Shanahan Not Piling High Expectations on Garoppolo
After taking over the starting quarterback job last season and leading the 49ers to a five game winning streak, Jimmy Garoppolo suddenly is expected to be a miracle worker in 2018.Thanks to what he did, NFL analysts now see the 49ers as a franchise on the rise. Garoppolo, too, is being labeled one of the league's best young quarterbacks and leaders while being compared to some of the greats – all after just five starts in the Bay Area.Yet 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan isn't making such bold predictions. To Shanahan, Garoppolo showed in 2017 that he's the quarterback the team was looking for, but he wants him in 2018 to simply continue to make progress."I just want him to improve," Shanahan recently told Adam Schefter of ESPN. "I think he played very well last year. Everything went right. We hadn't won many games. We won only one game before him and then five in a row with him. That's a lot of success right there."But I know it's not going to be like that all this year. I'm pretty confident to say we won't go undefeated. If we do, congrats. I hope I'm wrong about that. I'm not thinking that we will."In his six games with the 49ers in 2017, Garoppolo was 5-0 as a starter and...
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