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00:00You want to hear this from Brock Purdy?
00:01Yeah.
00:02This is pretty interesting.
00:05Because we had a lot of talk the last two weeks about two guys
00:08in particular, George Kittle and Debo Samuel.
00:11George Kittle, because he had the comment after the Buffalo
00:14game that was sort of like, don't ask me why I
00:18didn't run that many routes.
00:20And then he also had the comments after this game
00:22about, well, now we're showing the fight and the urgency
00:26that we've been looking for all year.
00:27And then Debo goes to Twitter yesterday.
00:29I'm not struggling.
00:30I'm just not getting the ball.
00:33And has since deleted the tweet, by the way.
00:36Oh, deleted.
00:36Has deleted the tweet.
00:37Bawk, bawk, bawk, bawk, bawk, bawk, bawk, bawk, bawk, bawk.
00:40Stand on it.
00:42Stand on what you tweet.
00:43Exactly.
00:43Stand on what you tweet.
00:45Stand on it.
00:46Stand on what you say.
00:48Stand on what you do.
00:49Thank you, Draymond.
00:50Brock Purdy spoke about both things.
00:53Listen to what he said about George Kittle's involvement.
00:57Just how we scheme it up and everything, for me,
01:00it's like I trust in the game plan.
01:02I trust in our guys to go and make plays.
01:04And I just try to take what the defense gives me.
01:06I don't walk up to the line of scrimmage in a play
01:09and go, I'm going to go here, here, here, just because.
01:13There's a reason why I go to a certain guy.
01:15And it's per coverage.
01:17And I'm just trying to get to my answer per play.
01:19So George has had a great year.
01:20I think he's done a great job of catching the ball
01:22and then getting yards after and sparking us in that sense.
01:26But that's sort of just how I go about it.
01:29But definitely when you walk up and you
01:30see man coverage in situations, that's
01:32where it can be like, all right, I
01:34like my guy here in this situation or match up.
01:37And I'm going to do what I can to get him the ball.
01:39I think that's a little different.
01:40But when you're going through progressions against zone
01:42and things like that, it's different.
01:44I like what he's saying there.
01:46He basically, the whole idea of like, dude,
01:48just throw it to George.
01:50I think there are plays where he might say before the snap,
01:54that's likely to be where I go.
01:58I like this match up.
01:59I'm going to look there first.
02:01And so I'm going to lean in that direction.
02:02Obviously I'm not going to throw it
02:03if it doesn't end up being there.
02:05But there are a lot of plays where that's just not,
02:08that's not real quarterbacking.
02:09It's how I play Madden.
02:11I've told you that a bunch of times.
02:13I decide exactly where I'm going to throw the ball
02:15before the play starts.
02:16Cause I can't run through progressions
02:19on this gizmo in my hand, A, B, C, Z.
02:22What's the button on the underneath?
02:23X triangle, circle, R1, L1.
02:26I'm like, I got the guy in the left slot.
02:28That's the A button.
02:30That's where we're going.
02:31And if he gets picked, who cares?
02:33It's a video game, but this is real life.
02:35And Brock Purdy is not going to decide
02:38before the ball is snapped, where he's going.
02:41Because if he does that, I believe he becomes vulnerable.
02:44Defenders can read eyes.
02:46He becomes Jimmy, is what he becomes.
02:48And if you watch Jimmy G and all his film,
02:51he had a hard time going from one receiver to the other
02:54and working through progressions.
02:55And all you have to do is go back
02:57and look at the Bears tape.
02:58And I look forward to Greg Cosell tomorrow
03:00breaking this down.
03:01I didn't see a lot of plays where Brock had to go
03:04to a second or a third read.
03:06A lot of his stuff was just open.
03:09He'd get back and he'd look at his primary read,
03:12boop, and it was George.
03:13And George was open.
03:14And a lot of the plays that they called
03:16were screens to George.
03:17And those were plays where Debo ran down the field
03:21to draw the defense away.
