49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan told reporters that rookie quarterback C.J. Beathard will receive his fifth consecutive start when the team hosts Seattle on Sunday, according to Ian Rapoport (Twitter link). That means the recently acquired Jimmy Garoppolo will have to wait at least another week to receive his first snaps in San Francisco. 
Though Shanahan said Garoppolo, who the team traded for before the deadline from the Patriots, is making progress, he doesn’t expect the quarterback to be fully up to speed in the team’s offense this season. “Is Jimmy going to be the best he can? To me, that’s impossible. He just hasn’t been here long enough. … I don’t think we’re going to see Jimmy’s best football, to be fair to him, until next year. Because that’s what guys need.”
Fans in the Bay Area might be ready to see what Garoppolo can do, but it is also tough to bench the third-round signal-caller just one game after he delivered the team’s first victory. In Week 10 vs. the Giants, Beathard completed 76 percent of his passes for 288 yards and two touchdowns and added another score on the ground.
San Francisco didn’t trade for the Eastern Illinois product for no reason, however, and the team is sure to give him a chance to show what he can do in Shanahan’s offense should Beathard make a misstep.
Smart. On track to have high draft position, again, if Garappolo is the future, let Beathard suffer as your raggedy-Andy doll, not winning for now, accruing those high picks for next season…..Jimmy could hop in there, get hot, run off a win streak, go from 1 win to 4-5 in 2nd half, mess up the master plan. Or he could get hurt, bad injury, and lose time next year when you really wanted em. Plus, it gives him time to really learn nuances of new system, play-book. Lynch is a Stanford guy, not supposed to win now….building for long run.
49ers get top 3 pick and trade it to bills for both their firsts and prob a second and third either this year or next. Calling it now
No way that happens.
Now, if you said the Bears instead of the Bills I may have agreed.