Joe Buck and Troy Aikman have called plenty of important 49ers games over the years, including two of the team’s three playoff games last season. The pair moved to ESPN this offseason to call Monday Night Football, and they spoke about San Francisco on Monday during a call with media. Despite the lack of splashy offseason moves, Buck believes the team still has what it takes to be the top team in the NFC, and he doesn’t think Jimmy Garoppolo’s fate is sealed just yet.
Buck mentioned how open and honest 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan is in production meetings, and used that to springboard into his thoughts on the Garoppolo situation. Garoppolo was expected to be traded this offseason before a shoulder injury deflated his trade market. Now the 49ers may have to choose between keeping or cutting the veteran signal caller that led them to a Super Bowl and two NFC championship games in the last three years.
“I personally don’t think it’s a foregone conclusion that Jimmy Garoppolo automatically gets shipped out. They’re too good,” Buck said via the Bay Area News Group’s Cam Inman. “They’re too ready to win right now, with the way they finished last year, coming up just shy in an (NFC) championship game. Now you’ve got to start the clock back over with a young quarterback.”
