So the latest whirl of the Santa Clara GTFO Wheel has landed on Paraag Marathe, long believed to be Jed York’s closest confidante and most powerful underling.
Nobody seems to know why, whether there was one smoking gun or a series of missteps or a power play from inside the big cheese floor, or just Jed’s diminishing tolerance rearing its misshapen head yet again, but Marathe’s ouster means that the two most powerful 49er executives not named or related to York are now Al Guido, a business-side guy, and general manager Trent Baalke.
Suggestions that Marathe’s demotion/dismissal came as a result of a series of leaks to national football writers discrediting or demeaning Colin Kaepernick are being made, and that might well be so.