Paraag Marathe did the negotiating, went through the paperwork, batted around the numbers and obviously felt pretty good when Jimmy Garoppolo was finally signed for $137.5 million and announcing it at today’s press conference.



General manager John Lynch was in charge of the talks generally, Jed York is the owner who has to approve huge expenditures and Kyle Shanahan was the guy who decided that Garoppolo was worth all the money.



But the guy doing the actual work on the deal was Marathe, as he has for years with the 49ers.



Marathe almost never speaks publicly, so it was significant that he stayed around afterwards to take some questions about the negotiations, the state of the team, and how things have developed a year after Jed York’s big 49ers reset last year.



I asked many but not all of these questions. Here’s the transcript:



Obviously these deals are complicated and take time. When did you really know this deal was going...