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00:00Ready for this?
00:01Yep.
00:02All right.
00:03We told you that Greg Cosell, what he said, but I'm going to play this for you again.
00:05I want you to listen to what this sounds like.
00:08Okay.
00:09Here's Kyle Shanahan.
00:11Is Brock Purdy playing as well this year as he did last year?
00:15Here's his answer.
00:16It's hard to make a lot of progress.
00:17That's the way he played last year.
00:18And it was hard to make a lot of progress after the way he played the seven games in
00:21his first year.
00:22So I think Brock's playing at the exact same level.
00:24I think there's different circumstances around them.
00:26You know, our team hasn't been quite as good through this, but it's been close to getting
00:30there.
00:31Close doesn't matter.
00:32You know, that's why we're five and five, but a couple of plays here and there, and
00:35I think we're looking at it totally differently, and that's why we've put ourself in the hole,
00:38and that's why we've made it a lot harder for ourself here at this back half.
00:41But I still think it's going to come down to the same stuff.
00:43I bet these next seven games come down to the fourth quarter, and we either get it done
00:47or we don't.
00:48And we've got to find a way to get it done.
00:49Okay.
00:50So he says he's playing just as well this year.
00:51Here is Greg Cosell's reaction.
00:54First of all, I'd be truly, truly surprised if Kyle truly meant that.
00:59He's giving a press conference, so he knows.
01:02He knows.
01:03Believe me, he knows.
01:04I'll give you an example.
01:05On their first third quarter possession, okay, he threw to McCaffrey for six yards on third
01:11and 15.
01:12It was just outside the red zone, so they ended up kicking a field goal.
01:16So that was a great example of Purdy just not seeing the game with the same innate,
01:21refined, nuanced feel of timing and anticipation that we've come to expect.
01:25He had two throws there.
01:27He had a seam route to Samuel, and he had Jennings on the high-low with McCaffrey that
01:31he would have made last season without even thinking.
01:34So instead, he threw a check down to McCaffrey for six yards, and he threw it too quick.
01:39It was a clean pocket.
01:40He just got rid of it quick.
01:42And then they kick a field goal instead of perhaps getting a touchdown.
01:46There was another case, and see, some of these occur when there's completions.
01:49So you don't think of them as, oh, maybe he didn't see it the right way, because some
01:54of them are completions.
01:55But there were too many dropbacks in this game in which, to me, and I've been watching
02:00the Niners for years and years and years, as you guys know, in which I do not believe,
02:06and again, I'm not talking to Kyle, obviously, but where I believe he just did not process
02:12the route concept versus the coverage in the way that he needed to and with the necessary
02:17clarity.
02:18The only thing that pops to my head here, you and I have had a lot of conversations.
02:22I go back to last year.
02:23Remember all the, like, who's the most important player on the 49ers?
02:28And like, okay, how would they look if this guy had to miss a game and if that guy had
02:33to miss a game?
02:34And then this year, we've gotten a look at a bunch of different guys missing games, but
02:39we have not seen the 49ers without Purdy.
02:43And here's what I'm getting at on that.
02:45I truly, truly, truly have always believed that the quarterback is not just the most
02:52important player on the field.
02:54He is the most important player on the field, like it's a blowout.
03:02And so the bottom line is, at 5-5, Christian in, Christian out, George in, George out,
03:10Debo in, Debo out, Brandon in, Brandon out.
03:13You can still perform, as long as Brock is playing well.
03:19And what we're seeing, at least in the last handful of weeks, the last month, I would
03:23argue, is still good-ish.
03:26Well, he's the 5-5 of quarterbacks.
03:31He is not, he's not playing as well.
03:34And they're 5-5.
03:35And you're seeing the results.
03:36So their record, I think, is a mirror image of how he's played, because he's played fine.
03:42Playing 5-5 is fine.
03:44I know we all have higher expectations, but if you were at Carolina right now and you
03:47were 5-5, you'd be stoked.
03:49So, 5-5 is still fine, if you look at it in your game back in the division, and Brock
03:54has been fine.
03:55He's made more plays with his legs.
03:57The things that are hitting me, and I'm just looking at the all 22 of those plays Greg
04:01was referencing, these are plays that Brock usually makes, where you get back and you
04:07survey the field.
04:08I'm seeing it on the film right now, where he looks at the one, and it's not there, and
04:13then he's thinking, I gotta run this.
04:14I don't even wanna hang in here.
04:16Maybe it's because of batted passes, because he's had a good number of balls get knocked
04:21down, and maybe he's getting a little PTSD on the INT.
