49ers sign QB Mac Jones

Originally posted by Scoots:
It's not that hard to find retread backup QBs if you have advance notice. Rourke is learning now, if he's not going to work out I suspect Caleb Williams will be available soon :)

But if you can get a 2nd round pick for your backup QB? You JUUUUUUUUUUUMP on that. Even if it was this week you jump on it.

I really laughed out loud at this. Caleb Williams?
Of course, you never know.

Who is backing up Mac? I clearly missed who we signed to fill that role.

Originally posted by Wolf_Packer_53:
Who is backing up Mac? I clearly missed who we signed to fill that role.

We haven't signed anyone. We promoted Adrian Martinez from the practice squad to be the backup.

Which probably means that they don't expect Purdy's injury to hold him out for long.

Next time Grant Cohn wants to troll about Mac being just as good as Purdy he should look at this


or this


...or numerous other charts/metrics that show Purdy playing better vs a much tougher defense.

Originally posted by 49ersRing:
We haven't signed anyone. We promoted Adrian Ramirez from the practice squad to be the backup.

Which probably means that they don't expect Purdy's injury to hold him out for long.

Originally posted by genus49:
Next time Grant Cohn wants to troll about Mac being just as good as Purdy he should look at this

Disruption refers to plays with either perfect coverage ie; where nobody makes a mistake and/OR plays with a disruption pressure where a QB is forced off his read to pressure.

A look at how often QBs have been "undisturbed" and their EPA on those plays pic.twitter.com/P7dd6j2nJv

— Jrfortgang (@throwthedamball) September 17, 2025

or this

Through week 2, total QB accuracy rate and how often they throw into tight windows pic.twitter.com/RUEFqkBFzO

— Jrfortgang (@throwthedamball) September 17, 2025

...or numerous other charts/metrics that show Purdy playing better vs a much tougher defense.

Wow, people are awfully defensive.. purdy is our qb1. He got paid. He will start when healthy. But.. just based on 1 game we have to admit there was no appreciable drop in qb play. Mac played well. He was accurate, he found open receivers and he protected the ball well. The strip sack was the exception. Almost interceptions don't show up on the stat sheets.. Brock has a ton of them. We won't always be as lucky…. Last week Brock got bailed out by our third string te. That should have been an int. I am not a Mac fan. I am a purdy fan but we have to give Mac the credit he is due. Maybe this will spark purdy to play a bit smarter.

Seems to me this whole situation has worked out pretty well. Jones skill set seems to fit the scheme pretty well and we have him in a two-year deal. We have Rourke waiting in the wings, who seems to have similar skill set. If it turns out he can bring the same ability to the NFL that he showed at Indiana, then he becomes a solid, low-priced back-up for the next four years and Jones becomes trade bait. Win-win I'd say.

You do have to love how guys like Cowherd and Wright are now falling all over themselves saying, see you can get a $7 million dollar QB to do this job and didn't have to pay Brock $50 million. I think it was Cowherd who said, that if they had drafted Jones instead of Lance, they'd have a Super Bowl by now. Maybe, but if that was the case than Jones would have become the $50 million a year QB and Brock would be the best back-up in the league, or he may have beaten Jones out as well. $50 million seems to be what decent QBs get paid these days, not sure why, they keep harping on that except for that fact that Brock isn't the biggest QB in the league or have the best arm and was the last pick of the draft. If he was four inches taller and had been a 3rd rounder, with his resume since he came into the league, I doubt anyone would be saying he wasn't worth the money.

Mac Jones on a one-year $3-$4M deal after this season could be a very flippable asset if he just gives us 1-2 more good games. Heck Jimmy G got traded to us for a high 2nd and he only had 1.5 games.

If Mac has one more game like this past Sunday he could probably net us a 3rd in the offseason.

Originally posted by 49ers81:
Seems to me this whole situation has worked out pretty well. Jones skill set seems to fit the scheme pretty well and we have him in a two-year deal. We have Rourke waiting in the wings, who seems to have similar skill set. If it turns out he can bring the same ability to the NFL that he showed at Indiana, then he becomes a solid, low-priced back-up for the next four years and Jones becomes trade bait. Win-win I'd say.

You do have to love how guys like Cowherd and Wright are now falling all over themselves saying, see you can get a $7 million dollar QB to do this job and didn't have to pay Brock $50 million. I think it was Cowherd who said, that if they had drafted Jones instead of Lance, they'd have a Super Bowl by now. Maybe, but if that was the case than Jones would have become the $50 million a year QB and Brock would be the best back-up in the league, or he may have beaten Jones out as well. $50 million seems to be what decent QBs get paid these days, not sure why, they keep harping on that except for that fact that Brock isn't the biggest QB in the league or have the best arm and was the last pick of the draft. If he was four inches taller and had been a 3rd rounder, with his resume since he came into the league, I doubt anyone would be saying he wasn't worth the money.

