Bleacher Report is, uh, reporting that Jimmy Garoppolo has been named the starting quarterbacker for the upcoming Chicago Bears game. Time to show the world if the braintrust knows what they are up to. So it looks like barring yet another injury, Jimmy G will be the starter for the rest of the season, as in the next 4 games.
Huzzah.
Thing is, this is the part of the schedule that I thought the team would be coalescing around their young buck coach and gaining momentum as we head off into the sunset and the bright future with our new QB. Instead, the team is in tattered rags around him. The latest to hit the bricks is back up RT Erik Magnuson, who is out with a foot sprain, and Trent Brown is still day-to-day with his shoulder injury. The backup to the backup is rookie Darrell Williams Jr, or (gulp) Zane Beadles. Magnuson kinda sucked at center, and the rest of the line has been shakey as fuck, so . . . I hope Jimmy G has a quick trigger finger. He may have a very short run.
In other news, ST star gunner, Raheem Mostert is heading to the IR with a knee injury, and free safety Adrian Colbert, who looked great against the Giants, is questionable for the Bears game. Woof!
Forty Niners Forever 
I want a TD, don’t be a pussy play caller, take a shot to the end zone
agree
Yes! Yoos-Check!!
don’t fumble!
direcTV froze before the FG attempt
My Directv was fine,
watching it on computer at my office.
He drilled it right down the middle then looked at the Chicago bench.
nice, good for Gould, 5 FG equals his record.
YEAH BABY! THE JIMMY G ERA HAS BEGUN!
Entertaining game! Jimmy looks like the real deal to me!
me too.
I guess when you are 1-10 you play conservative. Run, run, run
They threw 300 yds
Hey, that’s fine when it works and it did. The run game came up big at the end this week. Great win! Dominant win!
Jimmy was 26/37 for 293 yards and the one pick that wasn’t really his fault. He looked fantastic as far as I’m concerned, like a real NFL QB. No TD’s, but given that this was his first game, I see a lot of good things for this offense moving forward.
Damn, so many good things about this game!
If we could coral the mistakes we would have scored some 7’s
It was a very satisfying win
We need O-linemen and a better run game
I think Hyde should be resigned along with improving the line. He ran his ass off today and made some key runs at the end. The numbers won’t show that, but I watched the whole game and that’s what I saw. With a good line I think he’d be having a big year. Plus, he’s staying on the field. They may not sign him, but I think they should. He’s been running behind a shit line all year.
I think he goes to the highest bidder which won’t be the Niners.
I wouldn’t mind re-signing him but I still think he’s a # 2 back at best.
I disagree. No Niner back will ever look good running behind that line. No way Carlos Hyde is a #2 back.
Everyone has their own opinion and that is a good thing. I just look at it like this. Wendel Tyler, Roger Craig, /Ricky Waters, Garrison Hearst, Charlie Gardner, Frank Gore. Without a doubt I would take any one of those over Hyde. Sure Hyde breaks one off now and again but that’s about it. Running backs are supposed to find the holes.
You can’t find what’s not there. SF run blocking sucks. When they improve that, all their backs will have more success. Listing some of the best backs in team history doesn’t lessen Hyde’s abilities.
Lurker- I didn’t list those running backs to lesson Hyde’s abilities. i listed them because that is what # 1 running backs look like.
To me he is a starter but nothing out of the ordinary.
Yeah he can go elsewhere. Backs now are like temps. He’s no Gore in his prime.
I love it when we beat the Bears. There is a long-long history of some pretty crazy games between those two teams.
We have played them 66 times. 30 times in Chicago and 36 in SF. Regular season record is 31-31-1.We have played them 3 times in the post season and won them all.
Grappy looked good. Not really a surprise.
Hah! Was in the city last night at my co X-mas party. went to baker beach this morning and it was gorgeous. Unreal day. Didn’t listen to or hear about the game and came home around 3 to watch it.
My son didn’t even let on how it ended. The offense looked night and day over what we have seen. JImmy G was very good, and if not for some seriously shitty calls and self-inflicted wounds, we would have scored more.
Truth be told, I could live with Brieda and Hyde as the running backs. But we NEED wide receivers in a gigantic way. Colbert looks like the real deal. We need cornerbacks tho. Pass rush is still inconsistent, but the D overall played very well. And for all the penalties called on the Niners, the refs missed an obvious call on the punt runback TD. So the d only gave up 7.
Shit. look at Mike Davis go.
Looks like the combo of Shanahan and garrapolo is the real deal ! Awesome !
mike davis ? That would be icing on the cake !
It was a game even Spit could enjoy. Of course he would be grousing about the lack a TD in Niners offensive output. And of course he would still be thinking we’re a bunch of idiots! Go Spit!
You won’t see Shittie around here today, too much good stuff happened yesterday.
Agree, Chuck, the pass rush needs to improve, as do the WR’s, in addition to the glaringly bad OL. I’m really excited to see how Colbert pans out. He and Witherspoon are looking like they could really contribute moving forward.
Amazing, though, how much better receivers can look with the right guy throwing the ball. I was a little surprised they didn’t take a couple of shots deep with Goodwin, but I expect we’ll see more of that in coming weeks.
Even Skeebers is happy or as happy as he ever gets after this latest game.