04:25I have my thought on what the number one thing is, like if we're gonna throw out sore shoulder,
04:32not seeing it.
04:33Here's one thing I don't think.
04:34I do not think it's that he's not seeing it.
04:37Because that's Brock's thing.
04:38Brock sees it.
04:39That's literally what we've been saying for two years.
04:41But to see it, you have to look for it, and I wanna show you these during the break, the
04:45all 22.
04:46I think he sees it.
04:47He got guys open, Mark.
04:48I know.
04:49On three plays in a row, it's like.
04:50I know.
04:51Listen, what was...
04:52And I love that Greg said, you know, he had Juwan on the high low, it's a new one for
04:55me, the high low.
04:56The high low.
04:57I guess he goes high, and he's...
04:58It's like a poker term usually.
05:00No doubt.
05:01Yeah.
05:02And he was open on the high low, and he had Debo down the seam, and you're right, he normally
05:06sees it.
05:07I think he still does.
05:08Well.
05:09So.
05:10Then throw the ball.
05:11Well, here's the issue.
05:12Okay.
05:13Not an excuse, it's a reason, Dibbs.
05:16Well, we don't know what, you know, what the sore shoulder is.
05:19This is my guess.
05:20No, I don't think it's the shoulder.
05:21I don't think it's the shoulder.
05:22I think there's another group that's also not playing well this year.
05:25Right.
05:26I think it's the offensive line, and this is always my favorite word whenever we're
05:34looking at something.
05:35It's the word that I've been using for Jonathan Kaminga for the last two years.
05:39Will you please just trust the organization for a second?
05:42Will you come off the bench, please, and trust Steve Kerr?
05:47I don't think Brock Purdy trusts the offensive line the way he did the last two years.
05:52That's fair, and I'm seeing it, and that's why he's fleeing the pocket.
05:55He's fleeing the pocket, and he's getting rid of the ball earlier, which disallows the
06:01downfield.
06:02Even if he sees it, you've got to take a minute to let it loose, and it's collapsing, and
06:10balls are getting batted, and I don't think he trusts the offensive line at the same level
06:15he did last year.
06:16That's fair, and I'm looking at the percentages.
06:19He gets sacked on 6.1% of dropbacks, which is 13th in the league, 13th fewest.
06:26Jordan Love only three sacks per dropback, so he's toward the middle of quarterbacks,
06:31but I don't know the number from last year.
06:33I would imagine this number is higher, the sack percentage.
06:37It feels like he has a lot more pressure, but Greg is right.
06:40When looking at some of these plays, there's a pocket there.
06:44There's time.
06:45Go ahead and let it rip and make the throw, and in critical moments against Seattle, Greg
06:50was right.
06:51He just wasn't seeing it, and he wasn't trusting the throw and the read.
06:55This is exactly what Greg said about that.
06:57Yeah, I think in this game in particular last week, he did not see the field very well.
07:02There were throws to be made that he left on the field that were downfield throws.
07:07I can't tell you why that he's not seeing it, but he has not been as decisive.
07:13There were specific plays that I made notes, made note of as I watched the tape where the
07:18route concept was there, the read was clean, and for whatever reason, he just didn't process
07:23it the right way, and he ended up not throwing balls that he should throw, so he did not
07:30play very well this week, and the number you just gave this past week was predominantly
07:35on him.
07:36He just did not see it the way he needed to see it.
07:40Okay, and then when Greg was asked about what he sees, difference from last year to this
07:45year.
07:46Two things really stood out.
07:47Number one, his ability to throw with unbelievable timing and anticipation, and that's one reason
07:52there were more downfield throws, and number two, his ability to recognize coverage rotation
07:58instantaneously and know exactly where to go with the football.
08:02Those two things are not happening with the same level of decisiveness and consistency
08:07as they happened a year ago, certainly not in recent weeks.
08:11He's had a stretch here probably for a month or so where he just, to me, watching tape,
08:17has not been particularly comfortable.
08:19He's leaving the pocket too early, he's not seeing it with the clarity that we expect
08:24him to based on what he had done in his past, so he just doesn't look like a comfortable
08:31player right now.
08:32That last sentence.
08:35And I do think it plays off of what you were just saying about trust and the trust in the
08:40offensive line, and it's hard because if you're getting in your mind like, I may have to do
08:46something here, you can't get comfortable, and these last three plays on that third quarter
08:50drive Greg was referencing, there is a pocket, and there are throws to be made, but you can
08:56see that he's not feeling comfortable with his current situation.
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