I looooove all the talking heads completely exposing themselves this week with this absurd take.

It proves that they don't watch the games. At all. Period. You and I watch the games more than they do and could do a better job than them, honestly!

Like seriously. All I did was actually WATCH our Week 1 game against Seattle and our Week 2 game against New Orleans, and it was all the evidence I needed to know that Mac is good, but he can't make all the throws that Purdy can. You honestly could watch the HIGHLIGHTS and figure this out. Talking heads who get paid millions to talk sports are so lazy these days

Originally posted by NoFunLeague:

Originally posted by genus49:
Next time Grant Cohn wants to troll about Mac being just as good as Purdy he should look at this

Disruption refers to plays with either perfect coverage ie; where nobody makes a mistake and/OR plays with a disruption pressure where a QB is forced off his read to pressure.

A look at how often QBs have been "undisturbed" and their EPA on those plays pic.twitter.com/P7dd6j2nJv

— Jrfortgang (@throwthedamball) September 17, 2025

or this

Through week 2, total QB accuracy rate and how often they throw into tight windows pic.twitter.com/RUEFqkBFzO

— Jrfortgang (@throwthedamball) September 17, 2025

...or numerous other charts/metrics that show Purdy playing better vs a much tougher defense.

Wow, people are awfully defensive.. purdy is our qb1. He got paid. He will start when healthy. But.. just based on 1 game we have to admit there was no appreciable drop in qb play. Mac played well. He was accurate, he found open receivers and he protected the ball well. The strip sack was the exception. Almost interceptions don't show up on the stat sheets.. Brock has a ton of them. We won't always be as lucky…. Last week Brock got bailed out by our third string te. That should have been an int. I am not a Mac fan. I am a purdy fan but we have to give Mac the credit he is due. Maybe this will spark purdy to play a bit smarter.

Awfully defensive or simply reminding people why Brock is QB1? No reason to put your head in the sand and pretend that there wasn't a narrative AFTER the game that Mac Jones is just as good as Purdy. That leads everyone to the lazy "Shanahan can make anyone good" rationale.

Fact is Purdy played a much tougher defense/team and had to do so losing one of the key pieces of our offense and huge part of the game plan for that week in George Kittle and didn't even have Jennings on the field for the game winning TD drive. Nor did he have Kendrick Bourne out there.

You literally claimed almost interceptions don't show up on the stat sheet and in the same post manage to bring up Purdy's "should've been an int"

I'm not going to knock Mac Jones. He played well and made some big throws and we won. However we don't need to pretend there wasn't plenty of bad plays on that field including the terrible fumble. Purdy's pocket presence is miles better than Jones.

Those charts basically show Purdy had the tougher matchup and played better overall. Nothing defensive to acknowledge that if some want to make stupid narratives how Purdy shouldn't have been paid.

Originally posted by Phoenix49ers:

Originally posted by 49ersRing:
We haven't signed anyone. We promoted Adrian Ramirez from the practice squad to be the backup.

Which probably means that they don't expect Purdy's injury to hold him out for long.

lol, Adrian Martinez I meant.

Originally posted by Fanaticofnfl:
Mac Jones on a one-year $3-$4M deal after this season could be a very flippable asset if he just gives us 1-2 more good games. Heck Jimmy G got traded to us for a high 2nd and he only had 1.5 games.

If Mac has one more game like this past Sunday he could probably net us a 3rd in the offseason.

Jones is on a two-year deal.

Mac Jones signed a 2-year, $8,410,000 contract with the San Francisco 49ers, including $2,140,000 signing bonus, $4,750,000 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $4,205,000

I think a lot of what they might be able to get for him would depend on how much he plays this year, and how well. If Brock is indeed out for a few weeks and Jones continues to play well, it would certainly up the asking price. Whether or not they trade him next year would depend on what they think they have in Rourke.

Originally posted by 49ers81:

Originally posted by Fanaticofnfl:
Mac Jones on a one-year $3-$4M deal after this season could be a very flippable asset if he just gives us 1-2 more good games. Heck Jimmy G got traded to us for a high 2nd and he only had 1.5 games.

If Mac has one more game like this past Sunday he could probably net us a 3rd in the offseason.

Jones is on a two-year deal.

Mac Jones signed a 2-year, $8,410,000 contract with the San Francisco 49ers, including $2,140,000 signing bonus, $4,750,000 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $4,205,000

I think a lot of what they might be able to get for him would depend on how much he plays this year, and how well. If Brock is indeed out for a few weeks and Jones continues to play well, it would certainly up the asking price. Whether or not they trade him next year would depend on what they think they have in Rourke.

