Brock Purdy’s MVP Hopes Hit a Bump, but Long-Term Potential Remains

Brock Purdy’s MVP Hopes Hit a Bump, but Long-Term Potential Remains

Before the San Francisco 49ers played the Baltimore Ravens at 25. In December, Brock Purdy was the MVP favorite when he surpassed several statistics, including a great completion percentage and a ridiculously high pitcher rating. After the Ravens game, he had such a bad game that he is out of the MVP race. Both are true.

This is not another discount. Brock Purdy played at a high level for almost the entire season at the top of almost every necessary statistic for the position. This was not a one or two game show. We’ve seen him deliver week after week, even if he hit a few curves during the 49ers’ three-game skid, it wasn’t too bad to think it was more than a rough patch and growing pains.

Then Baltimore happened. At its best. And those four interceptions don’t mean Purdy is a bad quarterback or that all the praise and accolades he’s been getting out there are fake, it just means he’s nowhere near the top of the MVP list. Of course, aside from the fact that this is a bad game at the end of several near-perfect games (Purdy only threw 7 interceptions against the Ravens), it seems like a lot of people are hotly saying, “See, I told you so. . .” Did you tell us what exactly? Said the same thing week after week after coming on Jimmy Garoppolo against the Dolphins? Back in 2022? If you didn’t know, anyone can make the same prediction/argument over and over and be right.

So I accurately predicted that I would win 1 in 90 Battleship matches against my friends to prove how good I am, and that’s how many people want to develop their analytical knowledge of the sport by saying the same thing ad nauseam. almost four months until they are right.

Brock Purdy had a bad game. One bad game. The worst of his career. It happens. A lot Even elite players have one bad game in a championship season. Check out this guy: I would like to add that on 12/20/04 Brady played a game against a terrible 4-12 Miami Dolphins team. The Patriots won the Super Bowl that year. and Brady went to the Pro Bowl. At least Purdy threw his stink around against one of the best teams in the league. The only problem should be with Brock Purdy right now is his longevity.

I said on this site that his ability to make it through a full NFL season was a question mark. I raised an eyebrow when he was defeated by the Vikings and I raise an eyebrow here with all his own jabs. He has yet to miss a game. And yes, this is a major concern. We follow several teams around the league dealing with quarterback injuries, and 49ers fans experienced the Jimmy Garoppolo injury saga to learn what happens when a starter fails. So Purdy was a good quarterback. He didn’t give us two or three games where nobody had film on the guy. The NFL has had plenty of time for Purdy to not be at the top of many statistics, but there he is.

And to say it was all Kyle Shanahan is bullshit, and you know it. If Brock Purdy is only good because of Kyle Shanahan’s system, why did Nick Mullens only have two or three good games filling in for Jimmy Garoppolo? Oh because he didn’t have Deebo Samuel? Okay, why didn’t Jimmy Garoppolo have anywhere near Purdy’s success even though he had all the playmakers? We saw the same throw that Garoppolo failed to make to Emmanuel Sanders in the Super Bowl that Purdy made more than once. He has weapons, but every quarterback does. To say that Purdy entered the MVP conversation simply because of the team or the coach is incorrect.

We’ve seen what other quarterbacks have done with this same system, and this isn’t a step up, it’s a giant step back. There was a reason he was in the MVP conversation, and it wasn’t an exaggeration. You don’t put too much value on being on top of every stat for that position or having a WOW roll/two. And lost in all of this is that this is Purdy’s second season. This guy was the MVP for weeks and it was only his second season in the league. First as a true beginner if you want to get technique.

It took Aaron Rodgers a full two years starting with those same Green Bay Packers to win a Super Bowl in his third year, and even then he wondered why it took him so long. Rodgers recorded his first comeback win as a starter in just his second season. Purdy is still learning.

And no doubt he learned a few things not to do in his drunken stupor on Monday. He was in the discussion for a reason, and he’s out of the MVP discussion for another reason. Both are true, both are valid, and one does not cancel out the other. He’s the first 49er since Jeff Garcia to pass for over 4,000 yards, which says something about the 49ers’ QB situation over the last few decades. I’m more interested in how he reacts after being “revealed”. All the big ones can do it.