It wouldn't be a 49ers press conference without some quarterback talk.

On Wednesday, much of that talk concerned quarterbacks who are no longer members of the Niners as Kyle Shanahan was asked about recent remarks from Trey Lance and Jimmy Garoppolo.

Lance, who was last week traded to the Cowboys in exchange for a fourth-round pick, was open in explaining that his 49ers tenure did not go "how I expected it to go" after being picked third overall in 2021. Meanwhile, in a recent interview with Sports Illustrated, Garoppolo described the Lance trade as one of several "weird situations" with the Niners and labeled San Francisco's handling of those situations as "messy".

Shanahan had hugely contrasting responses to his respective former quarterbacks.

Of Lance, he said:

"I did see Trey, I was watching him actually while I was eating lunch with his press conference in Dallas. Trey is as real as it gets. That's how he talks in here, that's how he is every day. It's cool to see him handle that the right way, he did seem genuinely kind of happy and I feel he's in a good position to move on and be better there."

But the tone changed when it came to Garoppolo.

"Jimmy, the comments are the comments. Really not concerned about his comments," added Shanahan.

Things got terse when he was pressed on the Garoppolo remarks, with Shanahan rejecting the assessment of his former signal-caller.

"Anytime you trade up to third pick and it doesn’t work out, it’s a weird situation," he said. "But that’s the situation. That’s what happened. I don’t think it’s weird. It’s unusual it doesn’t work out."

Expanding and essentially summing up the 49ers' rollercoaster at quarterback since his tenure began in 2017, Shanahan said:

"We waited 10 weeks. Made a trade for a quarterback (Garoppolo). He played five games and then we made him the highest-paid quarterback of all time, at the time. Then he played two of the next five years and did really good in those two years. His injuries for three of those five years were legit. It was rough on him, rough on us. Then we made a move to go to a younger quarterback (Lance). We thought he would be ready in two years and he wasn’t. And now we have a different younger quarterback. So, that’s the situation."

The 49ers, with Brock Purdy having quickly recovered from his own injury suffered in last season's NFC Championship Game, are hopeful they are now off the rollercoaster at the game's most important position.

Shanahan's lack of desire to re-litigate what has happened in recent years is, from that perspective, understandable. The Niners owe much to Garoppolo following their success since 2019, but their wish to no longer think about him, his previous injury problems or, in this case, his opinions could not be more apparent.

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