QB Brock Purdy Thread

Originally posted by CatchMaster80:

Originally posted by 49ersRing:
They should just put him on IR and shut him down for the season so that he can heal from this injury. Asking him to go out there and play effectively while he's in unimaginable levels of pain and unable to throw using his normal mechanics is going to mess him up for the longterm and not likely to result in good QBing.

If the injury was that bad I'm sure they would but he was able to play.

I hate to say this because I think Brock is a pretty good QB but the excuses are starting to sound like what we heard when JG started having problems.

All I'm saying is let's think of this rationally.

I went back to look at Purdy's throws from the Seattle game - arguably a better defense than the one he went against vs the Jags. Before his injury towards the end of the first half. There wasn't a single throw he missed outside of one where he made a jump pass.

So wtf happened? He got so rusty in 2 weeks that he forgot how to throw accurate footballs? Maybe...

I would tend to think the injury messed with his accuracy but you and others are free to believe whatever. But I dare anyone to go back to that Seattle game and show me a similar miss that we saw happen way too often vs the Jags.

Originally posted by genus49:
Bro are you for real? Rams literally have the least $ on the injury list in the league.

They got 2 guys on IR and it's Ahkello Witherspoon and a backup linebacker who has 1 start in his 4 year career.

How do you think it would be for Stafford if he was missing Puca, Adams banged up and missing all of training camp. Higbee(who is in no way as good as Kittle) out. Atwell out, Whittington out..etc.

No in the least bit comparable.

Which has absolutely nothing to do with what I said. His back is f**ked and his OL is dogs**t all the same. You act like CMC, Ricky and JJ are awful?

reading the field and throwing the ball accurately is a QB trait, not a WR trait. Brock has taken steps back in both of those over the course of the last yr +… he's gotta get back on track OR all the talk about him being a QB who just played well because he had and amazing cast around him had more truth to it then a lot of 49er fans were willing to admit.

Originally posted by NYniner85:

Originally posted by genus49:
Bro are you for real? Rams literally have the least $ on the injury list in the league.

They got 2 guys on IR and it's Ahkello Witherspoon and a backup linebacker who has 1 start in his 4 year career.

How do you think it would be for Stafford if he was missing Puca, Adams banged up and missing all of training camp. Higbee(who is in no way as good as Kittle) out. Atwell out, Whittington out..etc.

No in the least bit comparable.

Which has absolutely nothing to do with what I said. His back is f**ked and his OL is dogs**t all the same. You act like CMC, Ricky and JJ are awful?

reading the field and throwing the ball accurately is a QB trait, not a WR trait. Brock has taken steps back in both of those over the course of the last yr +… he's gotta get back on track OR all the talk about him being a QB who just played well because he had and amazing cast around him had more truth to it then a lot of 49er fans were willing to admit.

I'm acting like CMC and the running game are getting 3.2 YPC. Rams are averaging 4.9 YPC. That's a pretty substantial difference in how the run game can protect and help the QB.

Ricky and JJ aren't awful but JJ has been dealing with s**t since training camp. Ricky wasn't available late in that game, who knows how having him out there impacts the result. But Ricky and JJ aren't friggin Puca and Adams. Completely different level of support. That's not even getting into the other WRs.

I had more of an issue with Brock's decision making in the Seattle game than this last one. The throw to CMC was the right decision. The second interception less so but we also don't know if that ball isn't tipped if he can get it to Jennings(i think it was him)

The issue was his accuracy and like I said above...he was a totally different QB accuracy and ball placement wise vs Seattle. So what do we think the difference was? Rust? Or...

Originally posted by NYniner85:

Originally posted by dj43:

Originally posted by CatchMaster80:

Originally posted by dj43:

Originally posted by NYniner85:

dude was running around and moving all game, we gotta stop with the well he doesn't feel 100% so he can't be good stuff. It's the NFL and there isn't gonna be any point here they're 100%.

we shouldn't have to dig through the weeds to find any excuse possible outside of the easiest explanation in that he simply missed it.

Not all injuries are equal. In the case of a quarterback, the inability to properly transfer their weight to the front foot limits the follow-thru and subsequent ball placement. He can live with a sore left shoulder but not something that directly impacts the most important thing he does. Running isn't the same as throwing it.

