The writing was on the wall for Trey Lance to be traded as soon as the 49ers named Sam Darnold as the backup.
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00:00 It's done, the 49ers officially have traded Trey Lance to the Dallas Cowboys for a fourth
00:06 round pick next year.
00:08 First of all, this is a great trade for the Dallas Cowboys.
00:11 Phenomenal move for Dallas.
00:14 They get a former number three pick who's improving and only 23 years old and they get
00:18 him for nothing for a fourth round pick.
00:20 This is the kind of move that Bill Walsh would do, trading for Steve Young for a fourth and
00:25 a second.
00:26 They get Trey Lance for just a fourth.
00:29 This is a savvy, savvy move, a good organization that's going to fully support Trey Lance.
00:34 Also this is a great move for Trey Lance.
00:37 He gets to go play for a head coach in Mike McCarthy who actually has developed a Hall
00:42 of Fame quarterback.
00:43 He developed Aaron Rodgers, gets to play behind a quarterback in Dak Prescott who's very expensive
00:49 and if he keeps throwing all those interceptions, Trey Lance could play sooner than later.
00:53 He gets to be in Dallas where his personal passing coach Jeff Christensen is.
00:57 Great day for Trey Lance.
00:59 Great day for the Dallas Cowboys.
01:01 Really strange bad day for the 49ers.
01:03 They eliminate a distraction that they created by making their own team worse.
01:10 I mean, they made them a distraction and they eliminate the distraction by degrading their
01:17 quarterback role.
01:18 They went from having two promising young 23 year old quarterbacks and Sam Darnold to
01:22 one promising young 23 year old quarterback and Sam Darnold.
01:25 And Sam Darnold is just a backup.
01:27 I don't give a damn what Kyle Sanahan thinks he is.
01:30 He's a backup with no future as a starter.
01:33 Maybe Brock Purdy has a future.
01:35 Trey Lance has a future.
01:36 And now the Niners only have one of them.
01:38 Oh, plus a fourth round pick that they can't use this year.
01:40 If they wanted Sam Darnold so bad, if they saw this coming, they could have just traded
01:44 Trey Lance before the draft for a pick they could use this year that actually makes them
01:48 better now.
01:49 But they didn't do that.
01:50 And so now it's official.
01:51 It's the worst trade ever.
01:54 They threw three first round picks away so they could get four games out of the guy and
01:57 trade him for a fourth round pick.
02:01 Why did it fail?
02:02 The Niners were never committed to the move.
02:04 They traded three first round picks a month before the draft and they didn't know who
02:07 they wanted.
02:08 They had no idea who they wanted.
02:09 The day before the draft, they tried to trade that number three pick to the Packers for
02:12 Aaron Rodgers.
02:13 Then they ended up taking Trey Lance.
02:15 They had no conviction in it.
02:16 They kept Jimmy Garoppolo.
02:18 And once they did that, Lance had no chance.
02:21 The team had to fully support him and the Niners never did.
02:24 And so this was a self-fulfilling prophecy that Trey Lance would fail with the 49ers.
02:30 The crazy thing is that 49ers fans loved Jimmy Garoppolo.
02:33 They didn't want to get rid of Jimmy Garoppolo.
02:35 The 49ers wanted to get rid of Jimmy Garoppolo.
02:38 They essentially sold the fans that Jimmy wasn't good enough.
02:41 The Niners needed more than a mere game manager to win the Super Bowl.
02:44 They needed someone like Josh Allen.
02:46 And so Niner fans begrudgingly accepted that.
02:50 They were patient and believed in Kyle Shanahan and said, "OK, Trey's the guy.
02:53 You picked him.
02:54 You're going to make it work."
02:55 And they were patient for two, almost three years.
02:58 And what'd they get out of it?
03:00 A fourth round pick.
03:02 All so the 49ers could pivot to Brock Purdy, who's a lot like Jimmy Garoppolo, just a lot
03:07 cheaper.
03:08 But it doesn't matter, right?
03:09 Because the 49ers are going to win the Super Bowl this year.
03:11 They have Brock "The Real Deal" Purdy.
03:13 And it doesn't matter that they just wasted three first round picks.
03:17 And it doesn't matter that Nick Bosa isn't signed.
03:20 And it doesn't matter that the Niners are getting attention for all the wrong reasons.
03:24 They're going to win the Super Bowl this year, right?
03:25 And all will be forgiven.
03:28 Well, they freaking better win the Super Bowl this year.
03:32 Otherwise, someone's going to have to answer for the worst trade-up in the history of the
03:38 NFL.
03:40 Terrible day for the 49ers.
03:45 (upbeat music)