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One overthrow of Emmanuel Sanders with the Super Bowl on the line was all we needed to see. It’s proven he can only take this offense so far. The 49ers will rightfully move on from a quarterback who won the NFC Championship just one year ago, who has averaged 253 passing yards with 27 touchdowns his last 16 regular-season games. Know this: Garoppolo’s days are numbered. You don’t decimate your draft capital for one player only to surgically implant a clipboard to that player’s right hand for an entire season. Here’s guessing there’s a 0.1 percent chance Garoppolo finishes the 2021 season as the 49ers’ starting quarterback. On Adam Schefter’s podcast, the GM said Garoppolo has never looked better in San Francisco. Shanahan even said that Garoppolo, at his best, would beat out any rookie and then added that he’d be “very surprised” if Lance was the team’s Week 1 starter. Repeatedly, the 49ers’ boss has maintained there is zero competition in San Francisco. Seriously, you’d think Jimmy Garoppolo was part-Joe Montana, part-Steve Young. So, apologies if I cannot put any stock whatsoever into the head coach’s daily gushing of the quarterback ahead of Lance on the depth chart. Once the pick was official, Shanahan told the world how much he loved the quarterback. Right up to getting a call from Lynch seconds before commissioner Roger Goodell announced his name on national TV, even he was in the dark. Lance had zero clue the 49ers would take him.

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The 49ers acted as if their building was full of backstabbers and scoundrels which likely did not do wonders for morale. Never mind that this decision was guaranteed to change all of their families’ lives for better or worse. Never mind the fact that the 49ers traded away three firsts and one third for this pick. One of the head coach’s best friends, Chris Simms, had no clue.Īll coaches were kept in the dark. We all knew Jacksonville was going to take Trevor Lawrence and that the New York Jets would draft Zach Wilson yet Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch ensured absolutely no one else on the planet knew they wanted Lance third. You can’t help but chuckle when any sports franchise is paranoid to this extreme.

The selection of Trey Lance was handled with the tender love and care of nuclear launch codes.

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