Jimmy Garoppolo continues to practice on the sideline as the 49ers front office continues to seek a trade for the veteran QB. However, assuming a trade doesn’t materialize, the 49ers may be willing to wait until the last second to move on from their former starter. Per Matt Maiocco of NBC Sports Bay Area, the 49ers may wait to release Garoppolo to prevent him from acclimating with a new team…particularly the Seahawks.
Garoppolo’s contract doesn’t become guaranteed unless he’s on the roster for the first game of the 2022 campaign. As a result, the 49ers could truly wait until the Tuesday before their season opener to release the QB, allowing the organization to create an immediate cap savings of $25.55MM. If they release Garoppolo between September 6 and September 10, they’d owe him a game check worth $1.34MM, which is still a minor fee to prevent him from immediately going to, say, a division rival.
As Barrows notes, the last thing the 49ers want to do is release Garoppolo, watch him sign with the Seahawks, and allow him to “get acclimated and become the starter early in the season.” For what it’s worth, the 49ers play the Seahawks in Week 2. Assuming Garoppolo is released before Week 1, there would still be a week for the QB to prepare for a start with Seattle. However, in this scenario, there’s a better chance Seattle rolls out one of Geno Smith or Drew Lock for that division showdown.
If a deal doesn’t materialize, could the 49ers look to rework Garoppolo’s contract instead of cutting him? Unlikely, according to Matt Barrows of The Athletic, who could only envision the 49ers committing to the QB if Trey Lance or Nate Sudfeld suffer an injury. Garoppolo has one year remaining on his contract, with a non-guaranteed salary of just over $24MM.
While it isn’t much of a surprise, it sounds like the quarterback has mentally moved on from San Francisco. According Barrows, Garoppolo was offered the chance by the 49ers to attend meetings with his fellow QBs, but he declined. Throughout this ordeal, there haven’t been any hints of tension between the two sides, and Garoppolo’s decision to stay away from meetings makes sense when he could better spend his time physically preparing for the upcoming season.
I think u should post this same article with a different title tomorrow too
You’re the guy who clicked on it
Thanks Randy
1) You can skip articles you don’t like
2) If you bothered to read it, you would find there is new information
ppl giving me lame advice need to learn how to take a joke
Karens
Not a joke if it’s not funny
it is funny ur just dumb
Right
He will be a Seahawk when it all plays out.
This is the best showdown. It’s literally bottom of the barrel stall tactics to get the smallest advantages. I love this chess move. “Sure Seattle you can have him, but go 0-5 first” lol haha love it! This is rare nfl football
This is not how a team with super bowl aspirations acts. It’s bush league. Grow the FU and release him. Ridiculous.
^ I agree.
I’m sure future players will see this tactic and think twice about signing with the niners.
I don’t see this as a “bush league” move. Every advantage/win is critical. No sense helping the Seahawks or Rams. And, why help any team to just get him for free without a consequence of at least losing some prep time. He’s more valuable the sooner you get him, so, pop up the draft pick
It is bush league, and it is smart, both at the same time. After what Garappolo has done for the team, what he has had to deal with, and the manner in which he has conducted himself, he deserves the 49ers to reciprocate before moving on to the unproven rookie. On the 9ers’ end, they could etch a division win or two by essentially making Garappolo worse with his new team by giving him less time to prepare.
Smart on the part of the 9ers, but it involves screwing over a guy even more who worked very hard for them and saved their season last year.
Or they are waiting to see if a QB gets hurt on a team with a solid roster between now and start of season?
Again, that helps the team, not Garappolo. Smart, but not a good way to repay a guy for his efforts.
Jimmy already has Seattle’s playbook and studying it.
I know some will disagree but they should stick with Geno and Drew. This is a throw away year in my opinion and need a high draft pick. Hopefully the Donkey’s season falls apart not because of injuries but because of division in the locker room. Wilson has been treated with kid gloves some might not like it if gets away with the same crap. That was why the LOB got broken up. They didn’t like double standards and the play in the SB Pete trying to get Wilson the MVP instead of Lynch.
@compassrose
Exactly!! And the same reason Jim Harbaugh let Kraperknick throw the ball 3 times in a row when Frank Gore was averaging over 5YPC in the super bowl vs Baltimore. Makes me sick! Just WIN!!!
On the goal line! I forgot to add!
I was at the game. I thought we were going to pull it out – from amazing comeback to brutal loss/heartbreaker.
Everyone keeps blaming the loss on the play call. The call was not bad we were going to have to call our last TO one way or another. What was bad was having Lynch spread way out now they knew we had to pass. The play is one we had success with. Wilson threw the ball high and in front of the WR. If he would have thrown it waist high and at the WR there is no way the D could get to the ball. I blame Wilson (that is almost sac religious I know) for a bad pass. Ball thrown where the D can’t get it TD.
It was a bad playcall. It was second down, plenty of time left, so they could have run. Does that mean that they should have? Not necessarily but it could have worked. What would have been best is to call a better passing play. Play-action in a short distance where a run is possible, with a very mobile quarterback, would have had a MUCH better chance of scoring that touchdown.
A fade would have even been better, given that Seattle had a 6’5” receiver who came out of the blue to have the game of his life, and is a lower percentage play in terms of the defender getting his hands on it in general. Wilson threw a good fade at the time, and like I said, Matthews being 6’5” certainly increased the chances of his being able to make a play on it versus the defender.
With all of that said, a play-action call with the Pats in a goal-line defense and a mobile quarterback, plus a particularly distraction in Marshawn Lynch, would have been the better call. I’d have run it once and then called it, personally, and I’m no NFL coach. In any case, a slant right there forced the issue where none need be forced, and was absolutely not an optimal play call in that scenario.
Dude. Wouldn’t it be easier and save everyone a lot of time if you just wrote:
Latest on Jimmy Garopollo.
Nothing new. End of story.
Hard for teams to make any decisions on QBs in the first or second week of training camp – as the defense has the initial advantage, thus the marginal QBs always stink.