But the bottom line is Garoppolo is good enough to take a good team to a Super Bowl.
If you gave Carr a top ten defense, he would be good enough to take a good team to the SB as well. Also, add in another 2 yards of YAC/C that Jimmy G enjoyed over Carr in SF with guys like Deebo (Jimmy G range of 6.5-7.6 over the Niner years vs 5.0-5.9 of Carr over the same years) which adds another 600-800 ish yards over a year for Carr if he got that. Jimmy G has been blessed with being in some extremely advantageous situations for him. Credit to him for not sucking horribly when he has been in those but as much as Carr isn't the answer, neither is Jimmy G. We not only did not get better at QB but we traded an extremely durable QB with an extremely not durable QB who turns out to actually not even be healthy as is.
Carr was never the problem. Getting rid of him just added another problem for us. That is what I hate about all of this. Hopes and prayers of something good happening does not win games. If you are moving on from a guy like Carr then you damn well ought to have a real plan B. We clearly do not and now we are hoping we end up 1-16 to get the best QB prospect in a while. Chances are.... we don't and we continue doing the same thing we did for 20 years before Carr which was rotating through guys like Tuisasosopo, Walter, Bradkowski, Frye, Boller, McGloin... and blowing draft picks on guys like Russell and Pryor hoping and praying we get average QB play let along good QB play.
We don't have a plan. And that sucks. It sucks being a fan of a team that sucks year in and year out.