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If you’re Jimmy Garoppolo and not a single NFL team was interested enough to trade for you as their starting quarterback, that can’t be a great sign. <\/p>\n

Hall of Famer and 49ers legend Steve Young joined KNBR 680’s “Tolbert & Copes” on Friday to discuss Garoppolo taking a pay cut to remain on San Francisco’s roster as the backup quarterback to first-year starter Trey Lance and the alarming message the rest of the league has sent him. <\/p>\n

“I think Jimmy must be shocked because when he (has a 33-14 record as a starter) and we know that Kyle [Shanahan], for whatever reason, has chosen away from Jimmy, he’s not interested in Jimmy as a starter,” Young said. “So he’s made that clear for three years now. ‘I’m not interested in Jimmy as a starter, that’s not what I want.’ So he’s chosen against that, we know that and we’re going to trade him and then the injury delayed everything.<\/p>\n

“But in this era of quarterback-centric (play), anyone who can be 33-14 regardless of how you look at it, that’s somebody you want to be on the field, there’s somewhere in this 32-team league that would want Jimmy Garoppolo to start for them. To find out, despite the injury, the late start and the music stopped a little early, I understand that, but by the time he got healthy, what spots were open? In the end, that nobody was interested in Jimmy Garoppolo as a starter, for Jimmy, is a referendum that should be alarming to him.”<\/p>\n

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Young believes that Shanahan has made clear he prefers Garoppolo in a backup role and that Garoppolo should take it upon himself to use this season as a soul-searching mission to figure out why teams no longer are interested in him as a starter. <\/p>\n

“And Kyle has said very very clearly ‘I love Jimmy Garoppolo as a backup.’ So that’s why Kyle is so excited, because he has Jimmy exactly where he wants him,” Young added. “As a backup. And so for me, if I’m Jimmy, whatever the narrative, the whispers around the league that is preventing him at a 33-14 record at not being able to be a starter in the league, something’s amiss that he needs to fix. He needs to figure it out. (I’d do a) bain study, take a $100,000 and go get a bain test study and find out what is going on. And then whatever that feedback is, go fix it “<\/p>\n

“Use this time to go re-challenge the narrative that’s out there, because if I’m Jimmy, I’m alarmed that nobody was interested in me as a starter. And so go fix that, go make that difference, because the truth is, the 49ers have already said they don’t want you as a starter. If you don’t change the music, you’re going to have the same end result.”<\/p>\n

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Young acknowledged that Garoppolo’s decision to get shoulder surgery this offseason certainly played a role in his diminishing trade market, but ultimately believes that it falls on Garoppolo himself to fix whatever it is that has teams hesitant to trade for him. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, both Garoppolo and the 49ers appear to be happy with the mutually-beneficial opportunity he has with San Francisco this season. And who knows, by mid-season, a team might finally come calling with an opportunity both Garoppolo and the team cannot refuse. <\/p>\n

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