John Lynch addresses Brock Purdy’s tale of 2023 interest in Tom Brady

It took a while, but it finally happened.Someone from the 49ers has been asked about the claim from quarterback Brock Purdy that coach Kyle Shanahan told Purdy that the 49ers planned to pursue Tom Brady for 2023.G.M. John Lynch, appearing on The Eye Test for Two podcast with Clark Judge and Ira Kaufman, addressed Purdy's on-the-record comments which weren't noticed for a week, and which have not resulted in either Shanahan or Purdy being asked about them, 17 days later."Now, Kyle and [Purdy] have a lot of conversations, and you have to understand, I think, the context," Lynch said, via 49ersWebZone.com. "And I don't know exactly when that conversation [took place]. Kyle and I haven't talked about it, but the context of that was Brock got hurt in the NFC Championship game, as everyone knows, [against] Philly, and his elbow was really not in a good spot. And I think, to look back now, unbelievably, almost a miraculous recovery. He beat the timeline and all that."Still, Shanahan told Purdy that Brady, if they got him, would be the starter even if Purdy was healthy."When it first happened, we're really searching, like, 'What are we going to do at quarterback? We don't know if we're...