Could Jimmy Garoppolo still be on the 49ers next season? | You Pod to Win the Game – Yahoo Sports

Yahoo Sports Senior NFL Writer Charles Robinson and Yahoo Sports Columnist Shalise Manza Young discuss the quarterback situation for San Francisco. All signs point to Trey Lance being the starter in 2022. Does it make any sense to hang on to a $24 million dollar backup quarterback? Hear the full conversation on the You Pod to Win the Game podcast. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you listen.

CHARLES ROBINSON: San Francisco. It's just like the Baker conversation west. San Francisco says-- and again, I think it's gamesmanship. It's just like what Cleveland's doing. Just sort of a different way to present it. San Francisco is saying, eh, maybe Jimmy will be back. Maybe Jimmy Garoppolo is not gone. We don't want to just get rid of him to get rid of him. He's got value. And right now, he's recovering from a shoulder surgery on his throwing shoulder. And teams are reticent to offer us anything, so we're going to just play it out. And maybe Jimmy will be on our roster. It's not really-- Cleveland realistically, functionally can't have Baker back in that-- I don't think you can really have him back in that quarterback room next season. Jimmy could, though, for San Francisco. He totally could be back there. I wrote today that I think they're bluffing. I think they're playing the game. They're playing that chess move, the Jimmy Garoppolo chess move right now to try and draw out a trade. However, I do think that if this advances far enough down the road, and there really isn't anything out there, and they really, truly go, hmm, maybe we will just bring him back and we'll figure out the $24 million we owe them in base salary, which, God, just seems completely unlikely. But I'm just going to play it out. I don't know, man. I just don't. To me, you bring him back, even if you're like Trey Lance is our starter. And to me, I feel like they're indicating Trey Lance is definitely going to be the guy. He's going to be the starter for us. They're not coming out and just straight up saying it. But there's a reason why they're ready to move on from Jimmy, and that's because they're ready to go with Trey. I just don't know about bringing somebody back in the organization that we can say whatever we want about him, they still had a little playoff run in them. They still had some success with him. SHALISE MANZA YOUNG: He brought them to the NFC Championship game. He got them-- CHARLES ROBINSON: Shalise, you can't tell me-- you covered the Niners. And Trey Lance goes out there. Let's say they bring Jimmy back. Whatever the circumstances are, figure it out. Forget the money or whatever. For whatever reason, he's still there. You can't tell me that you or I covering the team wouldn't sit there and, say, Trey Lance gets off to a rough start-- SHALISE MANZA YOUNG: Yeah. CHARLES ROBINSON: --and they go 1 and 2 out of the gate, you and I are going to be sitting in the press box next to each other, and we're gonna be going, yeah-- SHALISE MANZA YOUNG: Which one of us is writing it's time for Jimmy to come back? CHARLES ROBINSON: Yeah, right. That's exactly it. That is exactly right. That's the conversation. One of us has got the binoculars. And I'm like, is he putting his helmet on? Is he warming up? What's going on on the sidelines? Is he talking to the coaches right now? What's Jimmy doing? SHALISE MANZA YOUNG: And then behind the scenes, what are the teammates saying? CHARLES ROBINSON: Yeah. SHALISE MANZA YOUNG: Guys who were on the team from last year to the coming year, and they were part of seeing Jimmy get them to the NFC Championship game. If they do get off to a 1 and 2 start, or whatever the case may be, are they chirping behind the scenes and saying this is ridiculous? Jimmy got us to where we got to last year with Jimmy, so what are we doing with Trey? He's not ready, or whatever the case may be. It's a really complicated situation. But the 49ers spent so much to get Trey Lance. He had his redshirt year, so to speak. So in a way, you kind of have to go with him. But having a $24 million backup is a hard pill to swallow. But then like we just said, the minute Trey stumbles, the fans are going to be screaming for Garoppolo. CHARLES ROBINSON: Which is why-- SHALISE MANZA YOUNG: The media might scream for Garoppolo. CHARLES ROBINSON: Which is why-- don't you agree that, fine, play the chess game. Play it out. Do what you got to do. But at the end of the day, you do have a luxury that Cleveland doesn't. You can cut the guy, and you get all that money. You get all the base money. If Cleveland cuts Baker, they lose the 18-- that's gone. They've got to pay that no matter what. They're screwed. Now San Francisco, what you get is a big old hole in your cap that then you can use for a contract extension for Deebo Samuel. You can use that money to extend guys. I'm just like, there's just no way. You can't do this. You have to get that guy off the roster.

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