If you can't join 'em, slam 'em.
That seems to be the mantra of former NFL quarterback Jeff Garcia, who lobbied hard during the offseason to become the San Francisco 49ers quarterbacks coach or at least work with current San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick before the start of OTAs.
Jeff Garcia lobbies for 49ers QBs coaching position so he can help Colin Kaepernick
Neither happened - new 49ers coach Jim Tomsula hired former East Carolina coach Steve Logan to mentor Kaepernick during the season, and the quarterback opted to work with two-time NFL MVP Kurt Warner and EXOS Performance during the 10 weeks he had after the season ended.
But rather than bide his time with the current 49ers regime, Garcia has chosen to burn that bridge as far as any future employment opportunities.
Jeff Garcia lobbies to work with quarterback Colin Kaepernick in the offseason
According to the Eureka Times-Standard, Garcia called into question the 49ers offseason moves, beginning with the divorce with highly successful coach Jim Harbaugh.
"It's unfortunate because you look at a team that was highly competitive, that was on the cusp, that went to a Super Bowl, that was a play away from winning a Super Bowl, that was a play away from going to another Super Bowl. And now, where are they going to be?" Garcia asked during an interview with the newspaper.
"As a fan you have to really look at the management of the organization and the decisions that they've made for that team. Sometimes what I see ... is you have a lot of personnel that are in positions of power that don't have real football backgrounds. I'm not saying that's Trent Baalke, but I'd like to see what his background is, and what gives him the true power to make those sort of decisions. ... We know that Jed York never played football."
Garcia compared the 49ers' current situation with that of 2002 when he was quarterback and the organization fired coach Steve Mariucci despite a 10-6 season and a second-round playoff exit.
"I see a lot of similarities," Garcia said of the Harbaugh and Mariucci dismissals. "Mariucci went through a situation where he had an older football team, had to turn over a lot of players. All of a sudden we were a playoff team again. "Went to back-to-back playoff years. Get into the second round, lose to eventual Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay, and then they fire him. There were a lot of questions as to why."
He said Mariucci's relationship with then-GM Terry Donahue and owner Dr. John York (Jed's father) led to Mariucci's exit that start a playoff drought in San Francisco that lasted until Harbaugh arrived.
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