To hear 49ers CEO Jed York tell it, the team’s present quarterback situation isn’t necessarily unique. In fact, it’s not even the first time in team history they’ve been in this spot.
At the NFL owner’s meetings York spoke with reporters and invoked the Joe Montana-Steve Young dynamic when discussing the notion that Jimmy Garoppolo could stick around in 2022 and start another year in front of second-year signal caller Trey Lance.
“It’s professional sports,” York observed via NBC Sports Bay Area. “If Steve Young can sit on the bench for four seasons, like, Steve Young’s a Hall of Famer. If he’s willing to do it and he has the competitive drive to do it, why can’t somebody else? I think those two (Montana and Young) drove each other in the late 80s and early 90s to be the best that they could possibly be. And if that’s the situation that we have, and that’s what’s created – sign me up for that problem any day.”
