Originally posted by genus49:What I think is immaterial. It's what the team thinks that matters and the team clearly thought that when Jimmy went into the 2021 post season with an injured thumb and an injured shoulder, both on his throwing arm, he was still considered a better option to start than Lance with is injured finger, which he apparently played with during the Houston game as well, and which a lot of people in here like to hold up as his "coming out" party game. So if the thumb was good enough to get him through what had been his best game to date, why should it have been an excuse for why he couldn't have played in place of a far worse injured Jimmy during the post season?
Originally posted by 49ers81:
When you have a roster that went to the NFC Championship game 3 out of the last four years you don't put in a QB who has to "learn on the job". And don't for one minute pretend that during his first season he wasn't on the "Oh, he's going to start next week" watch of many posters in here, including you. A lot of those people were just convinced, convinced mind you, that Lance could have done "at least as good of a job" as Jimmy, which according to multiple team sources this year has been exposed for BS that it was.
And you're sure that Trey couldn't??
i'd say he played a lot better in the rain vs Chicago than Jimmy played in normal weather in Denver. But Jimmy got more games to show what he could look like and had CMC added and somehow we forget that disaster of a game?
Easier to project Trey's Chicago game over the whole season apparently.
How many games did Jimmy win as a 49er when he was the team's leading rusher?
No team sources exposed any such BS because we don't know what Trey would've done the rest of the season.
The whole idea was that we could play Trey and ask him not to have to do too much and the talent on the team would support him. That didn't happen in Chicago and he got hurt early in Seattle and suddenly you're acting like Trey can't win games with this roster while using extreme cases where our talented roster didn't play up to their talent and blaming it all on Trey. I'm sure you were so tough on Jimmy after his bad games right? Or did you make excuses for him and throw those games away and concentrate on other games from him cuz you could?
As to second bolded, in what universe would Jimmy EVER have been the team's leading rusher? That simply isn't his game and to try and compare that aspect of it to Lance is the equivalent of reaching for the stars.
As to the third bolded. Kittle, Deebo, Aiyuk, Lynch, and Shanahan, have all commented, THIS YEAR, how much better Lance has played this offseason than in any of his previous camps. The indication seems to be that he has been significantly better, not just marginally better, which suggests that they all knew he simply wasn't good enough his first year. In spite of what some of his "fans" want to believe or try to convince themselves of.
It's great that he's doing well and the hope is that he will continue to improve. As I said in a previous post, he and Brock are the only QB;s currently under contract for the next two years as Darnold and, I believe, Allen only signed one-year deals, so Lance's 49ers story isn't over yet. It will be up to him to write the ending. We'll see how it goes I guess.