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All the leadership we’ve wanted from a quarterback.
One of the many subjects for the week leading up to the San Francisco 49ers and the Minnesota Vikings has been the quarterback comparisons, and it’s a good comparison. Both the 49ers’ Jimmy Garoppolo and Vikings’ Kirk Cousins have very similar stats, although their win totals are different. Cousins finally led the Vikings back to a hard-fought victory against the Saints and had the Vikings supporting him in the locker room.
Meanwhile, Jimmy Garoppolo has come back in several games (albeit not as major as a wild card playoff game) and displayed how this is his team.
But this isn’t about what the quarterbacks do on the field but off it. And while we’ll save what Kirk Cousins does with his Vikings teammates for another day, Tim Kawakami wrote an article in The Athletic talking about Jimmy Garoppolo’s leadership ability.
The big thing to note from Kawakami is there are coaches meetings (required) and then Garoppolo meetings (not required). Garoppolo would hold meetings on Saturdays with the team to go over the gameplan on Sunday:
“Saturday night before the game, he has his own meeting, which we don’t have to do as a team because it’s not on the schedule,” Sanders said. “But we all meet at a specific time in which he orchestrates the whole meeting to get us going.
“We go over practice or certain stuff that he feels how we can
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