- 6 weeks ago
Willard and Dibs react to the 49ers' dominant win over the Dolphins and focus on Brock Purdy's performance. Is he the best 49ers quarterback since Steve Young?
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00:00The Niners look fantastic.
00:02The Niners look fantastic.
00:04I don't know.
00:05Does anybody have a hole to poke?
00:07Well, you could poke holes on the run defense.
00:11I mean, the defensive line,
00:12they seem to have a hard time tackling HN early in that game,
00:17but if you look at the second half and the second half adjustments,
00:21the adjustments were great.
00:23So, again, if you're going to poke holes,
00:25you're talking about microscopic holes.
00:28You're not going to poke a gigantic hole.
00:30You're not using a three-hole puncher on this team.
00:33That is about as thorough and clinical of a first two games start
00:38that I can even remember from any team.
00:40This is the best quarterbacking that I have seen
00:44from a San Francisco 49er quarterback since Steve Young,
00:48and I say that with unbridled, unbridled excitement and confidence.
00:56To me, there is a feeling when you watch a football game on TV.
01:01This isn't the All-22.
01:03This isn't you've got tickets to the game.
01:05But when you watch a game on TV and you happen to be in an era
01:10where your football team, at least on offense, is really, really good,
01:14there's a feeling when they drop back,
01:16and you can only see the quarterback in the line.
01:19Man, you can't see what's going on down the field.
01:21And they release the ball.
01:23And I remember, and this is, you know, Grandy, Pasta, you guys don't know this.
01:27As a child of the 80s, this is what 49er football always felt like.
01:33I mean, I was in college before it didn't feel like this.
01:37The Niner quarterback would drop back, and he would release the ball,
01:41and your thought was, that's complete.
01:44I have next to no fear about where this ball is going to end up.
01:49And I've learned through the years that that's not what the fan experience is like
01:54for most teams and most quarterbacks.
01:56And we've arrived back at that.
01:59That's what it used to feel like when Montana played.
02:01That's what it felt like when Steve Young played.
02:04And that's what it feels like right now.
02:06And before you get freaked out and tell me that I'm now putting him on those same planes,
02:11no, he's not a Hall of Fame player yet.
02:13But this is the best quarterbacking we have seen with the 49ers in 30 years
02:19and since the Hall of Famers.
02:21And I say that with zero hesitation whatsoever.
02:25And a lot of it is the players around him and the system,
02:29but an equal amount, if not more, is Brock Purdy himself.
02:32And you can look at yesterday's so many different plays,
02:35and a couple of them I'm thinking about was he rolls left,
02:38and he goes with the pump fake.
02:40The Mike Evans play.
02:41The D lineman jumps up, and he buys more time, and then he rolls back to the right,
02:44he throws it up, and Evans makes an unbelievable catch,
02:47which I can't even believe he was able to toe tap that thing on third down.
02:51But great time buyer by Brock.
02:54Great throw to where Evans could go up and get it, 6'4",
02:57and he goes up and gets it, and it's clinical, and it's perfect.
03:01And he goes 20 for 22 with a drop, and it was not an easy drop, but it's a drop.
03:06It's a drop.
03:07He should have caught it.
03:08And then the other one's the intentional grounding where he finally was pressured,
03:12and he finally was hit, but you go 20 for 22.
03:16It's hard to look at that and say anything other than, like, near perfection.
03:20Can we break down that Mike Evans play, and it went out of bounds at the one-yard line?
03:25If memory serves, that was one of McCaffrey's touchdowns.
03:28He jumped right over the top, I think, on the next play.
03:32Oh, so many touchdowns, they run together, hard to figure them out.
03:35But anyway, I think there's so many pieces to that play you just described.
03:40A, there's the pump fake, which was brilliant.
03:44Took a linebacker out of the play to clear a lane.
03:47And then, as you pointed out, the execution of the throw and the brilliance of the catch.
03:51But can I add in one more factor?
03:55The stones to even throw it.
03:58When you see that highlight, how we've all seen it now from behind the play,
04:04you're looking at Brock maneuver the linebacker with the pump fake,
04:08and then as he moves left, I'm looking at that play, and I'm like,
04:11I don't see anyone open.
04:13But he does, and he throws a ball that misses the fingertips of the defender
04:17by mere centimeters, but ends up in a spot over on the sideline
04:22where Mike Elvins still has a chance to make a play,
04:25and as a future Hall of Fame receiver, he does it.
04:28And that's the play, because Kyle Shanahan was in his bag again yesterday.
04:33He was brilliant moving young Dolphins defenders around.
04:37They were on skates the entire time.
04:39But when you watch that play that you just brought up,
04:42that's when you go, all right, that's not play calling.
04:46That's just brilliant, gutsy quarterbacking.
04:52That's brilliant, under-control, execution, quarterbacking.
