Brock Purdy is having a strange season. He's had good moments, but his statistics are down, his record is .500 and he's as responsible as anyone for the 49ers' slow start.
He's had good moments, but his statistics are down, his record is .500 and he's as responsible as anyone for the 49ers' slow start.
Here's what head coach Kyle Shanahan said this week about Purdy's development, courtesy of the 49ers p.r. department. Q: Last year it seemed like everything went right for Brock, going through all the statistics through season. This year it's kind of been up and down. What do you think has been going right for him versus wrong?
SHANAHAN: “I think it's such a fine line with, we're a five-and-five team, which isn't where we want to be. But when it, you ask a question about Brock, but I think if we were eight-and-two with a top offense in the league and stuff, I think we'd be feeling a lot better. And so, I try to keep perspective of that, especially with our guys. And to me that's come all the way down to how we finish games.
TRANSLATION: Purdy wasn't elite when he was putting up MVP numbers last season and he's not bad now that he's putting up Geno Smith numbers this season. Purdy is somewhere in between according to Shanahan.Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis.
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