Originally posted by 49ers81:
And on whose time are we going to do that? Trent Williams whose what, 35? George Kittle, who will soon be 30. How long would it take him to get those 1500 pass attempts in the NFL three years? With two games left in the season Mahomes has 580 attempts. So is it your contention that the team should just wait around for two and a half years while Lance learns on the job? Lance's problem, and by extension, the 49ers, is that they have a roster that is built to win now. Purdy has come in and shown that, so far, he as what it takes to run the offense. He is efficient, mobile, aggressive with the ball down field and helps the team put points on the board.
At this stage of their careers in what faction of the game has Lance demonstrated that he is observably better except as a nose down runner? While he certainly has gained more yards running than Purdy he is not particularly elusive or quick. He is larger and stronger but I don't see that as a benefit for anything other than taking a dive into the line. I suspect a lot of those yards also came on plays where he broke out of the pocket on a pass that broke down, part of his 54.9 completion %. But I have also seen him get stoned on several runs where he was trying to get to the sticks with only a yard to go.
I remember one play where he was going around the edge on third down and ran out of bounds a half yard short of the sticks as opposed to that play by Purdy where he slid under a tackler, extended the ball, and got the first down with damaged ribs and a partially torn oblique muscle. There was also a play against Seattle I think where Purdy was rolling out after the snap and fell down. Fell down! But still had the presence of mind to get up and complete a pass for positive yards. Jimmy never makes that play and I seriously doubt Lance would make it simply because he isn't as nimble or quick footed as Purdy.
As a passer? Here are there stat lines so far.
Lance 8 games
Passing 102 Atts. 54.9% Comp 797 YDs. 7.8 Avg. 5 TDs 3 Int. 84,5 rating / Rushing 54 Atts. 235 Yds 4.4 Avg. 1 TD
Purdy 7 games
115 Atts. 67% Comp. 912 Yds. 7.9 Avg 8 TDS 3 Ints. 103.2 Rating / Rushing 16 Atts. 9 YDS .06 Avg. 1 TD
Regardless of what happens the rest of this year Lance is facing an uphill climb going into camp next season. About the only way he wins that job is if Shanahan and Lynch hand it to him again like they did this year. If it is really an open competition I don't see how he comes out on top quite frankly. Time will tell though I guess.
That decision (on whose time) was made when he was drafted…if you can't handle that then I don't know what to tell ya. Those dudes are all in the early stages of making top money. They ain't going anywhere and IMO this regime clearly knows how to make a roster and should continue to do such.
8 games lol? What are you even talking about random given plays on any given week? Same with Brock. In no objective world should you be tossing out those types of stats UNLESS you're trying to put out some confirmation bias.
I'm not arguing stats and we all can see that Brock has played better…no one is debating that. He also showed up with 1,500 passing attempts and 4 yrs starting. That's 5xs more attempts than Lance had. So yeah I'm not shocked that he looks more prepared right now, that's what I've been f**king saying since lance was taken…he NEEDS live reps to get better.
Whatever kyle and Lynch do next yr, I support. That's also discussions for next yr.
why can't we discuss the game right now? Do you think our offense was amazing this weekend? Let's talk about it…thank god for those explosives because I thought we stunk in the red zone. I thought we let DC hang in for way too long.