Kyle Shanahan & Jimmy Garoppolo need to have a conversation behind the scenes to make sure they are on one accord for the remainder of the year.
On Thursday, Jimmy Garoppolo told reporters that he felt the freedom to throw down the field like he did in 2017 and he feels he should have that freedom for the rest of the year.
“I’d love that,” Garoppolo said Thursday. “Yeah, there’s a lot of things that go with that obviously, but yeah, I love doing that stuff. In ’17, there was a freedom where me, the receivers, tight ends, we had a good chemistry going. And when you get that with offensive skills and a quarterback, it makes for a tough offense.”
Kyle Shanahan got word of those comments and he was entirely confused about what Jimmy G was talking about.
“You’d have to ask him what he meant by that,” Shanahan told reporters. “There was no difference in that game than every game, so you can ask him on that. It was probably just going in when the game plan is for someone else and just coming off and winging it and going with it. That’s what I would guess, but it sounds like that’s a question for him.”
Later in Friday’s press conference, Shanahan was asked whether he was surprised that Garoppolo was so willing to be outspoken about his preferences.
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“No, I really don’t know the quote that he said,” Shanahan said. “I’m with Jimmy a lot, so nothing really surprises me. I get to talk to him every day. I hear your huge interpretations of that quote and you guys just said it. I can’t interpret it. I interpret it with my relationship with him every day, so just go ask him what he meant by it.”
When pressed about it again, Shanahan got irritated and wanted to move on.
“I’m not going to waste my time with that, but you can,” Shanahan said. “I got some real stuff to do.”
Yikes.
