from yesterday explaining. Why
Garoppolo isn't there with the permission of the team?
You just always rehab is down in La. So for him, to stop it,
to come up here for a three-day minicamp doesn't make much
sense for him or for us. So we want him to stay with his
rehab.
Yeah. I mean, it wasn't a real risky surgery or anything. So
I think it just takes time. So I think the plan still has always
been July, but I know there's no concerns with it and
I'll be throwing sooner than later.
This is
fully healed, you know, and it's like, did he ever require
any procedure on that? Yeah, nothing. When the thumb
is, don't treat Jimmy before training camp. Do expect them to
Here at practice on.
Yes, I do.
You wouldn't excuse them. Like, that's not the plan.
I'll think about that when that day comes, but doesn't Jimmy's
under contract with us and he's healthy
right now. I would see him coming to practice and know
what we traded him.
Kind of an odd statement to say. Well, think about that,
when that day comes, because if you really are committed to
keeping him. There's nothing to think about,
you know, if we're not going to get the trade-off for we want,
we're going to keep him. They've been selling that all
along if that's true. You don't say, well, think about that,
when the day comes there's not nothing about, no, he's our guy
until somebody
trades for him. And if they don't trade for him, we're
going to go forward with him, which I've never believed.
I think the farthest are going to go with them is through
training camp through the preseason,
and up until the start of the regular season.
One is 25 million dollar, compensation package becomes
fully, guaranteed. That's the moment. He gets squeezed at
best to take a lot less and stay
with the ultimatum.
If you don't, you're out, you're done, it's over.
And then you're a free agent when everybody else has their
depth charts set. And good luck. Getting paid anything
close to what we're willing to offer you from someone else.
I think that's still the plan
and they're trying to have it both ways for now and they're
trying to bolster interest, you know, everything that I hear
from the 49ers I run through that filter. Of, they're trying
to get somebody to trade, for me. He's going to be fine. I'll
be fine in July. It's not a big
deal. No big surgery. Although he's not coming to mandatory
minicamp because he's so focused on his rehab, but
that's fine. It's not a big deal. It's not a big deal. They
can't wait for the opportunity to trade him,
and they still continue to be apoplectic about the fact that
teams aren't falling all over themselves to get him. No,
I know it, you know. Yes, they're giving us the signals. I mean,
they are they can say what they want. But yes, you're right
that right there. I mean, just that comment itself. Oh wait,
I'll think about
it. And again the fact that he's not there.
I mean, when does that happen? Tell me? When that happens
star player, 25 million dollars a year getting rehab but he
can't come up to the facility and get rehab and learn some of
the new plays and do the things. They're now. They don't
want him there.
They don't know, going back to the owners meeting. We think
Trey Lance is ready to start and take over and be the guy.
I mean, of course they don't I don't even think Jimmy G will
get to training camp. I don't know. That's just where
I wouldn't want to mess. With it. I think you're just opening up
a can of worms, or the 49ers. They can say what they want.
They can, you know, and do whatever they want.
They want him to rehab and stay there so he can throw quicker,
throw more quickly and be ready to go. So hopefully, he can
prove to a team, he's healthy and they can trade him and get
him out the door.
I don't know if that's really going to happen if they do
trade him. I don't think they're going to anything near
what they think they're going to get as far as compensations
concern and I would think money is going to be a part of that
issue as well.
So I that that's where Yeah, they could say one thing. But
man, I still think you bring Jimmy G into camp and expect
them to be there and give me all. He's under contract and
he's a quarterback. I think you're going to have more
issues than you like
to me. It just there's not a lot of positives for the 49er
football team by bringing them there and having that
distraction and seeing the players and having him practice
and maybe practice better than
Trail ants on a lot of days
and have the pliers, answer that type of stuff to me. It's
not worth it for a team that I look at as Super Bowl. Z or
just having him there to
undermine the effort to make Trey, Lance the starter
to provide a distraction. And I know the other side of that is
hatred. Lance if you're going to be a great quarterback, you
got to deal with some crap from time to time, just go out and
have a great day, go out and play better, go out and perform
in a way that makes it
without question that you're better than Jimmy Garoppolo
prove us, right. So, that's part of it, too. It's the, it's
the
deliberate cajoling of tray.
Lance to try to make him into a better quarterback by maybe
having Jimmy Garoppolo linger, but it's just, it's just
a weird situation and there's a big difference between him and
Baker. Mayfield Baker Mayfield is getting his 18 point eight
million this year.
The question is,
how much will the Browns pay?
How much will a new team pay? If he's traded
with Garoppolo? You've got new team,
Willing to take him on
presumably,
but not willing to pay 25 million and this isn't an issue
of, how much will the 49ers pay? This is how much less will
Jimmy G, take, or will he accept a new contract as part
of this? Do you take that
final year of his current deal at 25 and turn it into
something else? It's more complicated. It's more delicate
because Jimmy who's holding the hammer. All he has to say is
no, no, I'm not. Hey Jimmy, here's our proposal. We're
going to trade you the Panthers. I'm just pointed team
out of the air.
That that maybe, who knows.
But we're going to trade you the Panthers
and here's the deal. Here's the deal.
They're going to pay you 15 and you get to be a free agent
after the year
and you get to walk in the door right now
and and compete to be the starter. How do you like that?
Jimmy? What do you think of that? It's like, whoa. Supposed
to make 25
y know. They're gonna pay you 15. You're gonna be a free
agent. Next one. We have a free agent next year. Anyway, so
I mean, they're it's a lot
more difficult. Alt
to Fashion an arrangement, when you've got a quarterback that
can be squeezed to take less,
because he can just say screw you, I'm not taking a penny
less cut me. That's the power that he has over this and nice
guy, Jimmy, that,
that talking point that the 49ers like to feed to
media that is directly or indirectly on the payroll. At
some point that goes out the window because Jimmy's got
the final say over this because all he has to say, is I'm not
accepting a penny less than what I'm do to make this year.
And if I
like it. Your only alternative is
to cut me unless you can trade me to a team. That's willing to
pay me 100 cents on the dollar. Yeah. No, I hear you. I really
think that, you know, if something doesn't happen here
in the next month that they're we're going to see a similar
scenario here in training camp there.
They're going to tell Jimmy to stay away.
Or if, as long as he's okay with that, stay away rehab, do
your own thing because Jimmy's not going to really want to be
there either. He's not the writing's on the wall.
He knows what they want to do.
So that's a difficult situation to be want to be E in or
whatever, I think ultimately that's what we're going to
we're going to get to is the Shanahan's going to get to that
moment when they get closer to training camp and realize wait
do I really want to
deal with this? Does he really want to deal with this
and they're going to figure out some way as they wait for
a trade or something there, you know to tell him to stay away
from training camp and the meantime so they don't have to
deal with it and he can continue on with his own
process of
getting better and getting ready for the season. I really
feel like it's headed that way and it's going to be such
an awkward sell. Little awkward. Now,
this idea that he has to stay in LA in rehab. I mean, I'm
sure they have the Machinery
in. Yeah, Santa Clara, right, where he could show up for
a few days. Attend meetings and still do his rehab snot, right?
He's rehabbing 24 hours a day.
But what will they try to sell us in July? Well, he's fine,
but he's really focusing on being more than fine. He's
staying in l.a. To continue to rehab an injury that he's fully
rehab. These fully healthy if anybody wants to trade for him,
but he's making sure he's
extra fine. He's So rehabbed he's extra ready to go in
the event that someone will finally please please for God's sake,
make us an offer.
So we can unload this guy and take that 25 million and give
it the Deebo Samuel and or Nick both.