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The San Francisco 49ers made explicit plans last summer to move on from the game-management era. Kyle Shanahan named 2021 first-round draft pick Trey Lance the starter in July. Garoppolo had already said his goodbye, ready to take on the next chapter of his NFL career ahead of an anticipated offseason trade.
But things changed starting in the preseason. A trade didn't transpire. Garoppolo got a new deal. Then Lance got hurt in Week 2. Now, 12 weeks into the NFL season, Garoppolo is in the midst of the best campaign of his career for a 49ers team that sits atop the NFC West at 7-4. After a four-game winning streak, the 49ers have caught up with the Philadelphia Eagles as co-favorites to represent the NFC in the Super Bowl.
Is Jimmy Garoppolo's return a blessing in disguise?
The surge begs the question: Can the 49ers get to the Super Bowl this season with Garoppolo at quarterback? And if they get there, can they win? More than one statistical measure suggests that Garoppolo isn't the same quarterback whose mistakes proved critical in losses in Super Bowl LIV and last season's NFC championship game.
His effort adds up to a career-best 103 quarterback rating that ranks as the fifth best in football behind Tua Tagovailoa, Geno Smith, Jalen Hurts and Patrick Mahomes. Advanced metrics confirm his improved play.
What the advanced stats say about Garoppolo
Football Outsiders' DVOA (Defense-adjusted Value Over Average) metric analyzes gains based on specific football situations. The formula is complicated, but the concept is simple. It places higher value on yards gained that are theoretically harder to obtain. It takes into consideration — among other things — down and distance, placement on the field, such as a goal-line situation, and the strength of opposing defenses. It then assigns a percentage compared to the average NFL performance.
Does this mean that Garoppolo's a top-three quarterback? Of course not. It's just one more tool to measure a player's performance. Nobody's mistaking Garoppolo for an MVP candidate. But he doesn't have to be. The 49ers offense is built around Garoppolo getting the ball into the hands of his playmakers and letting them take things from there. The 49ers have some of the best playmakers in the league.
Will Garoppolo revert to mistakes of the past?
In short, Garoppolo doesn't have to throw the ball like Mahomes or Tagovailoa. He doesn't need to be as dynamic as Hurts or Josh Allen. For San Francisco to succeed, he needs to run the offense efficiently and keep it moving in close games. This means avoiding the game-crippling mistakes that have frequently been his downfall.
He hasn't completely eliminated those issues in 2022. Garoppolo threw two interceptions and failed to move the 49ers offense into scoring position after halftime in a 28-14 loss to Atlanta Falcons in Week 6. But that effort marks the exception rather than the norm for Garoppolo in 2022. Since an interception in a Week 7 loss to Mahomes and the Chiefs, Garoppolo's played four straight games without a turnover. San Francisco's won each of those games. His interception rate this season is a career-low 1.3%, good for fifth in the NFL. His previous best rate as a starter was 2.9% last season that ranked 26th.
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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