I'm talking after this season. Mac will have one season left on his contract at that time.

Originally posted by Fanaticofnfl:

Originally posted by 49ers81:

Seems to me this whole situation has worked out pretty well. Jones skill set seems to fit the scheme pretty well and we have him in a two-year deal. We have Rourke waiting in the wings, who seems to have similar skill set. If it turns out he can bring the same ability to the NFL that he showed at Indiana, then he becomes a solid, low-priced back-up for the next four years and Jones becomes trade bait. Win-win I'd say.

You do have to love how guys like Cowherd and Wright are now falling all over themselves saying, see you can get a $7 million dollar QB to do this job and didn't have to pay Brock $50 million. I think it was Cowherd who said, that if they had drafted Jones instead of Lance, they'd have a Super Bowl by now. Maybe, but if that was the case than Jones would have become the $50 million a year QB and Brock would be the best back-up in the league, or he may have beaten Jones out as well. $50 million seems to be what decent QBs get paid these days, not sure why, they keep harping on that except for that fact that Brock isn't the biggest QB in the league or have the best arm and was the last pick of the draft. If he was four inches taller and had been a 3rd rounder, with his resume since he came into the league, I doubt anyone would be saying he wasn't worth the money.

I looooove all the talking heads completely exposing themselves this week with this absurd take.

It proves that they don't watch the games. At all. Period. You and I watch the games more than they do and could do a better job than them, honestly!

Like seriously. All I did was actually WATCH our Week 1 game against Seattle and our Week 2 game against New Orleans, and it was all the evidence I needed to know that Mac is good, but he can't make all the throws that Purdy can. You honestly could watch the HIGHLIGHTS and figure this out. Talking heads who get paid millions to talk sports are so lazy these days

Yea we've seen Matt Flynn play well in place of Rodgers, Jimmy G and Matt Cassel play well in place of Brady, Huntley play well as Lamar's backup, we've seen Browning play well for Burrow and Rush play well for Dak

Using their logic none of those starters are worth paying

Originally posted by CharlieSheen:

Originally posted by Fanaticofnfl:

Originally posted by 49ers81:
Seems to me this whole situation has worked out pretty well. Jones skill set seems to fit the scheme pretty well and we have him in a two-year deal. We have Rourke waiting in the wings, who seems to have similar skill set. If it turns out he can bring the same ability to the NFL that he showed at Indiana, then he becomes a solid, low-priced back-up for the next four years and Jones becomes trade bait. Win-win I'd say.

You do have to love how guys like Cowherd and Wright are now falling all over themselves saying, see you can get a $7 million dollar QB to do this job and didn't have to pay Brock $50 million. I think it was Cowherd who said, that if they had drafted Jones instead of Lance, they'd have a Super Bowl by now. Maybe, but if that was the case than Jones would have become the $50 million a year QB and Brock would be the best back-up in the league, or he may have beaten Jones out as well. $50 million seems to be what decent QBs get paid these days, not sure why, they keep harping on that except for that fact that Brock isn't the biggest QB in the league or have the best arm and was the last pick of the draft. If he was four inches taller and had been a 3rd rounder, with his resume since he came into the league, I doubt anyone would be saying he wasn't worth the money.

I looooove all the talking heads completely exposing themselves this week with this absurd take.

It proves that they don't watch the games. At all. Period. You and I watch the games more than they do and could do a better job than them, honestly!

Like seriously. All I did was actually WATCH our Week 1 game against Seattle and our Week 2 game against New Orleans, and it was all the evidence I needed to know that Mac is good, but he can't make all the throws that Purdy can. You honestly could watch the HIGHLIGHTS and figure this out. Talking heads who get paid millions to talk sports are so lazy these days

Yea we've seen Matt Flynn play well in place of Rodgers, Jimmy G and Matt Cassel play well in place of Brady, Huntley play well as Lamar's backup, we've seen Browning play well for Burrow and Rush play well for Dak

Using their logic none of those starters are worth paying

The biggest difference between most backups and NFL starting QBs is consistency and resilience.

Good QBs don't get scared after being pressured all day like brock was in week 1 and fold and just get sacked at the end of games when things get tough.

Additionally they are more consistent overall week to week.

Any backup or third string QB can look good when the other team is melting down the defense is giving points and turnovers to the offense. It's easy for them to manage the game up 3 scores.

It's why you pay brock 50 million. Not because he had a great game in week 1 but he never got rattled and imploded and found a chance for the team to win.

If the games tight and Mac is playing vs the cards I fully expect the cards to win and Mac to either lose the game off sacks, interceptions, or fumbles. That's what happens to backups. They melt when pressured all day.