After 49ers general manager John Lynch liked a tweet that ridiculed quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo last week, coach Kyle Shanahan said he knew Lynch must've done so accidentally.
Following the Niners' 20–17 loss to the Titans on Dec. 23, a tweet that said "Leave Jimmy in Nashville" went viral after Lynch liked it on Twitter. But Shanahan said he didn't buy it from the start.
“I think everyone in this building knows John pretty well,” Shanahan told the San Francisco Chronicle on Monday. “And as soon as you read a tweet like that, I don’t think one person who knows John thinks that he did that.