Report: 49ers Exploring Options With Trey Lance; Sam Darnold Named the Backup
The 49ers have reportedly named Sam Darnold as the No. 2 quarterback, while Trey Lance will potentially be traded.
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00:00 This is a bombshell.
00:01 The 49ers have made it official.
00:03 Sam Darnold is the number two quarterback and that means Trey Lance is the number three
00:08 quarterback which means the team reportedly is exploring its options with Trey Lance.
00:14 Which the options are what?
00:15 Trade him for nothing or cut him?
00:17 And this comes from the NFL Network's Tom Pelisero and Ian Rappaport.
00:20 Which means it's probably coming from the 49ers.
00:24 I'm surprised.
00:25 I was at every practice.
00:26 I felt Trey Lance is better.
00:27 You watched the preseason games.
00:28 What did you think?
00:29 Well, apparently the Niners thought Sam Darnold is better and that's fine.
00:33 I mean look, Kyle Sanahan, he's a genius and an expert and a gentleman.
00:36 It would just be great if he could explain this to us.
00:39 I mean you drafted Trey Lance.
00:41 You're giving up on him while he's making improvements.
00:43 So for Sam Darnold, can you explain what we're not seeing with Sam Darnold?
00:47 Like yesterday, for example, we asked Kyle Sanahan, are you going to name a backup quarterback
00:54 before week one?
00:55 And he said yeah, maybe 90 minutes before.
00:58 And then we asked, is it possible that both Trey Lance and Sam Darnold could be the number
01:01 two quarterback at times this year?
01:02 And he said yes, absolutely.
01:04 What he could have done was tell us what's going on.
01:07 Like hey, actually, Sam Darnold is the backup quarterback.
01:13 I've made up my mind and here's why.
01:15 Here is the reason behind my decision.
01:18 I made a decision.
01:20 Here's the reason.
01:21 But he just pretended like he didn't make a decision and didn't help us at all.
01:25 So okay, we'll talk to him today, right?
01:26 And he'll explain.
01:27 He doesn't talk today.
01:29 The Office of Line Coach talks instead.
01:30 I don't know.
01:31 It's not that he, it's not just that he owes us an explanation, which he does.
01:35 It's that it would, it would make people more confident in his decision if he would explain
01:39 it.
01:40 Why don't you stand there in front of everyone and say it with your chest that Sam Darnold
01:46 is really good and better than Trey Lance and here's why.
01:51 Explain it.
01:52 Don't run from it.
01:53 I haven't made it my decision, but I'll let Ian Rappaport say the next day that I did.
01:56 I made a decision and here's why.
01:57 Is that so much to ask?
02:00 Because no one else sees it for Sam Darnold.
02:03 It's just Kyle.
02:04 And the fact that Kyle Shanahan won't publicly say that Sam Darnold's the backup quarterback
02:10 makes me feel like he's ashamed to feel that way.
02:13 Like you know, he knows he has a minority opinion on one quarterback and he's afraid
02:20 to say publicly how he feels about it.
02:23 Just say, just say that you're the biggest Sam Darnold fan in the world.
02:27 You're a Sam Darnold enthusiast.
02:29 You've liked him since he came out of college.
02:32 That every, all the bad things he's done in the NFL, you're writing off because he was
02:36 on other teams and you think you can save him.
02:40 Just say that.
02:42 Don't say you haven't made up your mind and Trey could go.
02:45 Anyway, what do I think's going to happen with Trey?
02:47 I think some really smart team is going to call up the Niners and offer a fifth round
02:52 pick and get a really talented 23-year-old former number three pick for nothing.
02:58 Right when he's starting to improve.
02:59 That's what I think a smart team's going to do.
03:02 Call up the Niners, offer them next to nothing for a really talented quarterback.
03:07 The Niners don't know what to do with it.
03:08 That's my prediction.
03:10 And this story with Trey Lance is only getting started for the 49ers because once he works
03:14 out somewhere else, then they're really going to look bad.
03:18 Unless Brock Purdy is the real deal Holyfield.
03:21 We'll see.
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