04:58And that's what the 49ers are getting right now.
05:00And I know we'll have to do the if-healthy thing all year,
05:04and I know there were more guys who dropped yesterday.
05:08But I'll say the same thing.
05:10Coming out of Week 2, that I said, coming out of Week 1.
05:14If you are looking for the most balanced team in football right now,
05:20this is it.
05:21They play here in the Bay Area.
05:23This is the best on both sides of the ball we've seen,
05:26and I would say it looks to be, I don't know,
05:30certainly as dangerous as any other.
05:32I don't want to sound like Troy Aikman,
05:34but it's as dangerous on the offense as there is in football.
05:37Well, yeah, they're as good as anyone right now.
05:41They're probably better in terms of the balance that teams are offering.
05:47Right, and the balance, I think,
05:48comes from everything that Shanahan always strives for,
05:51as all coaches do, which is complementary football.
05:53And so even though Miami possessed it for the majority of the first half,
05:57they had to settle for a missed field goal
06:00and then a couple of made field goals.
06:02And the defense was kind of that bend but don't break early on in the game.
06:06And yet the few times, the two times, rather,
06:08that the Niners got the ball on offense,
06:10they scored a touchdown and another touchdown.
06:12And then they get the ball to start the third,
06:14which is what Shanahan loves.
06:16And you go out there and you score again,
06:18and it's 21-6, and it basically was night-night at that moment
06:22because you could see that Miami was not going to have much success
06:26in stopping the Niners.
06:27And the Niner defense was giving up yards and time of possession,
06:31but who cares?
06:32Big whoop.
06:33You kept them out of the end zone.
06:34You made the plays you needed to on defense,
06:36and you dominated that game.
06:38Let's go right to the phones.
06:40Look, this is as good of a start as anybody could have imagined
06:46to the 49er season.
06:48So where does your imagination go now?
06:52Sure, they beat a young Dolphins team.
06:54They were expected to win by a lot.
06:55They won by a lot.
06:57Good teams win.
06:58Great teams cover.
06:59We can do all of that if you want.
07:01But the Niners right now, the whole collective picture of the season,
07:05they're throwing a perfect game.
07:06We're only two weeks in, but you look at what's happening around the league.
07:10We've only got eight unbeaten teams left, or eight 2-0 teams, I should say.
07:15The Giants are unbeaten.
07:17We'll see what happens here in a matter of hours.
07:19I'm super excited about this one.
07:22But we got people splitting carries in the backfield.
07:25You got a true boundary X receiver.
07:27You have a quarterback who is absolutely dialed and a head coach who is,
07:34for the second year in a row, reestablishing himself as the standard,
07:38the standard in the NFL.
07:42Let's go to Jonathan in the city.
07:44Jonathan, thank you for calling Willard and Dibbs.
07:45What's up?
07:47Hey, happy Victory Monday.
07:50Yes, sir.
07:50That's what I'm going to say, man.
07:52We might be looking at one of the best combinations of head coach and quarterback.
07:56It's kind of like the perfect combination of the composer and his conductor.
08:03It's just ace across the board.
08:06If you're talking about the offense, it starts with the O-line.
08:10Another clean game.
08:12They kept Brock Birdie's uniform clean.
08:15Brock Birdie just, you know, being an ultimate point guard.
08:19Just whoever is open gets the ball.
08:21Kyle Shanahan's play calling.
08:24I'm just hoping they're not peak yet because, you know, we all know, man,
08:28we want to peak at the right time so that we can keep losing guys.
08:33But hopefully, you know, we're not going to lose any more guys due to, you know,
08:38a season-ending injury.
08:40Also hoping that we'll get our guys back when it's a stretch run in December, January.
08:47I can't wait for this team to, for us to see them hashtag full squad.
08:53Loving what I'm seeing with the defense, even though they're giving up a lot of,
08:57you know, yardage early in the game and the running game.
09:00Just like Debs alluded to, man, they stack them up when they get to the end zone,
09:06when they get to the money zone.
09:09I just love the fact that, you know, the DBs are going downhill in the run support.
09:16What's that, number 20, Afton Stout and Jair Brown.
09:21This is stopping running backs on a dive.
09:26Just hoping for a better health.
09:29Oh, I'm just going to enjoy the ride, man.
09:31I don't want to imagine.
09:32I don't want to take my thoughts to the future.
09:34I'm just going to stay in the present.
09:36Go Niners.
09:37Okay, Jonathan, appreciate it.
09:39Yeah, I think that's a healthy way to look at it.
09:42There's always going to be people that go down.
09:44I mean, look around the league.
09:45Come on, okay?
09:46What do we got?
09:47We got four teams that have already lost their quarterback.
09:49So, you know, substation this, that, or the other.
09:53Some guys have gone down.