03:22And then George kind of slipped out
03:24and he had three blockers in front
03:26and it worked like a charm.
03:27Yep, yep.
03:27Those were, I mean, again, I said it yesterday.
03:29Two of the biggest plays.
03:31I thought Sunday was Kyle Shanahan's
03:33best play calling performance of the year.
03:36All right, then what about the aforementioned Debo Samuel?
03:39And the issue of his social media comments yesterday,
03:43I'm not playing poorly.
03:45I'm just not getting the ball.
03:48Purdy addressed that.
03:50I mean, Debo and I talk all the time
03:51and he's like one of my best friends on this team.
03:54Like, I absolutely love Debo
03:56and what he's done for me and helping me out.
03:58We talk all the time.
03:59And yeah, I think he's right.
04:02Like, he's doing great right now
04:04with what we ask of him in the offense.
04:06And he's not struggling.
04:07Like I've said before about, you know,
04:09like guys like Ricky or last year
04:11with Iyuk for a little bit.
04:13Like, there's just moments, I guess,
04:15throughout seasons where, you know,
04:17guys just don't get the ball.
04:18You know, just depending on like scheme
04:20or like what the defensive scheme is
04:22and, you know, them taking guys away.
04:24So I wanna get Debo the ball every play if I could.
04:28I wanna have him break all the records as best as possible.
04:32I want Debo to do Debo things
04:34and we all do in this building.
04:35So it's just how the games have gone,
04:38but I love my guy and I'm gonna do everything I can
04:40to, you know, get him the ball, so.
04:41Yeah, I mean, not a surprising answer
04:43that Brock is going to find a way to back his guy,
04:47to try to throw water on the whole thing.
04:49And again, there's a piece to me at least
04:52to what Debo is saying that has some truth to it.
04:55But I also think that that's wrong time to say it,
04:57wrong way to say it.
04:58Yeah.
04:59I don't think Debo has lost a step.
05:02I've told you that a bunch of times.
05:03I can't really quite put my finger on exactly
05:07why the production has been so different.
05:10I just personally don't put it on that
05:13because he looks just as fast to me.
05:15He still looks like he's got his burst.
05:17He's just not getting the ball in space.
05:20But that does not mean that Twitter and I'm doing great,
05:24but I'm not getting the ball.
05:26You could have said it.
05:28Option one would be say nothing.
05:30But option two, you could have said it.
05:32I'd just say it a little bit differently.
05:34Then I'm not getting the ball.
05:36I just don't know the productivity in that.
05:38But Brock's answer is not surprising.
05:40Kyle talked about it too.
05:42Yeah, I do think that Debo,
05:43I don't know if he's lost a step,
05:45but he doesn't look to be as explosive in scrimmage plays.
05:49Now you look at him in kick returns
05:50when he's able to get the kick off and get ahead of steam.
05:53Yeah, he still looks as fast as ever
05:55when he's able to build up ahead of steam.
05:57And I was looking at all of his plays yesterday
06:00as I went through the game one more time.
06:02And one of the most frustrating runs
06:04was when he was in the backfield in the pistol
06:08and Brock gets the snap and he hands it to him.
06:11And they actually had run a play
06:12where they're pulling Dominic Poonie
06:14from the right side over to the left side.
06:16So it's a guard pull on a shotgun snap or a pistol snap.
06:21So he gives it to Debo and Poonie comes around
06:24from the right side to the left side of the formation
06:27and Poonie just whiffed on his block.
06:29So Debo gets the ball and he goes right behind Poonie,
06:33right in the hole that Poonie was supposed to create
06:35and Poonie just missed.
06:37And the defender, the linebacker came right through
06:39and pow, hits Debo at the line
06:42or behind the line of scrimmage.
06:44And you can see the frustration from Debo
06:46because that was a play that if Poonie would have hit
06:48his block, Debo would have been able to get
06:50to the second level and actually do something
06:52with the ball for a change.