49ers’ QB situation couldn’t be more chaotic

The 49ers’ quarterback quandary-slash-quagmire: So many questions, so few answers.

With all due disrespect to the Cleveland Browns, does any NFL team have a quarterback situation as muddled as the 49ers’? How about among allegedly playoff-caliber teams?

Can we blame it all on Bill Belichick? Surely he realized Jimmy Garoppolo was not going to be the next Tom Brady, right?

Could Kyle Shanahan really be considering putting his team through another Plan B season, wasting an elite roster by trotting out a mediocre quarterback he doesn’t trust?

If Trey Lance can learn to be a really good NFL quarterback by watching from the sideline, does that mean that James Wiseman, once his knee is better, will step in immediately as a kick-ass rotation player for the Warriors?

Are the 49ers shopping the wrong quarterback? If Shanahan was disappointed with Lance’s progress last year and is no longer high on the lad’s potential, why not trade him ?Is it because Lance would have zero trade value, since the rest of the league now knows that Shanahan realized he made a draft mistake?

Will Shanahan announce that there will be an open competition for the starting job in training camp and preseason? If so, should we just start hitting ourselves in the head with a hammer right now? What might have happened if Shanahan had started Lance in the last two playoff games, at Green Bay and Los Angeles? What QB heroics did we miss out on?

If it turns out that the 49ers have spent huge money and high draft picks on two untried mystery quarterbacks, and both turn out to be mediocre (or worse) and without trade value, how many people’s jobs are in jeopardy?

If the 49ers cut Garoppolo and he is a free agent, who gets picked up first — Garoppolo or Colin Kaepernick?

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