Is Jimmy Garoppolo guaranteed to be on the 49ers roster next week? Kyle Shanahan made it clear that he couldn’t guarantee the fate of humanity, much less the roster status of his starting quarterback. However, the 49ers head coach later provided a thoughtful response that seemed to hint that the organization would be content with keeping the veteran.
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“The biggest thing with Jimmy is his injuries,” Shanahan said (via David Lombardi of The Athletic on Twitter). “It’s been very tough for us when he’s been hurt. This happened two of these three years. That’s where it starts. Jimmy knows that. I’ve been very up front with him with everything.
“Excited to get him in here coming up, especially when this draft is over. But I feel very fortunate taking a rookie quarterback that we do have a guy like Jimmy. We didn’t sign a guy who’s capable or has the history of being a starter right away. We have a guy, every time he’s been a starter, he’s played at a high level. So to have that with Jimmy with having a rookie quarterback gives us a lot of leeway into this. I’m not going to set anything into stone, but I know that’s the situation that would be hard to get rid of. When you take a rookie quarterback and you take a veteran like Jimmy who we know we can win with, just to move on from that is something that’s not easy to do. That is a good situation for us and I think that is something that’ll be important to us this year.”
We heard that the 49ers may be holding out for a first-round pick for Garoppolo, and the organization would obviously trade the veteran in the right deal. However, Shanahan’s argument for keeping his starting quarterback does have plenty of merit, and the organization has made it abundantly clear that they won’t simply give Garoppolo away.
So who are the 49ers going to take? The head coach wouldn’t provide any answers, but he noted that the organization still feels good about five prospects at the No. 3 spot.
“We could have sat there at 12, and waited which one came to us, if one did,” Shanhan said (via ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Twitter). “But we made a decision that we felt we needed to get a starting QB. We wanted to dicatate it. We’ll get the one that we feel is best for us.”
85% chance Bill Bellicheks dog submits a draft pick offer to the 49ers for Garapollo.
Lynch: 7th rounder?
Dog: ruff
Lynch: 6th rounder?
Dog: ruff ruff
Lynch: alright 7th rounder it is. You drive a hard bargain
Dog: wooooof
Pats won’t trade up for QB IMHO. Belichik desperately needs 2 CB’s & 2 OT’s because he is almost assured of losing all four, or at least 3 of them next off season. For this reason, and after all the speculation over taking a QB in round 1, trading up is unlikely.
My Humble Prediction: Rnd 1: CB, then Bill trades up into early 2nd round to snag an OT, then uses his other 2nd rounder for another CB. Not only is Bill okay with Cam as the transition QB, I actually think he likes Stidham. Bill never plays young QB’s in yr 1 & 2, Unless forced (Brady/Bledsoe).
I agree that CB is a need for the Pats in the draft, maybe in the 2nd round but not 1st. But in no way is OT a need for them. They just traded for Brown their former LT and they’ll move Wynn to RT. Onwenu moves to LG to replace Thuney and they resigned Andrews and brought back Ted Karras. They should not and will not focus on the O-Line in the first 4 rounds. Maybe in 5-7 for depth. They could use a QB in either Round 1 or 2, a CB, and they need a solid DT.
If they don’t trade up or don’t find the guy that they like in Round 1, then don’t be surprised if they pick a guy like Kyle Trask or Kellen Mond in Round 2. Personally, I’d like them to trade up to the 7th pick with Detroit and take Fields if he’s available. It’s the only spot that is likely to trade out right now and is above Carolina and Denver who could take a QB.
I disagree.
OT: Brown is on a 1 year contract for a reason. Wynn is due a huge pay day and won’t get the huge pay day IMHO. Prediction: They will lose at least one of these guys. Onwenu is better at guard and Karros is not an OT. They need OT’s. Result: One quality OT is needed.
CB: Jackson’s agent called every franchise and said he will leave if a team pays $1 more than his 2nd round tender. He is gone and said so. Gilmore is gone and both the Pats and Gilmore have basically reached that reality,… and that is why trade discussions have already happened.
Again, we shall see, but IMHO, they will be aggressive to fill these needs.
Wynn will only be due the huge pay day if the Patriots exercise his fifth-year option for 2022, which is questionable. Otherwise, his cap hit is only $3.6 mil this year.
Yes. We are talking 2022 when Wynn’s 5th year option is due & when Brown is a FA. I agree that the Pats will NOT pick up Wynn’s option, and Brown’s asking price may be unrealistic. Therefore, losing 1 OT is highly likely, and losing both is a strong possibility. For this reason I see the Pats grabbing 2 OT’s, along with 2 CB’s.
Fans/media may be stunned when the Pats do not choose a QB at all this year. I think Bill likes Stidham. Bill never plays 1st & 2nd year QB’s unless forced. But Stidham has arm talent & is very athletic. Cam is a back up/transition guy at best and his contract says so.
