sycasey said:
91Cal said:
sycasey said:
82gradDLSdad said:
m2bear said:
sycasey said:
49ers offense looked really rough with all the WR injuries.
Huh?
You could have had Rice, Moss, and Cliff Branch out there... and Jimmy G. still wouldn't be able to get it to them. He has a noodle arm and a scattered brain.
He's the worst qb in the NFL.
Regarding "noodle arm"... The first half year Jimmy was with the 49ers I thought his arm was great. It was loose and quick and strong. Since then his throwing motion has gotten tight. Shorter arm stroke but tighter and with less velocity. I'm guessing that was a conscious effort so that he's less of a gun slinger but to me he throws and plays tight. It's probably part of the reason he doesn't take a lot of chances throwing to his wideouts. They were not good yesterday but he doesn't do them any favors.
I also wonder if that knee injury affected his mechanics.
I thought the same thing, but I see more of the issue with the decision making, including perhaps some confidence...especially when the game is on the line. I have said it before that his skills are very good, but he doesn't seem to have "it" that puts the team on his back.
That's also been off and on. The Super Bowl seems to have erased everyone's memory of this, but he had several late game-winning drives last season (Pit, NO, Ariz, LA) and also during that first half year as you mentioned.
But he needs to step it up this season with the WRs out and the defense likely to regress a bit. First game was not encouraging.
In those, he played well within the offense...almost everything was underneath.
- @AZ - Longest pass on the last drive was for 11 yards...all others under 10 yards in the air;
- @NO - longest pass in the air on the last drive was for 7 yards (25 YAC + 15 yd facemark penalty) and he was 1 for 3 for 8 yards outside of that big gainer to Kittle...that play was all Kittle!
- The win at LA was truly exceptional...two longer balls to Bourne (18 yds) and Sanders (33 yds), but he also took two sacks
All that said he did do well against Seattle in the last game, making the clutch pass.
I see the common thread that he operates well within the offensive system albeit a system that relies on a strong running game and better than average receivers, but if the system breaks down he has neither the decision making nor ability to overcome...
The defense carried the team much of the year, particularly through the NFC playoffs, but had its challenges as well...the shootout in NO, the late drive to ATL (Kittle's fumble in FG range negated a likely FG to put the game out of reach score and time-wise), 31 points to LAR (their second highest output of 2019).
I mention this to acknowledge that the 49ers' performance and Win-Loss is in no way all on Garrapolo, but his salary should be delivering a more consistent and higher level of performance.
