The 49ers are taking their sweet time to do it, but head coach Kyle Shanahan made it as clear as he possibly could:
Jimmy Garoppolo is going to get shipped out of town, one way or another.
Appearing on an episode of Tim Kawakami's podcast "The TK Show," which published late Monday night, Shanahan referred to Garoppolo's Niners tenure in the past tense and unambiguously called Trey Lance the starter.
All spring and summer, there have been persistent whispers that Shanahan and general manager John Lynch were considering hanging on to Garoppolo because their confidence in Lance was shaky.