QBs have to learn to live with injuries. Very few are in perfect health after a couple games. They get stepped on. They bang their hand on helmets. Their ribs get hurt. Stafford is playing with a back issue. He played several years on a bad Lions team. I'm sure he had a lot of injuries during those years.

As I said, different injuries affect players differently. Some are only an unpleasant nuisance while others are critical. In the present case, the toe injury was projected to keep him OUT for 4+ weeks. It is only logical that it has impacted his throwing motion as well as pain.

Knowing what we know about that particular injury, I just hope the reoccurrence of pain does not mean he has aggravated it to the point it will be a problem all year.

I posited earlier in this thread that if Mac had been fully healthy, Purdy would not have played. We will never know but I hope more damage has not been done.

If he can't make those throws because of a toe injury then maybe stop trying to layer it 15+ yards downfield or between 3 defenders, make the easy play? Play smart. IMO I don't think it was his foot because it wasn't just a s**t ton of bad throws.

Also It wasn't just inaccuracy, it was bad reads. That has nothing to do with your foot.

Guys are hurt all over the place and still playing at a high level. Warner was playing with a fractured ankle all last yr. Kittle is never 100% and still plays well.

it sucks that I've almost come to expect bad football when there's a 2-3 min drive left to win it from him

Warner was a shell of himself last year after the ankle injury. He was on a DPOY track before the injury.

As for the last part, that's a little silly since Brock already has 1.5 game winning drives in 2 games this season and that's while dealing with an extremely painful and debilitating injury.

Originally posted by NYniner85:

Originally posted by 9erson3:
Matt Stafford playing with a messed up back. Wasn't even sure he could start the season? Did it miraculously go away?

Messed up back and one of the worst OLs in football….I don't hear about excuses for him

Their #3 WR would be our #1 based on injuries. Their running backs are averaging 4.6 yards per carry and ours are averaging 3.5 per carry.

You dont hear excuses for him because he is playing in a much better situation than Brock is currently. But you know this.

Originally posted by CatchMaster80:

Originally posted by 49ersRing:
They should just put him on IR and shut him down for the season so that he can heal from this injury. Asking him to go out there and play effectively while he's in unimaginable levels of pain and unable to throw using his normal mechanics is going to mess him up for the longterm and not likely to result in good QBing.

If the injury was that bad I'm sure they would but he was able to play.

I hate to say this because I think Brock is a pretty good QB but the excuses are starting to sound like what we heard when JG started having problems.

Brock has played at an MVP level before, and Jimmy was getting the excuses from the jump. Grand Canyon sized difference.

Originally posted by SteveWallacesHelmet:

Originally posted by NYniner85:

Originally posted by 9erson3:
Matt Stafford playing with a messed up back. Wasn't even sure he could start the season? Did it miraculously go away?

Messed up back and one of the worst OLs in football….I don't hear about excuses for him

Their #3 WR would be our #1 based on injuries. Their running backs are averaging 4.6 yards per carry and ours are averaging 3.5 per carry.

You dont hear excuses for him because he is playing in a much better situation than Brock is currently. But you know this.

Staff a HALL OF FAMER...

The Rams has the better HC. ..

We could have signed (WR) Adams but did not because Shanny continues to try and show that he can make any offensive player look good under his system..

Bourne was never much of a player, not sure why he's still in the league.. OBJ would have been a better pick up because of what he's trying to prove by the time his career ends.

SHANNY JUST CAN'T GET IT.

Originally posted by genus49:

Originally posted by CatchMaster80:

Originally posted by 49ersRing:
They should just put him on IR and shut him down for the season so that he can heal from this injury. Asking him to go out there and play effectively while he's in unimaginable levels of pain and unable to throw using his normal mechanics is going to mess him up for the longterm and not likely to result in good QBing.

If the injury was that bad I'm sure they would but he was able to play.

I hate to say this because I think Brock is a pretty good QB but the excuses are starting to sound like what we heard when JG started having problems.

All I'm saying is let's think of this rationally.

I went back to look at Purdy's throws from the Seattle game - arguably a better defense than the one he went against vs the Jags. Before his injury towards the end of the first half. There wasn't a single throw he missed outside of one where he made a jump pass.

