Jimmy G hasn’t attended qb meetings nor does he train with the qbs. He’s even said he hasnt met the qb coach.
If this is the 9ers high priced insurance, they’re sure not acting like it
I agree completely.
It looks to me like they're not not holding on to him as insurance. I think they're holding on to him in hopes of getting something in return for him.
I qualified the crap out of those last two statements.
What's nice is that we'll know for sure very soon. Related to this, while it wouldn't have changed my conclusions back when people around here were talking about Baker Mayfield and Jimmy Garoppolo, I think I said something incorrect about Garoppolo and his salary and cap hit this season.
I believe a "vested-veteran" like Garoppolo has his salary for this season fully guaranteed if he's on the roster for the team's first game of the season. So if the Gold Diggers neither trade nor cut Garoppolo by their first game, they're on the hook for his full $24.2M 2022 salary and at that point, they'd almost certainly hang on to him as their "insurance policy."
In those older threads, I had said that Garoppolo had greatly reduced risk for a team because his salary for 2022 wasn't guaranteed, so I thought a team could adopt a "pay-as-you-go" approach, and have the cash and cap commitment of $1.42M per regular-season game, with the freedom to cut him at any point without further cash or cap problems. I now believe that was incorrect, and that if Garoppolo is with an NFL team for that team's first 2022 regular-season game, then that team is on the hook, in terms of both cash and cap, for Garoppolo's full $24.2M salary.
I still think it's more likely the Gold Diggers will cut Garoppolo, but I wouldn't be shocked if they didn't and ended up keeping him. And of course, he could still be traded later if some team loses its starter and thinks Garoppolo might be enough to help it get to the Super Bowl this year.