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On Tuesday, Adam Schefter announced that San Francisco 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garopolo was receiving significant interest ahead of the NFL Combine, despite the fact that he will need shoulder injury surgery against Dallas Cowboys in the playoffs in the past. season.
Earlier today, I wrote about five “realistic” destinations that the quarterback veteran may land in 2022. But along with these teams, there are several teams that can be considered “in need” but should not be considered realistic. commercial candidates for Garopolo.
3. Indianapolis Colts
The Colts are looking to move on from Carson Wentz as the league-wide expectations are that the former Eagles quarterback will be changed or laid off before his entire contract is guaranteed on March 18th.
However, after trading a significant project capital to acquire Wentz, a first-round player and a third-round player last offseason, and failing to see the desired performance, Indianapolis will be less inclined to pursue a quarterback in a similar situation.
In addition, Wentz objectively had a very similar statistical season to Garoppolo, throwing 3562 yards while maintaining a touchdown to 27: 7 grip ratio, although he completed only 62.4% of his passes.
For reference, Garopolo threw 3,810 yards, 20 touchdowns and 12 interceptions, while completing 68.3% of his passes in the friendly attack on San Francisco.
Wenz has $ 28.2 million for 2022, while switching from it would cost the Colts $ 15 million in dead money, according to Spotrac. Jimmy Garopolo has a record $ 26.9 million for 2022.
It doesn’t make sense for the Colts to switch from Wentz for minimal compensation, just to trade more project capital to acquire another medium-sized quarterback with a big contract after their initial experiment failed.
2. Philadelphia Eagles
The Philadelphia Eagles have qualified for the playoffs as seventh placed in Jalen Hearts’ first full year as starters, interfering as Wild Card’s second-team with the 49ers before losing 31-15 to the Tampa Bay Buchanaries in the first round.
While earlier this off-season there were reports that the Eagles were interested in Garopolo, the idea of trading for an older, more expensive option seems unrealistic, especially given that Philadelphia is using a second-round pick to draw Hearts as his future position.
Hearts threw for 3,144 yards, 16 touchdowns and nine interceptions, while completing 61.3% of his passes in 2021.
Pairing Hurts with a stronger group of receivers can improve its accuracy problems. However, if the Eagles exchange for Garoppolo, they will lose valuable draft capital, which could improve their offensive arsenal along with Devonta Smith, although they currently have three choices in the first round.
Was Hurts objectively better than Garopolo in 2021? No. But it provides more benefits at an astronomically lower cost, allowing the Eagles, who are the first strikers, to build a competent list around the quarterback.
1. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Regarding Buccaneers, schematically, it just doesn’t make sense. Throughout the Bruce Alliance era, he preferred quarterbacks with the ability to throw down the field. Back in Indianapolis, he had Andrew Luck. During his days in Arizona, he had Carson Palmer. And since he was head coach of the Tampa Bay Buchanaries, he has had James Winston and Tom Brady.
What do all these quarterbacks have in common? Tendency to throw the ball down the field. Brady led the Air Yards League with 9.1 experience in 2020 until finishing in the top ten for 2021. In 2019, during his first year at Arians as head coach of Tampa Bay, Winston was second in NFL Air Yards Experience 10.4.
Jimmy Garopolo does not meet this bill, preferring to focus on the short and intermediate zones of the field, as evidenced by his 7.5 air yards of experience, which ranked 22nd in the NFL in 2021.
In 2019, during Jimmy Garopolo’s second full campaign as an NFL starting quarterback, that number was even worse as the veteran threw 6.5 air yards of experience, which was the penultimate in the NFL.
Stylistically, Garoppolo doesn’t fit well with the Buccaneers, let alone their hat situation, as they have to retain a number of key figures such as star successor Chris Godwin.
Financially and schematically, Garopolo makes no sense in the Bruce Alliance system.
The opinions in this article are those of the author and, although equally important, are not necessarily those of the site as a whole.
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