Trey Lance is injured, and Jimmy Garoppolo is the 49ers’ starter again Jimmy G talked to AlbertBreer about the sadness of Lance's injury, the frustration of the offseason, and why he’s still in San Francisco ↓
There’s a video of Jimmy Garoppolo that the NFL’s official Twitter account posted at 4:15 Pacific time on Sunday. The 30-year-old, now wearing a ballcap instead of his helmet, looks out at the crowd and glows before starting to skip his way into the Levi’s Stadium tunnel. And as he picks up speed, Garoppolo shouts at the top of his lungs.The Niners are Garoppolo’s team again.
On Sunday, inexplicably, we got to see again what Garoppolo is built for, and see it in San Francisco. We saw it less than a month after it seemed a certainty he’d taken his last real snap as a Niner, and weeks after he agreed to stay on as a backup. There was a point in August, in fact, when it seemed more likely that he’d be in Santa Clara as the visiting quarterback in Week 2.
• We’ll wrap up with the Odds and Ends post, which will include my thoughts on the looming cast of draft quarterbacks, and why you shouldn’t speak in absolutes on them. “It’s tough, man,” Garoppolo says. “Injuries, it’s never fun, and especially for a young guy like that, I’ve been in his shoes and it’s going to be tough initially. But it’s how you come out after. I’m a big believer in that. Trey’s a tough dude, he’s got a good mindset, and I’m hoping [for] the best for him.”
So the situation lingered, other teams filled their quarterback openings, and the Niners and Garoppolo were stuck with each other. Which led to Garoppolo spending the first few weeks of camp throwing by himself on a side field and going home when his teammates would go into meetings, with the premise being there was no need for anyone to waste anyone else’s time if he wasn’t gonna be on the team.
But, of course, it’d be hard for anyone in that situation not to think they were spinning their wheels. And Garoppolo was. So he accepted the Niners’ parameters—he’d have to make less than what Lance’s rookie deal averages in base pay, with the chance to make more of what he was giving up back in play-time incentives, and got no-tag and no-trade provisions for agreeing to the deal, which gave him some control.
The Niners’ next series started with Deebo Samuel drawing a 16-yard interference penalty on Coby Bryant, which was followed by Garoppolo finding Aiyuk for 12 yards, McCloud for 16, and then Dwelley for the 38-yard scoring strike that put the quarterback at 4-for-4 for 70 yards. Garoppolo knows, looking ahead now, what the expectations are. The 49ers brought him back as insurance to protect a team good enough to win a title, and now it’s fair to say the policy they took out is paying off handsomely, as clunky and uncomfortable as it looked to those on the outside.
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