09:55Luckily, right now, outside of Ricky Pearsall, Alfred Collins,
09:59I don't think the injuries that the Niners have seen happen in weeks one and two,
10:05you're going to get some of these guys back.
10:07It might be a little bit of a wait for a lot of them,
10:09but you're going to get them back.
10:11You know, the Cavalry, in many ways, you could say,
10:15is coming in the form of those guys coming back.
10:17Christian Kirk is going to be coming back.
10:20Michael Williams, I think his practice window is probably going to get open this week.
10:24So, help is on the way, and the injuries have not been back-breaking.
10:30There's going to be more, but when I look around the league, it's easy to me.
10:35No football team has had a better start to the season than San Francisco 49ers.
10:39Yeah, and they've had their key guys, knock on wood, stay healthy so far,
10:43and we could talk about the Bears being without Caleb Williams for a game or more,
10:48and who knows how long, but, you know, Jaden Daniels,
10:51he might miss a significant amount of time with his injury,
10:54and the Eagles lost Saquon Barkley early in the game yesterday.
10:57He came back, but he wasn't as effective,
11:00and so right now you've got McCaffrey who's on a, not a pitch count,
11:04but on a touch count, and they've been conservative there,
11:07and Mike Evans similarly, and George Kittle hasn't had to play that much.
11:11Nick Bosa sure looks like he is rehabbed and ready to go,
11:14and Fred Warner with another punch out yesterday.
11:17I think it was the second play of the game.
11:20He just, you know, reach out there and knock it out,
11:21and Dre Greenlaw, by the way, looks like he is comfortable being back as a 49er.
11:26He's been awesome.
11:27It's a good day to be the president of Brockistan.
11:30Yes, sir.
11:30We have fired our public relations director.
11:34Wow.
11:35We don't need him.
11:36Okay.
11:37We don't need him.
11:38Like Brock speaks for himself right now, the play.
11:40What does anybody want to say?
11:42What can you say?
11:44Well, he did throw high to Devo when he dropped it.
11:46It's not high.
11:47So high.
11:49Hey, how many, can you, you're so good at this.
11:51Will you keep, how many more throws does he need
11:54before he's the highest rated quarterback in the history of the National Football League?
12:03How many more throws?
12:04That was 22 more throws yesterday.
12:06Yep.
12:06He needs 91, Mark.
12:0991 more throws.
12:11What if all of them are incomplete?
12:13Can you run the numbers?
12:14I can run the numbers, and I would imagine that he still,
12:18if he goes 0 for 91,
12:19I would bet that his QB rating would still be high enough to make him number one all time
12:24because his quarterback rating went up to 104.9 with yesterday's performance.
12:29So the highest rated QB of all time,
12:32or at least the highest rating of all time,
12:34not yet fully qualified,
12:36had a game where the rating went up yesterday.
12:39Well, he went 20 for 22.
12:40It's not going to go down.
12:42Wouldn't think so.
12:43His QB rating through two games is 125.6,
12:46which would be the single season record.
12:49He led the league his second year.
12:51He led it with 113.0.
12:53That was his quarterback rating in year number two,
12:56and right now he's at 125.6,
12:59which is to say he's off to a pretty good start.
13:03Sack rate is 0.00,
13:06and his completion percentage is 80.4,
13:08which also would be a record, by the way.
13:1180% of his passes.
13:14And in week one, did they have four drops, Grandy?
13:17Is that what we decided?
13:19The 49ers?
13:20I think so.
13:21So 11 incompletions,
13:24but five of them are drops.
13:26And a pick.
13:27Right, and a pick.
13:27And an intentional grounding.
13:29And an intentional grounding.
13:30Right, so.
13:31Where the receiver might have gone the wrong way.
13:33I don't know why.
13:33Kyle was all pissed off about that.
13:35He's out there with arms up,
13:37talking to the officials,
13:38up by 29 points.
13:41They're a different breed, man.
13:43They're a different breed.
13:44I don't know about you,
13:45I don't have it in me to get mad at it.
13:47Once you're up by 30,
13:49I'm just like,
13:50does anybody want to eat?
13:52Like, I don't, you know, whatever.
13:54That guy ran down the right sideline
13:55and scored a touchdown.
13:57White dude,
13:57whatever the hell his name was.
13:58Ryan.
13:59Yep.
13:59Ryan the white guy was running.
14:01Whatever.
14:01Miller.
14:01Yeah.
14:0277 in the house.
14:03Yeah, super cool.
14:04All right, 35, 13.
14:06Whatever.
14:06Even the batters are like,
14:07yeah, whatever.
14:08Whatever.
14:09Although that might have triggered the over, so.
14:11Well, what was the over under?
14:12Probably somewhere in there,
14:13I would imagine.
14:14Yeah.
14:1446, 47.
14:16Okay.
14:16I mean, if you're on the under,
14:18you probably were furious,
14:18but.
14:19Well.
14:19There's that.