So wtf happened? He got so rusty in 2 weeks that he forgot how to throw accurate footballs? Maybe...

I would tend to think the injury messed with his accuracy but you and others are free to believe whatever. But I dare anyone to go back to that Seattle game and show me a similar miss that we saw happen way too often vs the Jags.

The beginnings of both games he was pretty much playing out of his mind. People are just forgetting because we didn't come away with points.

It may be that the toe starts bothering him more later in the game.

I find it unlikely the traits that made him a really good QB, processing speed, footwork, shuttle speed, and accuracy he just all of a sudden lost since the SB.

Originally posted by NYniner85:

Originally posted by genus49:
Bro are you for real? Rams literally have the least $ on the injury list in the league.

They got 2 guys on IR and it's Ahkello Witherspoon and a backup linebacker who has 1 start in his 4 year career.

How do you think it would be for Stafford if he was missing Puca, Adams banged up and missing all of training camp. Higbee(who is in no way as good as Kittle) out. Atwell out, Whittington out..etc.

No in the least bit comparable.

Which has absolutely nothing to do with what I said. His back is f**ked and his OL is dogs**t all the same. You act like CMC, Ricky and JJ are awful?

reading the field and throwing the ball accurately is a QB trait, not a WR trait. Brock has taken steps back in both of those over the course of the last yr +… he's gotta get back on track OR all the talk about him being a QB who just played well because he had and amazing cast around him had more truth to it then a lot of 49er fans were willing to admit.

More Nick Wright-esque talking points....

You are better than this.

Originally posted by genus49:
I'm acting like CMC and the running game are getting 3.2 YPC. Rams are averaging 4.9 YPC. That's a pretty substantial difference in how the run game can protect and help the QB.

Ricky and JJ aren't awful but JJ has been dealing with s**t since training camp. Ricky wasn't available late in that game, who knows how having him out there impacts the result. But Ricky and JJ aren't friggin Puca and Adams. Completely different level of support. That's not even getting into the other WRs.

I had more of an issue with Brock's decision making in the Seattle game than this last one. The throw to CMC was the right decision. The second interception less so but we also don't know if that ball isn't tipped if he can get it to Jennings(i think it was him)

The issue was his accuracy and like I said above...he was a totally different QB accuracy and ball placement wise vs Seattle. So what do we think the difference was? Rust? Or...

Again, it's everything else around Brock besides his own damn play lol. We had damn near the same WRs for 80% of the season thus far (plus Robinson this game) and it wasn't that bad. McCorkle did fine with less practice time with them.

How was that throw to CMC the right one? He had two check downs sitting right there.


It's one thing of play hero ball on 3rd down…but once again he's turning the ball over on 1st downs. Come on man.

IF it's his toe or whatever, which I'm not buying because he made some good throws all the same. Stop trying to make ridiculous layered throws and tossing the ball between 3 defenders knowing you can't accurately throw the football.

If you for no problem giving him all the praise and money when s**t is good, you should be able to criticize him when he's not playing well and s**t isn't good. He HAS to play better if this team is gonna go to the playoffs, period.

Originally posted by 9moon:

Originally posted by SteveWallacesHelmet:

Originally posted by NYniner85:

Originally posted by 9erson3:
Matt Stafford playing with a messed up back. Wasn't even sure he could start the season? Did it miraculously go away?

Messed up back and one of the worst OLs in football….I don't hear about excuses for him

Their #3 WR would be our #1 based on injuries. Their running backs are averaging 4.6 yards per carry and ours are averaging 3.5 per carry.

You dont hear excuses for him because he is playing in a much better situation than Brock is currently. But you know this.

Staff a HALL OF FAMER...

The Rams has the better HC. ..

We could have signed (WR) Adams but did not because Shanny continues to try and show that he can make any offensive player look good under his system..

Bourne was never much of a player, not sure why he's still in the league.. OBJ would have been a better pick up because of what he's trying to prove by the time his career ends.

SHANNY JUST CAN'T GET IT.

I disagree with this but I can get behind the rest of your post.

