Originally posted by NotAFinga42:
Originally posted by 49ers81:
Originally posted by 49ersRing:
Originally posted by 49ers81:
Originally posted by CatchMaster80:
I was reading Lynch's comments regarding Jimmy and I hope he's just trying to drum up trade interest. I really don't want to see him on the Niners for another year. We've been down that road and we know we need an upgrade. Holding back Trey for another year is just going to delay the upgrade. Even if they start Trey, you don't want him looking over his shoulder all season. He needs to worry about defenses not Jimmy.
So, it was okay for Jimmy to be in that position last year but Lance shouldn't have to do it because, what, he's too emotionally fragile? I will gladly admit that the situation with Jimmy probably isn't what anyone expected going into the new season. If they are serious about not releasing him in the event they're unable to swing a trade somewhere then the only way this would work going forward is to have a truly open competition for the job through training camp and pre-season and let the best man win. The team would have to know that each guy was given a fair shot and that the decision was made to go with the guy who gave them the best chance to win not because of his draft status or veteran presence and relationship with the players but because he was judged by all of them to be the best guy for the job. Any other option might open the door to issues down the road. It feels like the team has kind of turned the page on Jimmy so I'm not sure they will want to go back down that road but if he's on the roster come training camp and is able to throw it seems to me they will have to let him compete. He has probably earned too much goodwill in the locker room to just be relegated to an afterthought. Time will tell I guess.
No, I don't want them taking away reps from Lance, which he sorely needs, to hold a competition with Jimmy. They already know everything that Jimmy is capable of, so there is no reason to do that.
If they want to let Jimmy throw once he's healthy, then it makes sense to have him work exclusively with the 2nd group.
So Lance shouldn't have to compete for a job that he's claiming is his. You want to give him the job but you don't want him to have to earn it. If he's everything people are claiming he should welcome the competition and be confident he'll come out on top. Not saying it's an ideal scenario just saying that Jimmy has earned the right to compete for the job IF he is still on the roster come training camp and is able to throw.
Losing said competition will drop any trade value Jimmy has left. No way they put him in that situation. Teams would begin to question whether or not he has fully recovered from his surgery, and no team would touch him in a trade.
How so? According to many people in here Jimmy is a bum and has no trade value anyway so what would be the disgrace in losing out to a more talented player, isn't that why they drafted Lance in the first place because he was more talented and represented an upgrade at the position? As to teams possibly questioning whether or not he lost the competition because his arm wasn't fully healed that would suggest that under normal circumstances, i.e. a healthy Jimmy, that they would have expected Jimmy to beat Lance out if it weren't for his injury, which brings us back to the first point. What would be the disgrace to losing out an open competition to a player who was specifically drafted to replace you. It seems to me that the real concern here isn't that Jimmy would look bad but that Lance would look bad if he ended up losing the competition. As I said in another post, you guys are all for giving Lance the job, but you don't want him to have to earn it.
This is ban worthy or a least a 6 game suspension.
