49ers GM John Lynch sounds off on Trey Lance sharing intel with the Cowboys

According to Dak Prescott, Trey Lance has helped a ton to scout his old team this week. But 49ers GM John Lynch splashed cold water on the idea Lance could offer any valid info.

“There is information you can share,” Lynch told station KNBR Friday morning. “My experience with that as a player is it tends to screw you up more than it does help you. I mean, this isn’t the Houston Astros over there banging a drum for fastballs. He can’t do that over there. And now, everything’s through the headset.

“I think the closest thing to it, back in the day, when coordinators actually used to signal things in, you could glean some things,” Lynch said. “And people did. … There was more you could glean, but I do know that playing the quarterback position, he’s probably been more privy to a lot of the scheme thoughts and all that, but I don’t think there’s a whole lot.”

Up until late August, Trey Lance was a quarterback on the 49ers roster. Up until the season of 2022, Lance also was San Fran’s quarterback of the future. But then he got hurt and Brock Purdy played well. Purdy now is the young face of the franchise. And the Cowboys traded for Lance in late August, sending the 49ers a fourth-round pick.

49ers groomed Trey Lance to be QB of their future

Lance probably won’t play this season, barring some signficiant injuries to Prescott and Cooper Rush. But may be he can prove his worth by telling what he knows.

“He’s been very helpful, honestly,” Prescott said of Lance. “Just in the way their defense can move, certain calls they may have to make if we put them in certain positions. Things you kinda see on film but getting some definitive answers from him on how they did things, he’s been very helpful.”

Cowboys offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer got all this Trey Lance chatter started on Monday, when he mentioned Dallas’ third-string QB. It’s a theme with the OC. He talked about whether former Cowboys Ezekiel Elliott and Will Grier could help the Patriots prep for the Cowboys. New England lost to Dallas, 38-3. So if Grier and Elliott did help, it backfired.

So what can Trey Lance do?

“Trey knows a little bit about what they’re doing,” Schottenheimer told reporters earlier this week “The cool thing is, like I said, the (Cowboys) know (the 49ers) well, I know them well from being in Seattle, Trey knows them well. Like last week, it’s kind of in good fun and humor. We all use pieces that we have in place, but we don’t go too far into it.

“We can know exactly what they’re going to do, because they don’t do too much, and they’re still really, really tough to go against just because they’re so talented,” Schottenheimer said. “We’ll definitely talk to Trey. He knows a lot of the pieces going against them in practice, but it doesn’t always help, as we learned (Sunday).”

The undefeated 49ers play host to the Cowboys (3-1) on Sunday Night Football.