Purdy had arguably his worst game as a starter. The second-year quarterback earned an overall Pro Football Focus grade of 65.1, his lowest regular-season mark since Week 13 of 2022. He finished the game 17-of-25 for 206 yards and a passer rating of 93.1, a new regular-season career-low as a starter. The stat line might have been better had Purdy connected on a few passes to open receivers that were overthrown.
After the game, when asked about the offense's shortcomings against the Rams, Purdy pointed to himself as part of the problem.
"Yeah, in my eyes, there's a couple opportunities obviously out there that I missed in terms of the deep ball and whatnot," Purdy said. "But (we) found a way to win."
The quarterback added, "I just overthrew them -- the one to [Brandon Aiyuk], the one to Deebo [Samuel], and then [Jauan Jennings] on that third down. Those are on me. I've got to be better. I've got to hit them in stride and not overthrow them. Simple as that."
One of those receivers joined Kay Adams during FanDuel's "Up & Adams" show and shared that Purdy's accountability is one of the reasons why his 49ers teammates love him.
"He don't make excuses," Deebo Samuel told Adams. "He takes full responsibility for his mistakes even though—we was talking about it on the sideline, and we want to have those, but there's nothing we can do about it. So I think that's why we love Brock in this offense as a leader of this team.
"That's why he's got the [team] captain [patch] on his shirt because it's little things like that. People try to blame somebody else or try to blame something else on it, but he took full responsibility.
"That's what practice is for. We practice that all the time. Everything is not going to be perfect but at the end of the day, we got the win, and we'll be able to move on."
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