I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out which elite/legendary QB became that way without an elite receiving corps, running back, and coach. Joe Montana? Steve Young? Terry Bradshaw? Dan Marino? Phil Simms? John Elway? Payton Manning? What's his face, Tom Brady?
Let's use Hall of Famer (yeah, we got it Joe Buck) Troy Aikman. He was a slightly above average quarterback, statistically. The only reason he's in the HoF and on TV every week instead of giving motivational speeches to insurance agents in Canton is because he had Emmit Smith and Michael Irvin on his team and played in Jimmy Johnson's system. They had a pretty good defense, too. But, they won Super Bowls, mostly against a similarly average Jim Kelly.
My guess is he (and that other Manning dude, too) watches Purdy every week and thinks to himself, "Wow, I wish I could have made those throws in my day."
Brock Purdy is the real deal. We'll be talking about him for years to come.
Something I like about people hating on our Niner QB. It never hurts for motivation when you have something to prove. The ‘system’ Qb argument is always a bit strange to me. May be semantics. But system qbs are who win. Because they understand the playbook and the skills of their teammates. When your super smart draft mooks see a college-graduating Mac Jones, and love his arm and size and where he came from, and then he gets in the NFL and can’t move a team downfield. Well, he’s not a bust because he’s a bad athlete suddenly or a terrible person. Perhaps his confidence is shot. Perhaps he can’t understand the offensive scheme. Whatever it is, he certainly can’t handle the system. Pats fans would shit their pants right now for a system guy.
I think what has changed a LOT in the NFL, especially for QBs, is that teams don't seem interested (or able to?) in DEVELOPMENT. It's so rare that players get time to learn on the bench, or to fail on the field, and the NFL is really using the NCAA as their dev league. So a guy like Trey Lance really never has a chance to succeed, but Purdy can because he played four years in college. Not sure that means the best outcomes in general for the NFL, though.
I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out which elite/legendary QB became that way without an elite receiving corps, running back, and coach. Joe Montana? Steve Young? Terry Bradshaw? Dan Marino? Phil Simms? John Elway? Payton Manning? What's his face, Tom Brady?
Let's use Hall of Famer (yeah, we got it Joe Buck) Troy Aikman. He was a slightly above average quarterback, statistically. The only reason he's in the HoF and on TV every week instead of giving motivational speeches to insurance agents in Canton is because he had Emmit Smith and Michael Irvin on his team and played in Jimmy Johnson's system. They had a pretty good defense, too. But, they won Super Bowls, mostly against a similarly average Jim Kelly.
My guess is he (and that other Manning dude, too) watches Purdy every week and thinks to himself, "Wow, I wish I could have made those throws in my day."
Brock Purdy is the real deal. We'll be talking about him for years to come.
Something I like about people hating on our Niner QB. It never hurts for motivation when you have something to prove. The ‘system’ Qb argument is always a bit strange to me. May be semantics. But system qbs are who win. Because they understand the playbook and the skills of their teammates. When your super smart draft mooks see a college-graduating Mac Jones, and love his arm and size and where he came from, and then he gets in the NFL and can’t move a team downfield. Well, he’s not a bust because he’s a bad athlete suddenly or a terrible person. Perhaps his confidence is shot. Perhaps he can’t understand the offensive scheme. Whatever it is, he certainly can’t handle the system. Pats fans would shit their pants right now for a system guy.
I think what has changed a LOT in the NFL, especially for QBs, is that teams don't seem interested (or able to?) in DEVELOPMENT. It's so rare that players get time to learn on the bench, or to fail on the field, and the NFL is really using the NCAA as their dev league. So a guy like Trey Lance really never has a chance to succeed, but Purdy can because he played four years in college. Not sure that means the best outcomes in general for the NFL, though.