Anarchy99
Footballguy
Jimmy isn't Sanchez, but he's closer to Sanchez than Brady or Mahomes. In the four playoff games the Niners won with JG, he averaged 17 passing attempts per game (and winning by 11 ppg). The defense allowed 14 ppg and the team ran for 187 yards on average. In their two playoff losses, the defense allowed 25.5 ppg, Jimmy had 30+ passing attempts both games, and they averaged half as many rushing yards. Garoppolo has a 4-2 record as a starter in the post season with 4 TD in and 6 INT with a 74 rating. SF won their last NFCC game win on a blocked punt returned for a TD.So, Jimmy Garoppolo is Mark Sanchez now?Mark Sanchez took the Jets to back-to-back AFCC games in his first two years in the league (not sure if anyone else can make that claim). Sometimes teams win in spite of their QB.
The guy who's 33-14 with 68% completions, 5% TD rate, 2.6% INT rate, 8.3 y/a
Is the same as the guy who's 37-36, 57% completions, 3.7% TD rate, 3.8% INT rate, 6.6 y/a?
Garoppolo gets zero credit for his teams being 33-14 with him and 8-29 without him since 2017?
Is that really what were saying?
I mean, sure knock him for being injury prone but at the very least the dude knows how not to lose football games.
In their 6 playoff games, the SF offense has scored a total of 9 points (no TD) in the 4th quarter, getting outscored 57-9. That's not all on Jimmy, but it's not like he lit things up late in playoff games,
The two years they advanced in the playoffs, the first year they ranked #1 in rushing TD, #2 in rushing yards, and had one of the top defenses once they got guys back and healthy. The running game and defense weren't as good in 2021, but they were still near the top of the league in both aspects.
Not surprisingly, over the years when JG didn't play, the defense was nowhere near as good, they couldn't run the ball very well, and they had other injuries. The 2018 team forced 7 turnovers. The 2019 squad forced 34. There are any number of other reasons why the Niners were better WITH Garoppolo, but that doesn't mean they were better BECAUSE of Garoppolo, Sure, they were better when JG played over the flotsam and jetsam known as Nick Mullens, C.J. Beathard, or Brian Hoyer. Not exactly the best the game has to offer. So sure, if the rest of the team is healthy, they can run the football, and the defense is firing on all cylinders, SF can win games with Jimmy G by limiting mistakes. As for his yards per attempt numbers, it certainly didn't hurt having Deebo leading the league with 10 YARDS AFTER CATCH per reception to give Jimmy a full extra YPA.
How good is Garoppolo? Maybe league average. Maybe not. How often does a SB winning team win with guys like that? Not all that often. At least for now, JG hasn't shown that he can lead late game comebacks or have big games when the lights are brightest. Maybe he has that in him . . . but he hasn't displayed that as of yet.