Where will Jimmy Garoppolo end up this offseason? His agents have recently gotten permission to seek a trade since he’s now healthy into training camp.
Former Giants center Shaun O’Hara has the perfect squad for him. The Super Bowl champion is pointing to the Miami Dolphins despite the team having Tua Tagovailoa ready to start.
“If I’m Jimmy G, I’m looking at Miami,” O’Hara said on NFL Network’s “Good Morning Football.” If I’m gonna be holding a clipboard somewhere and not play right away, give me somewhere where I can go out to a nice restaurant, I got a nice little nightlife going on. For Jimmy G to go to Miami and be reunited with Mike McDaniel, somebody he knows. I’m saying mid-August over and over again.
Not just from a physical standpoint, but from a quarterback standpoint. Imagine getting the playbook in mid-August? Or finding out here’s my team in mid-August? I’ve got to accelerate this process. I’ve got to learn the language, I’ve got to speak it fluently. Now, all of a sudden going out of the 49ers with an offense you’re already familiar with, I’m sure it’s a lot of the same verbiage he had in San Francisco. Like, that could be a great opportunity.
“From a competition standpoint and the playing field standpoint, look, if Tua (Tagovailoa) flops, there still are a lot of people that are trying to figure out who is Tua? If he struggles, we’ve seen him get the yank before, right? (Ryan) Fitzpatrick went in. That could be an opportunity for him to step in and play. Who wouldn’t want to throw to (Jaylen) Waddle and Tyreek Hill? There’s some great offensive weapons there for Jimmy G.”
Tagovailoa is going to start this season, and even if he doesn’t play well, they already have Teddy Bridgewater as a very capable backup.
Despite not being able to find a trade partner, Lynch was clear that the 49ers would not release Garoppolo.
He is set to cost the 49ers $26.95 million in 2022 cap space and if the team traded or released him, it would save the team $25.55 million. The 30-year-old threw for 3,810 yards, 20 touchdowns, and 12 interceptions in ’21 during his 15 games played.
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Last season, Tua Tagovailoa threw for just 2,653 yards, 16 touchdowns, and 10 interceptions.
