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SPORTS Wednesday 10 July 2019
Garoppolo goes to QB summer

school before training camp

By JOSH DUBOW games all last season be- overhauled group of re-
AP Pro Football Writer fore tearing his ACL and ceivers, including second-
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — has just 10 career starts in round receiver Deebo
Jimmy Garoppolo is going five NFL seasons. Samuel, third-rounder Jalen
to summer school before Garoppolo showed plenty Hurd and veteran Jordan
starting training camp with of promise after arriving in Matthews.
the San Francisco 49ers. San Francisco in a trade San Francisco also signed
Garoppolo is spending part with the Patriots midway running back Tevin Cole-
of his down time between through the 2017 season. man and will have a
the end of minicamp and He stepped in after a few healthy Jerick McKinnon
the start of training camp weeks and won all five after last year’s big free- In this June 10, 2019, file photo, San Francisco 49ers quarterback
on July 27 working in South- starts, earning a five-year, agent acquisition missed all Jimmy Garoppolo throws a pass during a drill at the team’s NFL
ern California with quarter- $137.5 million contract to of 2018 with a major knee football training facility in Santa Clara, Calif.
back guru Tom House. stay off the free-agent mar- injury. Associated Press
House is a former major ket. Garoppolo completed Some of those players are mannerisms, what mo- experience and practice
league pitcher and pitch- less than 60 percent of his spending time with Garop- tivates them, all those reps. A guy can be last on
ing coach perhaps most passes in his three starts last polo this summer and he things,” Garoppolo said. the totem pole but if he
famous for catching Hank season and saw his yards plans to get a big group “There’s a million different starts making plays day af-
Aaron’s record-breaking per attempt drop, while his together in Santa Clara things that go into it. It’s ex- ter day he can move up
715th career homer in the sack and interception rates before the start of training citing. This time of year, with quickly. That’s kind of the
Atlanta Braves bullpen in went up. camp in order to build up only a couple of weeks un- nature of the beast when
1974. But in recent years, Now the Niners hope he a rapport as quickly as pos- til training camp, it’s grind it comes to football. But
House has run a quarter- can regain his form from sible. time. that’s the exciting part of
back academy in Hunting- 2017 with help from an “I’m trying to pick up their “Chemistry comes with it.”q
ton Beach called 3DQB
where he helps passers
refine their throwing me-
chanics.
House has worked with sev-
eral star quarterbacks over
the years, including Tom
Brady, Drew Brees, Matt
Ryan and Carson Palmer.
Garoppolo met House dur-
ing his time in New England
as Brady’s teammate on
the Patriots and has been
spending time working on
his mechanics all offseason
as he comes back from
season-ending knee sur-
gery.
“We’re trying to implement
drills as close to game-like
situations as you could get
to,” Garoppolo said in a
phone interview last week.
“At the same time, we’re
sticking to mechanics and
the basics. That’s what
quarterbacking comes
down to. You have to be
really good with the ba-
sics and do them over and
over again. It’s good to get
someone with as much ex-
perience as Tom.
“It’s nice to have him see
you throw and see if he
has any little things to fix up
or anything you haven’t
thought about that he
thinks can help you. Quar-
terback is a very unique
position and a lot goes into
it. There are a lot of moving
pieces.”
The extra work this offsea-
son is important for Garop-
polo, who played just three