I don’t want to force anything and be unauthentic,” Garoppolo said. Former 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo meets the media for the first time as a member of the Las Vegas Raiders. Getty Images Players gravitated toward him because of the way he went about his business without fanfare, and it will be the same thing in Las Vegas. The NFL is a brutal sport and he’s been prone to bad luck.īut Garoppolo was a respected figure in the 49ers’ locker room, and not because he forced the issue. Garoppolo wasn’t asked about his injuries and it’s not like he has a good answer anyway. 100 pick in the draft after battling injuries for two years and then entrust the most important position on the team to Garoppolo and his own history of injury. There are more than a few Raiders fans who are wondering how the Raiders would dump tight end Darren Waller for the No. Garoppolo, meanwhile, missed 39 games in six seasons with the 49ers and had a 38-17 record. In nine seasons, Carr missed two games en route to a 63-79 overall record before being benched, released and moving on to the New Orleans Saints. He left a Chargers game two years ago with a severe groin injury and played the next week. He fractured a vertebra in his back once and missed exactly one game. Sometimes too conservative, occasionally too bold. we seem to have the right guys here, just have to get working together.”Ĭarr was a little bit of everything for the Raiders. “You give them an accurate ball, if you’ve got the right guys. “Whenever you’ve got skill position guys like that, the run after catch, I’m a big believer in that,” Garoppolo said. It will be dink, dunk and run after the catch with Davante Adams, Josh Jacobs, Jacobi Meyers and presumably Hunter Renfrow. If there’s one thing Garoppolo is not, it’s an old-school, Al Davis-style downfield thrower. Rich Gannon won three straight division titles and an MVP in the only sustained run of success the Raiders have seen since moving to Oakland in 1995, yet he was barely tolerated by a segment of the fan base that wanted an old-school, Al Davis-style downfield thrower. But this fan base will turn on Garoppolo in an instant if injuries, losses or both begin to pile up as they have so many other times since the mid-1990s. Garoppolo is an impressive presence and an easy guy to like. The press conference was delayed a day as final contract details were ironed out, leading some of the more snide corners of Raider Nation on social media to wonder if he’d been injured walking to the podium. If Garoppolo has any ill feelings about the way things ended - going from starter to reserve to starter again before fracturing his foot - he is keeping those thoughts to himself after signing a three-year deal that could pay him as much as $72 million. Turn the page now, it’s the next chapter in my life and can’t wait to get started in Vegas.” “I just want to thank the Yorks, thank the 49ers for everything that they’ve done,” Garoppolo said at his introductory press conference Friday. Garoppolo gave the 49ers their due right out of the box, then looked to the future.
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