Originally posted by NYniner85:
Again, it's everything else around Brock besides his own damn play lol. We had damn near the same WRs for 80% of the season thus far (plus Robinson this game) and it wasn't that bad. McCorkle did fine with less practice time with them.

How was that throw to CMC the right one? He had two check downs sitting right there.

Two check downs open but we trying play hero ball. Get this s**t outta your system and lock in pic.twitter.com/43p1ge7jGM

— Rich (@richjmadrid) September 28, 2025

It's one thing of play hero ball on 3rd down…but once again he's turning the ball over on 1st downs. Come on man.

IF it's his toe or whatever, which I'm not buying because he made some good throws all the same. Stop trying to make ridiculous layered throws and tossing the ball between 3 defenders knowing you can't accurately throw the football.

If you for no problem giving him all the praise and money when s**t is good, you should be able to criticize him when he's not playing well and s**t isn't good. He HAS to play better if this team is gonna go to the playoffs, period.

If Purdy connects on that throw, CMC is gone. Timing was off and he was about to get clobbered. Nothing wrong with this play.

Originally posted by NYniner85:

Originally posted by genus49:

I'm acting like CMC and the running game are getting 3.2 YPC. Rams are averaging 4.9 YPC. That's a pretty substantial difference in how the run game can protect and help the QB.

Ricky and JJ aren't awful but JJ has been dealing with s**t since training camp. Ricky wasn't available late in that game, who knows how having him out there impacts the result. But Ricky and JJ aren't friggin Puca and Adams. Completely different level of support. That's not even getting into the other WRs.

I had more of an issue with Brock's decision making in the Seattle game than this last one. The throw to CMC was the right decision. The second interception less so but we also don't know if that ball isn't tipped if he can get it to Jennings(i think it was him)

The issue was his accuracy and like I said above...he was a totally different QB accuracy and ball placement wise vs Seattle. So what do we think the difference was? Rust? Or...

Again, it's everything else around Brock besides his own damn play lol. We had damn near the same WRs for 80% of the season thus far (plus Robinson this game) and it wasn't that bad. McCorkle did fine with less practice time with them.

How was that throw to CMC the right one? He had two check downs sitting right there.

Two check downs open but we trying play hero ball. Get this s**t outta your system and lock in pic.twitter.com/43p1ge7jGM

— Rich (@richjmadrid) September 28, 2025

It's one thing of play hero ball on 3rd down…but once again he's turning the ball over on 1st downs. Come on man.

IF it's his toe or whatever, which I'm not buying because he made some good throws all the same. Stop trying to make ridiculous layered throws and tossing the ball between 3 defenders knowing you can't accurately throw the football.

If you for no problem giving him all the praise and money when s**t is good, you should be able to criticize him when he's not playing well and s**t isn't good. He HAS to play better if this team is gonna go to the playoffs, period.

Can you not tell the play is literally designed to hit CMC? The checkdowns are there, but if there's no pressure he's clearly supposed to wait for CMC to leak out

Originally posted by NYniner85:
Again, it's everything else around Brock besides his own damn play lol. We had damn near the same WRs for 80% of the season thus far (plus Robinson this game) and it wasn't that bad. McCorkle did fine with less practice time with them.

How was that throw to CMC the right one? He had two check downs sitting right there.

Two check downs open but we trying play hero ball. Get this s**t outta your system and lock in pic.twitter.com/43p1ge7jGM

— Rich (@richjmadrid) September 28, 2025

It's one thing of play hero ball on 3rd down…but once again he's turning the ball over on 1st downs. Come on man.

IF it's his toe or whatever, which I'm not buying because he made some good throws all the same. Stop trying to make ridiculous layered throws and tossing the ball between 3 defenders knowing you can't accurately throw the football.

If you for no problem giving him all the praise and money when s**t is good, you should be able to criticize him when he's not playing well and s**t isn't good. He HAS to play better if this team is gonna go to the playoffs, period.

Check it down for 2 yards or a gain of nothing, or throw to a player that if completed, it would have been a touchdown. It blows my mind that you consider this "hero ball." Brock has made similar throws countless times. You are out of your mind with this post.

Wonder if his toe would be hurting after the game if we won and he played better?

Man; you guys are turning this into the Jimmy thread again