49ers QB Jimmy Garoppolo admits that George Kittle is right - he is a terrible texter
Chances are you have that friend who stinks at texting. You send them a quick note or question that should only take a second to respond to but then it can be hours or - gasp! - days before you hear back from them.
For me, that's my dad. He tries to get in the text game but his response rate is far from acceptable.
For San Francisco 49ers star tight end George Kittle, that person is Jimmy Garoppolo, his quarterback.
Kittle had some fun in Miami earlier this week by calling Jimmy G "the worst texter of all time."
"I'm telling you, he leaves me on 'Read' all the time. I'll be like 'Hey Jimmy, I've got a question. Maybe on this play, should I run my route like this?' No Response. 'Jimmy, want to go to a movie?' No response. And then next day he's like 'Yeah, I got your text. I just didn't respond.' Thanks, Jim. That's awesome. So yeah, he's a bad texter. Bad communication."
Well, being the serious journalist that I am, I asked Jimmy G about this on Wednesday.
And he admitted it: he really is a terrible texter.
Here's Jimmy G coming clean to me about his text struggles:
"That's very true. That is very true," Garoppolo said. He did push back on Kittle's critique a little bit, though.
"There's an asterisk around there," Garoppolo said. "I will get back to him most of the time, it just happens three hours later than when he texted me. I don't know, I'm just bad at it man. I'll look at my phone and say 'all right I'll text you in two minutes," put it down and then the next day comes and I'm like 'damn.'
"He keeps me honest about it."
We all can't be perfect, I guess.