San Francisco 49ers: Brock Purdy's Big Contract Debate

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00:00But the NFC West really jumps off of the page and perhaps it's because of the San Francisco 49ers

00:05who find themselves at the top in some books, not all books, which right away is a story.

00:12They made the decision to pay Brock Purdy. We're a little bit further away removed from that

00:18decision. Donnie, how do you feel about San Francisco making Brock Purdy their official

00:24franchise quarterback? I don't mind them making the official franchise quarterback,

00:28but I understand like I'm not in the front office, so I can't make these decisions and it seems a lot

00:32easier when you're sitting on the couch. We all understand that. But for me alone, Brock Purdy is

00:36a starting quarterback. Brock Purdy is above average. Brock Purdy is not nearly worth what they actually

00:40paid him for, which is a really expensive. Well, that's the starting rate of a quarterback. I get

00:45that. And he's not Daniel Jones. So I don't want to disparage him by saying he doesn't deserve a

00:49high paying contract. When I look at that myself and say, if Brock Purdy is on the open market as

00:54an unrestricted free agent and the money we have to pay him, is he worth it to what our future is

00:59going to be? And agreed. San Francisco always told you we're going to pay him a lot of money.

01:03But what is that going to equate to? Because the best bargain in sports is a professional NFL player

01:09who says, I'm a rookie and I'm making under a million dollars for three to four years and we

01:14can spend everybody else's position above board here so we can win championships. That didn't happen.

01:20Now Brock Purdy is making more money than just about every other quarterback in the NFL and we

01:24don't have anything to show for it. How can we show up? And if we have to start losing players,

01:28is he good enough to say, well, he's got Kyle Shanahan. He had two legitimate wide receivers,

01:32a great offensive line, one of the best running backs in football and George Kittle, a tight end

01:36and an elite defense. And he still didn't get it done. I'm not, it might sound like I'm trashing

01:40Brock Purdy. I'm not. He's a good quarterback. I'm not paying him anywhere near he got what he got.

01:45That's what I'm saying. Well, he got 49 million, right? Yeah. In that area. And Daniel Jones got

01:5040. I'm okay with the, look, I wouldn't pay him $49 million either, Kev. But again, the fact that

01:56he's under Dak, he's under some of the other guys like Jalen Hurts, Joe Burrow in that area. Again,

02:02that's where he should be because I don't think he's as good and I wouldn't put him in, in that

02:06category as an elite quarterback. Is he above average? Absolutely. He went from a seventh round pick

02:12and elevated his team to a Superbowl, was in contention to potentially win that game. Couldn't

02:17get it done and close the door. But at the end of the day, we also saw Brock Purdy last year with

02:22critical injuries struggle when the playmakers weren't around him. And that is the cause of

02:27concern for this team as a whole, a 10 and a half win total to miss the playoffs. They're plus money

02:32at plus 156. We're just expecting Christian McCaffrey to bounce back, you know, from the player that he

02:38was a couple of years ago. Same thing with George Kittle. Same thing with Brandon Ayuk. There's multiple

02:43concerns about this team on top of Brock Purdy. I just can't buy in. Again, the fact that he got

02:5049, it's okay. If he would have gotten 55, 59, 60, the highest paid, I would have had a problem with

02:57it. Yeah. I think for San Francisco, one of the tricky things is that Brock Purdy used to be their

03:05only question, right? Defense was going to be really good. McCaffrey, a star, Debo, a star,

03:10a Kittle, a star. Is Brock Purdy going to get it done in the biggest game we play of the season,

03:15whether that was a conference championship game or a Superbowl? The question is running a lot deeper.

03:21Debo's gone. We'll see if, you know, what they get out of Brandon Ayuk coming off of a,

03:27I believe it's an ACL. I have no idea what to expect from Christian McCaffrey. I don't think

03:34anybody does, quite frankly. He's been working out, yeah. I'm sure he has.

03:39Can Ricky Pearsall take a step forward? Sure. A step forward to the degree that we at one point

03:46saw Debo producing it. I don't know about that. Kittle's getting a little bit older, still really,

03:51really good. Same story on Trent Williams, right? And I think Trent Williams is one of the scariest

03:56players on that team in that Trent Williams is almost too important to be that good, that old,

04:03but that important is very scary ultimately for San Francisco. I think that their ceiling

04:09still exists. I just think the, we saw last year, there's a floor too, which is completely

04:18missing the playoffs and that becomes concerning. Another question within this division is the

04:24impact that some receivers could possibly have. Cooper Cup in Seattle, maybe more notably

04:28Devontae Adams in LA. Do you feel strongly about either receiver and what they can or maybe can't

04:35bring Joe to their team? Devontae Adams, because again, if he was the player at the end of the regular

04:40season that we saw with the New York Jets and he plays that way with the LA Rams, he's going to make

04:45them explosive. Again, that was the biggest concern for this team is that looking for a secondary

04:50option outside of Puka Nakua. We sat here how many times in primetime and we're like, can Matt Stafford

04:57stop looking and staring down Puka on almost every single passing play? Now with Devontae Adams in that

05:04lineup, hopefully he could step up and make plays the way he did for the New York Jets. He's got a 950 and a

05:10half receiving total. He gets close to that or eclipses a thousand yards, Donnie. They're going to be there as a

05:16potential 10 or 11 win football team. The concern I have is sort of, have they plateaued though? You

05:23know, I mean, Devontae Adams is good. He's still not elite. And does this put them over the edge

05:29to potentially challenge the likes of the Philadelphia Eagles as the best team in the

05:33conference? Absolutely not. Yeah. And again, if you know, you can look at Jalen Carter doesn't come

05:37through with a sack in the snow. Maybe it's the Rams that actually win another championship here.

05:41Matthew Stafford has a second, but they didn't. And that's, you know, you move on to the future.

05:44But having said that though, I think sometimes you get caught up in like the sexy team coming

05:48into the season. It's clearly the Rams. Like everybody loves the Rams, but also just to move

05:52for Devontae Adams. And sometimes say, look, you know, maybe you don't like Puka Nakua as much,

05:56love it even more. Because I didn't think you were getting much out of Cooper Cup last year.

05:59It's like, we have to roll coverage. It was like the Rams knew he was cooked. The rest of the NFL

06:03knew he was cooked. Leave him alone. We just have to worry about Puka. And they fed him the football

06:06and fed him the football. So now you have Devontae Adams. You want to say we're rolling coverage

06:11over to Nakua? Adams is going to kill you with Matthew Stafford's arm next year. So I love

06:16the wide receiver aspects because if you look at Matthew Stafford, like the thoughts are

06:20like, hey, he throws for like 40 touchdowns every year. Did you see his statistics last

06:23year? They're no doubt going to go up this year. And Devontae Adams is going to be a big

06:26reason whether he catches the football or not. You have to pay attention to him. And that

06:31helps the entire offense.

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