QB Kellen Mond would be terrific to sit behind Cam Newton and get prepared for next season.
Cam Newton is a giant bag of flashy hot trash. There isn’t anything that he could teach a rookie unless it involves either a feather boa, throwing picks, or getting chumped in a SB not even trying to recover his own fumble.
When you typed this… did you think it was funny?
No. I thought it was how a conversation with a dog would go if someone was playing around.
When you typed yours, did you think you were original?
You know that you basically just “I am rubber and you are glue”d him don’t you? 10/10 on the lame-o-meter
Lame-o-meter? Did the DeLorean break down in the 80s doc brown?
I thought he was referring to that Speed Demon guy. If he was, I agree with him.
I found it funny
Lol, woof woof indeed
Wish Zach Wilson would have somehow fallen to them at 3. I think he could be a generational QB in Shanahan’s scheme. His footwork, pocket presence and ability to throw the ball from multiple arm slots gives me Aaron Rodgers vibes (I’m not suggesting he’ll be AR12 good though).
Christopher Johnson, is that you? I hope you are right, because LaFleur is planning to run Shanahan’s offense with the Jets.
Jimmy Gs dead cap figure is the driver here. They can take a QB and walk away with 23M in savings this yr or next. They could end up with 40M in space next year even with Jimmy on the roster and 60M without. So they can build around a QB or remain competitive with Jimmy.
They can address depth via the draft, WR, DB, LB/DL and still have about 10M to play with post draft.
They can always trade back into the 1st each year too, and secure that 5th yr for someone that slides but is high on their board.
They traded THREE 1st round picks. Jimmy is gone by week 1 2022.
Depends, if that traded 1st is #32 overall he probably stays.
I wonder if the pats would give a 2022 first for him. If they’re decent this year (which they may we’ll be), that’s at the bottom of the round. Or 3rd this year and 2nd in 2022.
Not a chance and even as someone who likes Jimmy G, he’s not worth a 1st right now. His injury history is too extensive. When he plays, he’s great and wins a lot of games. He just never seems to play enough.
If he’s healthy this year, Bill might take a chance on him, although it took a last practice of the pre-season injury to Teddy Bridgewater for the Vikings to trade a 1st rounder for Sam Bradford back in 2016.
The 49er’s are in the best position possible. If the guy they draft a) is capable of starting they can trade Garoppolo to some other desperate suitor, or b) they can wait a year to see if the draftee develops, or c) they can jettison the draftee and still have Garoppolo under contract though 2022.
I doubt they traded 3 first round draft picks to move up 7 spots just to jettison the player quickly.
Josh Rosen enters the chat…..
Rosen was drafted 10th, not 3rd, and the price Arizona paid was way less than the one the 49ers paid to move up.
Arizona paid one 1st, a 3rd, and a 5th. 49ers paid three 1sts and a 3rd. Not really comparable.
I disagree. They basically also threw in the #1 pick the next season to get Murray to fix their mistake.
Counterpoint: they’re in a terrible position. They should have traded Jimmy G *before* trading up to draft a QB. And then they could have traded up to #3 (which I personally would not have done, at least not for the mammoth price they paid) and still had whatever picks they’d received for Jimmy G.
As it is now, they have an expensive QB with a massive cap hit that they’re desperate to unload *and* will soon add an expensive rookie QB when they have plenty of other holes they could have filled instead.
The fact that the Pats were sniffing around Alex smith(after resigning Cam) tells me they are comfortable not giving up significant resources for the QB spot. No first round pick and definitely not trading up. I wish they would. But this is a team that landed the greatest player in history in the 6th round.
Also any time BB does something outside his norm it seems to fail miserably
Oh and also on what plane of existence would Jimmy G be worth a first. That can’t really be their ask could it? Even starting high in negotiations that would be laughable.
Pretty sure he has a no trade clause in contract! So good luck with the trade!!
Jacob you are correct. He does have a no trade
A no-trade clause that he can waiver, I believe.
The only reason to trade him is because he won’t be the starter anymore, generally a player would waive the NTC to start elsewhere.
49ers should trade Jimmy G before the locker room starts taking sides.
It almost appears as if Shanahan thinks QBs go onto the field trying to get themselves injured, which of course is ridiculous. The 49ers OL simply isn’t that good without Joe Staley yet Jimmy G is being made the fall guy.
Ok, now it’s official, sorry but the 9ers selected Mac Jones #3, if the 9ers didn’t draft Jones, they projected him to fall to the 20th pick, so why did we give up 3 first rounders for him? Great move
I would prefer Jimmy G. and the 3 first round picks, then Mac Jones
Pats will trade for Jimmy, return the 2nd rounder SF paid for Jimmy. Pats will re-structure and provide Jimmy a new contract. Avg $25-$31 mill / yr. 4-6 years including team options