5_Golden_Rings":6my9j8ex said:
JGfromtheNW":6my9j8ex said:
I don't believe there's a QB controversy in Santa Clara, unless you're talking about who's going to be the #2.
GQ is the superior talent, he just needs to stay healthy.
That's the thing, though. So far he hasn't, even in very limited action. Otherwise, assuming he progresses as most quarterbacks do, he'll certainly be a productive starter (his other weaknesses are minor). But some people are just not really physically cut out for the physical rigors of the sport. Take Jimmie Ward, for example. You could even argue that Steve Young wasn't, but he had so much talent that even with the constant injuries he was worth the investment.
I feel like you just kinda have to bracket out the injury thing, because there's really no way to know if it's a long term concern or not.
He's been injured twice, sure, but two isn't much of a trend. It's very different from Ward who IIRC has finished one of five seasons and has yet to make it through one.
As for his weaknesses as a player, we still don't know what's real, what's fixable, and what's just flukey.
Basically, he could stay healthy and emerge as a top 10 starting QB and that wouldn't surprise me, but he could stay healthy and be exposed as a bottom 10 starting QB and that wouldn't really surprise me either. Or he could not stay healthy and I again wouldn't be surprised.
My take is really that anyone who is claiming to have written the book on Garoppolo at this point is definitely trying to sell you something.