Originally posted by Niners99:
At this point hes worth more to us than anyone else. Lance isnt ready, or we'd have moved on already. If Lance isnt ready, Shanahan isn't throwing him out there. Garoppolo is the perfect fit for the current iteration of this team. We can win now and develop Lance correctly. Who cares about the 3rd rounder someone gives us for Jimmy if Lance gets ruined by starting too early?
100%. Jimmy gives this team a chance this year, and just have to hope he plays at least as well as he played yesterday in going forward this season.
This team, with the talent it has and the talent that's returning as soon as hopefully this Sunday (Kittle, J. Wilson, Ford, Al-Shaair, maybe Greenlaw), can definitely do damage in the games ahead on the schedule & can get into the playoffs. And just get in, because once you're in anything can happen (team gets on a roll & plays its best ball, other teams might be slumping/incur key injuries, etc., etc.). I've seen it happen to teams that "just got in" in the past as Wild Cards, lower seeds, whatever.
Just get in. Yesterday was a start to build on and get better. At 3-4, no way in hell I'm giving up hopes for this team the remainder of this season.