Originally posted by RiceOwensStokes:
Front office politics isn't my subject, which is what all this comes down too imo, Jimmy not having surgery earlier to boot. But why doesn't he just take a pay cut?
teams would rather tank their season with scrubs like Mitch Trubisky and Sam Darnold than give Jimmy a shot who has proven he can contribute to taking a team to the playoffs with the right players around him because teams simply don't want to pay him $27mil unless his talents matched prime Peyton Manning
I mean, as NY has said many times, the money isn't real. No team is paying that. If a trade occurs, either the 49ers will take on some of the salary to offset it, or the contract will be renogtiated (which will occur either way, actually). If JG is released, no team is paying him his current salary. The only way he can retain that price tag is if he remains with the 49ers and they do not require him to take a pay cut. Is that possible JG will remain with the 49ers? Yes, as of this moment, it is absolutely
possible. But I do not see any scenario, barring a major injury to Trey in the next seven days, where this outcome has a probability above zero.
I think, and I have said this many times, so not to beat a dead horse, there is and never has been a
strong market for JG. I think fans, and possibly the 49ers, overvalued him. Other teams looked at what JG did with all he had available, his injury history, his x, y, z, and thought, "what would happen if we brought him here?" Whatever conclusion they came to, it was one wherein they felt JG was not worth the cost (whatever said cost is / would have been).
People will tell you his injury put the kibosh on trades, and that these "trades" were absolutely in the works. There is no, and I repeat, no evidence of this, other than KS and others in a position to benefit from such a claim, being true. But, fans gonna fan. They will tell you how their hypothetical is reality, then bury their head in the sand like an ostrich (I know ostriches don't actually do this).
Here's a good old reddit joke for those consistent few who don't understand the difference between a hypothetical and reality:
A little boy goes up to his father and asks: "Dad, what's the difference between hypothetical and reality?"
The father replies, "Well son, I could give you the book definitions, but I feel it could be best to show you by example. Go upstairs and ask your mother if she'd have sex with the mailman for $500,000."
The boy goes and asks his mother: "Mom, would you have sex with the mailman for $500,000?"
The mother replies, "Hell yes I would!"
The little boy returns to his father. "Dad, she said 'Hell yes I would!'"
The father then says, "OK, now go and ask your older sister if she'd have sex with her principal for $500,000."
The boy asks his sister, "Would you have sex with your principal for $500,000?"
The sister replies: "Hell yes I would!"
He returns to his father. "Dad, she said 'Hell yes I would!'"
The father answers, "OK, son, here's the deal: Hypothetically, we're millionaires, but in reality, we're just living with a couple of whores."
So now you have both Montana and Favre saying we should stick with Garoppolo. I wish they would both just let people remember them for the football they played, rather than their bitterness about being replaced. Ironically, if Jimmy was half as tough as Favre we'd likely have kept him.
