mahoney. Okay and Aaron
Rodgers, right? And so it's not just the quarterbacks that need
to get helped out with the yards after catch. Those are
two of the other quarterbacks sure. We also have high yards
after catch. Sure.
It's and it It's great. I love this is a great conversation.
Okay, so yes, there are some things there. Yes, but this is
where we get into
context. Matters brought to you by Chris Simms and Ahmed for
read/write. So, you know again
the short throws of the Kansas City. I think we've had this
conversation not long ago actually some why somehow this
came up with you and me did not did it? Not probably, you know,
first off
let's not compare much to Kansas City and Patrick Mahomes
the whole offense, the whole league trying to figure out How
they're doing their team is formulated around. Hey, 15, can
you carry us and make magic and do throw lasers all over
the field?
So, yes, he gets some short passes where there's great
catch, but why? It's because his arm so great and they call
plays where, whoa. Tyree kills down, the field, McColl,
Hartman's down the field. Oh s***. The back came out of
the backfield and he threw to
him and he's one-on-one and we're all down the field
because he can throw 70-yard bombs. So now he's starting to
shorten that works. That's different than
Shanahan having to be in the lab for seven days.
Straight and be like, okay,
I finally got a guy wide open over the middle, and all he has
to do is throw to that guy and we'll be open or we devised
a screen to Debo Samuel
and I'll call it at the perfect time and he'll do it.
There's a difference there.
One the skill. When the thing you're talking about is being
set up by the coach, the other I'd go. It's being set up by
the quarterback and his great. Talents is leaning to that
stat. And that would also go kind of into the Aaron Rodgers
thing.
Now, Rogers there, a little bit of a short passing game and all
that kind of like Jimmy Garoppolo to a degree. But
still some of these short passes and catches happen. Why
well, we're worried about Marquez Valdez scaling, find on
the middle. The field Riders can
throw a 70-yard her off his back foot.
We got to worry about that or
Davante Adams catching a slant after the catch. Well s***,
I mean Rodgers threw the ball at 100 miles per hour through
a window the size of a keyhole got it in there.
Put it right on the money and divide and it was like not
a devised like, oh my gosh. I've been in the lab seven weeks in
a row to try to figure out this play to get a wide open, to
make life easy on the quarterback. It's like no, we
just call the play and Rogers.
Like oh s***. There's a slim zoo and there's a difference
there between that and that is that explained. Well, totally
total intense there and to give you numbers to match your
context. So Jimmy's
yards per pass attempt were s the NFL last year only to Joe
Borough, but his average depth of Target was tied for 31st.
And so you're not getting those deep passes. You're not getting
those are
yards intended deep down field with with Jimmy Garoppolo,
right? So the question is then, I mean, that's part of
the reason why they drafted Trail, a freelance can give him some
of those sure.
Passing. That was the hope. At least
you have Jimmy Garoppolo though. Ranked ahead of number 31,
Trail ants from all indications. Albert. Beer,
reporting it over the weekend again. All they're trying to
trade, Jimmy Garoppolo. Shanahan has said most likely,
they're going to trade Jimmy Garoppolo.
You have him ahead of Trail ants. We don't know what Trey
Lance could be. But for this year, you think Jimmy Garoppolo
is going to be better.
This team is a Super Bowl team
potentially this year.
Should they keep him?
I would not keep him. No, I would not. We've had this
discussion that we have and you've been
you said the same thing, right? Yes. I am. But the fact is, you
think he's better this year and this is a team that we think
can win. I definitely think he's better right
now. For sure.
I do think Lance has the ability and the talent and
again that I question is still there to put it all together,
but I think his top end even
as rosy as right now, he has a chance to surpass. A guy like
Jimmy Garoppolo like coming down the homestretch. You, you
hope he can get to November and we can go. Wait, some of those
things. He was really lacking in,
he got better at.
So some of those things we missed from Jimmy G. Now. We're
starting to hit on them a little bit. But he's also done
some other things for our offense that have opened it up
and made life harder to defend us
even though we might not be as good as some things, which is
we were with Jimmy Garoppolo and I think that's where
they're going to have to balance that conversation
a little bit. Lance's skill set
is going to open up things in that offense. So where
Shannon is not going to have to worry about oh the time going.
I got to find some way to trick.
The defense so I can find a guy wide open over the middle. He's
just gonna go wait between our Run game Trail ants running
some balls.
Oh s***. He can throw the ball 60 yards off his back foot.
Some of those things you're going to open up the offense
and it won't be so hard for Shannon devise things to make
it easy for Lance and let alone just go. You know what, they're
actually playing a defense where
I don't have to be in the lab all week to figure out the get
the ball over to Debo because they're a little scared of
trajan running or is Big Arm to where it's kind of open that
part of the field. For me,
right? So does that make sense? How I'm explaining that
totally? So it might not be sufficient or is effective
early on but to me has a chance to surpass it and nonetheless
with his skill set and that team
with Shanahan,
and I think it has a chance to even be a more dangerous
offense, even though, listen, if I my thing here, we're all
in the same offense. We're not all Shanahan's offense. We're
all playing on the same team. It's the
same offense, and yeah, he might not be as good as all
the columns is Jimmy Garoppolo is, but as far as fitting the 49ers
in Is danger
as far as out of this to them?
That's where I think Trail and says an advantage over Jimmy
Garoppolo. There's only 11 places, 11 quarterbacks to
separate these two. You got Trey Lancer, 31. You got Jimmy
Garoppolo at 20. We got a couple heat maps on what those
quarterbacks did last year. The kind
of illustrates your point here Jimmy. Garoppolo, if you're
listening, it's amazing. Look at that a heat map is over
the middle of the field or behind the line of scrimmage and
I don't want to scream it straight. Lance is also got
a few behind the line of scrimmage.
He does the more screen. Yeah.
Yeah, but you can see the screen games apart and yet be
your You know, you pointed out, you can see there's more of
a there's more of a concentration with trail ends of the ball
outside the numbers one.
Hey, I think it it's he's got a strong arm and you can do it
more to.
I do think there was
he wasn't quite in the trust tree with Shanahan. So Shanahan
was like, I don't know if I really want him throwing some
of those six or seven or eight yard lasers over the middle of
the Dubose, a throne high. It's doing High. The accuracy was
a little
off. He was touring a little too hard.
So those are safer spots, too.
To, but that's to me. Hey, this is the point where we're
showing here that, if you can get
some more red in the middle for Trey lands
and then continue to grow some of the red on the outside. Then
you start to go. Oh s***. It's hard to pinpoint where they're
attacking and what they're doing. And man. There's a lot
of
field to cover with this team, even though it might not be,
you know, 72 percent, completion percentage. He's
probably going to miss a few throws and things like that
trail ants,
but I still think ultimately
It'll be a lot harder offense to defend
because of him and Shanahan and how talented
the 49ers are as a team.
And you always got to mention
availability, which is an ability. Definitely Garoppolo
the offseason shoulder surgery. Played her at the end of last
year. You want to give him credit for that, but it was
another year where he had an injury only played 6 games and
2023
games and 2018. And so that's been an issue. And that's one
of the main reasons why they wanted someone else to, they
just gotta have a quarterback, that's their dependability. And
and here, you know, here's the last thing. I think that kind
of
Hammers home, 20.
Yeah, I know. They were in the NFC championship game. He did
some good things. I know that.
He still makes way too many dumb decisions, like rookie
first year early in the second year type of
where you just go what
like you've played too much football to do that.
How do you do that?
You know, and then there's even some throws like that at times
to you know, I mean you listen you don't know, you can do it.
You can go back and watch the last four games of the year
and see kind of all that.
Just when I'm talking about,
whether it's dumb interception in the championship game, Dumb
interception of the divisional game. Against
you know, Green Bay before the half where they're driving down
there and he's running backwards and throws the ball
and like thinks he's Josh Allen and his throws the ball at 10
yards. Short interception,
you know the week before that.
I mean, it's wide open Brandon Iuka. If he hits them,
the game's over on a like a 15-yard out route and he doesn't even
let him touch the ball and have a chance to catch it. The
game is over. It's like,
hey, that's over. See you next year, Dallas. Instead. What do
they do? They punted Dallas went down and scored. And also,
when we were in a nail-biter,
And because of that. So, you know, those are the things
again that I think it lost in context when the years over
because we go well, look he played good. They got to
the championship game. Look at some of these stats and all that,
and you go. Yeah, that's cool. But when you go back and break
it down, you go
damn. There were some meat left on the bone
and damn. They should have been better or more dangerous.
And I think he's one of the reasons they're not at times.